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We specialize in healthcare, including medical, dental and optometry practices, plus technology, retail and consumer goods, AEC, restaurants and home services. Work directly with our founders, with no account-manager handoff.
Some of our clients
Read our case studies.
Four businesses. Each had challenges. Read what was wrong, what we changed, and what happened.
We specialize in Medical, Dental, Med Spas, Technology, Restaurants, Retail & E-commerce, Architecture, Engineering & Construction, HVAC, Plumbing and Auto.

Healthcare · Medical
From zero to 406 ranking keywords
Meta clicks came in 60% below the industry average.
Read the Method of Beauty case study
Retail · Consumer goods
From farmers' market cart to 600% customer growth
One of our founders' own businesses, built on a founder's budget.
Read the Body Juice case study
Retail · Consumer goods
From page 3 to the top 3 for 300+ keywords
In a category that bans most advertising.
Read the Wheelhouse case study
E-commerce · Retail · Consumer goods
A brand built before launch day
Wordmark, palette, four print-ready cans and a storefront.
Read the Romée case study

//Who you work with
The people you meet stay on the account.
Jessica and Ben have each started four companies and now run Mining Wells. You work directly with them from the first conversation through the work. No sales handoff. No account-manager shuffle.
Question 1 of 2
Not sure where to start?
Two questions. No email. We will tell you where we would start.
What is the main thing that is not working?
//Services
What we do
Search, social and Local Services Ads, judged by leads, bookings or sales, not clicks.
Technical, local, content and AI search, tied to calls, forms and sales instead of rankings alone.
More customers from the traffic you already pay for.
Mailers, magazine placements and the local press coverage you cannot buy.
Marketing for regulated categories where the rules and the trust bar are higher.
//What clients say
What it is like to work with us.
Jessica has gone above and beyond expectations with every request we've had. She has significantly increased our digital footprint and helped our company grow.
Eric TheiseOwner, Cali Heights Brand//The receipts
How we actually work.
Founders stay close to the work
We limit the number of accounts we take on so Jessica and Ben can stay involved in each one.
Yours to keep
On full payment, the ad accounts, assets and systems we build are assigned to you. You should not need an agency's permission to access your own marketing.
Monthly contracts
Ongoing work is month to month. No long-term lock-in, so we have to keep earning the next month.
//The growth engine
Every channel, pointed at one scoreboard.
Clicks, rankings and impressions tell us what happened. They are not the finish line. We decide what the marketing is supposed to produce, choose the channels with a job to do, then track them back to calls, forms, bookings or sales where the data allows it.
Not sure which of these your business actually needs? That is the part we do first.
No cost. No obligation. No pitch if it is not a fit.
//The ground rules
Four principles. One agency.
No retainer theater.
We start with the bug, not the budget.
We do not prescribe a channel before we understand the problem. Sometimes you need more traffic. Sometimes the traffic is fine and something else is getting in the way.
We test before we scale.
We start small enough to learn without wasting the budget. We test the message, offer and channel, then put more behind what earns it. If the test does not hold up, we change it before we scale.
We find buyers where they are paying attention.
We do not pick channels because they are fashionable or familiar. We look at where your buyers already search and pay attention, then spend there first.
We keep the scoreboard honest.
Short reports. Plain numbers. No vanity charts. You know what is working, what is not, and what we are changing next. We do not keep funding work just because it is already on the retainer.
//Before you hire us
The questions worth asking first.
Is Mining Wells a fit for a small practice or an owner-operated business?
Often, yes. We work with owner-operators and practice owners who want senior people close to the work. Fit still depends on the problem, the budget and whether we believe we can help. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
Are you a medical marketing agency?
Yes. We market medical practices, med spas and clinics. For Method of Beauty, a physician-led med spa, the work included local search, paid ads, a website rebuild, direct mail and print. Healthcare advertising comes with extra platform and privacy constraints, and the work has to stay inside them.
Will I actually work with Jessica and Ben?
Yes. Jessica and Ben are on every account from the first conversation through the work. You work directly with the founders, with no sales or account-manager handoff.
How much do SEO services cost, and do you sell SEO packages?
We do not sell one-size-fits-all SEO packages. We quote a flat monthly fee for the scope we believe your site needs, in writing, before you commit. If you want the broader market context, we reviewed what 27 agencies charge.
Do you require a long-term contract?
No. Ongoing work is month to month. There is no long-term lock-in, which means we have to keep earning the next month.
How do you decide what marketing I need?
We start with the bug, not the budget. If the website is wasting the traffic you already pay for, buying more traffic is an expensive way to avoid fixing it. If the tracking is broken, we fix that before pretending we know what worked. We find the problem first, then decide what deserves your next dollar.
How will I know whether the marketing is working?
We agree on what the work is supposed to produce before it starts. Then we measure the closest business outcome we can reliably track: calls, forms, bookings or sales. Rankings, clicks and impressions matter as evidence. They are not the business result.
How fast will I see results, and can you guarantee them?
Paid channels can produce calls within the first weeks, because the demand is already there. SEO and local search usually move across 60 to 120 days, with the bigger gains between months six and twelve. Nobody can guarantee a ranking or a lead count, and Google's own guidance says to be wary of anyone who does. There is no growth hacking shortcut underneath it.
What does Mining Wells do?
We are a marketing agency in Irvine, California. We plan and run SEO, paid advertising, conversion work, email, websites, direct mail, print and PR, plus the marketing plan that decides what runs first. Jessica and Ben stay on the account from strategy through execution.
What kinds of businesses do you work with?
We specialize in healthcare, medical and dental, technology and AI, retail and consumer goods, architecture, engineering and construction, restaurants and home services. Mining Wells is headquartered in Orange County and works with clients nationwide.
Do you only work with businesses in Orange County?
No. We are based in Irvine, California and we work anywhere in the United States. Local search rewards local knowledge, so we research every market we take on, whether that is local to us or in another state.
How do we start?
Tell us what is happening and what you have already tried. We will tell you the one or two things that would move your business most right now, and which to skip, whether you hire us or not. Text or call a founder, or send the contact form.
//Marketing terms
What the words actually mean.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
SEO, search engine optimization, is earning unpaid placement in the results. SEM, search engine marketing, covers the whole results page, paid and organic together, though plenty of people use SEO SEM interchangeably and mean paid search alone. The practical difference in the SEO vs SEM question is timing: paid search starts the day the budget does, and SEO takes months and then keeps working. We run both.
Do you work as a PPC agency, and what is PPC management?
Yes. PPC stands for pay per click, meaning you are charged when someone clicks your ad rather than when it is shown. PPC management is the ongoing work behind the account: campaign structure, keywords and audiences, ad copy, negative keywords, bids, tracking and the landing page the click arrives on. That is what a PPC management company is for. We run PPC services on Google, Meta and LinkedIn.
Which ad platforms do you run?
Google Search, Performance Max and Local Services Ads. Meta, where Facebook marketing and Instagram ads run from one account, which is the work a Facebook advertising agency does. LinkedIn for business to business. Microsoft Advertising, which most people still call Bing Ads. Google Merchant Center for product feeds when a business sells online.
What are Local Services Ads?
Local Services Ads, shortened to LSAs and often searched as Google local ads, are Google's listings above the map for service businesses, carrying the Google Verified badge. You pass a background and license check to qualify, and you are billed per lead instead of per click. They appear above regular Google Ads on the page. We set them up and manage them.
What is a landing page, and do I need one?
A landing page is a single page built for one campaign and one offer, usually with the site navigation stripped out. You need one when you are paying for traffic, because a homepage makes the visitor go hunting for the thing the ad just promised. Message match, one call to action and proof are what make it convert.
What is conversion rate optimization?
Conversion rate optimization, CRO, is getting more customers out of the visitors you already have instead of buying more traffic. It covers the headline, the offer, the form, the load speed and where the proof sits on the page. A/B testing, which plenty of tools and articles write as AB testing, is the method of running two versions against live traffic to see which one wins. Website optimization is the broader term and usually means speed and technical health.
What makes a good call to action?
A call to action is the single thing you are asking a reader to do next. The call to action examples that work name the step clearly: talk to a founder, get the free marketing plan, read the case study. Vague labels like learn more make the reader work out what happens after the click.
What is an SEO audit?
An SEO audit is a review of everything that decides whether a site can rank: whether search engines can crawl and index it, speed on a phone, site structure and internal links, the on-page content, schema markup, and the backlink profile. Technical SEO is the part of that dealing with how search engines reach and read your pages. We run audits on their own or as the first month of ongoing work.
What SEO tools do you use?
The search engine optimization tools worth paying for are a short list: Semrush and Ahrefs for keyword and backlink data, Google Search Console for what your own site is actually doing, and Screaming Frog for crawls. SEO optimization tools measure, they do not rank a site. You see the same numbers we do.
What are SEO keywords, long tail keywords and keyword difficulty?
SEO keywords are the phrases people actually type, and what makes one valuable is intent rather than volume. A long tail keyword is a longer, more specific version, like laser hair removal for men in Irvine instead of laser hair removal: less traffic, far more intent, usually easier to win. Keyword difficulty is a score from zero to one hundred that SEO tools assign to estimate how hard page one will be for a term.
What are SEO best practices, and can I do SEO myself?
Much of it is learnable and we publish the checklists free. The best SEO practices, in the order that matters: make sure Google can crawl and index the site, fix speed on a phone, build a real page for each thing you sell, get the local listings right, then earn links. Businesses hire an agency when the technical work gets deep, the writing keeps slipping, or the competition is funded.
What is schema markup, and what is semantic SEO?
Schema markup, searched about equally as schema SEO and SEO schema, is structured data added to a page's code so search engines can tell what the page is: a business, a service, a review, a set of questions. Semantic SEO is covering a subject and the concepts around it rather than repeating one phrase, because search engines now match meaning instead of strings. Both are standard parts of an SEO engagement.
Do you do link building?
Yes. Link building is earning links from other websites, which search engines still treat as a signal of authority. Local press, trade publications, partners, awards and original data all count. Paid link networks violate Google's spam policies and put the site at risk, so we do not use them.
What are GEO and AEO, and does AI search matter yet?
It does, and it is growing. Generative engine optimization, GEO, is being cited inside an AI answer. Answer engine optimization, AEO, is being the direct answer in a featured snippet, a voice result or an AI Overview. Both rest on the same foundations as classic SEO: clear pages, credible sources and real authority. We track how a business shows up in those answers and report the movement.
Do you offer content writing services?
Yes. Content writing services cover the pages that sell, meaning your service, location and landing pages, plus the articles that support them. An SEO content strategy organizes those into topics: one strong page on a subject, supporting pieces linked to it, rather than a pile of unrelated posts.
Do you have examples of content marketing that worked?
Yes, and the clearest content marketing examples we have are our own. A single educational post for our founders' juice bar reached 76,000 people and was shared 12,000 times, because it taught something worth passing on. This site is the other one: more than a hundred guides, organized into topics and interlinked.
What is email marketing, and what does an email marketing strategy include?
Email marketing is what a business sends to the people who gave it their address, and an email marketing strategy is the plan behind it: a welcome series, a post-purchase or post-visit sequence, a win-back for customers who drifted, and a regular newsletter. The email marketing strategies that earn their keep are triggered by what someone does. The line between marketing and email blurs here, because email is the only channel where the audience belongs to you. Deliverability, meaning whether the message reaches an inbox at all, is the constraint on all of it. We do not buy lists or send cold email.
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