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Technical SEO and conversion optimization in Orange County.

DarkForge AI treats search and conversion as engineering. We audit, then we fix the site: crawlability, speed, structured data, local signals and the funnel itself. Businesses in Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Fullerton and Los Angeles get a written action plan, the implementation, and a monthly report that says which channel is paying.

What is included

An audit is only worth the fixes that follow it.

Most SEO deliverables are documents. Ours are commits. Because we build sites, we can change the template, the schema, the redirects and the server headers instead of sending a list to someone else.

  • Technical audit and fixesCrawlability, indexing, redirects, canonical tags, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals and page speed, fixed in the codebase.
  • Structured dataOrganization, LocalBusiness, Service, Product, FAQ and Article schema written and validated, so search engines understand what you sell and where.
  • Local searchGoogle Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect setup, consistent name, address and phone across directories, and location pages for the cities you serve.
  • Content structureService and location pages, resource articles and internal linking mapped to what people in Orange County search for.
  • Conversion auditsA live teardown of the funnel with prioritized fixes, then the implementation. Heatmaps and session recordings where they help.
  • Attribution and reportingSearch Console, analytics and lead tracking set up correctly, reported monthly in plain language.

What the work produced.

A lead-generation rebuild for an Orange County brokerage, measured in production.

The Network Agency homepageReal estate · Lead generation

The Network Agency

2025

Custom site, structured data for local search, Search Console setup and a contact pipeline that reaches the inbox.

100Lighthouse
3.4×Inbound leads
100%Spam blocked
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ROI Calculator

2026

The estimator on our own homepage qualifies leads before the first call and accounts for about a third of them. Conversion tooling we build for ourselves first.

~30%Lead share
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Two ways to engage.

A one-time audit and fix, or a month-to-month retainer that keeps compounding.

Audit and fix

A fixed-price technical and conversion audit with the fixes shipped, for sites that need a reset.

  • Written findings ranked by impact
  • Fixes implemented in your codebase
  • Schema, sitemaps, redirects, Web Vitals
  • Business profiles and citations set up
Typical length2 to 3 weeks
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Growth retainer

Month to month. Search, conversion, content and automation work against a roadmap tied to the numbers that matter to you.

  • Monthly roadmap and report
  • New pages and articles built and measured
  • Conversion experiments and fixes
  • Monitoring, maintenance, priority support. Cancel any month.
CommitmentMonth to month
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Questions about SEO and CRO.

How long until SEO shows results?
Technical fixes and local signals usually show within a few weeks of indexing. Rankings for competitive terms build over months as pages earn links and engagement. We report monthly and say plainly what moved and what did not.
Do you guarantee rankings?
No one can, and anyone who does is selling something else. We commit to a scope of work, ship it, and report the outcome against the metric we agreed on.
Do you write content?
Yes, with your review. Service pages, location pages and resource articles built around what people in your market search for, written to be useful rather than to fill a word count.
Can you work on a site you did not build?
Yes. WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Next.js and most others. If the platform blocks a fix, we say so and propose a path.
What does the retainer cost?
Retainers are scoped to your roadmap and quoted in writing after a short review of the site. Month to month, no annual contract.

Start a project

Get a fixed-price proposal in 48 hours.

Send a brief or book a scoping session. We reply within one business day, and the proposal that follows commits to a price and a ship date.

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