SEO Consultant · Los Angeles · California

Los Angeles SEO consultant. Listed among LA's best, 2026.

I build SEO, websites and lead follow-up for Los Angeles service businesses that already have revenue and want more of it from Google. Joint Power Security, a B2B security firm here, won $600K+ in contracts over 18 months from that work, without paid ads.

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

Listed among the Best SEO Consultants
in Los Angeles, 2026.

Digital Reference reviewed Los Angeles SEO consultants for its 2026 list and included me, citing deep knowledge of Google Analytics and keyword modeling. Read the full list.

The Los Angeles Market

What makes LA search different.

Los Angeles County has 9.7 million people and an economy worth $1 trillion a year. It's also 88 separate cities, and buyers often search by their own: "security company Long Beach" or "injury lawyer Glendale" rather than "Los Angeles".

So one LA page rarely covers the market. Winning here means showing up in the cities where your buyers live, with pages that answer what they check before they call. For lawyers, there's a guide to SEO marketing for law firms.

9.7M
People in Los Angeles County (U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 estimate)
$1.0T
LA County GDP in 2024 (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)
88
Incorporated cities in LA County, each with its own local searches

B2B buyers with contracts to award

Property managers, facilities teams and procurement staff search for vendors, then check licenses, insurance and past work before they call.

Local buyers in their own city

From Long Beach to Pasadena, buyers search by city and neighborhood, then choose from the top Google Maps results.

Healthcare and staffing buyers

Facilities hiring staff, and patients choosing a provider, check credentials and reviews before anything else.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, BEA via FRED, LA County.

What I Build

Three parts, one system.

Ranking brings LA buyers to your site. The page decides whether they call, and follow-up decides whether you win the job. Joint Power Security needed all three, and so does every LA engagement I take on.

01

Local SEO across LA's 88 cities

Google Business Profile, service areas and pages for the cities you serve, from Long Beach to the San Fernando Valley.

Outcome: you show up where your buyers search, in Maps and below it.
02

Pages built around buyer searches

Service pages written around what your buyers type, and what they check before calling: licenses, past work and response times.

Outcome: more of your visitors get in touch.
03

Follow-up that answers first

Instant replies and CRM follow-up. A 2011 Harvard Business Review study found firms that tried to reach a lead within an hour were nearly 7× as likely to qualify it as firms that waited an hour longer.

Outcome: you reach the lead before a competitor does.

Los Angeles Results

How an LA security firm won $600K+ from Google.

Joint Power Security is my main LA case study: a B2B security firm that was invisible on Google and lived on referrals. Here is how the work ran, and there's a guide to SEO for security companies.

01

A new, fast website

A new WordPress site, built to load fast.

02

Built around buyer searches

Pages written around what the firm's buyers search for on Google.

03

50+ quality mentions

Quality mentions and links earned over time, with no paid ads at any point.

04

$600K+ in contracts

18 months later: About 5,000% more visibility on Google, 3,000+ inbound inquiries and a $32K+ average monthly pipeline.

“Thanks again for your support in building my website. Without your creativity and guidance, my website wouldn't have come this far. I've recently created new page designs with more competitive keywords, and I'm now ranking at the top in many cities across California.”

Golden Agoh, Joint Power Security
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
Ecommerce · Global Shopify Store
+50%
Organic traffic within 90 days

McGrocer

Technical SEO across millions of legacy URLs. Sessions rose 30%+ within 72 hours of Core Web Vitals fixes.

McGrocer, UK
John Akande, SEO consultant in Los Angeles

Who Builds This

Who does your SEO.

I'm John Akande. I work remotely from Los Angeles and run Zozzah Technologies, the company I founded in 2018. My team builds with me, and on every account I do the audit, the strategy and the technical SEO myself.

From 2022 to 2025 I also ran website operations and SEO across 20+ client accounts and 50+ websites at 3Kings Media House. I'm co-founder of BHSAI too, where I lead the website, SEO and automation.

RecognitionForbesBLK Member
Best SEO Consultants in LA, 2026 Digital Reference
Service AreaLos Angeles · California · US-wide
Co-FoundedBHSAI, Behavioral Health Systems AI

Also Serving California

Other California markets.

Los Angeles is my home market. These California cities have their own pages, built around their own buyers.

Before We Talk

Questions LA businesses ask first.

Digital Reference publishes a list of the Best SEO Consultants in Los Angeles, and I'm on its 2026 edition, which cited my deep knowledge of Google Analytics and keyword modeling. Whoever you hire, ask for a named LA client with numbers you can check. Mine is Joint Power Security: $600K+ in contracts won from Google over 18 months.
My engagements run $2,500 to $8,000 a month, with a 6-month minimum, and the scope sets the fee. I quote after a free audit, and if the numbers don't work for your stage, I'll say so. For market-wide rates, see what an SEO consultant costs.
Technical fixes sometimes show up within days: McGrocer's sessions rose 30%+ within 72 hours of Core Web Vitals fixes. Competitive LA service terms take months. Joint Power Security's results built over 18 months, which is a realistic horizon for a crowded LA category. Your audit includes a timeline for your own keywords.
Yes: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Glendale, Santa Monica, Burbank, the San Fernando Valley and the rest of the county's 88 cities. Local pages get built for the cities where you have real clients or reviews, because copy-paste city pages put the whole site at risk.
Who does the work. At an agency, the person who sells you the account is often not the person who builds it. I spent three years inside an agency running 20+ client accounts, so I know the model well. With me, the audit, the strategy and the technical SEO stay with me, and my team at Zozzah builds alongside. The full comparison is in SEO consultant vs agency.
Yes. Every engagement runs on a written scope of work and a service agreement. If you need an NDA, send it before the strategy call and I'll sign it.
Tracking goes in before the first change, so there is a baseline: calls, form fills and booked jobs by page, in GA4 and your CRM. I report on leads and revenue first and rankings second, because rankings that bring no inquiries pay nobody.

See where your site stands in LA.

The first step is free. I'll review your site, compare it with your top LA competitors and show you what fixing the gaps involves. Then you decide.

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