Corpus Christi SEO company for owners who want the phone to ring
We make your business one of the first names people around Corpus Christi and the bay see when they search for what you do. So they call you, not the next one on the list.
30-minute video call. The plan and price come in writing before you sign anything.
Your next customers, searching today in
- Corpus Christi
- Portland
- Flour Bluff
- Calallen
- Robstown
- Rockport
- Port Aransas
- Padre Island
What one search is worth
Somebody near you just searched for what you do
A hot August afternoon in Flour Bluff, and a homeowner's AC has just quit. They grab their phone and type “ac repair near me”. Google shows three businesses on a map with a short list under it, and they call one of those. Nobody sweating in a hot house goes looking for a fifth option. Swap in your own trade and town, and the same thing happens around Corpus Christi every day.
Top three on the map
Our work is getting your business into that short list, for the searches that turn into jobs.
Unlike ads, nobody bills you each time someone clicks. Once a page ranks, it keeps bringing those people in, this summer and the next. Someone around the bay is getting that call today. The point is for it to be you. Serving customers inland toward the border as well? Here's our SEO for Laredo businesses.
What the money buys
What we do, in plain words
Three jobs, all done on the website you already have, even if someone else built it. Each one is there to get more people nearby calling you.
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Fix what stops Google reading your site
Google sends callers to pages it can load, see and understand. When yours fall short, the call goes to someone else. So we fix:
- Slow pages, so they open quickly on a phone
- Pages Google can't see, so they can show up at all
- A site that never says which towns you serve
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Build the pages people search for
People type the job and their town. So you get a page for each service and each town you really work in, like Portland, Rockport or Padre Island, and the person searching there finds your number. For a plumber, that might be:
- Drain cleaning in Portland
- Water heater repair in Rockport
- Plumber on Padre Island
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Get you into Google Maps
Your Google Business Profile is the listing that puts you on the map, with a button that calls you straight from it. We make it:
- Complete: every service, your hours, each town you cover
- Accurate: the same name and number as your site
- Active: new photos and posts, so it keeps showing
One real result
What it looks like when Google starts sending people
Anyone can promise you more calls. So here is what happened on one client's site once the work took hold, counted in the people Google sent them each day.
It isn't a Corpus Christi business, or a local shop at all
They sell educational products online, and we were hired for SEO alone, with no ads running alongside. We show it because it's the clearest picture we have of a site that Google has started sending people to. On your site, the number to watch is a different one: the calls and booked jobs that come from it. And this is one business's result, not a forecast for yours.
The honest timeline
How long before the phone rings
It depends on what people type to find you. Some searches move in weeks. The busy ones take months. Nobody honest can hand you a date for the first call, but we can tell you which kind each of yours is.
Quick
Weeks
When something is missing
Fill a gap that was costing you calls, and it can show soon. For example:
- A Google Maps listing that was only ever half filled in
- No page for a town you already serve, like Calallen or Robstown
Slow
Months
When a crowd wants the same spot
Plenty of businesses have chased these for years, so it takes steady work, month after month, before Google moves you up. For example:
- A roofer in Corpus Christi
- An injury lawyer in Corpus Christi
Got a busy season? If your rush comes with the summer heat, the visitors or hurricane season (June to November), the work done now is what shows up then. Working up the coast as well? Here's our SEO for Houston businesses.
Your written plan sorts your own searches into quick and slow, before you sign.
The real number
What it costs
$1,500 to $5,000 a month
One monthly fee pays for all three jobs above, aimed at your searches in your towns. Where you land comes down to how much ground there is to cover and how many other businesses want the same customers.
The fixes and new pages are made on your own website, and the Maps work on your own Google listing. If you ever stop paying, they stay yours.
What puts a business at each end
| Nearer $1,500 | Nearer $5,000 | |
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| Where you work | One location | Many towns around the bay |
| What you offer | A few services | Many services, each needing its own page |
| Who else is after them | Quieter searches, with few businesses going for them | A crowded trade, with plenty of firms chasing the same calls |
You see your exact price in writing first
It comes as a written plan: the work, the searches it goes after and the monthly price, fixed. Nothing starts until you've read it and said yes.
The call is where we work out which end of the range your business sits nearer.
Who you'd be working with
You don't need an agency across town
Sitting close to you doesn't move anyone up the map. When someone around the bay searches for what you do, Google goes by where your business is and where that person is searching from. Where your agency keeps its desks never comes into it.
What Google goes by
- Where your business is
- Where your customers are searching
What it doesn't
- Where your agency sits
So you don't need a Corpus Christi SEO company down the street. You need a straight line to the two people doing the work.
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Kyle Rutten
SEO and site work
Does the hands-on work: site fixes, new pages and your Google Maps listing.
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Katie Rutten
Operations and your account
Runs the day-to-day of your account, so you always know what's been done and what comes next.
Kyle and Katie run Bullfinch. There's no account manager between you and them, and no handoff after you sign. Book a call, and they're the ones on it.
- Video calls
- Face to face, whenever something is worth talking through.
- Straight to Kyle or Katie, answered in plain words.
- Your time zone
- Call times show in your own time, Central for Corpus Christi.
Straight answers
Questions owners ask before they call
The four things most owners want settled before they book. Short answers, no small print.
I paid for SEO before and nothing changed. Why would this be different?
You won't be left guessing. You'll see the work itself, which of your searches are climbing, and how many more people Google sends to your site and your Maps listing, counted by Google's own tools. Set those visits and taps beside your calls and bookings, and you can tell whether the phone is busier. When a search isn't climbing, we tell you, along with what we're changing.
Can you promise I'll be number one on Google?
No. Google decides the order, and nobody outside Google controls it, so a promised spot is a promise no one can keep. What we do promise is the work: every fix, page and Maps change set out in your written plan, done properly.
Do I need a new website first?
Usually not. Most sites can be fixed where they stand, whoever built them. If something about yours would hold the work back, your plan says so at the top, before you pay for anything. If a rebuild is ever the better answer, we do that too: see web design for Corpus Christi businesses.
What happens on the call?
Thirty minutes on Google Meet. You tell us what you do, where you work and which jobs you want more of. We tell you what it would take to get you showing up for them. If we're not the right fit for your business, we'll say so on the call, and you've spent half an hour, not signed a contract.
Before the rush
Be on the map before your busy season
The best time to start with a Corpus Christi SEO company is a season ahead of your rush, not once it's here. Google doesn't reshuffle the map overnight, and in your busiest weeks the calls go to whoever is already on it.
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Now
A 30-minute call
Your trade, your towns, and the months that keep you busiest.
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The run-up
The work takes hold
Fixes, new pages and your Maps listing, given time to count: weeks for some searches, months for the crowded ones.
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Your busy season
Already in place
Fixed, built and live before people around the bay start searching in numbers.
One call is enough to find out which of your searches could be moving in time, and which will need longer.