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RankMeHi

SEO services company · USA

SEO services from the team that builds the site Google reads.

Most SEO agencies send your developer a list and wait. We are the developer. Technical SEO, speed, one page per real search, links worth earning, and a monthly report that counts calls before rankings. Based in Orange County, CA, working with service businesses across the US.

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The audit covers crawling, speed on a phone, the pages that should rank, and whether calls and forms are counted.

  • 3.6×

    more clicks a day from Google after the ICC Collision site launched

    Search Console, 2024, read from the performance chart.

  • +368%

    more quote requests a month at Aria Glass

    JotForm, first 12 months on the site vs the last 12 (Nov 2023 – Aug 2026).

  • 100%

    of the page text in the raw HTML, before any script runs

    ICC Collision fetched as GPTBot, 15 Sep 2026: 1,150 words raw, 1,150 rendered.

The short answer

SEO services make your site the best answer to a search and prove it to Google: technical fixes so every page is crawled and fast, one page per real search, links earned by being worth citing, and tracking that counts calls. The gap is usually basic. In our study of 662 Orange County business websites, only one in five did the basics for people, Google and AI at once.

median mobile Lighthouse score of a local business site
61 / 100median mobile Lighthouse score of a local business site479 sites, PageSpeed Insights, 26 Sep 2026
have no H1 heading at all; 20% have more than one
22%have no H1 heading at all; 20% have more than one489 live sites, crawl 25 – 26 Sep 2026
Google clicks a day after the ICC Collision launch
3.6×Google clicks a day after the ICC Collision launchSearch Console, 2024

SEO, explained

What SEO services include in 2026.

In one paragraphSEO is four jobs. Technical SEO makes every important page crawlable, indexable and fast. Content gives each real search one page that answers it. Authority is other sites citing you. Measurement tells you which of it brought calls. Most sites are held back by the first job, so that is where an honest audit starts.

Google ranks pages, not businesses. Each page has to be found, read and trusted before its content counts. When a site is slow on a phone, hides its text behind scripts, or has three pages fighting over the same search, the best copy in the world does not move it.

Content is the second job, and it starts with data rather than ideas. Keyword Planner shows what people type; your own Search Console shows the searches you almost rank for. Each service and each real question gets one page, written specifically enough that a customer can act on it and an assistant can quote it.

Authority is the third. Links still matter, but the ones that count come from sites people read, and they come to pages worth citing. That is why we publish original data, such as our study of 662 local business websites, instead of buying placements.

Measurement closes the loop. A ranking report can look healthy while the phone stays quiet. We count calls and form submissions as conversions, filter spam, and compare every month with the baseline taken before we started.

Original research · 662 sites

Most local sites fail SEO basics before content even matters.

We crawled 662 Orange County business websites and ran every live one through PageSpeed Insights on mobile. These are the technical gaps an SEO audit finds first.
  • 79%of sites take more than 4 seconds to show their main content on a phoneGoogle calls anything over 4 s "poor". Only 7% hit the 2.5 s "good" mark.
  • 61median Lighthouse performance score out of 100, mobileOnly 7% scored 90 or more, the "good" band.
  • 22%have no H1 heading, and 20% have more than oneThe page never says, in one line, what it is about.
  • 25%have no meta descriptionGoogle writes the search snippet for them, usually from the menu or the footer.
  • 42%have LocalBusiness schema, the markup that tells machines who and where you areThe other 58% leave Google and AI assistants to guess.
  • 39%run no analytics at allThey cannot tell which page, if any, brings the calls.
“In our study of 662 Orange County business websites, 79% took more than four seconds to show their main content on a phone.”
RankMeHi, local business website study, September 2026

RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026. Read the full study and method

What you get

Six SEO deliverables, shipped by the people who find the problem.

Every engagement starts with the ones the audit shows are missing. Nothing on this list waits for another vendor.
  1. 01

    Technical SEO audit and fixes

    Indexing, canonical tags, redirects, sitemaps, robots rules, duplicate and thin pages. We read your Search Console coverage report and fix the causes, not the symptoms.

  2. 02

    Core Web Vitals and page speed

    Largest Contentful Paint, layout shift and responsiveness on a real phone. On the median local site more than half the bytes come from third parties, so we remove before we optimise.

  3. 03

    One page per real search

    Keyword research from Keyword Planner and your own Search Console queries, then one page per service and intent. No pages written for a keyword nobody types.

  4. 04

    Site structure and internal links

    Every service page reachable in two clicks and linked from the guides and case studies that prove it. The link map tells Google which pages matter.

  5. 05

    Links worth earning

    Original data and plain-English guides that trade publishers and bloggers cite, like our 662-site study. No bought links, no private networks, no link packages.

  6. 06

    Reporting on enquiries

    Calls and form submissions tracked as conversions, spam filtered, Search Console read by query and page. The report leads with enquiries, then rankings.

Our method

The Three-Judge Test.

Every page we fix or write is checked by three judges before it goes live. SEO is judge two, but a page that fails the other two does not rank for long.

DefinitionThe Three-Judge Test is RankMeHi’s launch rule: a page ships only when a customer can act on it in seconds, Google can crawl and rank it, and an AI assistant can read it in the raw HTML and quote it.

  1. 01Converts

    The customer

    Can a visitor on a phone see what you do and act in seconds?

    • Main content on screen in under 2.5 s on mobile
    • Service and area in the first line
    • Tap-to-call and a short form on every page
  2. 02Ranks

    Google

    Can Google crawl, understand and trust the page?

    • Indexed, one canonical URL, in the sitemap
    • One H1 and a title that matches the search
    • Linked from the pages that prove the claim
  3. 03Gets cited

    The AI assistant

    Can an assistant read it without running scripts, and quote it?

    • Full text in the raw HTML response
    • Schema for the business, service and FAQs
    • Specific, sourced facts it can lift

Comparing your options

Do it yourself, hire an SEO agency, or hire the team that can also fix the site?

An honest comparison. Doing it yourself works for some businesses. The difference with us is that the audit and the fix come from the same desk.
Doing SEO yourself compared with a typical SEO agency and RankMeHi
AspectDo it yourselfTypical SEO agencyRankMeHi
Who fixes the siteYou, or a developer you hire per task.A separate developer. The agency writes tickets and waits.The same three people who audit it. Fixes ship in days.
ContentWhatever you find time to write.Blog posts on a monthly quota, often generic.One page per real search, from your Search Console data.
LinksDirectories and whatever comes.Often bought guest posts or link packages.Earned with original data and guides. Nothing bought.
What the report showsWhatever you remember to check.Rankings, traffic and a list of tasks done.Calls and form submissions first, then Search Console.
ContractNone.Often 6 to 12 months.Monthly, cancel any time.
Best forA new business with time and no budget.A large site with its own dev team.A service business whose site is part of the problem.

How we work

Audit, priorities, fixes, measure.

Four steps, each ending in something you can see. You approve each change before it goes live.
  1. 01

    Free SEO audit

    Day 1 to 3

    We crawl the site, read Search Console and run each key page through PageSpeed on a phone. Then we search for your services the way a customer would and note who wins and why.

    You getA short list of what holds you back, each item with its evidence: a screenshot, a number or a URL.

  2. 02

    Priorities and a fixed quote

    Day 4 to 5

    The list ranked by likely effect on enquiries, not by how easy the fix is. Technical blockers first, because content on a page Google cannot read does nothing.

    You getA plan in plain English and a fixed price for the first round. Nothing starts until you say go.

  3. 03

    Fix, build, write

    Week 1 to 4

    Mohammad fixes crawling, speed and structure. Bita writes or rewrites the pages the searches call for. Andrew redesigns what stops people from calling.

    You getChanges live on your site, each one listed with the date it shipped.

  4. 04

    Measure and repeat

    Monthly

    Search Console, calls and forms compared with the baseline taken before we started. The next page or fix is chosen from the queries you almost rank for.

    You getA one-page report: what changed, what it did to enquiries, what we do next.

Pricing

SEO pricing without the long contract.

Start with one round of fixes on the pages that matter most, then keep going monthly if the numbers say so. For a local service business that would rather pay for results, the pay-per-lead partner door bills per approved lead instead.

  • Audit & fix

    For a site that exists but is slow, invisible on Google, or not bringing in enquiries.

    from $490

    one-off, after the free audit · 1 to 2 weeks

    • Free audit with a prioritised fix list
    • Speed and Core Web Vitals repair
    • Technical SEO and page structure fixes
    • Quote form and click-to-call setup
    Get my free audit

  • Ongoing growth

    For a launched site that should keep climbing in search and converting better.

    from $690

    per month, cancel any time · Monthly

    • Monthly Search Console review and fixes
    • New service and location pages
    • Conversion tweaks based on real form data
    • Google Ads landing pages when needed
    Get my free audit

Is it for you?

Who our SEO services are for.

A good fit if

  • You run a service business and a new customer is worth $1,000 or more to you.
  • Your site exists but is slow, thin or invisible, and nobody on your side can fix it quickly.
  • You want a monthly report that counts enquiries, not only positions.
  • You would rather the people who find the problem also ship the fix.

Probably not a fit if

  • You want a guaranteed position by a date. Nobody honest can sell that.
  • You need thousands of pages for a national e-commerce catalogue.
  • You want links bought in bulk to move fast.
  • You need results in two weeks. SEO pays over months.

What we believe about SEO

Rankings are a means. The call is the point.

Why our SEO reports start with enquiries, not positions.
Our SEO manifesto

Nobody hires an SEO company to be on page one. They hire one so the phone rings.

So we start where the money is: the searches a buyer types right before they call, in the city where you work. One page for each, written to answer it, on a site that loads before they give up.

Then we measure what matters: calls and quote requests by page, not keyword positions in a PDF.

A ranking that brings no enquiries gets rewritten. A page that brings enquiries gets a sibling in the next city.

That is the whole method. It is slower to sell and faster to pay back.

Signed off on every project we take.

Jay Behi, RankMeHi

See the data: 17 statistics from 662 local sites →

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Questions

SEO questions, answered straight

What owners ask before they hire an SEO services company.

SEO guides from the RankMeHi blog

How local businesses get found in Google, Maps and AI answers, and why the website itself decides whether that visibility turns into leads.

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  3. 3We reply with the clearest next steps for your business.
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