Search optimization
SEO Vancouver
Search engine optimization (SEO) means helping Google find, read and show a business's pages to people looking for what it sells. AI SEO Vancouver does that work each month for businesses across Metro Vancouver.
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Definition
What SEO is, in plain terms
SEO is ordinary, patient work on three things Google reads: whether its crawler can reach and index your pages, whether those pages answer the questions people type, and whether other sites and listings vouch for your business.
Google's own starter guide describes SEO as helping search engines understand your content, and helping users find your site and make a decision about whether they should visit your site through a search engine.
It also says plainly that there are no secrets
that put a site first.
For a business in Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond or the Fraser Valley, the same work reaches the Business Profile Google shows on Maps and the local pages behind it. That part has its own page: local SEO.
Source: Google Search Central, "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide". Page last updated 2025-12-10, read 2026-10-09. Read the guide.
Every month
What the SEO retainer includes
The AI SEO Vancouver SEO retainer is a fixed set of jobs repeated each month, and each one is logged with a date.
Technical triage
Crawl and index checks, broken links, redirects, sitemap and page speed. We fix what we can reach and give your developer a ranked list for the rest.
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Research and priorities
Keyword and competitor research for the searches that bring paying customers, each matched to the one page of yours that should answer it.
Page improvements
Up to five priority pages a month: titles, headings, answer-first copy, links between your own pages, and structured data where it fits. You approve every page before it goes live.
One content piece
One new content brief or one refresh of an existing page each month, written for the person searching rather than for a word count.
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Report and review call
A monthly report built from Search Console and your analytics, plus a 45-minute call to agree next month's list.
Price
What SEO costs at AI SEO Vancouver
The AI SEO Vancouver SEO retainer is $1,500 CAD + applicable taxes a month after a $750 + applicable taxes setup, with a three-month first term. After that, either side can end it on 30 days' notice.
- Setup (one time)
- $750 + applicable taxes. Baseline measurement, a roadmap, analytics and Search Console checks, and the first technical pass.
- Monthly fee
- $1,500 + applicable taxes a month for the five jobs above.
- First term
- Three months: $5,250 + applicable taxes in total ($750 + 3 × $1,500).
- After month three
- Month to month. Either side can stop with 30 days' notice by email.
- Billing
- Invoiced by email: the setup fee when work starts, then the monthly fee monthly in advance. Each invoice is due within 14 days. Prices exclude applicable taxes (GST, and PST where it applies).
What do other providers charge? We read the prices 17 Vancouver and BC agencies publish on their own websites. Monthly SEO ranged from $250 to $3,500 CAD, and the middle figure was $1,100. The cheapest offers were narrow starter plans, and most agencies publish no price at all.
Ecommerce, multi-location, regulated or development-heavy sites need more work than this scope covers. We quote those after a call rather than stretch the standard plan.
Source: AI SEO Vancouver review of prices published on 17 Vancouver and BC agency websites, read 2026-10-09. Agencies are not named.
Limits
What SEO work can't promise
Nobody can promise a ranking on Google, and AI SEO Vancouver doesn't. Google warns against anyone who claims they can secure the top spot, and that changes can take anywhere from hours to several months to show.
- A position, a page-one spot or a set amount of traffic.
- A date by which results appear.
- Bought links, link schemes or fake reviews. These break Google's spam policies and can cost you more than they earn.
What we commit to is the agreed monthly work, a log of every change and a report that shows what moved and what didn't.
Source: Google Search Central, "Do you need an SEO?" (last updated 2026-06-05) and "SEO Starter Guide" (last updated 2025-12-10). Both read 2026-10-09.
Related services
Where SEO sits among the services
SEO is the foundation the other AI SEO Vancouver search services build on.
Answer engine optimization
Answer engine optimization (AEO), the specialism on top of SEO, checks and improves what AI tools say about you. It depends on pages Google can already index.
Read about AEODigital PR
Digital PR earns mentions and links on other sites. Google's local ranking help counts links to a business as part of how well known it is.
Read about digital PRPaid advertising
Paid ads are a separate channel. Google says buying its ads won't change your organic results, so ads and SEO are planned and reported apart.
Read about paid adsSources: Google Business Profile Help (no page date) and Google Search Central (updated 2026-06-05), both read 2026-10-09.
Message
Ask about SEO for your business
Tell us your website and the work you want more of. A person reads every message and replies by email.
What happens next
- We look at your site and how it shows in Google today.
- On a short call we say whether the standard plan fits or whether you need a quote.
- If it fits, the setup month starts with a baseline you can compare against later.
SEO services
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Last reviewed 27 October 2026
Still unsure? Send us your question and a person will answer it plainly, by email.
Send a questionQuestions about SEO
AI SEO Vancouver charges $1,500 CAD + applicable taxes a month plus a $750 + applicable taxes setup, with a three-month first term. Across 17 Vancouver and BC agencies that publish a price, monthly SEO ran from $250 to $3,500, with a middle figure of $1,100. Ask any provider exactly what the monthly fee buys.
It varies by change. Google says some changes show within hours and others take several months, and suggests waiting a few weeks before judging a change. That is why the first term is three months and every change is dated.
Google says its AI features in Search rest on its core ranking and quality systems, so pages that do well in ordinary search are the ones those features draw on. SEO is the groundwork for being cited, not a separate race.
Start with SEO if Google struggles to index your site or your business details disagree. Add answer engine optimization when the basics are sound and you want to track what AI tools say. The two are sold together as a bundle.
No. Google says buying its ads won't change where your site appears in the unpaid results. Ads can bring visits while SEO builds, but they are a separate budget and a separate report.