Vancouver, BC
A Vancouver SEO company that books customers.
Side Studios is a Vancouver SEO company and agency for BC founders. We rank the pages that book customers — local, technical, and AI-search visibility — so you get found on Google and named when buyers ask ChatGPT or Claude who to hire. Reported in receipts: rankings, leads, and share-of-answer.
Free, no commitment. Takes 2 minutes.
Receipts
SEO results, measured.
Cyra Beauty, a medical-aesthetics clinic in Coquitlam, after our June 2026 rebuild and SEO work. Before: May 1–Jun 13. After: Jun 19–Jul 17, 2026, following the June rebuild.
Measured in Google Search Console: daily organic impressions and clicks compared across a before window of May 1–Jun 13, 2026 and an after window of Jun 19–Jul 17, 2026. Keyword positions and AI-answer citations were tracked over the same period.
The problem
Why most SEO retainers stall.
Tactics on a broken foundation
Most retainers layer keywords onto a slow, badly-structured site and hope. We're a web design studio first — speed, architecture, and schema get fixed at the code level, because Google and AI assistants both reward sites that are genuinely well-built.
Traffic reported, bookings ignored
A dashboard of impressions is not a result. We target the commercial searches your buyers actually type, build the page that converts that click, and report in rankings, leads, and share-of-answer — with dated windows and named sources.
The AI answer nobody's watching
Your next customer may never see a results page — they ask ChatGPT or Claude who to hire in Vancouver. Most agencies don't measure that surface at all. We track it monthly and do the entity work that puts you in the answer.
The new search surface
Found on Google. Named by assistants.
Your customers are asking ChatGPT and Claude who to hire in Vancouver — and those answers are shaped by entities, schema, citations, and reviews, not blue-link rankings alone. The same foundation feeds both surfaces, so we work them together: our AI-Search Visibility retainer tracks your share-of-answer monthly and does the entity work that puts you in the response. The playbook is public in our guide on how to show up in ChatGPT recommendations.
What we do
Vancouver SEO, done at the source.
We're a web design studio first, so we fix SEO where it actually lives — in the build. Four disciplines, one team accountable from audit to ranking.
Local SEO
Google Business Profile, map-pack, and citation work so you show up when someone in Vancouver searches for what you do — consistent NAP, real reviews surfaced, and the geo-grid moving in your favour.
Technical SEO
Core Web Vitals, crawlability, schema, and site architecture fixed at the code level. We build in Next.js and Webflow, so the technical foundation is handled, not bolted on after launch.
On-page & content
Money pages and guides written to match real search intent — the pages that earn the RFQ, book the consult, or sell the unit, not thin blog filler that never ranks.
AI-search visibility (GEO)
Entity and schema work plus share-of-answer tracking, so you get named when buyers ask ChatGPT or Claude who to hire in Vancouver — the search surface most agencies still ignore.
How we work
Audit. Fix. Build. Compound.
01
Audit
We map your rankings, your competitors, and the gap between the searches that matter and where you sit today — technical, local, and AI-search.
02
Fix
Technical foundation first, then the money pages and local signals. We ship fixes, not slide decks — most land in the first 30 days.
03
Build
New pages and content mapped to intent, entity and schema work for AI search, and citation building to grow local prominence.
04
Compound
Monthly iteration on real behaviour and share-of-answer, so rankings hold and keep climbing — SEO is a compounding asset, not a one-off project.
Pricing
SEO from $1,500/mo.
AI-Search Visibility from $1,500/mo · Studio Continuity from $2,500/mo, bundling CRO, content, and AI-search · one-off technical and money-page builds fold into a Studio Sprint from $8k. Real floors for Vancouver founders, not bait.
Local, actually
A Vancouver SEO team you can walk into.
We work from downtown Vancouver and run SEO for founders across Metro Vancouver — in-person working sessions for local clients, Pacific-time responsiveness for everyone else.
Side Studio
638 Broughton St, Suite 310Vancouver, BC V6G 3K3
+1 604-400-2080
Hello@theside.studio
Get directions →
Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm PT.
Areas served
FAQ
Common Vancouver SEO questions.
How much does SEO cost in Canada?
Our SEO work runs as a monthly retainer from $1,500/mo for AI-Search Visibility, or from $2,500/mo for Studio Continuity, which bundles CRO, content, and AI-search together. One-off technical SEO and money-page builds can fold into a Studio Sprint from $8k. Final scope depends on how competitive your keywords are and how much technical debt the site carries — the floors are real, not bait.
Is it worth paying someone for SEO?
Only sometimes — and an honest agency will tell you which case you're in. It's worth it when your customers are actually searching for what you sell and a booked customer is worth real money: a medspa consult, an RFQ, a property inquiry. It's not worth it if there's no search demand in your category or you can't take on more work. If you do pay, demand receipts: dated before-and-after numbers with named sources, not a dashboard of impressions.
Is SEO dead or evolving in 2026?
Evolving. Buyers still search Google, but a growing share of buying questions get answered by AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude — and those answers are shaped by entities, schema, citations, and reviews, not blue-link rankings alone. The work that earns both surfaces overlaps heavily, which is why we treat share-of-answer as a first-class metric next to rankings instead of ignoring it.
How long does SEO take to work?
Technical and on-page fixes can move rankings within weeks; local map-pack and competitive commercial keywords typically take three to six months to compound. Anyone promising page-one in 30 days is selling you something. We report what moved each month so you see progress before the big wins land.
What makes you different from other Vancouver SEO companies?
Two things. We're a web design studio first, so we fix SEO at the source — site speed, structure, and schema — instead of layering tactics onto a broken foundation. And we work the AI-search surface most agencies still ignore, tracking how often assistants like ChatGPT name our clients and doing the entity work that earns those mentions. Our receipts are published with dates and sources.
Do you do local SEO and Google Business Profile work?
Yes. Local SEO is core: Google Business Profile optimization, citation consistency, map-pack strategy, and the on-page and schema work that ties your site to your physical Vancouver presence. We treat NAP consistency and local prominence as first-class ranking signals.
Can you get us named by ChatGPT and other AI assistants?
No one can guarantee an AI mention — be wary of anyone who does. What we can do is the work those answers are built from: entity and schema markup, consistent citations, reviews, and definitive pages assistants can ground on — then measure your share-of-answer monthly on live models so you see whether it's moving. That's exactly what our AI-Search Visibility retainer is for.
Keep exploring
More for Vancouver founders.
Web design in Vancouver
The premium, conversion-wired site that gives your SEO something worth ranking — built for BC founders.
See web design →E-COMMERCEShopify agency in Vancouver
Ecommerce SEO and CRO for stores already doing volume — where a basis point of conversion is real money.
See Shopify work →INDUSTRIESSEO by vertical
Medspa, dental, manufacturing, real estate, and more — how search intent differs by industry, and the pages that win it.
See industries →See where your site stands. Free.
Get your Brand Score in under two minutes — a private audit of brand, conversion, and search visibility, including whether AI assistants can find you, with the three highest-impact moves we'd make on your Vancouver site first. Based at 638 Broughton St, Suite 310, Vancouver, BC V6G 3K3.
Free, no commitment. Takes 2 minutes. Prefer to talk first? Start a project.