B2B SEO that gets your capabilities found.

Established B2B and industrial companies rank for their own name and little else. We get the buyers searching for what you actually do, and the AI tools they now ask, to find you first.

Three ways to work with us.

SEO engagements usually start as one of these, and often grow from there.

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SEO audit and roadmap.

A one-time technical and content audit with a prioritized roadmap. You get the plan and the fixes that matter most, whether or not we do the work.

Best forA clear picture of where you stand
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Ongoing SEO partnership.

We run your SEO month over month: technical health, content, and authority, measured against the queries your buyers actually search.

Best forCompanies committed to compounding gains
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SEO built into a rebuild.

Most of our SEO work rides along with a site rebuild, so speed, structure, and search are handled from the first decision, not bolted on afterward.

Best forSites being redesigned anyway

What B2B SEO with Alkali includes.

Four things that decide whether a buyer, and the search engine, ever find you.

Technical SEO.

Speed, crawlability, mobile, and Core Web Vitals. The foundation Google and buyers both judge you on. Most B2B sites lose here before a word is read.

Content that matches how buyers search.

Capability, service, and industry pages written in the plain language a buyer types, so the searches your competitors are winning start finding you instead.

Answer-engine readability.

Buyers increasingly ask AI to compare vendors. We structure your capabilities, specs, and proof so the tools that now recommend suppliers can read and cite you.

Authority and proof.

Earned links, named clients, certifications, and real projects, made visible. Credibility a first-time buyer and a search engine can both verify.

Most of the companies we work with are established manufacturers, distributors, equipment makers, and B2B service firms. Their reputation is earned offline, over years, and their site has quietly fallen behind it. So when a new buyer searches, or asks an AI to compare them against the alternatives, the company that should win is nowhere to be found.

The right B2B SEO company does not chase raw traffic for firms like these. It works the smaller set of high-intent searches that lead to a quote, and makes sure your capabilities, specs, and proof are the ones a buyer and a machine can read. Getting found by AI tools specifically is its own discipline, which we cover on AI SEO and in our guide on how to rank in AI search.

Industrial SEO is search work for companies that sell capabilities rather than products off a shelf: manufacturers, distributors, fabricators, equipment makers and industrial service firms. It's different from ordinary SEO in three ways. The search volumes are small, so a term doing forty searches a month can be worth more than one doing four thousand. The buyer is technical, and searches in specifications, tolerances, materials and processes rather than in marketing language. And the decision is a committee decision that runs for months, so the job's to be findable at every stage of it, not to win one click.

That changes what an industrial SEO agency should be doing. Chasing traffic is the wrong instinct here. A machine shop that ranks for twenty specification-level searches a buyer actually types is in better shape than one ranking for a broad term that brings students and job seekers. The work is naming the processes you run, the tolerances you hold, the industries you serve and the certifications you carry, in the plain words a buyer uses, on pages a search engine can read.

Manufacturing SEO is the narrower version of the same work, for companies making parts to a drawing or a spec rather than stocking them, and the distinction matters more than the label. The searches split: a distributor is mostly found by part number, brand and category, because it stocks things people already know the name of. A manufacturer is found by capability, and the words are processes, materials, tolerances and certifications. A manufacturing SEO agency running a distributor's playbook builds catalogue pages nobody searches for, and the same mistake in reverse buries a distributor's inventory behind capability copy. It's worth asking a prospective agency which of the two they have actually done.

The starting position is usually better than it looks. Across the 55,000+ US B2B websites we analyzed, 82% aren't structured for AI search to read them and only 9% use structured data at all. Your competitors are in the same position you are. That's the opportunity, and it's why this work still compounds for an established company that has been quiet online for a decade.

SEO stops being one playbook as soon as you look at what each kind of buyer actually types. The query changes with the business, and so does the page that has to exist before there's anything to rank. If you're a contract manufacturer or fabricator, the capability searches above are yours. Here's how it splits for the rest.

Distributors and MRO suppliers. Past the part number, the searches closest to an order pair a brand with a place, or carry a competitor's number the buyer wants crossed to yours. That takes a page for each line you're authorized on, saying so plainly, and, where you have the data, cross-references published as text. A maintenance buyer is often replacing something that just failed, so whether it's in stock and how to ask for it today matter more than anything the site says about the company. The lines themselves, and your authorization on each, already sit on your line card.

Equipment dealers. Buyers search a make and model, often with a town or "near me" attached, and they search for more than machines. Service, parts and rental each get a page, tied to the branches and service area it covers, because a page written to sell a loader won't rank for someone whose loader just quit.

Machine builders and OEMs. Plant buyers search the machine type, and often the application behind it: the product, the material, the rate, the problem on the line. That calls for a page per machine type, application pages alongside them, and specifications on the page as text, since an operations manager comparing three builders wants numbers they can line up side by side. A catalog component maker selling into OEMs gets searched by part type and spec instead. A build-to-print supplier gets found by capability against the OEM's drawing, and what an OEM engineer checks covers both.

Industrial service companies. Field service, repair and rigging get searched as a service plus a place. A page per service, and a page or a plain statement for each area you cover, does more here than anything clever, along with a Google Business Profile that names the service area. If you can commit to a response time, put it on the page.

Manufacturers' reps. Buyers rarely search for a rep agency by name. They search for the lines it carries inside its territory, and manufacturers looking for coverage tend to search the territory and the kind of lines that would sit beside theirs. The line card belongs on the site as text, with a page for each principal and the territory written out by state or region.

Aerospace, medical and defense suppliers. The certification is often the filter: AS9100, ISO 13485, ITAR registration. A buyer who needs one often won't read past a site that doesn't state it, so it goes on the capability page it applies to, with its scope, not only as a logo in the footer.

Logistics and 3PL companies. Shippers search lanes, modes, equipment and warehouse locations, and each of those deserves its own page, as logistics website design lays out.

What these have in common is that the search is specific, and so is the page that answers it. A site with one Services page can't answer searches this specific, which is a common reason a company with a strong reputation shows up for its own name and not much else. Building the page doesn't decide where it ranks. Competition and authority still do. But a search with no page written for it rarely finds you, and the site structure that fixes that is on industrial website design.

How we approach SEO.

Three things that separate SEO that reports activity from SEO that produces buyers.

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We diagnose before we prescribe.

We start with what a buyer and a crawler actually see, then fix the one or two things costing you the most, not a forty-item checklist that moves nothing.

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We write for buyers and machines at once.

The same clarity that helps a purchasing manager decide helps the AI that now recommends vendors. One page, both audiences.

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We measure in Search Console, not vanity scores.

We track the real thing, straight from Google: impressions, striking-distance queries, and the clicks that turn into quotes.

What to expect.

SEO compounds. Here is the shape of a typical engagement.

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Weeks 1 to 4: audit and quick wins.

A full technical and content audit, and the highest-impact fixes shipped first. You leave with a prioritized B2B SEO strategy, whether or not we run it.

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Months 2 to 4: content and structure compound.

Capability and industry pages that match how buyers search, cleaner architecture, and the authority work that moves rankings.

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Ongoing: you see it in the data.

Impressions first, then striking-distance queries, then the clicks that turn into quotes, reported from Search Console, not a vanity score.

What is B2B SEO, and how is it different from regular SEO?

B2B SEO focuses on the smaller, higher-value set of searches a business buyer runs before choosing a vendor, and on the sales cycle that follows. It weights buyer-intent capability and comparison queries over raw traffic, and increasingly on being readable by the AI tools buyers now use to compare one supplier against another.

What should I look for in a B2B SEO company?

Look for a B2B SEO company that understands long, technical sales cycles, not just consumer keywords: one that works technical health, content, and authority together, writes for how business buyers actually search (and the AI tools they now ask), and reports results in Google Search Console instead of vanity scores. That mix is what turns rankings into qualified pipeline.

How do you check an SEO company before you sign?

Ask for things you can check. Have them name the searches they'd go after for you: if the list is broad category terms rather than your processes, lines or service areas, they're planning for traffic, not quotes. Keep Search Console and analytics in your company's own accounts and add the agency as a user, so the history stays with you if they leave. Ask who will write the pages and how they'll get the technical detail out of your people. Then walk away from anyone who promises a ranking position. Google's own guide to hiring an SEO warns against that promise, and suggests granting an agency only read access while it audits your site. And ask what they'd leave alone. A good agency names something.

How long does B2B SEO take to show results?

Technical fixes can move things in weeks. Content and authority compound over three to six months and beyond. We report progress against real Google Search Console signals, impressions, striking-distance queries, then clicks, so you can see momentum before it becomes traffic.

Do you do SEO for manufacturers and industrial companies?

Yes. Most of our clients are established B2B and industrial companies, manufacturers, distributors, and equipment makers, whose real-world reputation is stronger than their search presence. That gap is exactly what we close.

What does B2B SEO with Alkali include?

Technical SEO (speed, crawlability, mobile, Core Web Vitals), on-page and content built around how buyers actually search, answer-engine readability so AI tools can cite you, and authority through earned links and verifiable proof.

How do you measure SEO results?

In Google Search Console, the source of truth: pages indexed, impressions, queries in striking distance (positions 5 to 20), average position, and the clicks that turn into quotes. Third-party scores are a rough estimate; Search Console is what actually happened.

Do you offer one-time SEO audits, or only ongoing work?

Both. You can start with a one-time technical and content audit and a prioritized roadmap that is yours to keep, or engage us to run SEO on an ongoing basis. Many clients get SEO handled as part of a site rebuild.

How much does an SEO agency typically cost?

B2B SEO engagements usually take one of two shapes. A one-time technical and content audit with a prioritized roadmap is a fixed, quotable piece of work, and the roadmap is yours to keep whether or not you hire anyone to run it. Ongoing search work is a monthly engagement, and what moves the number is the size of the site, how much of the content has to be written rather than fixed, and whether the technical foundation needs rebuilding first. We don't publish a rate, because quoting one before looking at your site would be a guess. We'll tell you what we'd charge and why once we've looked, and if the honest answer is that SEO isn't your bottleneck, we'll tell you that too.

What does an SEO agency actually do?

Four things, and a good one is honest about which of them you actually need. Technical work makes the site fast, crawlable and readable on a phone. Content work writes the capability, service and industry pages that match how buyers search. Structure work makes your specifications and proof legible to the AI tools now comparing vendors. Authority work earns the links and surfaces the certifications and named clients that make a first-time buyer believe you. Most agencies sell all four every time. The useful version diagnoses which one is costing you the most and fixes that first.

Can ChatGPT do SEO?

ChatGPT can do part of SEO well: explaining a term, drafting a title tag or meta description, outlining a capability page. On its own, it can't do most of what decides whether you rank. Even connected to Search Console or signed in to your site, it needs someone who knows your buyers to decide which change is worth making. It can draft a link request, but links from distributors, associations and customers come from relationships it doesn't have. And unless someone gives it what your people know, it writes from what's already published, the same category language any competitor can produce. Getting ChatGPT to name you when a buyer compares suppliers starts with traditional SEO: pages that rank and say specifically what you do.

Is SEO worth it for B2B?

It depends on whether buyers who don't already know you are searching for what you do. If all your work comes through referrals and repeat customers, SEO is a slow way to change that and a rebuild of how the site explains you will matter more. If buyers are searching, B2B SEO is usually worth more per visitor than consumer SEO, because the searches are fewer and the deals are larger. The honest test: open Google Search Console and look at whether you get impressions for anything other than your own company name. If the answer is no, buyers are finding your competitors instead of you.

What is SEO in manufacturing?

Search work built around how a technical buyer actually looks for a supplier: by process, material, tolerance, industry and certification rather than by product name. It gets called industrial SEO or manufacturing SEO, and in practice the two mean the same thing. What separates it from ordinary SEO is that the valuable searches are small and specific, and the page has to satisfy someone deciding whether you can hold a tolerance, not someone browsing.

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