SEO Team Toronto

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the managing partner and broker of Forest Hill Diamond, a real estate brokerage in Toronto.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with SEO Team Toronto?

We wanted to increase our organic search and lead generation.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

SEO Team Toronto has fully managed our online reputation and on-page and off-page SEO. The team has also created content for us, including blog articles, on-page content optimization, link building, and digital PR.

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with 2–5 members of SEO Team Toronto’s team.

How did you come to work with SEO Team Toronto?

We found SEO Team Toronto through an online search and a referral. We chose them over other options because of their high ratings and good value for cost.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $20,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in May 2024, and the engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We’ve seen an increase in organic leads and the ability to bring down our monthly advertising budget. In fact, we’ve almost 10x our monthly organic leads since the beginning of this engagement, and our advertising budget has been cut in half. We’ve seen consistent growth in the past 18 months.

How did SEO Team Toronto perform from a project management standpoint?

SEO Team Toronto’s project management is perfect, which is one of their strengths. The team always answers and delivers on time. Moreover, they’re very engaging and always available for us. We communicate in person, virtually, and through email and messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

SEO Team Toronto’s creative thinking about expanding the business and unique SEO tactics is impressive. Their timeliness and transparency are also remarkable.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There’s nothing they can improve on.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am a real estate broker of Century 21 Heritage group

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're a real estate team with Century 21 Heritage Group, serving buyers, sellers, and investors across the Greater Toronto Area.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SEO Team Toronto to accomplish?

• 1. Get our team website to actually show up when people in our areas search for a real estate agent 2. Build up our local presence online so that when someone in North York, Thornhill, or Richmond Hill looks for help buying or selling, our team comes up, not just the big brokerage pages

SOLUTION

How did you find SEO Team Toronto?

Online Search

Why did you select SEO Team Toronto over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from SEO Team Toronto were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

SEO Team Toronto has been handling the search visibility and local SEO for our real estate team over the past year. They started by looking at our website and figuring out where we were falling short. We weren't ranking for anything useful, and our Google Business Profile was basically just sitting there. They optimized all of our area pages, so each neighbourhood and city we serve has proper content tied to it. They cleaned up the technical side of the site, things like page speed, mobile experience, and how Google crawls the pages. On the local side, they worked on our Google Business Profile, made sure our information was consistent across directories, and helped us build citations in the right places. We also get content written regularly that targets the kind of searches home buyers and sellers in the GTA are actually making.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The biggest change is that people are finding us online now. Before working with SEO Team Toronto, almost all of our business came through personal connections and referrals. That still happens, but now we also get calls and messages from people who Googled things like "real estate agent North York" or "homes for sale Richmond Hill" and landed on our site. Our Google Business Profile is way more active too, more views, more direction requests, and we've gotten new reviews from clients who found us through search. The website traffic has gone up consistently over the past year.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Very easy to deal with. Real estate is unpredictable, my schedule changes constantly, and they've always been flexible with that. If I need to move a call or ask a quick question over email, I get a response the same day. The monthly reports are helpful because they break things down in a way I can actually follow. I'm not an SEO expert, so I need it explained simply, and they do that without being condescending about it. They also come to us with ideas, like when they suggested we create pages for specific neighbourhoods we work in. That ended up being one of the best things we did. It feels like they're paying attention to our business, not just running a cookie-cutter SEO service.

What was your primary form of communication with SEO Team Toronto?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stood out most was how tailored and hands-on their approach felt. They didn’t just apply generic SEO tactics, they actually took the time to understand the business, identify gaps, and build a strategy around real local search behavior. The impact was very clear: shifting from relying almost entirely on referrals to consistently getting inbound leads from Google, along with strong improvements in Google Business Profile activity and website traffic. It showed that their work wasn’t just technical, it translated directly into real business growth. Another impressive part was how they communicated everything. SEO can get complicated, but they broke it down in a way that was easy to understand while still being strategic. It felt like working with a team that’s genuinely invested in the outcome, not just delivering a service.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SEO Team Toronto could have done differently?

In the beginning I didn't fully understand how long SEO takes to kick in. I think they could do a better job setting that expectation right at the start, especially for someone in real estate where you want leads coming in yesterday. Once I understood the timeline, I was fine with it, and the results speak for themselves now. Other than that, no real complaints.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am a Project Manager at Homewrap Construction

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're a renovation and general contracting company in North York. We do kitchens, bathrooms, basements, full home renovations, that kind of thing. Mostly residential work across the GTA.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SEO Team Toronto to accomplish?

• 1. Grow the organic traffic coming to our website
• 2. Get more leads coming in through Google instead of relying only on word of mouth

SOLUTION

How did you find SEO Team Toronto?

Online Search

Why did you select SEO Team Toronto over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget

How many teammates from SEO Team Toronto were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

SEO Team Toronto looked at our website and told us pretty quickly what was holding us back. A lot of it was stuff we never would have caught on our own, like how our pages were set up, missing keywords, slow load times, things like that. They fixed the technical issues, rewrote a bunch of our service pages so they'd actually rank for what people search for, and helped us get our Google Business Profile in better shape. They also ran some ad campaigns alongside the SEO work to get things moving faster while the organic side built up. We got monthly updates showing what they did and how things were trending.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We started seeing a noticeable jump in website visits within the first couple months. More importantly, the phone started ringing from people who found us on Google, which wasn't really happening before. We also started showing up in the map results for renovation-related searches in our area, which was a big deal for us.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Honestly, really good. They kept things simple, which I appreciated because I'm busy running jobs and don't have time to sit through long meetings. Our main point of contact was always quick to reply, whether it was email or a quick call. They sent us reports every month and actually walked us through what it all meant instead of just sending a PDF and disappearing. When we had questions or wanted to change something, they were flexible about it. No runaround, no waiting days for a response. It felt like they understood how a small business operates.

What was your primary form of communication with SEO Team Toronto?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What impressed me most about SEO Team Toronto is how quickly they were able to identify what was holding us back and turn things around with real, measurable results. Within a short time, we started seeing more traffic and, more importantly, actual leads coming in from Google. They kept everything simple, communicated clearly, and focused on what actually grows the business rather than just reporting metrics.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SEO Team Toronto could have done differently?

I wish we had started sooner, honestly. The only real thing I'd say is that in the first few weeks it felt like a lot of information coming at us all at once with the audit and recommendations. It would've helped to have that broken down a bit more gradually. But once we got past the initial setup, everything was smooth.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Real estate agent of Century 21

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're a real estate development company in Toronto. We build residential condos and mixed-use projects across the GTA.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SEO Team Toronto to accomplish?

• We needed more people finding our new condo projects through Google
• We wanted more qualified leads coming in through the website, not just traffic
• Our Google Business Profile wasn't performing well in the neighbourhoods where we were launching, so that needed fixing

SOLUTION

How did you find SEO Team Toronto?

Online Search

Why did you select SEO Team Toronto over others?

• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from SEO Team Toronto were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

They started by going through our whole website and pointing out everything that was holding us back from a technical standpoint. Things we had no idea were even issues. From there they put together a strategy that was specific to real estate, not some generic SEO playbook. Every month they handled on-page and off-page work, wrote content for our blog and landing pages, and managed local SEO for the different project locations we had going on. 
The main things we got out of it were a solid keyword plan, landing pages built for each development, and a link-building push that got us placed on some well-known Toronto and real estate sites.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have been getting a consistent boost in organic traffic to our website and organic leads.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Hard to think of anything major. If I'm being picky, during our busiest launch windows it would've been nice to have a bit more face time, maybe a quick weekly check-in instead of monthly. But that's really a minor thing and didn't affect the quality of the work at all.

What was your primary form of communication with SEO Team Toronto?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Really well run. We had a strategist and an account manager assigned to us, and both of them were on top of things. We never had to chase anyone down for updates. The monthly reports were clear and actually useful, not just a bunch of data dumps. One thing that stood out was when we had a condo launch come up faster than expected and needed pages optimized quickly. 
They turned it around in a few days without us having to push. They also brought ideas to us regularly, which we appreciated. It wasn't a situation where we had to drive every conversation.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SEO Team Toronto could have done differently?

Hard to think of anything major. If I'm being picky, during our busiest launch windows it would've been nice to have a bit more face time, maybe a quick weekly check-in instead of monthly. But that's really a minor thing and didn't affect the quality of the work at all.