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SEO Consultant · San Jose · Silicon Valley

San Jose SEO Consultant. For Long B2B Sales Cycles.

In Silicon Valley, a B2B deal often runs through several people comparing vendors over weeks or months. I build technical SEO, content for each stage of that evaluation and CRM follow-up for San Jose companies, so every person on the buying team finds what they need.

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

What all that capital means for search.

Joint Venture Silicon Valley's 2025 Silicon Valley Index counted $69 billion in venture capital in the region, with per capita income at $157,000 and the median home price at $1.92 million.

Capital on that scale keeps funding new competitors. Plenty of them buy ads from their first week, but pages that rank on their own keep bringing in buyers long after a rival's launch budget is spent.

$69B
Venture capital in Silicon Valley (2025 Silicon Valley Index)
$157,000
Per capita income in the region
$1.92M
Median home price in the region

Buying committees

A technical lead, a budget owner and often procurement all weigh in. Each one looks for different proof on your site.

Technical evaluators

Engineers read documentation, integration details and security answers before they recommend a vendor.

Funded startups

Teams that have raised a round hire specialists to scale, and they check case studies before booking a call.

Source: Joint Venture Silicon Valley, 2025 Silicon Valley Index.

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What I Build for San Jose Businesses

Three parts, matched to how B2B buyers decide.

Early on, buyers search for the problem. Later they compare vendors, and at the end they check pricing, security and references, so the work covers all three stages and then connects your site to your CRM.

01

Content for each stage

Problem guides, comparison pages and case studies, mapped to the questions each person on the buying team asks.

Outcome: you stay on the shortlist through a long decision.
02

Technical SEO for product sites

Site structure, documentation pages, structured data and Core Web Vitals for sites that change with every release.

Outcome: new pages get found and indexed.
03

CRM follow-up across the cycle

Lead tracking and follow-up that keep a deal moving between the first visit and the signed contract.

Outcome: fewer deals stall halfway.

Results

Results from B2B and technical work.

My closest results for a Silicon Valley company are B2B: Joint Power Security winning contracts in Los Angeles, and Futican, where we rebuilt the site and set up CRM automation. McGrocer shows the technical side at scale.

Featured · Security Services · Los Angeles, CA
$600K+ / 18 mo
Contracts won · 3,000+ inbound inquiries · 5,000% more Google visibility

Joint Power Security Services Inc.

A B2B firm that depended on referrals. New website, pages built for buyers and 50+ quality links, with no paid ads.

Golden Agoh, Joint Power Security Services, Los Angeles CA
Offshore Energy · Wyoming
Rebuilt
Website, SEO and CRM automation

Futican Offshore & Energy

Outdated site and manual client management. Redesigned the website, improved SEO, and set up CRM and workflow automation.

Michael Ogada, Futican Offshore & Energy
Ecommerce · Global Shopify Store
+50%
Organic traffic within 90 days

McGrocer

Technical SEO across millions of legacy URLs. Sessions climbed 30%+ within 72 hours of the Core Web Vitals work.

McGrocer, UK
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John Akande, SEO consultant for San Jose businesses

Who Builds This

Who leads your engagement.

I'm John Akande, an SEO consultant working remotely from Los Angeles. I founded Zozzah Technologies in 2018. I lead each engagement myself, while my team handles builds and content, and I stay on the account for as long as we work together.

At 3Kings Media House I ran website operations and SEO across 20+ client accounts and 50+ websites. In 2026, Digital Reference listed me among the Best SEO Consultants in Los Angeles.

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Before We Talk

Questions Silicon Valley companies ask first.

By writing for each stage of it. I map your keywords to the questions buyers ask early, in the middle and at the end of an evaluation, so you have a page ready for each one. Your site also connects to your CRM, so you see which pages your eventual customers read before they signed.
Treat it as part of SEO. Google's guidance on its AI features says the same basics apply: crawlable pages, accurate facts, clear authorship and structured data. ChatGPT and Perplexity also draw on public web pages, so the work that helps you rank also helps you get cited correctly.
Yes, once you're generating revenue. A startup with paying customers and a clear offer gets the most out of SEO. If you're still pre-launch, the Business Launch Kit sets up the site, CRM and SEO foundation first.
My engagements run $2,500 to $8,000 a month, with a 6-month minimum. B2B work with many stakeholders tends to sit toward the upper end, because it needs more content. I quote after a free audit. For market-wide rates, see how much an SEO consultant costs.
Technical fixes sometimes show up within days. Content for a long sales cycle takes longer, because it has to rank and then be read by people who take months to decide. Joint Power Security's full results came over 18 months. The audit gives you a timeline for your own keywords.
Yes: Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Cupertino and the rest of the valley. I work remotely from Los Angeles, and for B2B companies location matters less than the topics your buyers research, so the plan centers on those.
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