The work.
There are no case studies on this page yet, and there is nothing invented in place of them. Here instead is what we actually do, where we have done it, and what we will publish once clients agree to be named.
Industry experience
Deck builders,
United States.
SEO Studio is a Durban-based SEO agency with hands-on experience working on search strategies for businesses in South Africa and deck-building companies in the United States.
That is industry experience, not a second location. We do not have a US office, a US phone number or a US address, and this site does not carry US location pages, because we are not based there.
It is worth mentioning for one reason: US home improvement is a harder search market than anything in South Africa. Established competitors, mature content, real budgets. Work that holds up there does not stop working when it comes home.
What engagements look like
Three shapes the work takes.
Almost everything we do falls into one of these. Each starts with an audit, because we will not quote against a site we have not read.
01 · Recovery
The site that should rank and does not
Usually a technical constraint rather than a content one: pages a search engine cannot see, a structure that buries them, or a Business Profile configured against itself. The fix list is short and the movement is usually the fastest of the three.
02 · Local footprint
Being found in the places you serve
Business Profile, service areas, consistent business information, and location pages that say something specific about each area instead of swapping the suburb name. The structure on this site is the same one we build for clients.
03 · Building out
Earning ground you do not hold yet
Content and structure aimed at the questions your market asks before it is ready to buy, plus the schema and clarity that decide whether an AI answer names you or someone else. This is the slow one, and the one that compounds.
On case studies
Why this page is short.
Plenty of agency sites carry results that cannot be reproduced, from clients who cannot be contacted. It is easy to write and impossible to check, and in South Africa published claims like that carry real exposure under the ASA code and the Consumer Protection Act.
So the rule here is simple. A case study goes up when there is a named client who has agreed to it, figures that come from their own analytics, and a method we can walk your analyst through. Until then this page says less than it could, which we think is the right trade.
If you want evidence before committing, ask. We would rather show you the thinking on your own site. That is what the audit is.
Next step
See it applied to your site.
An audit is the fastest way to judge whether we are any good, on your domain, not somebody else’s.