San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco SEO & Web Design That Gets You Found

Your customers are Googling what you do right now - and calling your competitors. Let’s get them calling you.

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★★★★★5.0 from 8 verified Google reviewsOne SF service business went from buried to Top 3 in 82 days
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The Problem

Why San Francisco businesses stay invisible

The Map Pack - those three local results at the top of Google - captures the majority of clicks for local searches. If you’re not in it, you’re invisible. Doesn’t matter how good you are. That’s the gap we close.

01
Three spots get the calls

A customer searched for what you do last Tuesday. Google showed them three businesses in the Map Pack. They called the first one. Booked them. That job wasn't on your calendar - and it won't be next week either, unless something changes.

02
Dirty data, weak signals

Your site looks fine. Your Google Business Profile is set up. But something's off - wrong data scattered across the web, pages that aren't optimized for how local customers actually search, no authority signals telling Google to trust you.

03
Better isn't the same as found

The business they called isn't better than yours. Their reviews aren't better. Their service isn't better. They just show up on Google and you don't. That's not random. It's a fixable gap.

accountant san francisco
Local results
BA
Bay Area CPA Group
★★★★★4.8 · 127 reviews
1
MD
Mission District Tax Pros
★★★★★4.6 · 94 reviews
2
GG
Golden Gate Bookkeeping
★★★★★4.5 · 71 reviews
3
page two - where most searches never look
YB
Your Business
★★★★★4.9 · 18 reviews
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What We Do

Four ways to get found, called, and booked.

Every service points at the same outcome: more qualified customers finding you and choosing you. Pick one to explore.

Be the business they call first.

Rank in the Map Pack and local search for the neighborhoods you serve. Google Business Profile, local citations, and the searches your customers actually run.

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Proof

What ranking actually looks like

We don’t traffic in promises. Here’s what’s happened for real clients, in real timeframes, with real outcomes.

20+
Bay Area businesses served
5.0★
from 8 Google reviews
82 days
fastest climb to Top 3
Local service
Real client outcome
Google Maps location pin on paper - representing Top 3 Map Pack ranking for a San Francisco local service business
Top 3
in the Map Pack
82 days

Buried past page one. Full local SEO campaign - keyword research, citation cleanup, on-page optimization, fresh content, targeted links. In 82 days they hit the Top 3 - and the phone started ringing.

- San Francisco service business
Accounting
Real client outcome
Accountant working with calculator and financial documents - representing the Hayward CPA practice that hit #1 in 136 days
#1
across their market
136 days

Sitting at rank 20+. Same five-step process. In 136 days they hit #1 across their market and now rank for six-plus target keywords. The real outcome? They hired staff to keep up with the calls.

- Hayward accounting practice
Professional services
Real client outcome
Business owner smiling while looking at phone - representing the Richmond District professional services practice consistently discovered by locals
Page 1
in under 4 months
Under 4 months

No page-one presence at all for a service that depends entirely on neighborhood trust. Local visibility rebuilt from the ground up - and now they’re consistently discovered by the locals who need them most.

- Richmond District practice
Why Us

San Francisco-based. Founder-led. Built different on purpose.

There’s no shortage of agencies who’ll take your money and send you a monthly PDF that says “progress made.” That’s not what we do.

01
Founded and run from San Francisco

Not a national franchise. Not a remote team passing off your account. JohnPaul is here, knows the Bay Area market, and works with you directly - not through an account-manager layer.

02
Dual technical + marketing background

Five years as an IT and Marketing Manager - inside the same organizations. We see why your site is slow, why it’s not indexing properly, and what’s technically broken - not just what content is missing. Most agencies can’t do that.

03
Published pricing. Real dated results.

We publish what we charge. We show case studies with real timeframes. We tie results to human outcomes - booked calls, hired staff - not just position changes. If past agencies left you skeptical, you should be.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers - the ones we get most before a first call.

We're a San Francisco SEO and web design firm. In practice, that means we help Bay Area businesses get found on Google, convert that traffic into real leads, and capture calls they're currently losing. Our core services are local SEO, web design, link building, and an AI receptionist for businesses that need to stop losing leads to voicemail. Everything we do is geared toward one outcome: more qualified customers calling, booking, and buying.

We get it - "it depends" is the most frustrating answer in marketing. Here's what's actually true: our San Francisco clients have hit Top 3 in as little as 82 days and #1 in 136 days. But that's not a guarantee, and your timeline depends on where you're starting from, how competitive your market is, and what's currently broken on your site. What we can tell you is what we'll do in months one, two, and three - and we'll show you real ranking movement every step of the way so you're never wondering if anything's actually happening.

That fear is fair. If you've paid a retainer before and got nothing, spending another $1,000–$1,500+ a month sounds like a bad bet. Here's how to think about the ROI: one extra qualified call per week - at $400, $800, or $2,000 per job depending on your trade - covers the retainer fast. The Hayward accountant who hit #1 in 136 days didn't just rank. They hired staff. That's the math we're aiming at. We publish our pricing so you can assess it before we ever talk.

You're right to be skeptical. Most of that industry earned it. Agencies that promise rankings without transparency, report vanity metrics instead of call volume, and disappear after month three - they're not rare. Here's what's different about JWD: we're founder-led, SF-based, and we tie everything to human outcomes (calls, booked jobs, hired staff), not just position changes. Our case studies have real dates. Our pricing is published. JohnPaul takes the calls himself.

Most of the agencies ranking for "san francisco seo" are either national firms that plugged your city into their template, or content guides dressed up as agencies. JWD is neither. We're genuinely based in San Francisco. Our founder has a dual IT and marketing background - which means we can diagnose technical issues most marketing-only agencies miss. We publish pricing. We show dated results. And we work with Bay Area businesses in the neighborhoods and industries we actually know.

Both - and they're better together. A well-ranked site that doesn't convert is a wasted click. A beautiful site that nobody finds is a wasted investment. We do San Francisco web design and local SEO under one roof, so the technical SEO is built into the site from day one - not bolted on later. We also offer link building and an AI receptionist for businesses that are ready to capture every lead they're working to earn.

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Get found by San Francisco customers

Picture it: you’re in the Map Pack. Someone Googles what you do at 10 PM. They read your reviews. They call. That’s not a fantasy - it’s what happened for an SF service business in 82 days. It can happen for you.

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