Birmingham SEO Company that gets your business found.
Birmingham SEO for trades, practices and shops — on the map, in the rankings, and in the AI answers.
Terry Baker SEO is a Birmingham, Alabama SEO company — founded and run by Terry Baker, marketing online since 1999. Whatever you do — a trade, a practice, a shop, a brand — your next customer starts with a search. We put you at the top of what they see: the map, the rankings, even the AI answers. More visibility, more clicks, more customers — measured in results you can see, not reports you have to decode.
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Free advice — like I’d give it
Terry’s AI assistant — free advice, the same answers Terry would give you himself.
You don’t need to know what to buy.
One plan. I work out what your business actually needs, and you get the whole thing handled — the map listing, the pages, the authority and the tracking.
Nobody can tell you apart.
You are on the map somewhere. So is everyone else.
You’re the one they call first.
Pinned on the map, carrying the reviews, answering the search.
GET RANKED
One plan. Everything it takes.
- Google Maps listing
- Pages for the jobs you want
- Content that ranks
- Authority and links
- AI visibility (included)
- Call tracking
Or tell me what you want more customers for.
I want more calls from Google
The map listing, the pages people actually search for, and the authority behind them.
I need customers this month
Paid clicks to bridge the gap while the slower work matures, with the math shown before you spend.
I want to keep the customers I earned
Your past customers are the cheapest jobs you will ever get. And people check you before they call.
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Don’t know which of these you need? You’re not supposed to — that’s my job. Tell me your trade and your town. I pull your actual Google results, see what is keeping the phone quiet, and hand you the plan — free, whether you hire me or not.
Free SEO auditWhy hiring an SEO company usually goes wrong
If you have been burned before, it was probably one of these three. They are industry standard practice, which is exactly the problem.
They report activity, not outcomes
Ten blog posts published, forty keywords tracked, a dashboard full of graphs — and no way to tell whether the phone rang because of any of it. Activity is easy to sell because it always happens on schedule.
Every client gets the same plan
The proposal was written before they ever saw your business. Same audit, same page count, same "content calendar" — whether you fix roofs or clean teeth. The plan should fall out of the market, not the template.
Leaving costs you everything
The agency owns the site, the listing, the tracking, sometimes even the domain. That is not an accident — it is the retention strategy. Every account we touch is created in your name, so staying is a choice.
We look before you spend. Then we build in this order.
Every engagement runs the same four rules, because they are the four places local SEO money actually goes to die.
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Look
Your map listing comes before your website
Why?
For most searches in Birmingham, the map of local businesses sits above every other result. If your listing is thin or your reviews are old, that beats anything we could write on your site. So it gets fixed first, in week two, before a single page is built.
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Listing
One page per job, per town
Why?
Somebody with a burst pipe at midnight and somebody pricing a full re-pipe are not the same customer, and they will not call from the same page. Separate pages for separate jobs, in the towns you actually drive to.
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Pages
We count phone calls, not rankings
Why?
Call tracking goes in before any of the work starts, so you can see what a booked job actually cost you. A report full of positions that moved is not a report on whether your phone rang.
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Calls
We will tell you when it is not worth it
Why?
Some jobs do not have enough people searching for them to pay for the work, and some towns are already sewn up. You will hear that from us before you spend, not in month six.
The typical agency, and us
Print this and take it to every sales call you sit through. If their answers beat ours, hire them.
What it costs
What gets reported
The contract
Who owns the accounts
Ranking guarantees
When a market is not worth it
I have been ranking things on Google since 1999.
I learned SEO ranking my own websites, with my own money on the line. That is why I look at your market before I ask you to spend anything.
Meet Terry
I’m Terry Baker. I have been marketing on the internet since 1999 — long enough to have watched every shortcut this industry ever sold work brilliantly, and then stop working overnight. Article farms, keyword tricks, link schemes: I saw each era rise and burn from the inside. That is precisely why nothing on this site promises a trick.
I built my career as the publisher, not the vendor. The pages were mine, the rankings were mine, and when Google changed, the losses were mine too. Pay-per-lead landing pages, local map-pack work, organic content that had to earn its keep — for the last three years, running my own portfolio of ranked sites has been my full-time work, with AI-driven workflows most agencies have not caught up to yet.
Today that focus is local service businesses — the companies whose next customer is searching Google right now. My deepest disciplines are the two most agencies quietly outsource: content that earns the click, and links that earn the authority.
Terry Baker SEO is twenty-five years of my own money on the line, offered to Birmingham. When we say we look before you spend — it is because the spend used to be mine.
Terry Baker
Founder · Birmingham, Alabama
Contractors & Trades
Trades do not search the word "SEO" — they search leads, marketing and advertising. Every trade below gets its own page: the questions its customers ask, when its phone rings, and the plan we would actually run for it.
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Professional Services
These are the most expensive clicks in local search, because a single client can be worth thousands. That is exactly what makes the organic and map results worth the work — every visitor you do not have to pay for.
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Small Business
A small business does not get a second marketing budget, so we check the real demand before a dollar gets spent — and we tell you when a term is not worth chasing.
View industriesThe questions nobody answers.
Can you guarantee I rank #1? +
No. Google does not sell placement in organic results and nobody controls the algorithm. Any agency that guarantees a position is either redefining the word or counting on you not to check.
What does the free audit actually get me? +
We pull the live Google results for the work you want more of, look at your map listing and your site, and send you what we find in plain English. That includes when the honest answer is that a term is not worth chasing. You keep it whether or not you hire us.
How long does SEO take? +
Local map results generally move before organic pages do, but anyone quoting an exact week is guessing. How old your site is, how many competitors you have and how many reviews you carry all change the answer.
What does it cost? +
You get a straight quote within one business day — no sales sequence, no proposal theater. Every plan is priced from your actual market and your actual competitors, and each service page lists exactly what the work includes, feature by feature. If a scope is not worth the money, the quote will say so instead of selling it.
Where are you based? +
Birmingham, Alabama. We can sit down with you in person, which is the one thing a national agency cannot do.
Tell us the work you want more of.
We will pull the live search results for it and send you what we find. If the demand is not there, or page one is locked up, we will tell you that — it is a faster answer than a proposal.