Senior-led SEO services for Quebec City businesses. Transparent published pricing, 12-year operator-investor track record across 500+ owned-and-operated Canadian domains, best-in-class AI search and GEO capability. 90-day initial commitment then month-to-month. Free SEO audit before any sales conversation.
Quebec City businesses come to us when they have run out of patience with the typical Canadian SEO experience: a senior strategist closes the deal, a junior delivers the work, the reporting is opaque, the pricing is hidden behind a discovery call, and after 12 months the rankings either have not moved or have moved on keywords that do not produce revenue.
Ottawa SEO Inc. operates differently in five concrete ways:
1. **Senior-led delivery.** The strategist who scopes your engagement is the same person who delivers it. No bait-and-switch. 2. **Transparent published pricing.** $1,800/mo to $7,000+/mo CAD, published on our site, no discovery-call gating. 3. **Operator-investor track record.** Twelve years of ranking, monetizing, and selling 500+ owned-and-operated Canadian commercial domains. Every recommendation is grounded in what has actually worked on real money sites, not just on previous client campaigns. 4. **AI search and GEO included.** We track LLM citation share-of-voice (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini) for every account — most Canadian agencies still cannot. 5. **No long lock-in.** 90-day initial commitment to give the work room to compound, then month-to-month. We earn the renewal every month or you walk.
For Quebec City accounts specifically, we deliver remotely with the same senior involvement Ottawa accounts get in person — and we have the QC market knowledge (key publications, link surfaces, competitive landscape) to ramp without a 90-day "discovery" tax.
Every engagement starts from a free written technical audit and a competitive analysis of your top three SERP competitors for your money keywords. From there, the work compounds across six interlocking workstreams:
**1. Technical SEO foundation** - Core Web Vitals optimization, crawl budget management, schema markup (Organization, LocalBusiness, FAQ, Article, Product, Service) - Indexation hygiene, canonical strategy, internal-link architecture - Quebec City-specific technical considerations (hreflang for bilingual sites, geo-targeting signals)
**2. On-page optimization** - Title, meta, H1-H6 hierarchy, entity-rich body copy, structured data - Money-page audits across your full commercial site - Conversion-focused page architecture (hero, social proof, scannable benefits, decisive CTA)
**3. Content strategy and production** - Topical clusters built around your money keywords - Long-form editorial content that ranks AND that gets cited inside AI Overviews and ChatGPT answers - Quebec City-specific content layer (neighbourhood pages, local case studies, Quebec City-specific FAQ content)
**4. Authority and link acquisition** - Digital PR with real Canadian publications (we name names in the strategy doc — no opaque "outreach") - Citation building and cleanup across the foundational Canadian directories - Strategic guest contributions on Canadian industry publications
**5. Local SEO and Google Business Profile** - GBP optimization, posting cadence, review acquisition strategy - Quebec City local-pack ranking work (categories, services, attributes, geo-tagged media) - Citation parity across Apple Maps, Bing Places, Yelp, Yellow Pages Canada, the relevant QC directories
**6. AI search and GEO** - LLM citation share-of-voice tracking (monthly reporting alongside classic rank tracking) - Entity strategy (Wikidata, Knowledge Graph signals, brand entity consistency) - Structurally-quotable content engineering (short declarative claims, schema-marked data, clear entity definitions)
Three published tiers. No discovery-call gating. No price-segmenting based on perceived budget.
**Foundation — $1,800/mo CAD** For owner-operated Quebec City businesses with one or two locations and a moderate-competition niche. Includes technical clean-up, a single content pillar, on-page work across the top 20 commercial pages, citation cleanup, GBP optimization, and entry-level link acquisition. Best for: businesses ready to commit to SEO but not yet ready for a full Growth-tier program.
**Growth — $3,500/mo CAD** The most popular tier. Adds programmatic location and service expansion, ongoing long-form editorial content (4 to 8 pieces/month), tier-2 backlink prospecting, GEO content engineering, and quarterly schema and E-E-A-T audits. Best for: Quebec City businesses with a defined money-keyword set that they need to reach first-page presence on within 6 to 9 months.
**Authority — $7,000+/mo CAD** For Quebec City businesses competing in dense verticals (top-tier law, financial advisory, multi-location healthcare networks) where the SERP is dominated by national directories or 10+ year-old domains. Includes everything in Growth plus digital PR with major publications, original-research content, custom data tooling, and a named senior strategist with weekly working sessions.
**A note on pricing honesty.** What the price actually depends on is the competitive density of the keywords you want to rank for, not our brand. Any agency that quotes the same flat retainer regardless of competitive landscape is either underpricing the hard accounts or overpricing the easy ones. Our published tiers are anchor pricing — your actual quote may sit at, between, or above these tiers based on scope.
**Quebec City at a glance.** Population: 549K (city). Key industries: government, tourism, insurance, technology, healthcare, education.
**Competitive landscape.** Quebec City is a French-dominant SEO market with substantial provincial-government and insurance-sector concentration. Programs must be French-first, not translated.
**What this means for your Quebec City SEO program.** The Quebec City market rewards a specific combination of moves: deep local-pack work (because Quebec City buyers do use "near me" and neighbourhood-modified queries), entity-led content that earns AI Overview citations (because AI surfaces are absorbing 12% to 28% of would-be commercial click volume in 2026), and authority-grade link acquisition from publications that genuinely move rank in QC. We tune the workstream balance to your specific competitive landscape rather than running the same playbook on every account.
**Days 0–14: Free audit and discovery.** Written technical audit, competitive analysis of your top 3 SERP competitors, money-keyword baseline, GBP and citation audit, AI search visibility baseline.
**Days 15–30: Strategy ratification and quick wins.** Strategic plan delivered as a written document, not a slide deck. Quick-win technical fixes shipped (indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals). On-page rewrites started for the top 10 commercial pages.
**Days 31–60: Content and link foundation.** First content pillar live with full topical-cluster scaffolding. First citation cleanup batch complete. First digital-PR placements in motion. GBP fully restructured.
**Days 61–90: Compound starts.** First measurable rank lift typically appears in this window for moderate-competition keywords. Reporting cadence established. AI Overview tracking live. The 90-day report at the end of this window is the decision point — extend, scale up, or part ways with no penalty.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the discipline of getting cited inside AI-generated answers from Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. As of April 2026, those surfaces absorb 12% to 28% of would-be click volume on Canadian commercial queries — meaning an SEO program that only optimizes for classic Google rankings is missing roughly a quarter of the funnel.
For every Quebec City account, we deliver:
- LLM citation share-of-voice tracking for ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, and Gemini - Structurally-quotable content engineering (short declarative claim sentences, clear entity definitions, schema-marked data tables) - Entity-and-knowledge-graph strategy (Wikidata, structured data, consistent brand entity signals) - Separate reporting on AI Overview and classic blue-link rankings as correlated but distinct surfaces
If you are talking to another Quebec City SEO agency, ask the AI search question directly. The answer tells you whether the agency has updated its methodology or is selling 2022 SEO at 2026 prices.
The first step is a free written audit — no card, no contract, no high-pressure pitch. We will look at your current site, your visibility in classic Google and AI search surfaces, your link profile, your technical health, and your local-pack performance, then send you the report in writing.
If we are the right fit for your Quebec City business, we will tell you why with specifics. If we are not, we will say so and point you at the agency that is. Request your free SEO audit — Martin Vassilev personally reviews every audit before it goes out.
Foundation-tier SEO retainers run roughly $1,800/mo CAD; Growth-tier $3,500/mo; Authority-tier $7,000+/mo. Pricing is driven by competitive density of your target keywords, not the agency's brand. Our tiers are published — no discovery-call gating.
Yes — we take Quebec City clients with the same senior-led delivery model that Ottawa clients receive in person. The work happens remotely with regular video sessions, and we have the QC market knowledge to ramp quickly without a 90-day discovery tax.
For low-to-moderate competition keywords, expect first measurable rank lift within 90 to 120 days, with meaningful traffic and lead growth between months 5 and 9. For dense competitive verticals, the realistic horizon to dominant share of voice is 9 to 18 months.
90-day initial commitment to give the work room to compound, then month-to-month. We earn the renewal every month. No 12-month lock-ins, no early-termination penalties after the initial 90 days.
Both. We track LLM citation share-of-voice for ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, and Gemini for every account, and engineer content to be structurally quotable inside AI answers. This is included at every pricing tier — not an upsell.
Request a free written SEO audit. We will look at your site, your competitive landscape, your link profile, your technical health, and your AI search visibility, then send you the report in writing — no contract, no card, no pitch until you have the report.