SEO and AI search · Ottawa–Gatineau
Get found in Google and AI answers, with work you can check.
SEO for Ottawa–Gatineau businesses, in English and French. Every recommendation comes with its source, prices are published, and plans run month to month.
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Serving Ottawa, Gatineau and the National Capital Region · Contact ·
Claim check
“Add an llms.txt file to show up in Google's AI Overviews.”
Google Search doesn't use llms.txt or AI-specific markup. Adding one neither helps nor hurts your visibility in Google.
Proof, not promises
I test on my own sites first
61 vs 2
Clicks from Google in the same ten weeks: 17 checked pages against a directory that peaked at 13,493 scraped ones
Two directories I built in 2026, compared over the same dates, Aug 18 to Oct 24. Fewer, better pages won by a wide margin.
2009
Building bilingual, accessible Government of Canada sites
Statistics Canada, Justice Canada, the Canada Gazette and National Defence, where the work grew into SEO.
2015
Writing about search on this site
The original guides are rewritten and re-sourced. Every claim is labelled: confirmed by Google, shown by a study, tested by us, or our view.
Services and prices
One plan, built from what you need
Add two or more monthly services and each costs less: 10% off two, 15% off three, 20% off four. Month to month, in Canadian dollars, quoted after the free audit.
How it works
Start free. Pay only for the work you choose.
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Free SEO audit
Send your website. You get a plain-language report on where you stand and what to fix first.
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Plan and quote
A short list of fixes, ordered by impact, each with its source, and a price for the pieces you want.
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The work, measured
I do the work and report monthly from Search Console and your analytics. Stop any month.
Who you'll work with
Khalid Mohamed, founder.
CapitalSEO is a one-person practice. The person who writes the guides is the person who does your work and answers your email.
Fifteen years on Government of Canada websites taught me to ship every page in English and French, accessible, and checked before it goes live. That's the standard your site gets.
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What you can hold us to
No guarantees we can't keep. Sources for everything we can.
- No ranking guarantees. Nobody can honestly promise page one.
- Every recommendation comes with its source or the test behind it.
- Prices are published. No long contracts: plans run month to month.
- Mistakes get corrected in public, with a note on what changed.
Learn
See how we think before you hire us
Free guides, written so a business owner can follow them and a marketer can use them. Not ready to talk? Follow @CapitalSEO_ott on X, where I post what I check and test.
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Before you get in touch
What does the free audit cost me?
Nothing, and there's no obligation. Three fields: your name, email and website. The crawl begins after your email is confirmed, and the report is reviewed and signed by me before it's sent.
What's in the free audit?
A plain-language report on where your business shows up in Google today and what to fix first: crawling and indexing, page titles and structure, speed on a phone and schema markup. It also checks whether search crawlers, including the ones behind Google's AI answers, can read your pages, and whether your English and French pages are set up to compete. Checking whether AI assistants name you is part of the paid AI search service. See what's in it.
How long does SEO take?
Google's own guidance for people hiring an SEO is four months to a year to make improvements and then see the benefit. Local fixes, like a complete Business Profile, can show sooner. Anyone promising results in weeks is guessing.
Source: Maile Ohye, Google · How to hire an SEO (video) · Feb 2017
Does my data leave Canada?
The audit itself runs on our own computer in Ottawa. Audit requests and the online copy of your report are stored in Microsoft 365, in Canada. The form passes through our web host, Vercel, in the United States. The privacy policy has the details.
Do you work in French?
Yes. Service is in English or French at no extra cost, for businesses in Ottawa, Gatineau and the rest of the National Capital Region. Optimizing your site in a second language is an add-on, because it's a second set of research and pages. Version française.
What happens after the audit?
You get a short list of fixes, ordered by impact, each with its source. You can do them yourself, hand them to your developer, or have me do the work: one plan built from the services you need, quoted after the audit. See pricing.
Find out what's holding your site back.
A plain-language audit of how you show up in Google, and what to fix first.
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