044 Bureau
Twice as many Google appearances in a year.
A Vancouver branding studio whose main goal was to rank on Google.
044 Bureau is a branding studio in Vancouver. Its founders, Anastasiia Romaniv and Anna Khomich, build brand strategy, visual identities and websites for wellness, hospitality, retail and creative businesses. Ranking on Google was the studio’s main goal when we started in March 2025, and its site gave Google almost nothing to read. From March to September 2025 we rebuilt what Google reads, wrote the first articles and set up the listings. A year later, the same 90 days show 044 in Google searches twice as often, and one article we drafted, on the brand identity prism, brings more than half of those appearances.
Where it started
A site Google could barely read.
Our audit in March 2025 found 62 words on the homepage, no image descriptions, and no heading with the words clients search for on the Home, About or Contact pages. Every page title was written for the same phrase, digital identity. The site had no structured data, its sitemap had never been sent to Google, and the Contact page was not in Google’s index.
Slow on phones.
Google scored the site 35 to 48 out of 100 for speed on phones, and the main image took 16.1 seconds to appear.
What we did
A keyword for every page.
A research sheet of 54 searches, then 30 more, and one target for each page: purpose driven brand identities on the homepage, creative brand strategy on the brand strategy page, holistic branding on About, and website design packages on the web design page.
Search built into the new site before it was built.
044 was redesigning its site. We reviewed the wireframes and page structure first, then wrote the studio a step-by-step process, with a recorded walkthrough, for adding headings, keywords and page copy to its Figma files before they go to developers.
Structured data on every service page.
Organization, service, page, breadcrumb and FAQ markup on the homepage, About and the four service pages, with new FAQs on each. When Google flagged an error in it in July, we fixed it, and Google confirmed the fix on September 2, 2025.
Articles with the founders’ knowledge in them.
We drafted the first five articles in April 2025, with custom infographics, including the one on the brand identity prism. In August we built a custom GPT that interviews the founders, so later articles carry what they know, and founder bios went on the author pages in September.
Lighter images.
Blog images converted to WebP, a lighter format, so pages load faster.
Listings across eight directories.
We chose the directories, including Google Business Profile, Bing Places, YellowPages.ca, Clutch and GoodFirms, and wrote the steps to keep the studio’s name, address and phone the same on each. Anna submitted them in April.
Pages into Google and Bing.
We submitted the sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools and asked Google to recheck the pages it had found but not indexed. Google confirmed 11 of them fixed on September 22, 2025.
An update every week.
A shared task board, and a written summary of the week’s work through the summer.
They’ve helped us rank on Google, which was our main goal, but what really impressed us is how they’ve supported 044BUREAU in every aspect, even in areas we didn’t even realize needed attention.044 BureauGoogle review, June 25, 2025
What changed.
July 24 to October 21, 2026, against the same 90 days in 2025.
3,920 to 8,120. An appearance is each time a 044 page showed in someone’s Google results.
40 to 58.
Across every search 044 showed up for. Position 1 is the top result.
Up from 102. "Art direction services" alone showed 044 583 times, up from 128.
Of 044’s appearances in Google over 16 months: 24,822 of 42,300, and 82 clicks.
Up from 35 to 48. The main image now appears in 8.4 seconds, down from 16.1. 044’s developer rebuilt the site in between, so part of this is theirs.
Search figures are from 044 Bureau’s Google Search Console. Google keeps 16 months of data, so the earliest day on record is June 22, 2025, three months after we started, and both periods fall after our work began. Our work log runs from March to September 2025. Speed is Google PageSpeed Insights on phones, March 2025 and October 24, 2026. The chart above is monthly appearances, July 2025 to September 2026.