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An SEO agency serving San Franciscothat starts with what is actually broken.
You already rank for something. The question is whether it is the thing that pays. We look at which searches actually carry buying intent for your business, what is blocking you from them, and whether the pages you already have could win without being rebuilt. Then we work in that order.
Work directly with our founders. No account-manager handoff.
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Why SEO is a different job in San Francisco.
San Francisco packs a global technology and finance economy, a heavy tourism draw and a dense neighborhood small-business culture into seven square miles. That concentration means the same query is often being fought over by a venture-funded company, a national brand and the shop three blocks away, all at once.
For an established business that changes the strategy. Going straight at the broad, expensive head term is usually the slowest possible route, because the pages already there have years and budgets behind them. The faster path is almost always the specific version of the query, the neighborhood or category variant, and the pages you already own that are ranking on page two and were never finished. That is unglamorous work and it is usually where the revenue is.
What we would look at first.
- 1Are the right people finding you?Search, maps and paid placement for the terms that carry buying intent, not the ones that only carry volume.
- 2Are you paying for the right demand?Spend against what converts, and an honest look at the demand you are buying that was never going to.
- 3Does the site finish the job?The offer, the proof and the next step, on the page the traffic actually lands on.
- 4Can the owner tell what worked?Calls, forms and bookings traced back far enough to make the next budget decision defensible.
Already have an agency? Good. Bring the report.
We will tell you what looks healthy, what we cannot verify and where we would look first. If the current setup makes sense, we will say that too. You do not have to fire anyone to get a second read.
Work you can check.
These are our clients, not San Francisco clients. Every number on them is published on the study itself, so you can read the whole engagement rather than a highlight.
What we would most likely run for San Francisco.
Founders stay.
The people you meet stay on the account. There is no sales handoff and no junior takeover after the contract is signed.
Yours to keep.
Accounts, domains, ad platforms and content are in your name. If we part ways you keep all of it.
Month to month.
No annual lock-in. We would rather keep the work worth renewing than hold you to a term.
//Common questions
What San Francisco owners ask us first.
Are you actually local to San Francisco?
No. Mining Wells is based in Irvine and serves San Francisco businesses from there. SEO is one of the few disciplines where that genuinely does not matter, because the work happens in your site and your search results rather than in a room. We will not invent a local address to imply otherwise.
How long does SEO take here?
Longer than in most markets, because the competition for the same terms is well funded and well established. What moves sooner is the specific and local end of the query set. We will tell you which of your targets is a six-week job and which is a year, before you commit budget to either.
What if I already have an SEO agency?
Bring the report. We will tell you what looks healthy, what we cannot verify from the outside and where we would look first. Plenty of these reviews end with us saying the current work is fine and the problem is somewhere else.
How do you price?
After the diagnosis rather than before it. Month to month, no annual lock-in, and the site, content and accounts stay in your name.
Can you guarantee first-page rankings?
No, and in this market anyone who does is either buying the position with ads or targeting terms with no demand. We will tell you what we expect to move, in what order, and what would tell us early that the plan is wrong.
Get my free marketing plan.
Tell us about the business and where the marketing is getting stuck. We will write you a plan for it, free, and tell you honestly if we are not the right people to run it.
No cost. No obligation. No pitch if it is not a fit.
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