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Web Design Agency SEO Case Study

#1 or #2 for 22 local web design searches across Greenville SC, Honolulu and Hendersonville NC. 20 of them reached in three months.

By Andy Wang · founder of SERP Masters, ran this engagementB.S. Pharmacology, UC Santa Barbara · Pokémon, Disney, Mastercard, Mailchimp · About Andy →

This web design agency SEO case study covers BECK Digital, a web design and digital marketing agency headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. Measured in Ahrefs organic keywords in compare mode, the agency ranks #1 or #2 for 22 local web design searches across three markets, 20 of them reached in the last three months, with “web design greenville sc” up from #19 to #2 and “website design greenville sc” from #23 to #2. Claude names the agency first when asked for the best web design agency in Greenville.

MeasuredAhrefs
22local searches at
#1 or #220of them reached
in three months#19 to #2“web design
greenville sc”

Figures describe one engagement within the window and tool named beside each one. Rankings move with competitors, algorithm updates and crawl timing, so results from one site do not predict results for another, and no ranking outcome can be projected with certainty.

A web design agency with offices in three cities needs to rank in each one. This engagement was measured in Ahrefs organic keywords, comparing two dates three months apart.

The client

BECK Digital is a web design and digital marketing agency headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, with satellite offices in Asheville, North Carolina, and Honolulu. It builds custom WordPress sites, Shopify and WooCommerce stores, and Laravel web applications, and provides local SEO, AI strategy, Amazon Marketplace management and website maintenance. The agency serves Upstate businesses alongside national brands, with client work for Michelin, Motorola, KYMCO USA and Solis Mammography.

The starting point

Three months before the capture, “web design greenville sc” sat at #19 and “website design greenville sc” at #23. Most of the 22 local terms were outside the top 2.

The results

FigureValueSource and window
Local web design searches at #1 or #222 across Greenville SC, Honolulu and Hendersonville NCAhrefs organic keywords, compare mode, 3 months
Of those, reached in the window20Ahrefs organic keywords, compare mode, 3 months
“web design greenville sc”#19 to #2Ahrefs, compare mode, 3 months
“website design greenville sc”#23 to #2Ahrefs, compare mode, 3 months
AI answer, “best web design agency in Greenville SC”named first by ClaudeClaude with web search, single run

What the work covered

01One page per city and serviceGreenville, Honolulu and Hendersonville each got service pages with local proof instead of one generic services page.
02Titles matched to the SERPService page titles rewritten to the phrasing the top results use for each city term.
03Portfolio as proofNamed client work surfaced on the pages that compete for the local terms.
04Internal Linking by marketCity pages linked to their services and back to the hub, with no city-to-city links.
05Tracking in Ahrefs compare modeTwo dates three months apart, the source of the 22 and 20 figures.

What this means for agency SEO

Multi-office agencies rank city by city, and each city needs its own page and its own proof. The creative agency case shows the single-market version; the scope is on the local SEO page.

Figures describe one engagement within the window and tool named beside each one. Rankings move with competitors, algorithm updates and crawl timing, so results from one site do not predict results for another, and no ranking outcome can be projected with certainty.

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01Who did the work on this web design agency SEO engagement?

Andy Wang, the founder of SERP Masters, ran the engagement himself. There is no account manager layer: the audit, the fixes, the content direction and the monthly report all came from the same person.

02Where do the figures on this page come from?

Every figure is read from Ahrefs organic keywords in compare mode and quoted with its window. SERP Masters does not round figures up, restate them as bigger claims or present tool traffic estimates as visits; reported traffic comes from Google Search Console only.

03Will my site get the same result?

No one can promise that. Rankings depend on competitors, algorithm updates, link acquisition and crawl timing, so this page describes one engagement and does not predict another. The free audit shows what your site would need before any work is quoted.

04What does a web design agency SEO engagement with SERP Masters include?

The scope follows the local SEO page: a technical audit first, then the on-page, local or content work the audit calls for, with every account run month to month and reported monthly.

Andy Wang, SEO consultant and founder of SERP Masters
Who did the work

Andy Wang, founder of SERP Masters.

Andy Wang holds a B.S. in Pharmacology from UC Santa Barbara and has run SEO work for Pokémon, Disney, Mastercard, Mailchimp, US Soccer, Clorox, Wynn Las Vegas and BigCommerce. He ran this engagement himself, from the first audit to the monthly report, and every figure on this page was read from the tracking tool named beside it.

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