SEO Consultant for Local Businesses
Get traction in search and AI results with SEO and web design for businesses that depend on local customers.
Based in the Los Angeles area and remote for clients anywhere in the U.S.
What are SEO and GEO?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of earning your website a top position in Google for the terms your customers are searching. Specialists like me use analytical tools to find keyword opportunities within your niche that a business your size can realistically rank for. Unlike paid ads, which stop producing clicks when the campaign is paused, an organic position keeps producing them for as long as you hold it.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) earns your brand mentions in the answers that large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude give when people use them to research a purchase. Brands cited in those answers reach an audience that is actively evaluating options. SEO and GEO overlap heavily. The signals that earn a first-page ranking are nearly identical to the ones that earn a citation in an AI-generated answer, so the same work builds visibility in both places.
Brands I’ve Worked With
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![Building facade decorated with large colorful plastic straw sculptures, with a sign that reads 'Open Late' and another with the phrase 'We're making sandwiches over here'.]()
Fat Sal's
Popular sandwich restaurant with 11 locations between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Non-branded search clicks rose 77% between 2025 and 2026. "What is a hoagie," searched 32,000 times per month, reached position one ahead of Merriam-Webster and Wikipedia.
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![A woman in pink workout clothes is using a treadmill at the gym, lifting her leg onto the treadmill's display panel while holding the handles.]()
Bünda
Franchise fitness class studio with nearly 50 locations across the US. Monthly visits from search grew 108% in 6 months.
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![A veterinarian wearing scrubs and a stethoscope examining a small, fluffy puppy with tan fur and a red collar, in a veterinary clinic setting.]()
Elite Veterinary Care
Mobile veterinary practice. Online booking revenue grew from $700 to $13,000 per month in 2020 and organic traffic from 8,000 visits in 2020 to over 30,000 in 2022.
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![Modern building with rooftop terrace featuring trees and glass railing, with illuminated "Clumency" sign, outdoor umbrellas, surrounded by flowering plants, under a partly cloudy sky at dusk.]()
Comoncy
Fast-casual restaurant and cafe with five locations across Los Angeles and Arizona. Over eight months, online orders from search rose 46% from 493 to 719 orders per month.
What I Offer
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Search Engine Visibility
Rank for the searches that lead to a call, booking, or visit. Built upon technical foundation, generate authority in your industry through written content, relevant directory publications, and links to your site from other authoritative websites.
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AI Search Visibility
Show up when someone asks an AI for a recommendation. Prompt results draw on similar signals to Google rankings, allowing your business to take advantage of both from the same service.
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Web Design
An effective website not only caters to search engine and AI algorithms; it speaks to people. Messaging, layout, and flow are key to online sales, built and maintained alongside the SEO so that ranking and conversion are handled together.
Who I Work With
I work with businesses between 10 and 50 employees that prefer to outsource rather than hire internally. Most of my clients run local businesses that rely on local customers such as restaurants, medical practices, and fitness and wellness businesses.
This can extend but is not limited to law firms, dental practices, med spas, accounting and advisory firms, HVAC and roofing companies, and commercial real estate firms.
How it Works
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Subscribe
A results-focused structure, pay the same amount every month to receive full SEO and GEO services. Includes keyword strategy, written content, technical SEO required to achieve the rankings you want.
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Monitor Changes
Stay updated on executed tasks and monitor improvements via instant messaging services between me and your internal team. Zoom calls are held monthly to review direction and priorities.
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Get Results
Start generating traffic and revenue from organic search. Expect six months to a year before search is generating customers at a level worth judging, with visible movement along the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. I'm based in the Los Angeles area and work with clients across the United States. Everything from strategy to the site build is done remotely.
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I do the work. Strategy, content, technical fixes, local listings, link building, and the website itself are provided.
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Most engagements show measurable movement within six to twelve months. Timing depends on the starting point and competition within your niche.
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I develop the website to the degree that it enhances user experience and search ability. I am not a webmaster, so I will not be making routine updates unrelated to SEO, GEO, and sales.
About Nik
I'm an SEO and web design specialist with over ten years of experience helping businesses grow through search. My work spans hospitality, healthcare, fitness, and lifestyle brands, where I've delivered measurable growth in organic traffic, customer engagement, and revenue.
My background covers user interface design, technical SEO, and content strategy, which means the sites I build are designed to rank and to convert rather than to do one at the expense of the other. That work has taken underperforming sites to tenfold traffic increases and beyond, and it ranges from complete UX redesigns to metadata strategy, local SEO, and backlink development.