Nanaimo SEO that puts your business in the map pack, the three Google results with the map at the top of every local search, and into the answers ChatGPT and Perplexity give when locals ask for a recommendation. Plain English, no jargon. Month-to-month.
When a Nanaimo local searches for what you sell, Google shows three businesses at the top, in the map pack. Everyone else is below the fold.
There are about 7,000 businesses competing for those three slots. We get you into them.
Sources: BC Stats, 2026 · City of Nanaimo State of the Economy, 2025
Three things win the local search before anyone scrolls. If you’re not in them, you’re invisible.
More Nanaimo locals are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to recommend a business than ever. We engineer your business into those answers, by name, with star rating and booking link attached.
The free listing Google shows in the map. For most Nanaimo searches, this is the first thing customers see, before any website. We rebuild yours end-to-end so it actually shows up.
One page per high-value Nanaimo search. “Plumber Nanaimo,” “dentist Nanaimo,” “[your service] near me.” Written by a senior in-house writer, not from a template.
When a Nanaimo local asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a recommendation, your business gets named. We engineer your business into the sources AI models pull from.
Review request flows after every job, response templates for the tough ones, monitoring across Google, Yelp, Facebook and BBB. Reviews are how Google decides who shows up.
Citations are your business listed in the directories Google trusts. Tourism Nanaimo, the Chamber of Commerce, Yelp Canada, BBB, Yellow Pages, Apple Maps, Bing Places. We do the work.
Map-pack rankings, traffic, AI citations, calls and form fills in one view. Plus a monthly written update from a real strategist. No templated PDF.
The dashboard you get the day we start. Live map-pack rankings, AI citations and customer impact in one view. No PDF deck once a quarter.
We pull every search that matters to your business and check exactly where you sit on Google, in the map pack and inside ChatGPT and Perplexity. No work happens until we have the full picture.
This is the free Google listing that shows in the map. We rebuild it end-to-end, categories, services, photos, weekly posts, customer Q&A and a review request system. Most Nanaimo businesses leave it empty. It's the biggest free win you have.
Citations are your business listed in directories Google trusts. Tourism Nanaimo, Chamber of Commerce, Yelp Canada, BBB, Apple Maps, Bing Places, Yellow Pages and 30+ more. Same name, address, phone everywhere, that's what tells Google you're real.
One page for each high-value Nanaimo search. We brief them from real SERP analysis and write them in-house, not from a template. Plus local schema (the code that tells Google you're a Nanaimo business) and page speed fixes.
Rankings, citations and customer calls all compound. The work doesn't evaporate if you stop, it becomes the foundation your business runs on. Most clients stay because the gains keep stacking, not because they're locked in.
Nanaimo splits into north, central and south, with named neighbourhoods that locals search by name (Tourism Nanaimo, 2026). We rank clients in the map pack across all of them, from Hammond Bay in the north end to Harewood in the south, the downtown core to Westwood Lake.
Each neighbourhood searches differently. Locals in Hammond Bay don’t share the same intent or competitor set as Old City Quarter. We map the geography before we touch the SEO.
Restaurants don’t search like dentists. Plumbers don’t search like realtors. We adapt the playbook to the industry, and Nanaimo’s economy runs on these six.
Nanaimo’s downtown waterfront and Old City Quarter pull hundreds of cruise and ferry visitors a day. Map-pack ranking for “[cuisine] Nanaimo” and “best coffee Nanaimo” turns search traffic into walk-ins.
Plumbers, electricians, roofers, landscapers, HVAC, cleaners. Construction is the largest industry in Nanaimo at 17.4% of all businesses (City of Nanaimo, 2025). High-intent local search with phone-call conversions.
Dental, chiropractic, physiotherapy, mental health, optometry, naturopathy. Patients search by neighbourhood and specialty, the playbook is treatment pages, schema and review systems.
Real Estate is the second-largest industry sector in Nanaimo at 11.4% of businesses (City of Nanaimo, 2025). Realtors compete on neighbourhood pages, IDX optimization and review velocity.
Old City Quarter, Country Club Mall, Woodgrove Centre. Retail is 10.7% of Nanaimo businesses (City of Nanaimo, 2025). Local product schema, GBP and category-specific landing pages.
Hotels, tours, charters, attractions. Accommodation and food services support 4,558 jobs in Nanaimo (City of Nanaimo, 2026). We work with operators to capture the “things to do Nanaimo” and booking-intent searches.
What we actually deliver each month, line by line. No open-ended “we work on SEO”. Every retainer includes the lines below as a baseline. Higher tiers add velocity, not extra categories.
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The questions Nanaimo business owners ask us most often. Plain English. If yours isn’t here, the booking link goes straight to my calendar.
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