Local SEO
SEO for Tega Cay businesses
How search works on a small peninsula ringed by bigger neighbors, and how monthly work moves you up the list.
Tega Cay covers about 3.2 square miles, and roughly a fifth of that is water. When someone here searches for a service, Google looks well past the city line, so your competition includes Fort Mill, Rock Hill, Baxter Village and the Charlotte neighborhoods just over the state line.
Google weighs three broad signals for local results: whether your business matches the search, the distance from the searcher, and how much trust and recognition you've earned online. You can't move your shop closer to every customer. You can make the match unmistakable and grow that trust, one clear page and one honest review at a time. That is what SEO for Tega Cay businesses means in practice.
First month: clear the channel
If your site came from somewhere else, we start by sorting it out. Each service is split onto a page of its own, duplicate or thin pages are merged, and titles and schema are corrected. Pages for Fort Mill or Lake Wylie only get written if you truly work there; pages that just swap a town name are treated by Google as filler. Sites we build start out clean.
Every month after
- New pages for searches people around the lake actually make.
- Google profile tasks from the playbook, ranked by payoff.
- A check of speed, links, titles and schema every month.
- Your hosting and care plan, folded into the monthly fee.
- A short written summary in ordinary language.
- A planning call each quarter.
About the price
SEO is never priced off a menu. Roger reviews your business and competitors first, free, and then puts a monthly number in writing. Your accounts stay in your name the whole time.
Who sees it pay off soonest
Search work usually pays back fastest for the trades people phone when something breaks, leaks or hurts: heating and air, plumbers, roofers, mechanics, exterminators and emergency dentists. If word of mouth already keeps you booked, a better site might be the smarter first step. A free review will point you the right way.
Lines we don't cross
Paying for or faking reviews, promising a ranking, selling ad spend, contracts past the first six months, or keeping your passwords.
SEO questions
What does SEO cost for a Tega Cay business?
There's no set menu price. Roger first studies your trade, the businesses competing for the same searches and the condition of your site, at no charge, then sends a monthly figure in writing.
Is there a long contract?
Six months to begin with, since search results are slow to respond to new work. Month to month from then on.
Can you guarantee a number-one ranking?
Nobody can do that honestly. The commitment is to the work: done every month and summarized in plain English.
Do you run paid ads?
No. Everything here is aimed at the free results: the Google map and the ordinary listings under it.
Curious where you rank today?
Ask for a free review. Roger searches the way a customer on the peninsula would and reports back on what keeps your site and listing out of view.