SEO services in Sacramento that answer to leads
There is a number your marketing could be hitting that nobody has bothered to go and find. We find that number, and then we go and get it.
Cosmoforge is a two-person SEO and marketing team in Sacramento, working with home services and professional services companies that live on lead flow.
The audit is a written document and a video walkthrough. It takes us a few hours to make and there is no call required to get it. We work with companies spending $5,000 or more a month on marketing.
Qualified leads doubled on a budget that never moved
We have done it dozens of times. The money stayed where it was. The number it produced did not. Your budget probably does not need to move either.
A standing world record, broken in 24 hours
Thousands of strangers persuaded to sign up to a bone marrow registry in a single day, against a previous best of about 3,000. Getting someone to request a quote is an easier ask than that one.
Two people, and both of them work on your account
There is no account manager relaying messages to someone you have never met. You talk to the people doing the work, which is the whole reason we stay small.
Most owners have quietly accepted a ceiling.
Ninety leads a month at sixty-eight dollars each. That is just our market. That is what the last three agencies got to and none of them could get past it.
That belief is usually wrong, and it is expensive. In almost every account we open, the limit is not the market. It is an untracked form, a page that takes nine seconds to load, a service you rank for in one city and nowhere else, or a lead definition so loose that nobody can tell which half of the spend is working.
Those are findable things. The first job is finding out what your number actually is. The second is going and getting it.
SEO here means six kinds of work, not a monthly report.
Search engine optimization is six separate disciplines wearing one name, and most companies are only weak at two or three of them. Every account gets some mix of these. The audit tells you which ones matter for you and in what order, because doing them in the wrong order wastes a quarter.
Local SEO
For the searches that happen with a location attached or a phone already in hand. This is where most Sacramento service businesses have the largest unclaimed gap.
- Google Business Profile, categories and services
- Map pack visibility by suburb, not just citywide
- Service-area and city pages that are not duplicates
- Reviews, citations and NAP consistency
Technical SEO
The part that makes everything else possible. If Google cannot crawl it, render it or trust it, no amount of content fixes the result.
- Crawl, indexation and log review
- Core Web Vitals and page speed
- Site architecture and internal linking
- Structured data, redirects and migrations
WordPress
Most of the sites we open are WordPress, and most of them have a problem a plugin was supposed to solve and did not.
- Theme and plugin performance audit
- Template-level on-page fixes
- Rebuilds when patching costs more than replacing
- Handover so your developer can maintain it
On-page and content
Pages built for what people actually type and what they need to read before they will call you. Written for the buyer, not for a word count.
- Keyword and intent mapping to real pages
- Service pages, comparisons and pricing pages
- Titles, headings and internal links
- Content pruning where thin pages are the drag
Coverage and links
Earned attention rather than bought links. This is the discipline the record-breaking campaigns came out of, applied at a much smaller scale.
- Digital PR and local press
- Partnerships, sponsorships and community work
- Cleanup of links left by previous agencies
Measurement
The one that decides whether any of the above can be judged. We define a qualified lead with you as a specific step in your CRM, then report against that step only.
- Call tracking and form attribution
- Qualified lead defined in your CRM, jointly
- Cost per qualified lead by channel
- Reporting you can open yourself, any day
Five stages, in this order, for a reason.
Climbing before the reset is how agencies spend nine months building on a broken base. We do not skip stage three even when a client wants us to.
Find the number
What your organic search should realistically be producing, given your market, your service area and your competitors. This is the free audit, and it is yours whether you hire us or not.
Fix what's underneath
Tracking, indexation, speed, the lead definition. The unglamorous month. Skipping it means every later decision is made on numbers nobody can trust.
Reset
A full purge and rebuild from a clean baseline. Thin pages, inherited link debris, duplicated location pages, keyword sets that were never going to convert. You cannot climb from a base you have not cleared.
Climb
Content, coverage and local presence pushed against the number we found in stage one. This is where the line on your chart starts separating from your budget.
Keep going
The number moves once you hit it. New competitors, new search behaviour, new services. We re-find it every quarter and tell you what changed and why.
A flat fee, month to month, and you own everything.
We do not sell SEO packages. Bronze, silver and gold tiers exist so an agency can quote you before it has looked at anything, and what you are really buying is a fixed number of hours against problems nobody has measured yet.
The fee depends on your market, the state of your site, and how much of stage three you need. What we can publish is how the money works, which is the part agencies are usually vague about.
- Fee structure
- A flat monthly fee, plus one-time project fees for defined builds. Never a percentage of your ad spend, because that pays us to spend more rather than to spend well.
- Term
- Month to month. No annual contracts. If we are not earning the fee, leaving should be easy.
- Ownership
- Your ad accounts are added to our MCC, but ownership stays yours. Your site, content, tracking and data are in your name and stay that way.
- Minimum
- We work with companies spending $5,000 or more a month across their marketing. Below that the work cannot pay for itself, and we will say so and refer you to someone who fits.
- Scope
- We are accountable for cost per qualified lead, defined jointly as a specific step in your CRM. We do not claim credit for your close rate. That is your sales team.
We won't promise you a number.
We'll promise you'll always know why it is what it is.
Any agency can promise a result in a pitch. Almost none of them will tell you, in month four, that the thing limiting your result is a decision you made. Or one they made.
What you get from us instead is causality. You will always know what is limiting the number, in what order it should be fixed, and whether it is us, you, or the market.
That means some months the honest answer is that the constraint is on your side — an unfunded channel, a page nobody has approved, a phone nobody is answering after four. We will tell you, in forward tense, with what it takes to clear it.
It's a harder conversation to have. It's also the only one worth paying for.
Four things we commit to before you have paid us anything.
A written audit and a video walkthrough of it, in your hands before any conversation about money.
PendingTracking you can open and check yourself, with a qualified lead defined as a specific step in your CRM.
PendingA ranked list of what is limiting your result right now, in the order it should be fixed.
PendingYour accounts, your content and your data in your name, staying that way whether we keep working together or not.
PendingThank you for actually doing what you said you would do.Professional services firm
South Carolina
Persuading strangers is harder than persuading buyers.
In March 2018 we ran a mobilization campaign that put more than 3,700 people onto a bone marrow registry in 24 hours, breaking a standing record of roughly 3,000.
Those people got nothing out of it. No quote, no service, no saving. That is a far harder conversion than getting a homeowner who already wants their AC fixed to ask you for a price.
Small on purpose, and it costs us work.
Two people in Sacramento. Both of us work on every account, which caps how many we can take and means we turn down companies we could probably help.
So whether you are looking for an SEO company, an SEO agency or an independent consultant, what you actually get here is two senior people and no layer between you and them. Nothing gets handed to a junior. Nothing gets reported by someone who was not there when the decision was made.
When you ask why a number moved, you are asking the person who moved it.
Tell us where the site is. We'll go and look.
No call required to get it. We will look at your site, your search visibility and whatever we can see publicly, then send you the document and the video.
- 01 We confirm we got it, usually the same day.
- 02 We spend a few hours in your site and your search results.
- 03 You get a written audit and a video walking through it.
- 04 If you want to talk, we talk. If not, the audit is still yours.
Request received.
We'll confirm by email, usually the same day, then spend a few hours in your site before sending the audit and the walkthrough.
The things owners ask before they send anything.
A flat monthly fee, plus one-time project fees for defined builds like a rebuild or a migration. We never take a percentage of your ad spend, because that arrangement pays an agency to spend more rather than to spend well. The fee depends on your market, the state of your site, and how much rebuilding stage three needs — which is exactly what the free audit establishes before anyone quotes anything.
Technical and local fixes can move inside a few weeks — indexation, speed, a Google Business Profile that was never filled in properly. Content and earned coverage generally take two to three quarters to compound. What you will have inside the first month, regardless, is a ranked list of what is limiting the result and what each fix is worth. Most owners have never been given that, which is why the waiting feels worse than it needs to.
Yes, as long as you are spending at least $5,000 a month across your marketing. Below that our fee takes the share of the budget that should be buying results, and you end up paying for analysis you cannot act on. If that is where you are, send the form anyway — we will read it and refer you to someone who fits your stage rather than take the money.
Yes. Ad accounts are added to our MCC for access, but ownership stays with you. Your site, your content, your tracking setup and your historical data are in your name and stay that way if we stop working together. You should not have to rebuild your measurement from zero because you changed agencies.
Most of the sites we open are WordPress. Typically there is an SEO plugin installed, configured once, and never checked against what the theme is actually outputting. We audit the theme and plugin stack for performance and crawlability, fix things at template level so they hold across every page, and hand it back documented so your own developer can maintain it.
We are based in Sacramento and we know this market well, which helps when your customers are searching for services near them rather than by brand. But the work is not geographically limited — we have clients elsewhere in California and out of state, and local search optimization works the same way in every city once you understand the one you are in. What matters more than your address is whether your business runs on lead flow, because that is the number we are accountable to.
A written document and a video walking you through it. It covers what your organic search could realistically be producing, what is limiting it now, and the order those things should be fixed in. It takes us a few hours to produce, it is genuinely free, and there is no call required to receive it. If you read it and never speak to us again, it is still yours to hand to whoever does the work.
Find out what your number is.
A written audit and a video walkthrough. A few hours of our time, none of yours, and no call required to get it.