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Local SEO across the Golden Horseshoe, one city at a time.

Keyo is a Toronto SEO agency that works with a handful of service businesses at a time, and several of them run trucks across more than one city. One senior strategist reads your site, fixes what is broken, builds one page per service per city, and answers the phone when you call.

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EngagementsFrom $2,500/month
TermMonth to month
RosterA handful a year
Direct lineAnswered through the day

Trusted by growing businesses from the GTA to Los Angeles and Dubai

Johny WatchesLuxury WatchesTITANWalk-In CoolersFitzroyRentalsKOLJI BROSElectricalSealPlumbingPeace of MindExteriorsADASIMConstructionUptownMediaKitchen WorksDubaiBRICK AIDMasonryRaylumLighting
What the Golden Horseshoe customers search

A regional service area is a dozen local markets. Each one needs its own page.

Google decides local results on three things, and it decides them city by city. Across the Golden Horseshoe that means one page per service per city on one flat structure, a Google Business Profile for every location you really operate from, and enough real signals in each city that Google trusts you there.

Relevance

One page per service, written for what people type, with the neighbourhood in it. A page called "services" ranks for nothing.

Distance

Google shows the businesses closest to the searcher. Your Business Profile, service area and pages have to agree on where you actually work.

Prominence

Reviews from real customers, photos from real jobs, consistent citations and links from places that matter locally.

A Golden Horseshoe service area is really a dozen local markets. The work is one page per service per city, on one flat structure, so every city ranks on its own.

Cities in the region

HamiltonBurlingtonOakvilleMississaugaMiltonGrimsbySt. CatharinesNiagara FallsBrantfordGuelphKitchener-WaterlooBarrieOshawa

What the searches look like

roofing companies oakville
walk in coolers ontario
electrician mississauga

Illustrative searches. The real list comes from Search Console and keyword research in the first month.

Built for the trades

Built for owners who are on the tools all day, in more than one city.

Plumbers, roofers, electricians, HVAC techs, landscapers, contractors: people with trucks running from Hamilton to Oshawa and no time to babysit marketing. You text from the job site. Keyo handles the search side.

Plumber at workPlumber
Roofer at workRoofer
Electrician at workElectrician
General contractor at workGeneral contractor
HVAC technician at workHVAC technician
Landscaper at workLandscaper

PlumbersDrain calls, water heaters, emergency work: ranked where people search when the basement floods.

RoofersStorm damage, replacements, insurance work: found first when the shingles come off.

ElectriciansPanel upgrades, EV chargers, service calls: showing up for the searches that book real jobs.

ContractorsBasements, additions, full renos: the projects that pay, from the searches that lead to them.

HVACNo-heat calls, AC installs, maintenance plans: ranked before the first cold snap.

LandscapersInterlock, sod, seasonal cleanups: booked for the season before the snow melts.

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Text a photo from today's job. It becomes a Google Business Profile post and part of your photo portfolio. Text "don't post this" and it stays private. Real client numbers come out on the fit call, not on a web page.

Three focused growth systems

Strategy made tangible.

Every engagement is built around the same goal: turning visibility in each city into qualified calls, leads, and revenue.

01 · Core service

Local SEO and Google Maps

#1 in the map pack across the service area, not just one postal code.

  • Google Business Profile run as a live channel
  • One page per service and per city
  • Citations, reviews and photos handled weekly
  • Local Falcon grid scans so you can see where you show
02 · Conversion

Website design

Fast, credible websites that make the next step obvious and measurable.

  • Conversion-led page architecture
  • Squarespace, Shopify and WordPress
  • Design fixes and tweaks on the site you already have
  • Every link, form and button tested on desktop and mobile
03 · Discovery

AI search visibility

The structure and proof that make your business easy for Google and AI answers to read and cite.

  • Schema written and validated: LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, Breadcrumb
  • On-page FAQs that match the markup exactly
  • One page per search intent, no cannibalization
  • Monthly citation check across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews
What we fix before we build

First we find the holes. Then we fill them.

Most of what is costing you calls is already on your site. We audit what exists before we add anything, and we verify a restorable backup before we touch a thing.

Broken links and 4xx errorsDead pages and dead ends, found by a rendered crawl, fixed and rechecked with a second crawl.
Missing or duplicate H1s and metadataEvery page gets one title, one H1 and one job. No two pages competing for the same search.
Redirect chains and indexing alertsCanonical, redirect and coverage alerts in Search Console resolved, not left sitting in the inbox.
Orphaned pagesPages with zero internal links get linked into the site or retired with a redirect.
Pages that are no longer trueArticles describing services you stopped offering are corrected or removed before they generate the wrong calls.
Backups, plugins, DNS and emailBackups that quietly stopped running, overlapping plugins, and the DNS and email records that decide whether your quotes land in inboxes.
Proof before promises

Numbers from businesses like yours, not from a slide deck.

Every figure below is pulled from Ahrefs, Google Search Console or Local Falcon and dated. Read them, then ask to see the accounts.

Oakville roofing · Golden Horseshoe

Peace of Mind Exteriors

An Oakville roofing company with a 240-page site that Google was ranking on page five. Keyo rebuilt what was underneath it, then built one page per service and city across the Golden Horseshoe.

Read the case studyAll five case studies
Also in the case studies: Titan Walk-In Coolers. A Mississauga refrigeration company with zero page-one rankings in June 2024. Keyo built the service and city structure and ran the Google Business Profile as a live channel. Read the case study
12x
monthly Search Console clicks, 57 to 694
Google Search Console, Dec 2024 vs Apr 2026
49 of 49
map grid points showing Peace of Mind for roofing companies oakville, five mile radius
Local Falcon, Aug 2026
53 to 11.5
average Google position across the whole site
Google Search Console, Dec 2024 vs Apr 2026
100/100
technical health score across 421 URLs, zero tracked issues
Site audit, Aug 2026

Ahrefs figures are third-party estimates. Search Console and Business Profile numbers come from each client's own Google account. Local Falcon scans the map pack from a grid of points around the business.

How the work moves

Four steps from inquiry to the phone ringing.

No slide deck, no twelve-month contract. A one-page scope, a verified backup, then the cleanup and the build, reported every month in five parts.

Every week, every account

Articles publish Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m., each with a matching Google Business Profile post.

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TUE
WED
THU
FRI
  • Search Console review and keyword movement
  • Indexing issues caught and resubmitted
  • Internal links added to new and money pages
  • Urgent technical fixes, same week
  • Google Business Profile activity check
01Week one

We read it properly.

Your website, your Google Business Profile and the competitors in each city, before we reply. If we are not the right fit for your market or your stage, we say so and point you somewhere better.

02Week one

A 30-minute fit call.

What is costing you calls today, what we would fix first, what we would build after that, and what it costs. Straight numbers, no slide deck.

03Week two

A one-page scope, then access and a backup.

What we fix, what we build, what we report each month, and the monthly figure. Website admin, Google Business Profile, Search Console and analytics access, then a backup taken and verified before anything is touched.

04Month one on

Cleanup, build, report.

The site stops leaking calls first. Then the service and city pages, the profile rhythm and the schema. Every month: baseline, work completed, what moved in search, what it did for the business, next action.

Questions from the Golden Horseshoe

Asked on most fit calls.

If yours is not here, the direct line is (647) 717-7785, and the answer comes from the person who would do the work. You might also want to read The small business guide to local search.

Do you have an office in the region?

Keyo works from 1423 Yonge Street in Toronto. Clients across the Golden Horseshoe are served exactly the way Toronto clients are: the direct line, (647) 717-7785, for calls and texts through the day, one five-part report a month, and a review of the strategy every 90 days. When an engagement includes photo or video, that day is scoped separately.

What does local SEO across the Golden Horseshoe cost?

Engagements start at $2,500 a month, month to month, and the exact figure is written on a one-page scope before anything starts. Website design is scoped separately from $5,000 on Squarespace, Shopify or WordPress, brand work from $2,500, and photo and video from $1,500. There are no long-term contracts and no setup fees.

How long until the phone rings more?

Google Business Profile work can move within weeks. On the businesses in our case studies, the first movement in search showed inside the first 90 days, and the compounding came in months four to twelve. Nobody can promise a ranking by a date, and we do not. What we can show you is the ledger of what shipped, what got indexed and what moved.

Which the Golden Horseshoe businesses are a fit?

Established service businesses with a service that already makes money and a market they want to win: trades, contractors, clinics, showrooms and local retailers. Keyo takes on a handful of new engagements a year, so first-year startups, anyone shopping on price, and anyone who wants a ranking promised by a date are sent elsewhere, politely.

Do you run Google Ads too?

No. Ads are the one thing we do not run ourselves. If paid search is the right move for your business we introduce you to an ads partner we trust, and the SEO work is built so the landing pages convert for both.

What do you need from me?

Administrator access to the website, manager access to the Google Business Profile, Search Console and analytics, a phone number that gets answered, and a yes or no within a week on anything we escalate. After that, twenty minutes a month for the report, and a photo from the job when we ask for one. See how we work for the full list.

Selective partnerships, meaningful results

If the ambition is serious, let's talk.

We review every inquiry personally and accept only the partnerships where we believe we can create a meaningful advantage across the region.

Begin a private inquiryCall (647) 717-7785

From $2,500/month · Established businesses · Month to month · A handful of new engagements a year

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