The work.
A completed project we can show: Ink Slave, a custom tattoo studio in Durban Central. We designed and built a responsive website that puts the studio's original work, cover-up transformations, services, booking path and location details in one clear experience.
Industry experience
Deck builders,
United States.
SEO Studio is a Durban-based SEO agency with hands-on experience working on search strategies for businesses in South Africa and deck-building companies in the United States.
That is industry experience, not a second location. We do not have a US office, a US phone number or a US address, and this site does not carry US location pages, because we are not based there.
It is worth mentioning for one reason: US home improvement is a harder search market than anything in South Africa. Established competitors, mature content, real budgets. Work that holds up there does not stop working when it comes home.
What engagements look like
Three shapes the work takes.
Almost everything we do falls into one of these. Each starts with an audit, because we will not quote against a site we have not read.
01 · Recovery
The site that should rank and does not
Usually a technical constraint rather than a content one: pages a search engine cannot see, a structure that buries them, or a Business Profile configured against itself. The fix list is short and the movement is usually the fastest of the three.
02 · Local footprint
Being found in the places you serve
Business Profile, service areas, consistent business information, and location pages that say something specific about each area instead of swapping the suburb name. The structure on this site is the same one we build for clients.
03 · Building out
Earning ground you do not hold yet
Content and structure aimed at the questions your market asks before it is ready to buy, plus the schema and clarity that decide whether an AI answer names you or someone else. This is the slow one, and the one that compounds.
Selected project
Ink Slave, Durban Central.
Ink Slave is a custom tattoo studio in Durban Central. The brief was to make the studio's work easy to explore and make the route from interest to booking feel clear on mobile as well as desktop.
We created a distinct visual direction, structured service pages, an original-work gallery, before-and-after cover-up comparisons, review excerpts, location details and direct booking links. The result gives prospective clients the information they need before they start a conversation with the studio.
Next step
See it applied to your site.
An audit is the fastest way to judge whether we are any good, on your domain, not somebody else’s.