Strategic by default
You get someone who will tell you that three neighborhood pages written properly are worth more than a year of market-update posts, and show the reasoning instead of defending a content calendar.
Industries
Buyers and sellers rarely start by searching for an agent. They search a neighborhood, a price range, a school zone, and pick someone local once they trust the source. We build the pages and the local visibility that put you in that search early.
Real estate teams and other trust-driven local businesses come to us for senior SEO judgment plus someone who does the work, without the account layers or retainer minimums a traditional agency brings with it.







What we do
One person owns the whole picture: the technical foundation under your site, how your neighborhoods and services are structured, your Google Business Profile and reviews, the content, the authority behind it, and tracking that connects a search to a listing appointment rather than a pageview.
A senior strategist sits in the seat, not an account manager relaying notes. That matters here because the calls worth making are judgment rather than tasks: which neighborhoods to compete for, whether to build behind the agent or the brokerage.
Most agent sites run on a rented platform with an IDX feed bolted on, which quietly generates thousands of near-identical listing URLs. Controlling what gets crawled and indexed usually moves more than new content does.
Buyers and sellers now ask an assistant what a neighborhood is like or what selling actually costs before they open Google. Getting cited in those answers rewards specific, current, clearly sourced local information rather than volume.
This is the biggest unlock on most agent sites. Buyer, seller, relocation and investor work get one page each at best, while the neighborhoods you actually sell in have nothing that could rank on its own.
Content with teeth, not market-update filler. In real estate that means what a neighborhood is like to live in, what a seller nets after costs, and how the local market differs from the national headline.
For an agent, local visibility means the brokerage office listing and your own profile, and the two often work against each other. Reviews, categories and consistent name data decide more of this than the website does.
Links are what separate two agents whose sites look identical. The ones a real estate professional can genuinely earn come from local press quoting you on the market, community groups, association profiles and relocation resources.
A form fill is not a client. We track a search through to a showing request, a valuation request or a listing appointment in your CRM, so you can see which pages produce work and which only produce traffic.
Generic SEO agencies struggle in real estate because the first page is crowded with companies that are not agents. Zillow and Realtor.com sit on the inventory queries, the brokerage outranks its agents on brand terms, and much of an agent’s site content arrives from an MLS feed hundreds of other sites publish. Buyer traffic is the easy half; seller inquiries and listing appointments turn on trust signals a blog calendar does not produce. We work as your senior SEO, owning strategy and execution across technical, local, content, authority, AI visibility and lead tracking, measured in appointments rather than sessions.
How this compares
Three ways an agent or brokerage usually covers this work, and what each route costs in seniority, speed and attention.
Fractional SEO
Straight to Results →
Agency SEO
The Long Way Around →
Straight to Results →
You work directly with a senior SEO who knows your business.
No templates. Just what moves the needle for you.
No black boxes. Just clarity.
The Long Way Around →
You rarely work with experienced SEOs.
Cookie-cutter strategies for everyone.
You start over again and again.
| Fractional SEO | A traditional agency |
|---|---|
| Who does the work | |
| Fractional SEO: One senior SEO with over a decade of enterprise experience, who plans the work and then does it. Technical, local, content and tracking held in one head, built around your markets. | A traditional agency: Usually a junior, running a packaged site and blog feed shared across many agents. |
| Who you talk to | |
| Fractional SEO: The same person every time, on a call every two weeks. | A traditional agency: An account manager who carries your questions to the team and the answers back. |
| What it costs | |
| Fractional SEO: From $2,500 a month, scoped to the work actually in front of you. | A traditional agency: A fixed retainer, billed whether or not the month earned it. |
| How long you are tied in | |
| Fractional SEO: Six months to start, then month to month, with 30 days' notice. | A traditional agency: Commonly a twelve-month agreement, up for renewal before you have had time to judge it. |
| What the first 90 days produce | |
| Fractional SEO: A full SEO and AI-search audit, the quick wins already implemented, and a six-month plan you can see. | A traditional agency: Discovery, a strategy deck, and work starting somewhere in month two. |
| How success is measured | |
| Fractional SEO: Listing appointments, valuation requests and showing requests, tied back to the pages that produced them. | A traditional agency: Sessions, impressions and keyword positions. |
| What you own | |
| Fractional SEO: The strategy, the accounts and the documentation, all in your name from day one. | A traditional agency: Often held by the agency or the IDX website platform, and hardest to get back at the moment you want to leave. |
An agency is the better call when you need paid media, creative and SEO run as one programme, or when the volume of execution is past what one senior person can cover. We will say so on the call rather than take the retainer.
One partner. One strategy. One clear path to growth.
Senior expertise and real strategic leadership for agents and brokerages, without the overhead, the red tape, or execution that thins out before it reaches your site.
Industry challenges
Real estate is not a standard local SEO problem: you compete against the portals, your own brokerage, a listing feed shared with hundreds of sites, and two audiences at once.
The challenge
Almost any search that starts with property (homes for sale in a city, a price band, a ZIP code) returns Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin above anything an agent publishes. Those listings came from the same MLS feed you contribute to, and the portal then sells the resulting lead back to an agent. Competing head-on for inventory queries is a year you do not get back.
How we solve it
We concede the inventory searches and go after the ones portals answer badly: what a neighborhood is like to live in, what a seller nets, how to choose an agent, relocation and process questions. Those bring fewer visitors and more appointments, because the searcher has already moved past browsing.
The challenge
An IDX feed can put thousands of URLs on your site, each live for roughly as long as the listing is. When a home sells the page goes stale, returns a 404, or quietly stays indexed, and the same feed text sits on hundreds of competing agent sites. Most of what Google crawls on a site like that is duplicated, short-lived and incapable of ranking.
How we solve it
We decide deliberately what gets indexed from the feed and what does not, then handle sold listings with redirects or archive pages instead of leaving dead ends behind. Crawl attention then goes to the pages that can earn a ranking: neighborhoods, services and market content.
The challenge
Hyperlocal searches are where an agent can still win, but most neighborhood pages are generated by a website vendor from one demographic template and read like a data dump. School content is the second trap: it is exactly what buyers search for, and how you describe who lives somewhere is constrained by fair housing rules, so vendors either skip it or handle it carelessly.
How we solve it
We build a small number of neighborhood pages written from real local knowledge (the housing stock, the commute, what you would tell a client on a drive-through) and point school and amenity questions at neutral sources rather than characterizing residents. Fewer pages, each one able to rank and defensible.
The challenge
Your brokerage's domain usually outranks you for your own name and for the markets you work, and many agents sit on a vendor platform where the settings that matter are not theirs to change. Switch brokerages and the site, the URL and every ranking attached to it can leave with the old affiliation.
How we solve it
We work out what belongs on a domain you own versus what should live on the brokerage site, and get the agent-owned asset technically sound first so it survives a move. Where the platform genuinely blocks a fix, we say so and price the alternative rather than billing for work that cannot be done.
You get someone who will tell you that three neighborhood pages written properly are worth more than a year of market-update posts, and show the reasoning instead of defending a content calendar.
We work with your brokerage marketing team, your IDX vendor and whoever answers the inquiries, because a lead that sits in an inbox for two days is worth close to nothing in this business.
Success is measured in showing requests, valuation requests and listing appointments traced back to organic search, not in impressions or a screenshot from a rank tracker.
Andrew was amazing to work with from the first time we meet. He was very efficient in updating our existing website to create more activity from our website. I highly recommend Andrew to anyone looking to improve their SEO for better results.
FAQ
Yes, real estate and other trust-driven local services are a meaningful part of the work. The mechanics carry across: portals holding the high-volume queries, hyperlocal pages that have to be earned one at a time, an IDX feed creating index problems, and a personal brand competing with a brokerage brand. What changes from agent to agent is which markets are worth fighting for and whether buyer or seller work carries the margin, and that is the first thing we settle together.
The main difference is who does the work. Real estate marketing agencies tend to sell a bundle (a templated site, a blog feed, some social), and the senior person from the sales call is rarely the one executing it. Fractional means that senior person is in the account, planning and doing. You buy the hours you need instead of a fixed retainer, and you keep the strategy, the accounts and the documentation if we stop working together.
Profile and review work moves fastest, often within a few weeks. Neighborhood and service pages generally take two to four months to settle, and longer in a metro where the portals and three large brokerages hold the first page. Technical cleanup on an IDX site sometimes produces the quickest gain, because removing thousands of dead listing URLs lets Google spend its crawling on pages that can rank. In the first 30 days, expect a priority list and working tracking rather than movement.
Yes, and in real estate it needs care because two listings are usually in play: the brokerage office and the agent. We make sure each is set up correctly, categorized properly, and not competing with the other, then clean up citations where your name, brokerage or phone number disagree across directories and portal profiles. Reviews get a process tied to closings rather than an occasional ask, since volume and recency are among the few local signals you can move week to week.
Yes. AI answers reward slightly different things than rankings do: direct answers to real questions, consistent information about who you are and where you work, and content specific enough to quote. For an agent, the openings are the questions portals answer generically: what a neighborhood is like, what selling actually costs, how the local market compares to the national story. We track where you appear now and build toward it, and we will tell you where the evidence is thin rather than overclaim.
Listing appointments, valuation requests and showing requests attributed back to organic search, not sessions, not keyword counts. That means call tracking, form and IDX registration attribution, and a handoff into your CRM so an organic lead can be followed through to a signed agreement. Reporting is monthly, leads with what changed in the business, and separates the neighborhoods and services doing real work from the ones absorbing effort without return.