About Us
Our goal is simple and sweet: Let's Get You More Customers Who Love You!
We can create or optimize your online presence in order to get you in front of the customers who are buyer-intent leads actually searching for your services! It's simple maths. Be the first website Google shows to customers searching for your services and your business WILL grow exponentially!
Usually blurbs like this talk about our business. But all we wanna do is find out all about you.
What got you into starting your own business?
Why are you here? It's hard work. We know. What keeps you motivated?
What parts of your business do you love? What do you loathe?
What services do you want to gain more clients in?
What are the profitable vs bread and butter sides of your business?
What is “your why”?
Some SEO teams can throw a bunch of unqualified links and traffic at your website, but we're here to research it first, create a specialized plan, then go after the exact goals we uncover together.
We're not just an SEO online marketing agency. We're here to help small business owners achieve their potential. SEO is just the tool and the engine to get you there.
Let's get started! Affordably and with purpose and personalized attention.
It’s sweet as that! 🍓🍓🍓
How We Got Started
Sugar Hill SEO is a self-started agency based in Sugar Hill, Harlem, New York, NY. CEO & Founded by Kurt Sneddon in 2020 (remember that year???)
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Our communications have exhibited to me his kindness, compassion, and honesty. I look forward to our continued working relationship."
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Any small business needs to take control or their Google Business Profile. This is the map listing for your business that is where 70% of people wh...
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Yeah sorry you feel that way. There's certainly a lot of scammers in our industry. But the good guys - the folks who stick around and actually do the work will tell you straight up:
1. SEO doesn't actually work for a lot of businesses
2. It takes months, if not years to get to the top of...
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Yeah sorry you feel that way. There's certainly a lot of scammers in our industry. But the good guys - the folks who stick around and actually do the work will tell you straight up:
1. SEO doesn't actually work for a lot of businesses
2. It takes months, if not years to get to the top of Google. Anyone who tells you that can get your straight there is scamming you. And staying there is an ongoing juggle. There's no such thing as an "optimization" that gets you to the top and you get to just sit there, sadly.
Here's the thing about that. Good SEO costs money. Pretty serious money really. Being tech savvy doesn't get you around that even just the analysis tools you need to be good at SEO cost us around $1000 a month once you add them all up. As an agency, this works fine because we have many clients...
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Here's the thing about that. Good SEO costs money. Pretty serious money really. Being tech savvy doesn't get you around that even just the analysis tools you need to be good at SEO cost us around $1000 a month once you add them all up. As an agency, this works fine because we have many clients who we are using the tools for every day, so the costs are dispersed.
You also have to negotiate with other web builders for backlinks and such. More expenses there. So if you're not charging for your time in any way, the barebones costs of getting a company from the bottom of Google's list to the top (for most niches) is gunna set you back between $10-20K before your college mate (or yourself) makes a dime for a year of your time working at a skill that benefits only one business.
Best thing I ever learned about building a business is to do the thing you're good at, using as much of your time as you can, and pay others to do the things they're good at, in helping your business grow.
But here's the other thing about that - not all businesses benefit from SEO. There's just no point for many business types and I often tell people that. Unless it's realistic that you can get to position 1-5, you're just paying thousands of dollars to get from position 74 to 36. And no one finds anyone past about position 10.
That's my 2 cents anyway... seeing as though you asked??
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Yep. Super common misconception. Having your site simply “optimized forSEO is like getting dressed for the day. Ain’t nothing gunna happen lest you walk out the door, then a whole other mess of stuff is gunna happen 🥳🤩
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Yep. Super common misconception. Having your site simply “optimized forSEO is like getting dressed for the day. Ain’t nothing gunna happen lest you walk out the door, then a whole other mess of stuff is gunna happen 🥳🤩
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Oh. You're having trouble with that Laeti? Here's what I found on a quick Google:
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Since you asked…
The Number 1 tip I have for helping my clients achieve their goals in Local SEO is… drum roll…
Listen to them. Really listen. What is going on in their lives? What’s their true “why” and not the surface level one that’s on their website. If you know the hearts of your...
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Since you asked…
The Number 1 tip I have for helping my clients achieve their goals in Local SEO is… drum roll…
Listen to them. Really listen. What is going on in their lives? What’s their true “why” and not the surface level one that’s on their website. If you know the hearts of your clients, you can provide them with the truest value and laser targeted strategies. The actual SEO stuff is just clicking buttons on a computer. It ain’t rocket science. But it is time.
The business of SEO is understanding and building relationships with your clients.
…since you asked 😂🍓
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