The Haymaker blog: local search and websites for San Diego small businesses
Straight answers.
No upsell inside.
The questions San Diego owners actually ask us, answered in full: what is wrong, how to check it yourself in five minutes, and how to fix it. If you can do the fix yourself, the post says so.
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Pricing ·
What San Diego plumbers actually pay for SEO (2026)
What plumbers in San Diego are quoted for SEO in 2026, from ten providers' published prices and three industry surveys: setup fees, monthly retainers, project work, what each price band buys, and the red flags in a quote.
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Compare ·
Best SEO companies in San Diego for contractors (2026)
Ten SEO companies serving San Diego contractors, side by side on published price, contract terms and Clutch reviews, checked on one date. We are one of the ten, we wrote the list, and we say so on the page.
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Search ·
Website not showing up on Google? 12 reasons, and how to check each one
Most sites that never show up on Google have one of a handful of problems: not indexed yet, blocked by a setting someone forgot, invisible to crawlers, or indexed but not saying what customers type. Each reason comes with a five-minute check and the fix, in order from most to least common.
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Google Business Profile ·
Google Business Profile not ranking? 12 checks, in order
A profile that exists but never shows in Maps is usually unverified, in the wrong primary category, too far from the person searching, or out-reviewed by the businesses that do show. Twelve checks, in the order we run them, with how to look and what to change.
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Local SEO ·
How to rank in the San Diego map pack
San Diego County is too big to rank across from one address. How Google picks the three businesses on the map, why a shop in Kearny Mesa rarely shows for a search in Oceanside, and the order of work that moves a profile into the pack where its customers are.
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Written by
the people doing it.
Haymaker is a new San Diego shop. We would rather show you how the work is done than tell you we are the best at it.
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Every post ends in something you can do today
A check you can run from your phone, a setting you can change, a question to ask whoever built your site. Most of what keeps a small business off Google is fixable without hiring anyone.
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No invented numbers
If Google has documented how something works, we link to it. If nobody knows, we say so. We do not guarantee rankings, and we do not quote statistics we cannot source. New shop. No fake reviews. Est. 2026.
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