SEO agency services for Los Angeles businesses
Local SEO for Los Angeles service businesses across LA County's many cities, bilingual pages where your customers need them, and Shopify and ecommerce SEO for the brands that make LA one of the busiest online retail markets. Remote from Perth, starting with a free audit.
- Free SEO audit
- Work in US business hours
- No lock-in contracts
- Your accounts stay yours
What makes search in Los Angeles different
The figures that change the SEO work here, from the US Census Bureau.
Local SEO across LA County
Los Angeles County is made up of dozens of separate cities and communities, so "Los Angeles" on a Business Profile doesn't reach customers searching in Pomona or Whittier. Local visibility depends on where each searcher is, and on a service area that matches where you actually work.
Vernon is a mostly industrial city, so businesses there tend to sell to other businesses. That shifts the work from map searches towards product and service pages that buyers find by what they need.
Areas this covers
- Los Angeles
- Pomona
- South Whittier
- Vernon
- Long Beach
- Pasadena
A page for a nearby city earns its place when you have real jobs, staff or customers there. Pages that only change the city name fit Google's definition of doorway pages. More in why a page for every suburb backfires.
Language and audience in Los Angeles
More than half of Los Angeles residents speak a language other than English at home, the highest share of these five cities except San Jose. For many service businesses that means Spanish pages, a Business Profile description and review replies in both languages, and the right language tags so Google shows each version to the right searcher.
How remote work fits your day
Perth is 15 hours ahead of Los Angeles in summer and 16 in winter, so our morning overlaps your afternoon. Communication is by email, WhatsApp and video call, and you can book a call.
Ecommerce, Shopify and WordPress SEO for Los Angeles businesses
LA has a dense cluster of Shopify and direct-to-consumer brands, many also selling wholesale. Collection pages, product titles, duplicate product URLs and keeping wholesale and retail pages from competing are where Shopify SEO pays off.
| Platform | What's different | Where we focus |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress SEO | Since version 5.5, WordPress publishes its own sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml, and most SEO plugins replace it with another. WordPress core | Check which sitemap is live, set archives and permalinks once, and keep plugins from slowing every page. |
| WooCommerce SEO | With any non-plain permalink setting, product URLs take a /product/ base, such as /product/hoodie-with-logo. WooCommerce docs | Get the WordPress settings right first, then the product and shop base, then category and filter pages. |
| Shopify SEO | Shopify's fixed /products, /collections and /collections/all paths can't be redirected. Shopify Help | Work within the fixed paths: collection copy, handles, duplicate product URLs and redirects when products change. |
| BigCommerce SEO | BigCommerce says it adds automatic 301 redirects as product names and pages change. BigCommerce | Check the URL settings before a migration, and switch on SEO settings that exist but were never used. |
| Magento / Adobe Commerce SEO | Layered navigation lets shoppers filter by category, price or any attribute, and every filter can create a URL. Adobe Experience League | Decide which filter combinations deserve to be indexed, and keep the rest out of Google's crawl. |
| Wix SEO | Wix updates the sitemap automatically, and changing a page's canonical can drop that page from it. Wix Help | Use the settings Wix exposes carefully, and put the effort into pages and content. |
| Squarespace SEO | Squarespace doesn't let you edit the sitemap or a page's source code. Squarespace Help | The work happens in page structure, content and settings rather than code. |
Using AI tools on WordPress or another platform? Google says AI-generated content must be fact-checked and reviewed before publishing. We use AI for research and drafts, never to publish unchecked. More on AI search and AI SEO.
Los Angeles SEO FAQs
Should Los Angeles businesses have Spanish pages?
If your customers search in Spanish, yes. 56.4% of LA residents speak a language other than English at home. Separate Spanish pages, properly linked to the English ones, reach those searches.
Can one Google Business Profile rank across LA County?
It ranks best near your address or within your service area. For customers in other LA County cities, a well-set service area and strong service pages help, but distance still counts.
Should we build pages for Pomona, Whittier and other nearby cities?
Only where you have real work or something specific to say. Pages that just change the city name are doorway pages under Google's policies.
How is Shopify SEO different for brands that also sell wholesale?
Retail and wholesale pages for the same product can compete with each other. We decide which version should rank and make sure the other doesn't dilute it.
How do calls work with LA's time zone?
Perth's morning is your afternoon, so calls fit your working day and emails arrive overnight.
Other US markets: SEO New York, SEO Houston, SEO Phoenix, SEO San Francisco & San Jose. All US work: SEO services USA. Plans and prices: SEO pricing.
Get a clear SEO plan for your Los Angeles business
Email us your website, the areas you serve and what you sell. We'll reply with the first things we'd fix.
Prefer to talk? Book a thirty minute call, free and with no obligation.