The receipts. Not the pitch.
Real small business SEO case studies — screenshots, keywords, rankings, revenue. Pulled straight from client dashboards after our affordable SEO agency went to work. Not photoshopped, not cherry-picked (actually, yes cherry-picked — but we'll show you the averages too).
Real affordable SEO clients, real data.
Every small business SEO result here was pulled from Google Search Console + GA4 — the source of truth. Client names used with permission.
Coastal Plumbing
Challenge
After being burned by two previous SEO agencies (one $2,800/mo contract they couldn't escape), Coastal was stuck on page 3 for every money keyword. They needed affordable SEO services without the contract trap. Their biggest local competitor was outranking them on their own brand name.
What we did
Technical audit fixed 47 crawl errors and Core Web Vitals. Our senior strategist rewrote every service page with local intent. Built 38 editorial backlinks from Florida home-service publications over 6 months. Published 36 SEO blog posts targeting long-tail repair queries.
Results
Keyword wins
Brightline Dental
Challenge
Single-location dental practice competing against 40+ dentists in a 5-mile radius. Google Business Profile was unverified, website had zero schema, and they hadn't published any content in 4 years.
What we did
Started on the Local plan ($399/mo). Verified and fully optimized GBP, added Dental schema + FAQ schema site-wide, and published 18 hyper-local blog posts (e.g. "dentist near South Congress"). Cleaned up 23 inconsistent citations across directories.
Results
Keyword wins
Linden Goods
Challenge
D2C home goods brand doing $80k/mo mostly from paid Meta ads. CAC was climbing, LTV wasn't keeping up. They needed an organic channel before the ad math stopped working.
What we did
Programmatic approach: built 240+ product category pages with unique content and schema. Technical rebuild of collection URL structure. Published 48 buyer-intent blog posts ("best X for Y" comparison pieces). Digital PR landed coverage in Apartment Therapy and Domino.
Results
Keyword wins
Patel & Huang Law
Challenge
Personal injury firm getting crushed on PPC (average CPC of $340 per click). Needed a cheaper, long-term acquisition channel. Organic was non-existent — DA 8 and 11 backlinks total.
What we did
Attacked practice-area + neighborhood long-tails instead of hyper-competitive head terms. Published 24 deep-dive guides on CO-specific personal injury law. Secured 28 editorial backlinks from legal directories and local news.
Results
Keyword wins
Nova Vent SaaS
Challenge
Early-stage HVAC dispatch SaaS. Founder was writing blog posts solo with no strategy. Ranked for zero commercial keywords despite 60+ published posts. Burning founder hours with no organic pipeline.
What we did
Pruned 34 zero-value blog posts. Built topical authority around "HVAC dispatch software" and comparison keywords. Created 3 pillar guides + 22 supporting posts. Landed backlinks from HVAC industry publications.
Results
Keyword wins
Traffic growth across 147 clients.
Median organic traffic index over time. First 12 months on Growth or Scale plan, normalized to month 1 = 100.
What affordable SEO works where.
Average small business SEO results by industry across our active client roster. Your market may vary — we'll give you a realistic forecast on your discovery call.
Home Services
Dental & Medical
Legal & Law Firms
E-commerce
B2B SaaS
Beauty & Wellness
What our SEO clients actually say.
Small business SEO reviews pulled from our Clutch, G2, and Google profiles. Full reviews linked on each card.
We'd been burned by two agencies before Unclaimed. They charged us a quarter of what we were paying and tripled our calls in four months. Finally someone who speaks English.
The transparency is what sold me. I watch the rankings dashboard daily. Two other agencies just sent PDFs I couldn't read. This is how SEO should work.
Spent $200k on PPC last year. Switched half our budget to Unclaimed. Got 3× the leads at half the cost. Wish I'd done it sooner.
We've been with 4 SEO agencies over 6 years. This is the first one that actually publishes work and shows you what changed. No more BS quarterly reports.
Bootstrapped SaaS, couldn't afford a $3k agency. Unclaimed's Growth plan got us from 0 to $48k MRR from organic in 10 months. Game-changer for a scrappy team.
Six months in, we're #1 for our city + service keyword. Phone hasn't stopped ringing. My only regret is not switching sooner. Also, no contract means I trust them more, not less.
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