Marketing & Advertising

Organic SEO for Service Businesses

Be useful before they pick up the phone.

Organic SEO helps service businesses appear when buyers search for the work they sell. We strengthen technical access and service pages so interested visitors can assess the fit and reach your team with context.

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A page with a purpose.

Each step answers the next question a buyer has.

  1. Service question
  2. Useful search page
  3. Evidence & scope
  4. Qualified inquiry

After the inquiry

  1. Respond
  2. Sell
  3. Close
  4. Follow up

Search and sales feedback guide the next page.

William Smith's hand-coloured 1816 sketch of the succession of strata, from the granite of Snowdon to the chalk of the Thames valley
Above, Solis Interiors. Below, William Smith, Sketch of the Succession of Strata and their relative Altitudes, 1816. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Convert at the digital surface.

Organic SEO works in the digital surface. Strata Modus raises the information floor, from the physical layer to the digital surface.

  1. Convert
    The digital surface

    Where buyers search, ask AI and decide who to call: your website, Google, AI answers and campaigns.

    Marketing & AdvertisingWeb Design, Development & CRO
  2. Connect
    The signal layer

    How an inquiry reaches a person: AI voice, missed-call text back, intake, CRM and follow-up.

    AI & Business Automation
  3. Build
    The operating structure

    The systems the work runs on: strategy, software, technology and the integrations between them.

    Strategy & Fractional LeadershipCustom Software & IntegrationsTechnology Consulting
  4. Unearth
    The physical layer

    The work itself: crews, jobs, records, compliance and the numbers behind them.

    Compliance & Operational ReadinessBookkeeping & Payroll

The business opportunity

Organic SEO,
with a clear purpose.

Your business solves specific problems, but your website may describe them in a single broad page. People searching for a particular service need a useful answer, evidence of your work and a clear way to inquire. Search visibility begins with making those pages worth finding.

Build a search presence around services you actually want to sell. We connect the technical foundation, page structure and editorial plan so search visitors arrive with context and your team can trace which inquiries came from those pages.

Build growth you keep.

Start with our infrastructure. Strengthen the assets in your business.

Strata tools & networks
Your retained assets

Service guides, campaign creative and original content.

See the ownership pathway

Shared Strata networks remain Strata-owned. Your commissioned assets and access are documented in the scope.

The engagement

What we build
with your business.

A defined scope gives your team a clear picture of the work and what it needs to operate.

01

Search and site assessment

Review crawl access, indexing, page structure and the services buyers search for.

02

Service content plan

Map distinct buyer questions to pages, with real project evidence and clear next steps.

03

Technical improvements

Prioritize internal links, metadata, structured data and page delivery issues in the agreed scope.

04

Measurement plan

Define useful search and inquiry signals, reporting ownership and the next review date.

From first conversation to working system

How the work moves.

  1. 01

    Understand demand

    Review your services, customers and existing search data.

  2. 02

    Fix the foundation

    Resolve the issues preventing useful pages from being found.

  3. 03

    Publish useful answers

    Create or improve priority pages with your business knowledge.

  4. 04

    Review inquiry quality

    Use search behavior and sales feedback to choose the next improvements.

Selected projects

See the thinking
in working projects.

These projects show how we connect presentation, discovery and useful systems.

Before we begin

Useful questions.

We’ll refine the details around your business in the first conversation.

How do we measure whether SEO is working?

We review relevant search visibility, visits to your service pages and the calls or inquiries they generate. Your team's sales feedback helps distinguish useful demand from traffic that does not fit the business.

Which locations should have their own pages?

Start with places you genuinely serve and can describe usefully. Local projects, service details and customer questions help determine where a distinct page supports the buyer.

What do you need from us?

Access to relevant site and search tools, an accurate service list, project examples and someone who can check technical claims about your work.

Make the next decision with context

From the service to your business decision.

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Meet the people.
Define the work.

Consultation-scoped pricing

This work is scoped separately after consultation. Your proposal defines implementation, responsibilities and any ongoing support.

Read the pricing and scope termsDiscuss the work for your business

100-Day +30% Qualified Opportunity Guarantee

30% more qualified opportunities in 100 days.

Across the channels we manage, without increasing your agreed advertising budget. The 100 live campaign days start at the agreed launch, after setup—not at signing.

Available only with Discovery & Intake, Growth and Competitive Growth.

Eligibility, launch and measurement details

Eligibility: Available only with Discovery & Intake, Growth and Competitive Growth.

Qualification: We agree your service area, offered services, managed channels, baseline and target in writing before launch. A qualified opportunity is a real, contactable prospect requesting an offered service in that area.

Activation: The 100-day clock starts on the agreed campaign go-live date, after access, tracking and the measurement schedule are confirmed. We target the first 20 days for setup and agree any revised launch date in writing.

Measurement: Compare qualified opportunities in live campaign days 71–100 with the agreed prior 30-day baseline for the same managed channels. The target is at least 1.30 times that baseline, rounded up to a whole opportunity. A zero or near-zero baseline uses a meaningful written minimum that also meets that formula.

Remedy: If the agreed target is missed, covered acquisition and optimization work continues without its allocated service fee until the target is reached in a subsequent rolling 30-live-day window under the same counting rules and spend cap. Other agreed services retain their separately allocated fees; advertising spend and third-party costs remain separate. The signed schedule identifies the covered work and fee allocation before launch.

The measurement window and any covered no-fee remedy survive the initial contract end when needed. This does not renew paid services or require a new paid term. Any continued paid work needs a separate written agreement.

Costs: Advertising spend and third-party costs remain separate. Covered-channel advertising spend in the final 30-day measurement window must be no higher than in the baseline window. New programs use the starter budget agreed with their minimum opportunity floor. Extra advertising spend cannot be used to claim the original target was met.

A real service request
The prospect needs a service you actively offer, in your agreed service area, and provides a working phone number or email. Spam, solicitations, job applications and unrelated requests do not count.
One prospect, one opportunity
Calls, texts, photo threads and forms from the same prospect count once across managed channels within a rolling 30-day window. A follow-up on an existing open request is not a new opportunity.
The same channels and budget
Only named channels we manage are included, with the same qualification and attribution rules in both periods. Discovery covers its agreed search and intake scope; paid campaign management starts with Growth. Your company keeps ownership of its accounts.
Opportunities, not closed sales
A genuine qualified request still counts if it does not become a booked estimate or sale. Your response, availability and pricing affect that next step. We report those outcomes separately.

Market Ownership and Executive are excluded: these more complex programs fund and create long-term assets your company keeps. Revenue-share and standalone services have separately agreed terms.

Discuss your baseline and target

Start with your business

Put Organic SEO to work.

Tell us what needs to improve and what you use today. We can help plan the change, build the solution and provide ongoing support, with responsibilities and pricing agreed in your proposal.

Let’s talk