About
A one-person studio, on purpose.
Glenbow Ranch SEO is small by design. You get senior expertise across SEO, AI search and web, without paying for layers of people you'll never meet.
Who you'll work with
Hi, I'm Mark. I'll be doing the work.
I started Glenbow Ranch SEO after 15+ years in search because I kept seeing the same pattern: businesses sold on a senior strategist, then handed to a junior and a monthly PDF nobody could explain.
So I built the opposite. When you work with Glenbow Ranch, you work with me: the person who audits your site, writes your strategy, makes the changes and answers your emails. No account managers and no juniors in between. When a project needs more hands, I bring in experienced specialists I trust. And no lock-in: hours flex month to month.
— Mark
- Replies within one business day
- Month-to-month, flexible hours
- Based in Cochrane, AB
How I work
Six principles I don't bend on.
Senior work only
The person who scopes your project is the person who does it. Nothing is handed to a junior or quietly outsourced; if extra hands are needed, I bring in experienced specialists and you'll know who they are.
Plain English
Every recommendation comes with the what and the why, so your team understands it and can build on it.
No lock-in
Month-to-month, with hours adjusted each month as you need. Changes or cancellation take 14 days' notice. You stay because it's working.
Earned, not bought
No paid link schemes, fake reviews or shortcuts that put your site at risk. If I wouldn't explain it to your customers, I don't do it.
Honest about AI
AI search is real and growing, and nobody can guarantee placements. I measure what can be measured and say so when something is uncertain.
Measured in leads
Rankings are a means. Reporting focuses on calls, bookings, form fills and sales from organic search.
Working together
What a normal month looks like.
Predictable, communicative and low-maintenance for you. Most clients spend about an hour a month on SEO.
- Day one
- A kickoff call to align stakeholders, agree the KPIs that matter and set expectations.
- Meetings
- Ad hoc, or a set weekly, biweekly or monthly rhythm: whatever suits your team.
- Between calls
- Slack, Discord, email or whatever your team prefers for quick updates, with replies within one business day.
- Reporting
- Custom dashboards built around your KPIs, plus the essentials, explained in plain English.
- Every month
- Hours adjusted up or down as priorities change, and a roadmap that moves with your business.
- Every change
- Copy edits arrive as tracked changes in Google Docs. Nothing big goes live without your sign-off.
Toolkit
Tools & platforms
Professional-grade data for the decisions, enterprise platforms when the job calls for them, and hands-on experience in the tools you already use.
SEO & content
- Semrush
- Ahrefs
- Frase
- Surfer SEO
- DataForSEO
- Screaming Frog
- Google Search Console
Enterprise platforms
- BrightEdge
- Conductor
- Profound
Analytics
- GA4
- Google Tag Manager
- Looker Studio
- Microsoft Clarity
- Hotjar
App stores
- SensorTower
- AppTweak
AI & automation
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Kimi
- Grok
- Writer
- Muse
- n8n
Platforms & design
- WordPress
- Webflow
- Shopify
- Framer
- Squarespace
- Wix
- HubSpot
- Figma
- Netlify
- Vercel
Specialties
Industries I know well.
Every industry searches differently. These are the ones I know best, from insurance and wealth to contractors, photographers and SaaS.
- E-commerce
- Fashion & apparel
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Photography
- Contractors & trades
- Refrigeration & industrial
- SaaS
- B2B
- Proptech
- Edtech
- Education
- Solar & energy
- Wealth & finance
About the name
Why Glenbow Ranch?
Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park is the stretch of Bow River foothills between Cochrane and Calgary. The name is a nod to where the business is from, and to the kind of patient, long-term stewardship that good search work needs. Rankings, like land, reward the people who look after them.
Want to work together?
Send me your website and goals. You'll hear back within one business day from me, not a sales team, with an honest read on where you stand and what I'd do first.