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“The combination of speed and affordability made all the difference.”
“They are a trustworthy growth partner and a key part of our team.”
“They helped us triple lead volume and we’ve been off to the races.”
Not Your Typical SEO Agency–We Win Wherever Search Happens
Using our modern, Multi-Search Environment (MSE) framework, we craft obsessively detailed strategies that will outpace, outperform, and frankly, outmaneuver your competitors.
Search Engines
Semantic Content Creation and Entity Optimization:
We produce authoritative, intent-driven content structured around semantic entities, enabling advanced AI-driven algorithms to clearly understand and rank your pages effectively.
Technical SEO & Structured Data Implementation:
We ensure your website’s technical foundations (crawlability, Core Web Vitals, schema markup) align seamlessly with Google’s AI-enhanced algorithms, maximizing visibility in generative search results and passage rankings.
Continuous Content Optimization & E-E-A-T Enhancement:
Effective SEO optimization will reinforce your expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness through regularly refreshed, highly relevant content, strategically structured for visibility and credibility in AI-driven searches.
AI-Native Search
Optimize for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG):
We’ll structure content with clearly defined headings and self-contained sections that directly address user queries, making information easily retrievable and quotable by AI.
Entity-Based and Semantic SEO:
We focus on clearly associating your content with recognizable entities, using schema markup and internal linking to strengthen your website’s semantic clarity and authority in AI training datasets.
Authoritative, Concise, and Fact-Rich Content:
Our priority is on producing accurate, concise, and authoritative content with specific statistics, definitions, and sourced quotes, enhancing the likelihood that AI will cite your content when generating answers.
Put Your Lead
Generation On Auto-Pilot
Turn traffic directly into revenue. From Google, to AI-native search, to Voice and Social–if it’s searchable, we’ll help you own it.
Multi-Search Environment Discoverability
Own every search surface—not just Google. We’ll optimize your discoverability everywhere: YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, LinkedIn etc. Because your next lead is already searching—let’s make sure they find you first.
Classic SEO, Reimagined for the AI Era
Growth Marshal leverages cutting-edge technical SEO, EEAT mastery, and structured data to deliver traffic that sticks. We'll push your content to the top of Google, turning your visibility into lasting authority.
Dominate AI Search—Get Cited Everywhere
We’ll make your content irresistible to AI-native search engines. With laser-focused semantic relevance, strategic trust signals, and expert embedding strategies, we ensure your brand is cited first—and forgotten never.
Search Analytics—Track. Refine. Win.
Visibility without insight is guesswork. Growth Marshal tracks your search traffic and citations obsessively, then sharpens your strategy in real-time. Data isn't just information—it's our competitive advantage.
Build a Brand LLMs Can't Ignore
We’ll strategically engineer your presence across Google’s Knowledge Graph, Wikidata, and AI entity recognition. Using semantic precision and authoritative citations—we’ll make you unmistakably credible.
Your Search for Game-Changing SEO Services Ends Here
Growth Marshal builds precision-targeted SEO strategies designed specifically to fuel startup growth. In our experience, sustainable results beat empty promises, every single time.
We've Got Lead Gen. Covered
Growth Marshal is the hybrid SEO dream-team you never knew existed—part content powerhouse, part dev squad, all strategic experts. We’ll construct an inbound engine that reliably fuels your lead gen, freeing you up to build the product everyone’s waiting for.
Marketing That Pays for Itself
Growth Marshal’s SEO strategies deliver quantifiable ROI you can actually measure. We tie optimization directly to revenue—turning growth from an expense into your smartest investment.
Grow Revenue, Plan the Next Round
Investors don’t care about pageviews—they care about sales, market share, and CAC. Our targeted SEO strategies have helped startups drive millions in growth and funding. Ready to become the next success story?
Less Complexity, More Conversions
Forget juggling multiple vendors. Growth Marshal builds, executes, and manages tailored SEO strategies designed specifically for startups. One strategy, one partner—zero headaches.
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No more random acts of marketing. Access a tailored growth strategy.
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+$8M in Client Revenue. And We’re
Just Warming Up.
Our specialized, high-impact SEO strategies capture targeted, qualified traffic that converts. Some of the fastest growing startups in tech use our playbook.
Deep Research
Your startup is unique–from your product to your category. That’s why we like to begin with basic market intelligence and technical SEO audits. We'll assess your:
Your business and fundraising objectives
Your industry
Your competitors
Your website design
This foundational research helps us uncover SEO opportunities and build the right SEO strategy for achieving your business goals.
Optimization
We'll create a well-defined SEO strategy for your startup and your market. We'll then optimize for more than 200 factors that search engines use to generate results. Some of our data-driven SEO services include:
On-page SEO, such as writing title tags and URL optimization
Off-page SEO focuses on link building strategies and anchor text analysis
Technical SEO services and tasks, like tweaking a domain name or updating a sitemap
Keywords
Keyword targeting is one of our top SEO services and critical to driving revenue from search engines. Your custom SEO campaigns will focus on keywords that:
Attract qualified website traffic
Support your organization’s objectives
Generate user signups, leads, or online MRR/ARR
And we don’t just copy what others are doing. We’ll scout for unearthed, personalized SEO solutions so you can capture new terrain before the competition knows what hits them.
Link Building
One of our core SEO deliverables is backlinks. Your backlink profile is one of the most influential ranking factors in Google’s search algorithms. We will:
Attract relevant links from reputable sites
Conduct outreach to publishers, manually
Build a powerful backlink profile to rank in a top ten Google search for target keywords that convert traffic
Content
Any comprehensive SEO strategy leverages content to attract and convert leads. We’ll use our in-house SEO growth experts to:
Conduct keyword research to find the terms used by your ICP
Create engaging, AI-generated content for your market
Our SEO content team will target the full funnel, from awareness to consideration
Monitor content performance and look for quick wins for improving rankings (and reach)
Some teams prefer to create SEO-friendly content in-house? No sweat! As an SEO marketing agency, we’ll offer guidance, such as keywords, content outlines and more to help you reach the top of search results.
AI-Powered SEO Reporting
Real-Time Insights – Instantly access up-to-date SEO data and track changes in SEO positions as they happen
Automated Performance Analysis – Identify trends, wins, and areas for improvement without manually digging through reports
Predictive SEO Recommendations – Leverage AI-driven insights to anticipate search trends and optimize ahead of competitors
Effortless Data Visualization – Get detailed SEO reports, clear, easy-to-understand charts and SEO audit results that make complex metrics actionable
Faster Decision-Making – Reduce guesswork with SEO forecasting that guides strategy adjustments an SEO project in real time.
Most SEO Companies Copy & Paste.
We Custom-Build for Startups.
Our startup SEO services are engineered to scale your traffic, leads, and revenue—fast. We combine elite talent and smart tech to deliver high-impact, done-for-you solutions.
Check Out What Happens When
Startup SEO Experts Step In
Browse our case studies to see how an award-winning SEO agency helped startups like yours drive leads and revenue with a few clever, well-executed ideas.
Alex Melnyk
Co-founder & CEO at Modality
“Growth Marshal turned SEO into a core component of our user acquisition strategy. Full-service SEO marketing has been more cost effective compared to paid search. Kurt has become a real partner helping us build the foundation of sustainable growth.”
Kevin Harrington
Co-founder at ChatVault
“Growth Marshal has been our go-to SEO agency for getting traffic to our platform. We needed expertise around search engine rankings and they were able to hit the ground running. They're the right SEO company for any SaaS startup looking to grow organically.”
Jenn Stroupe
Co-founder at Pinnacle
Kurt wasted no time digging into our KPIs, go-to-market, and competition. He returned with a clear, actionable plan to drive more traffic. He’s an exceptional SEO and probably one of the sharpest I’ve worked with.
51%
119%
Organic traffic increase within 8 months.
Growth in demos.
Erik Karlsson
CEO at Atrium AI
What stands out to me about Growth Marshal is their analytical approach to gaining a deep understanding of our market. They have a lot of experience in artificial intelligence and the early-stage B2B space, which makes them a rock-solid SEO partner.
#1
Ranking on first page for primary keywords within 4 months.
279%
Gain in organic traffic over 120 days.
Erin Webb
Head of Marketing at Verso
We hired Growth Marshal to develop SEO-optimized content. They were meticulous in their approach and showed a strong grasp of search intent. Just about all of the content deliverables became high-performing assets.
84
Short and long-form SEO optimized content pieces
63%
Spike in organic traffic over 7 months.
Arjun Choudhary
Founder at DataLoom
Our collaboration with Growth Marshal has been outstanding. I appreciate their clear communication and laser focus on our SEO enhancements. They keep me informed at every step while delivering seriously impactful results.
91%
Increase in organic traffic over 6 months.
133%
Jump in new users within the first 6 months.
Michael Chang
Co-founder & CEO at Code Stream
“Growth Marshal built a playbook around our unique ICP and it continues to work like a charm. Partnering with Kurt and his SEO team also helped me learn SEO. He did a great job of teaching alongside implementation.”
Antonio Huerta
Co-founder at PredictIQ
“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Growth Marshal! It’s not just the great results they deliver but also their approach to working with our team on an SEO marketing plan. Their knack for surpassing expectations is remarkable. I wouldn’t hesitate to work this group again.”
Here’s How Our SEO Process
Delivers Your KPIs
We're a results-obsessed SEO agency built for speed. High-growth startups trust us to deliver one thing: leads! Follow these steps to smash your revenue targets—fast.
1. Subscribe
All subscriptions to our SEO firm come with complete flexibility (pause/cancel at any time).
2. Kickoff / Strategy
We hit the ground running with an initial call and begin analyzing your site, business, competition, market, and customers.
3. Roadmap
We draft a custom SEO program to drive qualified traffic that converts. Our SEO offerings are built around delivering exceptional results for your business.
4. Approval
We’ll present our complete AI-powered SEO strategy and get your sign-off. You’ll maintain complete visibility and a checklist of deliverables.
5. Precise Execution
This is a done-for-you service managed by a technical SEO team. At this point, most clients prefer to sit back and watch the SEO professionals cook!
6. Reporting
You’ll receive detailed SEO ROI reports that include a list of work that’s been completed and a review of performance.
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No more random acts of marketing. Access a tailored growth strategy.
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Even the Top SEO Agencies Don’t “Get” Early-Stage Tech. We Live It.
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Data & Predictive Analytics Platforms
Workflow & Project Management
Cybersecurity Software
Content Platforms
Growth Stage
Seed Stage Startups
Series A Startups
Series B+ Startups
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FAQs: SEO Agency For Startups
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An SEO agency for startups blends classic ranking levers—technical fixes, on‑page optimization, link building—with venture‑backed realities: short runways, rapid pivots, and AI‑native search. We prioritize quick‑lift technical wins (indexation, Core Web Vitals), marry keyword research to product‑market‑fit experiments, and build authority on the startup channels investors read (TechCrunch, Product Hunt, Hacker News). Traditional firms chase traffic; we chase investor decks, sign‑ups, and CAC reduction.
👉 See our Startup SEO Guide for the full playbook.
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Benchmarks show seed‑stage teams investing $3 k–$6 k/month and Series A‑B scaling to $8 k–$15 k/month once CAC payback proves out. The sweet spot is 5–10 % of projected MRR, adjusted for runway. Budgets cover a technical audit, weekly content production, authority link outreach, and analytics. Pro tip: allocate 20 % to experiments (AI‑search optimization, schema tests) so you don’t fall behind next‑gen SERPs.
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Expect 90 days for leading‑indicator traction (rankings, indexed pages, lower crawl errors) and 5–7 months for pipeline impact—shorter if you already have domain authority ≥ 40 DR. Google’s ranking systems reward steady improvements, but we accelerate with internal links, FAQ schema, and strategic press links so your “time‑to‑value” aligns with fundraising milestones.
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All three matter, but order is everything. 1) Technical hygiene (indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema) ensures crawlability. 2) Entity‑rich content builds topical ownership around pain‑point keywords (“reduce CAC,” “AI search optimization”). 3) High‑authority backlinks from startup/VC media convert authority into rankings. Skipping step 1 is like building on sand; skipping step 3 leaves content invisible.
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MSE optimizes your content’s embeddings, structured data, and link graph so it surfaces in Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, voice assistants, and social discovery. We fine‑tune on‑page copy for retrieval cues, add JSON‑LD schema (Service, FAQ, How‑To), and build citations in LLM training sets. Result: your startup shows up in generated answers and blue links—doubling SERP real estate.
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Yes. Thought‑leadership content mapped to category‑defining keywords (“AI compliance platform,” “fintech risk analytics”) lets you own the narrative before launch, capture investor searches, and build an opt‑in beta list. A gated case‑study or white‑paper plus schema‑tagged press mentions delivers credibility without revealing trade secrets.
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Track qualified sign‑ups, demo requests, trial activations, and CAC payback alongside traditional metrics (organic sessions, keyword share). Layer in non‑brand click‑through rate and coverage in AI‑generated answers to gauge future‑proof visibility. Dashboards should tie keyword clusters to pipeline value, not vanity impressions.
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A one‑time audit fixes yesterday’s issues; ongoing SEO captures tomorrow’s demand. Competitors release features, Google rolls updates, AI search surfaces new entities. Continuous optimization—content refreshes, schema revisions, link velocity—keeps you ahead. Think of SEO like code: ship, iterate, refactor.
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We map deliverables to funding phases:
Pre‑seed/seed: technical foundation + positioning content.
Series A: scale content and backlinks for category leadership; AI Search dominance.
Series B‑C: international SEO, programmatic content. Sprint roadmaps sync with runway checkpoints so spend never outruns cash flow.
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Specialist agencies live and breathe the growth‑at‑all‑costs mindset: we understand technical debt, fundraising timelines, and the need for channel‑ROI clarity. Full‑service shops juggle PPC, design, and branding; we focus solely on organic acquisition—and have playbooks proven to 3× inbound leads for venture‑backed SaaS in under a year.