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Your Marketing Journey: What to Expect in the First 6 Months

Interested in how a local business can climb the ranks and start getting leads within weeks? Below, we break down, month by month, what a typical journey looks like when you join our marketing agency. We’ll use a real example of a painting company in Mesa, Arizona, that started with us in January 2025. Follow along to visualize the process, see the checklist of ranking factors we tackle, and understand the timeline for results. By making things casual and transparent, we want you to feel confident about what’s ahead when you partner with Real People Real SEO.

Month 1 – Onboarding & Foundations (Getting Set Up)

Overview: The first month focuses on establishing the fundamentals. We kick off with onboarding, set up all necessary tools, and lay a solid foundation for your online presence. Think of this like preparing the ground before building a house – it’s not flashy, but it’s crucial for everything that follows. In this phase, we ensure we have all the access and information we need, and we give you the roadmap for the upcoming months.

Key actions in Month 1 include:

Account Setup & Access: We create your account in our Business Tracking App (BTA) (our dashboard to monitor performance) with an initial project shell. We gather access to your existing assets – website CMS, Google Analytics (GA), Google Search Console (GSC), Google Tag Manager (GTM), Google Business Profile (GBP), domain registrar/hosting, and any social media pages. Essentially, we make sure we have the keys to all the important digital properties.
Onboarding Meeting: We schedule an onboarding call to introduce our team, learn about your business (services, target areas, USPs), and set expectations. During this meeting, we confirm details from your intake form, clarify your goals (e.g. which services and cities you want to focus on), and answer any initial questions. By the end, everyone is on the same page and excited to get started.
Initial Audit & Blueprint: Our team prepares a customized SEO PowerStack Blueprint for your business. This includes a deep review of your current website and Google Business Profile to determine what's already in place, what’s missing, and what needs improvement. More importantly, we walk through the Google ranking factors that actually move the needle and identify which advanced SEO strategies your business needs most. This Blueprint becomes our action plan moving forward.
Keyword Research & Competitor Analysis: This is where the fun begins. We dig into what your potential customers are searching for and how your competitors are showing up (or not) for those searches. This research lays the groundwork for how we’ll build your Blueprint. If we don’t know what your audience is typing into Google, then we’re just throwing darts in the dark—and that’s not our style.
Website Content Overhaul: For this client, we weren’t just optimizing a few pages—we rebuilt the whole site. He went from a barely-there 1,500 words on his old site to over 22,000+ words of keyword-targeted content. Why? Because thin content doesn’t rank, and Google doesn’t reward guesswork. We wrote high-quality, structured content that speaks directly to search engines and real humans. The goal? Rank for the high-intent, high-volume keywords that drive actual leads.

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