SEO Consultant · San Francisco · Bay Area

San Francisco SEO Consultant. For Buyers Who Read Closely.

San Francisco buyers tend to know the technology and check every claim, and some of them now start their research in AI tools rather than Google. I build technical SEO, B2B service pages and lead follow-up for San Francisco firms, so what buyers find about you is accurate and leads back to your site.

John Akande — Los Angeles SEO consultant for service businesses, ecommerce, SaaS and B2B
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The San Francisco Market

Search in the middle of the AI boom.

San Francisco has 826,079 residents and sits at the center of the AI boom. CBRE reports that AI companies have leased about 21 million square feet of office space in San Francisco and Silicon Valley since 2019, and that tech and AI firms took 55% of the area's office leasing in 2025.

For a B2B firm, that means buyers who understand the product and test what you say. Vague pages lose them fast.

826,079
People in San Francisco (U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 estimate)
21M sq ft
Office space AI companies have leased in San Francisco and Silicon Valley since 2019 (CBRE, 2026)
55%
Share of 2025 office leasing in San Francisco and Silicon Valley taken by tech and AI firms (CBRE)

Technical buyers

Engineers and product leads check the details: integrations, methods, limits and real numbers. Pages without specifics get closed.

Buyers using AI tools

Some buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews before they visit a site. Those answers draw on public web pages, so yours need to be clear and accurate.

Professional services clients

Clients of law, finance and consulting firms judge you on credentials and track record, so your people and your results belong on the page.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, CBRE, May 2026.

What I Build for San Francisco Businesses

Three pieces of work, one plan.

Google's own guidance says optimizing for AI search is still SEO. So the plan is the same work done well: a site that Google and AI tools read correctly, pages built on specifics, and follow-up that fits a long B2B sale.

01

Technical SEO for larger sites

Crawling, indexing, structured data and Core Web Vitals, handled for sites with many pages and frequent releases.

Outcome: Google and AI tools read your site correctly.
02

B2B pages built on specifics

Service and product pages that answer the questions an expert buyer asks, with proof they can check.

Outcome: more of the right buyers get in touch.
03

Follow-up for long sales cycles

CRM follow-up that keeps a lead warm through a months-long evaluation, without your team chasing by hand.

Outcome: fewer deals lost to silence.

Results

The work behind the claims.

For San Francisco, the McGrocer project is the closest match: technical SEO across millions of legacy URLs on a global Shopify store. Joint Power Security shows the same process winning B2B contracts in Los Angeles.

Ecommerce · Global Shopify Store
+50%
Organic traffic within 90 days

McGrocer

A large store with millions of legacy URLs. Sessions rose 30%+ within 72 hours of the Core Web Vitals fixes.

McGrocer, UK
Healthcare Staffing · California
Steady leads
Since launching the new website

Committed Care Staffing

"Since launching our new website, we've been getting consistent leads from clients across California."

John Gerald, Committed Care Staffing, California
John Akande, SEO consultant for San Francisco businesses

Who Builds This

Who does the technical work.

I'm John Akande. I run Zozzah, my company, and I do the technical SEO myself: crawling, indexing, structured data and site speed. My team handles builds and content with me.

I'm also co-founder of BHSAI, where I lead the website, SEO and automation, and I built and open-sourced the Agentic AI SEO Skill and the AI Humanizer Skill on GitHub. I work remotely from Los Angeles.

Also Serving California

Elsewhere in California.

San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley have their own page, and so does Sacramento.

Before We Talk

Questions Bay Area businesses ask first.

Not as a separate product. Google's guide to its AI search features says optimizing for AI Overviews and AI Mode is still SEO, with no special tricks. What helps there is what helps in Google: clear pages, accurate facts, structured data and a site that's easy to crawl. That work is part of every engagement.
B2B and professional services firms already generating revenue: software and IT services, agencies, law and finance firms, and consultancies. They share a buyer who researches before contacting anyone.
They do different jobs. Paid search stops when the budget stops, while a page that ranks keeps bringing in visits. BrightEdge's 2019 channel study found organic search drove 53% of trackable website traffic, against 15% for paid search. In the audit I look at both and tell you where your next dollar goes further.
My engagements run $2,500 to $8,000 a month, with a 6-month minimum, set by scope rather than by city. I quote after a free audit. For hourly rates and retainers across the market, see how much an SEO consultant costs.
Technical fixes on a large site sometimes pay off within days: McGrocer's sessions rose 30%+ within 72 hours of Core Web Vitals fixes. Competitive B2B terms take months of content and links. The audit gives you a timeline for your own keywords.
No. I work remotely from Los Angeles, and Bay Area clients get the same audits, calls and reporting over video and shared dashboards.

Get a straight answer on your site.

The audit is free and takes me a day. You'll know what's broken, what it's costing you in San Francisco search and what fixing it involves.

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