SEO Consultant · California

California SEO consultant. Planned city by city.

California has 39.4 million people and the fourth-largest economy in the world, and no two of its big cities buy the same way. I build SEO, websites and lead follow-up for California service businesses already generating revenue, starting from how buyers in your city search. Digital Reference listed me among the Best SEO Consultants in Los Angeles in 2026.

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John Akande — Los Angeles SEO consultant for service businesses, ecommerce, SaaS and B2B

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California Markets

Pick your city.

Each city page covers the local economy, the buyers and the questions businesses there ask me. Los Angeles is where I'm based.

Where I'm Based

Los Angeles

My home market. Joint Power Security won $600K+ in contracts here over 18 months, with no paid ads.

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Southern California

San Diego

Defense, life sciences and 32 million visitors a year, and each group searches differently.

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Bay Area

San Francisco

The center of the AI boom, with B2B buyers who check every claim on your pages.

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Silicon Valley

San Jose

$69 billion in venture capital, and long B2B sales cycles with several decision-makers.

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State Capital

Sacramento

Health care and public administration are the county's two largest job sectors.

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Central Valley

Fresno

The top farm county in the US, with a record $9.03 billion in production in 2024.

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The California Market

What California's size means for search.

California is the world's fourth-largest economy, with $4.1 trillion in GDP according to IMF and BEA figures released in April 2025. It's also 39.4 million people spread across markets with little in common.

A Fresno ag supplier, a Sacramento compliance firm and a San Francisco software company all need SEO, but their buyers type different searches, trust different proof and buy on different timelines. Each city page on this site covers that city's own economy and buyers, while the method underneath stays the same: research first, then pages, links and follow-up.

39.4M

California residents (U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 estimate)

$4.1T

California GDP, the 4th-largest economy in the world (IMF and BEA, 2025)

$9.03B

Fresno County farm production in 2024, the highest of any US county

$69B

Venture capital in Silicon Valley (2025 Silicon Valley Index)

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ABC7 on IMF and BEA data, Agri-Pulse, Joint Venture Silicon Valley.

Services

The services behind every California engagement.

Every city page links to the same service pages, so you can read how the work runs before we talk.

SEO Strategy & Search Visibility Website Optimization & Conversion CRM Setup & Lead Automation GTM Engineering

Results

Numbers you can check.

Each figure comes from a named client. The full case studies show what we did and over what period.

$600K+

Contracts won · Joint Power Security, Los Angeles · 18 months

5,000%

More Google visibility · Joint Power Security, Los Angeles · 18 months

3,000+

Inbound inquiries · Joint Power Security, Los Angeles · 18 months

+50%

Organic traffic in 90 days · McGrocer, a global Shopify store

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Who Builds This

Who does the work.

I'm John Akande, an SEO consultant working remotely from Los Angeles. I run Zozzah Technologies, my company, and I work hands-on with my team on every account. The audit, the strategy and the technical SEO are mine.

Between 2022 and 2025 I also ran SEO and site operations across 20+ client accounts at 3Kings Media House, and I'm co-founder of BHSAI, where I lead the website, SEO and automation.

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Before We Talk

Questions California businesses ask first.

Yes. I work remotely from Los Angeles with businesses across the state. The cities above have their own pages because their economies differ, but if yours isn't listed, the process is the same: an audit, a plan built on your buyers' searches, then the work.

A national plan treats the state as one market. A Sacramento buyer looking for a compliance consultant and a Fresno grower looking for an irrigation contractor have little in common beyond Google, so I plan keywords, pages and proof city by city, starting with wherever your revenue comes from.

Technical fixes sometimes show up within days: McGrocer's sessions rose 30%+ within 72 hours of Core Web Vitals fixes. Rankings for competitive service terms take months, and Joint Power Security's full results in Los Angeles came over 18 months. Your audit includes a timeline for your own keywords.

Service businesses already generating revenue whose buyers search before they call: law firms, healthcare and staffing, security, construction and real estate, and B2B professional services. If you're still pre-launch, the Business Launch Kit is the better starting point.

My engagements run $2,500 to $8,000 a month, with a 6-month minimum. The scope sets the fee, wherever you are in the state, and I quote after a free audit. For hourly rates, retainers and red flags, see what an SEO consultant costs.

Yes, once the first market is working. We add a city when you have something real to show there, such as clients, projects or reviews, and each new page gets its own local content. Copy-paste city pages are what Google calls doorway pages, and they put the whole site at risk.