SEO agency in Mérida, Yucatán
SEO services in Mérida that bring in buyers, not just traffic
We are an SEO agency that fixes what stops Google from ranking your site, builds content your buyers actually search for, and gets your brand into AI answers. Every part of the work is tied to leads and sales you can see in your own reports. Our team is based in Mérida and works with businesses across Yucatán, Mexico and the US.
What SEO services actually cover
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the work of making your website the page Google, Bing and AI assistants choose to show when someone searches for what you sell. Professional SEO services cover three layers. The technical layer decides whether your pages can be crawled and indexed. The content layer decides whether they deserve to rank. The authority layer decides whether search engines trust you enough to show you, or quote you.
Most sites that come to us have a problem in more than one layer. A redesign quietly added noindex tags. Two service pages compete for the same term. The blog answers questions nobody asks. And nobody has checked what ChatGPT says when a buyer asks for a recommendation in their category.
Search also has a second front door now. Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity answer many questions before anyone clicks. Good SEO is what gets you into those answers, so we treat classic rankings and AI visibility as one job, not two.
Mérida, Yucatán
An SEO agency based in Mérida
We help Mérida businesses rank for the searches their customers make in the city, and help companies here reach buyers across Mexico and the United States. That means Spanish and English keyword research, pages built for local intent, and checking what AI assistants say when someone asks for a recommendation in Mérida.
Search in Mérida mixes Spanish and English: locals, people relocating from other states, foreign residents and visitors all look for services differently. People also search by colonia and by landmark, such as "Mérida norte", "en Montejo" or "cerca de Altabrisa". We research each group, build pages that answer them, and track how you show up in Mérida results and on Google Maps, not just in national rankings.
Because we are local, we can meet you in person, visit your business, and take the real photos your website and Google Business Profile need. We work with businesses across Yucatán, from Mérida to Progreso, Valladolid and the haciendas, and with clients in Cancún, the Riviera Maya, the rest of Mexico and the US.
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Services
Our SEO services
Each part has its own page with the full scope. Most clients need several of them working together, which is what a monthly SEO program does.
Technical SEO
Crawling, indexing, site speed, Core Web Vitals, structured data and migrations, so Google can find and trust every page that matters.
Learn moreOn-Page SEO
Keyword mapping, titles, headings, copy and internal links, so each page is the clear answer to one search intent.
Learn moreSEO Content Strategy
Topic clusters, writer-ready briefs and articles built on the questions your buyers search at every stage.
Learn moreAI Search Optimization
Get mentioned and cited in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity answers about your category.
Learn moreLocal SEO
Rank in the map pack and local results with location pages, citations, reviews and local schema.
Learn moreGoogle Business Profile
Set up and optimize your profile with the right categories, services, photos and posts.
Learn moreEcommerce SEO
Collection pages, faceted navigation and product schema that make Shopify and WooCommerce stores an organic sales channel.
Learn moreSEO-ready websites
New sites and redesigns built with clean code, fast templates and redirects planned before launch, not after.
Learn moreSEO audit
Start with an SEO audit
Every engagement starts with an audit, because the right plan depends on what is actually broken. We review the whole site the way Google and AI assistants see it, then rank every finding by impact and effort. You can also buy the audit on its own and hand the roadmap to your own team.
The first look is free: book a call and we will walk you through the biggest problems we find. The full audit goes much deeper.
What we check
Crawling and indexing
Page indexing report, robots.txt, noindex, canonicals, redirects, sitemaps and crawl waste.
Speed and Core Web Vitals
LCP, INP and CLS from real-user data, page weight, images and render-blocking code.
Site structure
Click depth, orphan pages, internal links, navigation and URL patterns.
On-page and keywords
Titles, descriptions, headings, keyword mapping and cannibalization between pages.
Content quality
Thin, duplicate or outdated pages, gaps against buyer questions and competitors.
Structured data
Schema coverage and errors for your business, services, products and articles.
Authority and backlinks
Referring domains, toxic or spammy links, brand mentions and competitor gaps.
AI search visibility
What Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity say about your brand and category.
Local signals
Google Business Profile, citations and reviews, for businesses that serve an area.
Tracking
Search Console, GA4 key events and whether organic leads reach your CRM.
What you receive
- A prioritized roadmap: every issue ranked by impact and effort
- Clear fix instructions, ready to hand to a developer or a writer
- A keyword and page map showing where each search should land
- A snapshot of how AI assistants describe you and your competitors
- A walkthrough call to go over the findings and answer questions
- A baseline of clicks, rankings and leads to measure progress against
In depth
How we do each part of SEO
Here is what the work looks like in practice, what we check, and where you can read more. Use it as a checklist even if you never hire us.
01Technical SEO
Technical SEO decides whether Google can crawl, render and index your pages at all. It is the least visible part of the work and the one that most often holds everything else back. We crawl the whole site, read the Page indexing and Crawl stats reports in Search Console, and fix root causes instead of symptoms.
When a site is being redesigned or moved to a new platform, we map every old URL to its new home and test redirects before launch. Migrations are where most sites lose traffic they never get back.
Service page:Technical SEO
Read:Get Google to index your site·Fix "Crawled – currently not indexed"·Fix canonical issues·Fix Core Web Vitals
- Crawlability: robots.txt, internal link depth, orphan pages and crawl waste from filters and parameters
- Indexing: stray noindex tags, "Crawled – currently not indexed", soft 404s and thin pages
- Canonical tags, redirect chains and duplicate content
- XML sitemaps that list only the pages you want indexed
- Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), page weight and render-blocking code
- JavaScript rendering checks for sites built on frameworks
- Structured data: Organization, Service, Product, Article, Breadcrumb and FAQ where it still applies
- Site migrations and redesigns planned so rankings survive
02On-page SEO
On-page work makes each page the obvious answer for one search intent. In most audits we find pages competing for the same terms, titles that describe nothing, and the most valuable pages buried three or four clicks deep.
We start with a keyword map: one primary query and its close variants per page, so you never have two pages fighting each other. Then we rewrite what needs it, keeping your brand voice.
Service page:On-Page SEO
Read:Website copywriting·Landing pages and CRO
- Keyword-to-page mapping across the whole site
- Keyword cannibalization fixes: merge, redirect or re-target
- Title tags and meta descriptions written to earn the click
- Headings and copy matched to what searchers want to do
- Internal links with descriptive anchor text from strong pages to the ones that need help
- Image file names, alt text and compression
- Experience and expertise signals: real authors, sources and examples
03SEO content strategy
Content is where most SEO budgets go and where most of them are wasted. We start from the questions buyers ask at each stage, group them into topic clusters, and decide what to write, what to update and what to merge or remove.
We don't publish mass-produced AI pages. Google treats scaled, low-value content as spam, and it rarely earns links or citations anyway. Every piece has a brief, a subject-matter review and a reason to exist.
Service page:SEO Content Strategy
Read:Why copying scaled AI content backfires·What the September 2026 spam update signals
- Keyword and question research in English and Spanish
- Topic clusters: a pillar page plus supporting articles, linked both ways
- Writer-ready briefs with intent, outline, entities, sources and internal links
- Writing and editing by people who know the subject
- Refreshing pages that are slipping before writing new ones
- Pruning or merging thin and outdated posts
04AI search optimization (AEO / GEO)
Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity pull from pages that are crawlable, clearly structured and published by a brand they can identify. AI search optimization, also called answer engine optimization (AEO) or generative engine optimization (GEO), builds on SEO. It does not replace it.
We check what the main AI assistants say about your category and your company, find the sources they lean on, and close the gaps: missing facts, unclear pages, weak mentions elsewhere on the web.
Service page:AI Search Optimization
Read:AI Overviews on buying searches·Is AI traffic worth the effort?·Opting out of AI training with robots.txt
- Regular checks of how AI assistants describe your brand and competitors
- Answer-first sections and clear definitions that are easy to quote
- Entity signals: consistent company facts, Organization schema and linked profiles
- Deliberate robots.txt choices for AI search and AI training crawlers
- Mentions on the third-party sites AI tools rely on
- AI referral traffic tracked in GA4
05Local SEO
If customers find you on a map, your Google Business Profile and local signals matter more than your blog. Distance to the searcher is fixed. Relevance and prominence are not, and that is where the work goes.
Service page:Local SEO
Read:Google Business Profile·Review management·Local business growth
- Google Business Profile: categories, services, hours, photos and posts
- Consistent business name, address and phone across directories
- Location and service-area pages that are genuinely different from each other
- Review requests and replies, within Google's rules
- LocalBusiness schema
- Calls, direction requests and form leads tracked by location
06Ecommerce SEO
Online stores lose organic traffic to faceted navigation, duplicate product variants and thin category pages. We fix the structure first, then make collection and product pages worth ranking and worth buying from.
Service page:Ecommerce SEO
Read:Shopify websites·Google Shopping·Product photography
- Category and collection pages with useful buying guidance
- Faceted navigation and URL parameter handling
- Product schema with price, availability and reviews
- Variants, out-of-stock and discontinued products handled without losing rankings
- Merchant Center feeds for free product listings
- Shopify and WooCommerce platform limits and workarounds
07Bilingual and international SEO
We work in English and Spanish every day, for clients in Mexico and the United States. Spanish SEO is not a translation job. People in Mexico use different words than people in Spain or US Hispanic markets, and the search volume rarely follows the English term.
We research each language and market on its own, then connect the versions so Google shows the right one to the right person.
- Native keyword research per language and country
- Reciprocal hreflang tags that point only to indexable pages
- URL structure for language versions
- Localized titles, descriptions and structured data
- Reporting split by language and country in Search Console
08Measurement and reporting
SEO that isn't measured against leads and sales drifts toward vanity metrics. We connect Search Console, GA4 and your CRM so you can see which pages and queries bring in business, and which only bring in visits.
Read:GA4 setup·Conversion tracking·Marketing dashboards·Can you trust your rank tracker?
- Search Console verified and set up for every property
- GA4 key events for forms, calls and purchases
- Organic leads followed into the CRM
- A dashboard for clicks, rankings and conversions
- Rank tracking, read with its known limits
Process
How an SEO engagement runs
- 01Weeks 1–2
Audit
We crawl the site and review Search Console, analytics, backlinks, competitors and what AI assistants say about you.
- 02Weeks 2–3
Roadmap
You get a ranked plan: high-impact, low-effort fixes first, and a clear note of what needs developer time.
- 03Months 1–3
Fix the foundations
Technical and on-page fixes go live, tracking gets cleaned up, and key pages are rewritten.
- 04Month 2 onward
Build content and authority
Briefs, new articles, refreshes and mentions on sites your buyers and AI tools trust.
- 05Every month
Measure and adjust
We review what moved and what didn't, then change the plan based on leads and revenue.
What you get
In a monthly SEO program, every month includes:
- A full technical audit at the start, then monitoring of indexing and crawl errors
- A keyword and question map tied to your funnel and your pages
- On-page changes to titles, headings, copy and internal links
- Content briefs and finished articles, or edits to your team's drafts
- Structured data for your business, services, products and articles
- AI search checks across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity
- Search Console and GA4 monitoring with leads tracked
- A short monthly report: what we did, what moved, what comes next
- Direct access to the people doing the work, in English or Spanish
Engagement
Ways to work with us
SEO audit
A one-time audit of technical, on-page, content and AI search, with a prioritized roadmap your own team can carry out.
Monthly SEO program
Ongoing technical work, content and reporting. Best when organic search is a real growth channel for you.
Projects
Site migrations, redesigns, relaunches and bilingual setups where one mistake can cost months of traffic.
Consulting and training
Guidance for in-house marketers and developers: reviews, tickets, playbooks and training sessions.
Who we help
Built for three kinds of businesses
Growth-stage companies
B2B, SaaS and life-science teams whose organic pipeline has stalled, or who need SEO and AI search to carry more of the load than paid ads.
Learn moreLocal businesses
Service businesses, clinics, hospitality and real estate that need to show up when nearby buyers search.
Learn moreOnline stores
Shopify and WooCommerce stores that rely too heavily on ads and want a steady organic sales channel.
Learn moreCase study
AI search and organic SEO for RedShiftBio
How we approached technical SEO, content and AI search visibility for a life-science instrument company.
How to choose an SEO agency
Ask any agency, including us, these questions before you sign:
- Who will actually do the work, and can I talk to them?
- What happens in the first 90 days, in writing?
- How will we measure success beyond rankings and traffic?
- How do you earn links and mentions?
- Will we own all accounts, content and data if we part ways?
- Can you show real work you did on sites like ours?
What we won't do
- Promise a specific ranking. Nobody controls Google or an AI model.
- Buy links or use private blog networks.
- Publish mass-produced AI content to hit a word count.
- Keep your accounts or data in our name.
- Report traffic without showing what it did for leads and sales.
Compare
SEO vs Google Ads: which one do you need?
Most businesses need both, in different proportions. Paid search buys attention now. SEO builds a channel you own. Data from one makes the other better.
| SEO | Google Ads | |
|---|---|---|
| How fast it works | Months for content; weeks for technical fixes | Same day once campaigns are live |
| How you pay | For the work; clicks are free | For every click |
| When you stop | Rankings fade slowly | Traffic stops right away |
| Best for | Steady demand, research questions, trust | Launches, offers, testing, seasonal peaks |
| Shared data | Organic queries show what to bid on | Search terms show what to write about |
Free guides
Fix it yourself: SEO how-to guides
Step-by-step guides with real screenshots from Search Console and other Google tools.
Guide
How to get Google to index your site
Read the guideGuide
Fix "Crawled – currently not indexed"
Read the guideGuide
Fix "Discovered – currently not indexed"
Read the guideGuide
Fix duplicate and canonical issues
Read the guideGuide
Fix "Blocked by robots.txt" and noindex
Read the guideGuide
Fix soft 404 errors
Read the guideGuide
Fix Core Web Vitals: LCP, INP and CLS
Read the guideGuide
Add schema markup and test it
Read the guideLearn more
Related reading
Case study
RedShiftBio Case Study: Cited in Google AI Answers, +49% Organic
How Mayab Media fixed technical SEO and prepared content for AI search: RedShiftBio is now cited in Google AI Overviews and organic sessions grew…
Read the case study →Guide
Fix "Blocked by robots.txt" and "Excluded by noindex" in Search Console
Fix pages blocked by robots.txt, indexed despite a block, or excluded by noindex. Learn which rule to use, how to edit it on your platform and how…
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Three New Studies Say AI Traffic Is Tiny. Don't Misread Them.
October 2026 studies found ChatGPT sends a fraction of Google's traffic but converts well. Here's how to read the data and where to put your AI…
Read article →See also: Growth-stage companies · Case studies
FAQ
SEO services: frequently asked questions
What do SEO services include?
A complete SEO service covers technical SEO (crawling, indexing, speed, structured data), on-page optimization (keyword mapping, titles, copy, internal links), content strategy and writing, authority building, local SEO where it applies, AI search optimization, and reporting tied to leads and sales. We scope which of these you need after the audit.
What does an SEO audit include?
Our SEO audit covers crawling and indexing, Core Web Vitals, site structure, on-page and keyword mapping, content quality, structured data, backlinks, AI search visibility, local signals and tracking. You get a roadmap ranked by impact and effort, fix instructions and a walkthrough call. The first look is free.
How long does SEO take to work?
Technical fixes can show up within weeks once Google recrawls the affected pages. New content and authority usually take several months, because pages need time to be indexed, earn links and build trust. We tell you up front which parts of the plan are quick wins and which are long plays.
How much do SEO services cost?
It depends on the size of the site, how competitive your market is, and how much content you need. We quote a fixed scope after the audit, so you know exactly what is included each month. A one-time audit costs much less than an ongoing program and is a good way to start.
Do you guarantee first-page rankings?
No. Nobody controls Google's results or what an AI model decides to cite, and anyone who promises a specific position is guessing. We commit to doing the work properly, showing you exactly what we did, and reporting honestly on what it produced.
What is the difference between SEO and AI search optimization?
They overlap heavily. AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews draw on pages that are crawlable, clear and trusted, which is what good SEO produces. AI search optimization adds answer-first page structure, stronger entity signals about your company, and regular checks of what AI assistants actually say about you.
Do you write the content?
Yes. Our writers work from detailed briefs, a subject-matter review checks the facts, and you approve before anything is published. If your team writes, we can supply briefs and edit drafts instead.
Which website platforms do you work with?
WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, Webflow, Squarespace and custom or static sites. If we have CMS access we make most changes ourselves; anything that needs a developer comes as a clear ticket.
Do you offer SEO in Spanish?
Yes. We do keyword research, content and technical setup in both English and Spanish, including hreflang for bilingual sites. Spanish work is written natively, not translated.
Can you recover traffic lost after a Google update or a site migration?
Often, yes. First we separate tracking problems from real losses, then check for technical damage such as lost redirects or noindex tags, and only then look at algorithm updates. The fix depends on which one it is.
Do you offer SEO for businesses in Mérida?
Yes. We are an SEO agency based in Mérida, Yucatán. We work with local businesses in Mérida and across Yucatán, can meet in person and visit your location, and also work with companies across Mexico and the United States, in Spanish or English.
Find out what is holding your site back
Book a free audit and we will walk you through the biggest SEO problems on your site and what we would fix first.