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Local SEO & marketing in Coquitlam & Vancouver No page-one promises.
Just real work.

We try every honest way to help your business thrive online. And we show you all of it.

Get my free Site Check What others promise

You work with me, Troy.

What we found

We read 58 marketing
websites.

Every marketing and SEO company we could find selling to Lower Mainland businesses.

18of 58 make a promise
nobody can keep.

  • 8promise the top of Google, or guarantee results
  • 10promise you'll “dominate”, “skyrocket” or grow 10x
  • 5say plainly that nobody can guarantee rankings
  • 35promise none of these
“No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.”
Google, in its own guide to hiring an SEO. Read it

We read the websites of 66 marketing and SEO companies selling to Lower Mainland businesses: those in Clutch’s Lower Mainland SEO listings, and those that came up when we searched “SEO company” in ten Lower Mainland cities. 58 loaded. We counted only promises made to you, not case studies or reviews. 3 of the 5 guarantees come with a refund or free work. November 2026.

And what they charge

$500 a month and up.
Or $199.

We found a monthly SEO price on 10 of the 58 websites. Here’s the cheapest plan on each.

  1. SEO, conversion and speedVancouver agencyUS$4,000a month
  2. SEO and AI searchVancouver agency$2,500a month
  3. SEO starterLangley agency$2,500a month
  4. SEO and AI searchSurrey agency$1,500a month
  5. SEO programVancouver agency$995a month
  6. Local SEOLangley agency$950a month
  7. Local SEOAbbotsford agency$800a month
  8. SEO, basic planLangley agency$750a month
  9. Local SEOPort Coquitlam agency$695a month
  10. Local SEOVancouver agency$500a month
  11. Gold, all inCurveball$199a month
  • $100+an hour at 29 of the 42 agencies that list a rate.
  • $5,000+before they start: the minimum project at 20 of 44.
  • 2 hoursof agency time, at most, is what $199 buys at the typical $100–149 an hour.

Monthly prices: each agency’s own website, November 2026, the lowest monthly SEO plan it shows. Hourly rates and minimum projects: each agency’s Clutch listing. Agencies include different work at different prices.

Troy, who runs Curveball

I’ve been burned by marketing companies too. Some took the money and sent busy-looking reports while nothing changed.

So I won’t promise you page one. Here’s what I can promise: we’ll do real work, every month, and put your business in as many places as we can, to give it the best chance we can.

TroyCurveball

Where we put you

Everywhere your
customers look.

We set up as much as we can for you. A few need you once.

  • Google Search
  • Google Maps
  • Business Profile
  • Bing Places
  • Apple Maps
  • Yelp
  • YellowPages
  • BBB
  • Your industry’s directories
  • ChatGPT
  • Google’s AI
Two phones showing the Curveball client portal: the Gold plan, and every listing, from Google Business Profile to Bing Places and Apple Maps.

Gold plan · $199 a month

What we do,
every month.

The real work, listed. Every bit of it shows up in your report.

  • An SEO plan, done for you.

    Each month we pick the jobs that matter most, then do them.

  • Pages built around real searches.

    Google’s own numbers show what people type. Refreshed every 3 months.

  • A blog post every week.

    Answers to the questions your customers really ask.

  • Your Google profile, kept busy.

    A post every week, and a reply to every review.

  • Where you rank, for 20 searches.

    On Google and on the map, every month.

  • Five competitors, watched.

    What they’re doing, and where you can win.

  • AI answers, checked.

    Whether ChatGPT and Google’s AI mention you.

  • Fake listings, reported.

    Spam businesses above you, reported to Google.

Behind the scenes

The work
you don’t see.

A Site Check on two phones: plain English, and a score out of 10.

120 checks, every month.

Our Site Check reads your whole website again each month, so nothing slips.

A monthly website report email on a phone, and the Bronze, Silver and Gold care cards.

A report you can read.

What changed since last month, in plain English. No jargon, no padding.

Tactics300+each one checked

Sources66scored for trust

Tricks17marked “Skip”

A library of what works.

Every tactic we use comes from Google’s own guidance, tests we ran and experts we trust. Anything that breaks Google’s rules is marked Skip.

  • Google’s own numbers.

    How many people search for what you sell, each month.

  • The questions people ask.

    What your customers type into Google, word for word.

  • Your spot on the map.

    Where you show on Google Maps, all around your business.

How it works

Every month,
round again.

Five steps, every month, for as long as you’re with us.

  1. 01Check. A full Site Check, then research into your customers and competitors.
  2. 02Set up. Google, Bing, Apple Maps and Yelp, done right.
  3. 03Build. Pages, posts and fixes, aimed at what people search.
  4. 04Report. One plain-English report: what we did and what moved.
  5. 05Adjust. Keep what works. Drop what doesn’t. Go round again.

Gold · Care Plus

Marketing & SEO,
done for you.

$199a month, all in

  • Pages built around real Google searches
  • A full SEO plan, done for you
  • Listed everywhere that counts
  • Competitors tracked, fixes done
  • Fake listings reported to Google
  • Best pages refreshed every 3 months
  • Everything in Silver

No lock-in: cancel with 30 days’ notice.

Get my free Site Check See every plan

Good to ask

Straight answers
from Troy.

Can you guarantee first place on Google?

No. Nobody can: Google decides who shows up, and it changes its mind. What I can promise is real work every month, and a report that shows you exactly what we did.

How will I know you’re actually doing the work?

Every month you get a plain-English report: what we did, what moved and what’s next. Your client portal shows the same, any time.

How long until we see results?

Search and map rankings usually build over a few months. I’ll tell you what to expect before we start, and tell you when something isn’t working.

Is there a contract?

Gold runs month to month: cancel with 30 days’ notice. If you take the free website with Gold, the plan runs for 12 months.

What is AI search, and does it matter yet?

People now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI for recommendations. Those tools look for clear, consistent facts about a business. We make yours easy to find and hard to misread, and we check whether they mention you.

From the blog

Worth a read
before we talk.

Local SEO5 min read

Your Google Business Profile is your other homepage

A plain-English guide to a Google Business Profile that brings in calls, with what Google’s rules and the research say, for businesses in Coquitlam, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

AI search5 min read

How to show up when customers ask ChatGPT

Nearly half of people now ask AI tools for local recommendations. What those tools quote, what Google says you need (less than you’d think), and what I’d fix first.

Marketing5 min read

How to get more Google reviews without being awkward

Most happy customers will leave a review if you ask well. When to ask, what to say, what Google bans, and the habits that get reviews filtered.

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