SEO in Vancouver - rank across the Lower Mainland

Vancouver SEO is competitive in every meaningful service category. Dental, legal, real estate, contractors, restaurants, financial services - each has 30-200 entrenched competitors with multi-year SEO programs running. Most established Vancouver businesses are working with agencies in Yaletown or Mount Pleasant paying $3,000-$10,000/month for ongoing SEO. New entrants don't displace them in three months. The path that works: capture neighbourhood and long-tail queries the incumbents have ignored. "Dentist Yaletown," "plumber Burnaby Brentwood," "realtor Richmond Steveston." Lower volume per query, achievable in 3-6 months, compounds into authority that eventually outranks broad head terms. For multilingual markets - Mandarin queries in Richmond, Punjabi queries in Surrey - dedicated language pages outrank EN-only sites by 3-5x in those audiences.

Five-track program: on-page (title tags, schema, internal linking, Core Web Vitals), Google Business Profile (weekly posts, photos, Q&A - Vancouver GBP competition is intense), local citations (YellowPages, 411.ca, Canada411, BC-specific directories, multilingual directories for Mandarin/Punjabi audiences), review generation (Vancouver competitive listings have 200+ reviews - systematic pipeline needed), backlink acquisition (local press like the Vancouver Sun, Daily Hive, GeorgiaStraight, industry-specific authority sites). All five every month. Vancouver punishes part-time SEO work.

First-party data only. Search Console impressions (query coverage), clicks (real visitors), CTR (snippet performance), position (directional), and GA4 conversions (real leads). Monthly reports, quarterly strategy reviews, no rank-tracker vanity metrics.