Who is searching
Somebody in Los Angeles planning a wedding
What they type
- santa barbara wedding venue
- wedding venues near santa barbara
- santa ynez valley wedding venue
- santa barbara wedding venue with ocean view and lodging
A wedding or a weekend here is decided from wherever the customer lives, and for this coast that means Los Angeles and the Bay Area more than State Street. The results page they see is not always the one you get from Santa Barbara. We check yours from where they are.
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A couple in Los Angeles types "santa barbara wedding venue" into a phone. Neither of them has been here, and everything they know about Santa Barbara is on the results page in their hand.
Change the search to a weekend in the off season and the same booking sites sit in the organic results.
Word for word. Read them all on Google
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A couple planning a wedding and a family planning a weekend get the results page Google builds for Los Angeles or San Jose. The homeowner in Goleta gets the one built for Goleta, the only version most owners ever check.
Who is searching
What they type
Who is searching
What they type
Who is searching
What they type
The search most pages never answer
The wedding searches are worth the most and the hardest to move. The weekend searches are easiest on the long questions, because nobody has bothered to answer them well. The plumber search we run from Goleta, since that is where the searcher is.
The booking platforms buy the venue terms for every town from Carpinteria to Los Olivos at once, and they pay Google for each click whether the couple books or not. A venue renting the same spot pays by the click too, against budgets built for the whole coast.
What gets a page into the results underneath is slower: pages that describe your place in your own words, and other sites, a wedding planner, a local paper, a photographer who shot there, pointing at them. That kind of page also does something an ad never will, which is tell the person booking what a Saturday at your place is like.
The map pack still decides the plumber search in Goleta, so if that is your trade we keep the Google Business Profile, the free listing behind the pins, complete and current.
The owner of Primary Pool Services, in his own words. We did not tell him a word of it.
Playing · Dillon Brooks, owner
Primary Pool Services is in Ventura County rather than Santa Barbara, and we are not going to dress that up. The owner started where most owners in Santa Barbara are when they call us. These figures come from the whole plan: a new site, the pages, the video, and the ad campaign he ran on top of them.
| Measure | Increase | Against what |
|---|---|---|
| growth in 15 months | 400% | Forty pools on the route became more than two hundred |
| more calls from Google Ads | 162.5% | The campaign month against the month before |
| revenue in year one | 25%+ | Revenue. Not clicks, not visits |
Give us the website and the trade. The first page of the report is the two lists side by side, and the rest is what it would take to move yours.
Rerun any search in it from your own phone and you should get the same list. Or call 805.243.8321 and ask us straight out.
Written for the owner, in plain words, and short enough to read at the front desk between check-ins.
Every name on it that is not on yours, and where yours sits when it is there at all.
What somebody types while they are still deciding. It is different from what they type once they have decided, and it is where a page can still change their mind.
The booking sites, the Visit Santa Barbara pages and the round-up lists sitting where your page should be, and which of them are not worth chasing.
Every page that has to exist, a venue page for the Santa Ynez Valley search, a lodging page for the ocean view one, and the order we would write them in.
No dashboard login to go looking for them in.
10 Questions to Ask Before You Hire an SEO CompanyYou are about to pay somebody every month for work you cannot see. Ask these ten questions first. They cost you nothing, and the answers tell you everything.Read it
What Your SEO Report Should Actually Show YouIt lands on the first of the month. Twelve pages, four charts, a healthy number of green arrows. You read it on your phone in the truck, feel vaguely reassured, and could not tell anybody what it said.Read it
Why Does My Competitor Outrank Me?You already looked. Incognito window, your main term, and there they are, sitting above you. So here is the honest list of why.Read it Partly because you are checking from Santa Barbara. Google builds the page around the searcher as well as the search: the ads are targeted to the town the searcher is in, and the organic results shift with it too. The couple in Los Angeles can be looking at a page with different names on it than the one on your own phone.
It is the whole game for the Goleta plumber search and only part of it for the wedding search. The map pins go to places inside the city the search names, and a couple planning a wedding reads past them to the pages that describe a venue. For a venue, the organic results are what fill the calendar.
Neither. The office is at 1300 Eastman Ave in Ventura, California. We drive up from Ventura for a meeting on the South Coast or over the pass in the Santa Ynez Valley.
More than it applies to a hotel. A buyer sourcing a machined part or an optical assembly is not typing a city at all, so the map pins never enter into it. That is entirely an organic contest, and a shop in Goleta wins it with a page about the exact part or assembly the buyer typed, tolerances included.
Because Google is ranking pages, and the booking site has a page about Santa Barbara hotels that answers the search better than yours does, with links pointing at it from all over the web. Your page is about your hotel, which is a different search. Getting past them means writing pages of your own that answer the search a family in San Jose typed.
No contracts. In a seasonal business that matters more than most: you are never carrying an agreement through a quiet winter because somebody talked you into one in the middle of your busy season.
“Ranking first on State Street tells you what State Street sees. The wedding gets decided in Silver Lake.” The Final Code
If the report comes back with your name already on the list a couple in Los Angeles gets, it says so, and there is nothing for us to sell you. More often the lists disagree, and the first job is to read the booking site's Santa Barbara page as carefully as the person who wrote it did.
The search only gets a customer as far as a page. What that page says, and the video a customer can watch from Los Angeles, is the rest of the Santa Barbara work.