Vancouver, British Columbia
Most of Vancouver rents, and a third of it is strata. Vancouver SEO has to reach whoever decides.
In the city of Vancouver, 54.5% of households rent and 36.7% of homes are strata units. The tenant has the problem, the owner pays and the strata council lets you in the building. Cross Boundary Road and it flips: Burnaby, Surrey and Richmond are owner markets with searches of their own. We build your website free and rank it for all of them, on Google and in AI answers.
- Page one in your neighbourhoods and the cities next door
- A website for tenants, owners and stratas, built free
- On the short list when people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews
- $99/month. No contract.
$99/month$0 upfront. No contract.
- 166.0
- Days a year with rain
- 171.2 mm
- Rain in an average November
- 4.1°C
- Average January temperature
How Vancouver lives
Four in five Vancouver homes are apartments of some kind.
The 2021 Census counted 662,248 people in the city of Vancouver, living in 305,336 occupied homes. Statistics Canada's estimate for July 2025 is 740,454 people.
- 54.5%
- of households rent
- 166,490 of 305,335 households, 2021
- 36.7%
- of homes are strata (condominium) units
- 112,105 homes, 2021
- 80.0%
- of homes are apartments
- 244,240 homes in towers, low-rise buildings and duplexes, 2021
- $1,450,000
- median value of an owned home
- As reported by owners in the 2021 Census. Across the metro area it was $1,050,000
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Census Profile for Vancouver (city) and Vancouver (census metropolitan area); July 1, 2025 population estimate from Table 17-10-0155-01.
Vancouver SEO
Vancouver SEO is won one neighbourhood and one building type at a time.
Google's map results go to the business nearest the person searching. A renter in the West End, a strata owner in Fairview and a house owner in Dunbar-Southlands each see a different list. No single page ranks across all 22 of the city's local areas.
So we build out from where you work. First your Google Business Profile, with the areas you cover set properly. Then a page for each service in each area: Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Kerrisdale, Marpole, Hastings-Sunrise, Renfrew-Collingwood.
Here is something most Vancouver trades already know. In June 2026 Statistics Canada counted 9,080 specialty trade contractors with employees across the metro area, and only 1,072 of them were in the city itself. The plumber who serves Kitsilano often parks the van in Burnaby or Surrey. Google has to be told you work in Vancouver, because your address won't say it.
That is the job. Service areas on your profile, a real page for each neighbourhood, reviews from jobs done there and listings that agree with each other. We handle every piece of it, every month.
How local SEO worksWhat puts a Vancouver business on the map
- Service areas set on your Google Business Profile
- One page per local area you cover
- Service pages named the way customers say it
- Reviews that mention the job and the building
- One name, address and phone number on every listing
Past Boundary Road
Three in four people in Metro Vancouver don't live in Vancouver.
Statistics Canada's population estimates for July 1, 2025. The metropolitan area had 3,088,036 people. The city of Vancouver had 740,454 of them.
- Vancouver740,454
- Surrey703,531
- Burnaby299,682
- Richmond239,584
- Coquitlam173,599
- Langley (township)163,885
- Delta124,670
- North Vancouver (district)97,845
- New Westminster92,124
Surrey is 36,923 people behind Vancouver and has added 106,390 since 2021. Each of these cities is its own search market, with its own map results for every trade. They are owner markets too. In the 2021 Census, owners held 69.5% of households in Surrey, 71.3% in Richmond and 60.5% in Burnaby, against 45.5% in Vancouver. If you cross a bridge for work, you need a page for the city on the other side.
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0155-01, population estimates, July 1, 2021 and 2025 (2021 boundaries); owner shares from the 2021 Census Profile for each city.
What Vancouver searches
The searches that name Vancouver, and the bigger pool behind them.
Monthly Google searches in Canada. The middle column names the city. The right column is the same need typed as "near me" anywhere in the country, where Google fills in the place.
Plumber
- With "Vancouver" in it
- 1,300
- "Near me", all of Canada
- 30,000
Dentist
- With "Vancouver" in it
- 1,100
- "Near me", all of Canada
- 43,000
Pest control
- With "Vancouver" in it
- 1,100
- "Near me", all of Canada
- 2,500
Electrician
- With "Vancouver" in it
- 600
- "Near me", all of Canada
- 19,000
HVAC
- With "Vancouver" in it
- 500
- "Near me", all of Canada
- Not measured
Roofer
- With "Vancouver" in it
- 100
- "Near me", all of Canada
- 2,500
| Trade | With "Vancouver" in it | "Near me", all of Canada |
|---|---|---|
| Plumber | 1,300 | 30,000 |
| Dentist | 1,100 | 43,000 |
| Pest control | 1,100 | 2,500 |
| Electrician | 600 | 19,000 |
| HVAC | 500 | Not measured |
| Roofer | 100 | 2,500 |
"Plumber Vancouver" gets 1,300 searches a month. "Dentist Vancouver" and "pest control Vancouver" get 1,100 each. Those are only the people who typed the city. Most type "near me" from a phone and Google chooses by distance and reviews, so the real demand is larger and the map results settle it.
Source: Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, Canada, November 2026. The roofer "near me" figure is for "roofers near me".
Vancouver web design
Vancouver web design for tenants, owners and strata councils.
We design, write and launch your website free. In this city it has three readers: the tenant with the problem, the owner who pays for it and the strata council or property manager who decides if you get in the building. Here is what goes on it.
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A strata page
Strata units are 36.7% of Vancouver homes. Say that you carry liability insurance, deal with property managers and know how to book the elevator.
Website design -
A page for landlords and tenants
More than half the city rents. Tenants learn what to send their landlord. Owners learn how you handle access, quotes and invoices.
Cleaning companies -
Pages for the older houses
131,335 Vancouver homes were built before 1981. Drain tile, knob-and-tube wiring, oil tank removal and re-pipes each get a page.
Plumbers -
Chargers, panels and laneway houses
The city issued 258 building permits for standalone laneway houses in 2025. Each one needs power, and so does every strata parkade adding EV chargers.
Electricians -
Pages in your customers' languages
The 2021 Census counted 77,435 Vancouver residents with Cantonese as a mother tongue, 41,695 with Mandarin, 18,675 with Tagalog and 13,305 with Punjabi. If your crew speaks it, we write the page in it.
Dentists -
Renovation project pages
The city issued 2,490 building permits for additions and alterations in 2025. Contractors get a page per project type, with photos of finished work.
Contractors
How the city is built
The detached house is one Vancouver home in seven.
Occupied private dwellings in the city of Vancouver by type, from the 2021 Census.
Apartment, under five storeys
- Homes
- 95,120
- Share of the city
- 31.2%
Apartment, five or more storeys
- Homes
- 94,815
- Share of the city
- 31.1%
Apartment or flat in a duplex
- Homes
- 54,305
- Share of the city
- 17.8%
Single-detached house
- Homes
- 44,750
- Share of the city
- 14.7%
Row house
- Homes
- 10,815
- Share of the city
- 3.5%
Semi-detached house
- Homes
- 4,800
- Share of the city
- 1.6%
| Dwelling type | Homes | Share of the city |
|---|---|---|
| Apartment, under five storeys | 95,120 | 31.2% |
| Apartment, five or more storeys | 94,815 | 31.1% |
| Apartment or flat in a duplex | 54,305 | 17.8% |
| Single-detached house | 44,750 | 14.7% |
| Row house | 10,815 | 3.5% |
| Semi-detached house | 4,800 | 1.6% |
A website that only shows detached houses is talking to 14.7% of the city. Low-rise walk-ups and towers hold 62.2% between them, and 39.2% of all households are one person living alone. Small units, shared walls and building rules shape most jobs here, so your service pages should name them.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Census Profile for Vancouver (city).
What Vancouver owners search
Agencies fight over these terms. You only have to beat the shop down the road.
Monthly Google searches in Canada by people looking for SEO and web design help in Vancouver, with Ahrefs' score for how hard page one is to reach, from 0 to 100.
seo vancouver
- Searches a month
- 1,400
- Difficulty
- 56
vancouver seo
- Searches a month
- 1,100
- Difficulty
- 45
web design vancouver
- Searches a month
- 900
- Difficulty
- 46
vancouver seo company
- Searches a month
- 800
- Difficulty
- 6
vancouver web design
- Searches a month
- 600
- Difficulty
- 56
seo company (all of Canada)
- Searches a month
- 3,700
- Difficulty
- Not scored
local seo (all of Canada)
- Searches a month
- 2,200
- Difficulty
- Not scored
| Search | Searches a month | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| seo vancouver | 1,400 | 56 |
| vancouver seo | 1,100 | 45 |
| web design vancouver | 900 | 46 |
| vancouver seo company | 800 | 6 |
| vancouver web design | 600 | 56 |
| seo company (all of Canada) | 3,700 | Not scored |
| local seo (all of Canada) | 2,200 | Not scored |
"SEO Vancouver" and "Vancouver web design" both score 56 out of 100. Those are hard pages, fought over by marketing firms. Your contest is smaller: the other electricians or dentists within a few kilometres of your customers. Most of them have a five-page site and a Google profile nobody has touched in a year. Some of them are typing these searches this month.
Source: Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, Canada, November 2026.
AI search in Vancouver
Ask AI who fixes a leak in a West End strata. It answers with a short list.
People in Vancouver now put a whole question to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. Who does strata plumbing in the West End. Which dentist in Kitsilano takes new patients. Who services heat pumps in Mount Pleasant townhouses.
The answer is a few business names and a line about each. The tools write it from what they can read: your website, your Google reviews, your listings and what other sites say about you.
Questions here carry more detail than in most cities. They name a building type, a neighbourhood and often a language. We give the AI tools a page that matches each one, reviews that mention the job and the same business details everywhere they look.
If you searched for a Vancouver AI company, this is the AI work that pays a local business: being one of the names in the answer. Each month we ask the tools your customers' questions and report who they named.
How AI search optimization worksRain
It rains on 166 days a year. Water is the standing work order.
Canadian Climate Normals for Vancouver International Airport, 1991 to 2020, from Environment and Climate Change Canada. This much water finds every weak point in a roof, a membrane or a perimeter drain.
- 1,119.2 mm
- Rain in an average year
- Plus 36.6 cm of snow
- 166.0
- Days a year with rain
- Counted as 0.2 mm or more
- 171.2 mm
- Rain in an average November
- The wettest month. July gets 34.1 mm, so exterior work is squeezed into summer
- 4.1°C
- Average January temperature
- 39.8 days a year dip to 0°C or below
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991 to 2020, Vancouver International Airport, climate ID 1108395.
Who you're up against
Metro Vancouver has 121,423 employer businesses. These are the ones in your trade.
Businesses with employees in the Vancouver census metropolitan area, by industry group, June 2026. Owner-operators with no staff are not counted, so the real field is larger.
- Residential building construction3,344
- Building finishing (painting, flooring, drywall)3,063
- Building equipment (plumbing, heating, electrical)2,829
- Services to buildings (cleaning, landscaping, pest control)2,607
- Personal care (salons, barbers)2,155
- Offices of dentists2,061
- Building exterior (roofing, siding, framing)1,958
- Automotive repair and maintenance1,562
There are 2,829 plumbing, heating and electrical contractors with staff in one metro area, and 2,061 dental offices. Google's map results show three at a time. The three that show have a full Google profile, steady reviews and a page for the exact job in the exact area.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts, with employees, June 2026, Table 33-10-1176-01, Vancouver census metropolitan area. Trade examples in brackets are ours.
Proof it works
Found on Google. Then the calls.
One chart for rankings, one for customer actions, both from businesses we work with.
2,600 rankingsin Google's top 20, up from about 600 when they hired us
Keywords in positions 1 to 20. Ahrefs estimate for a client's website, two years to November 2026. 696 actions315 direction requests, 247 website visits and 134 calls
Customer actions through to May. Google Business Profile, a business we manage.
Real screenshots from Google Business Profile and Ahrefs for businesses we work with, shown as the tools report them. We added our name as a watermark and marked where each business hired us. Business names are kept private.
Are you a Vancouver SEO company?
We are an SEO, web design and AI search company that works with Vancouver businesses. We don't have an office on Broadway and we won't claim one. The work happens on your website, your Google Business Profile and the sites that list you. You reach us by phone, text or email, and your site is written in Canadian spelling with metric units.
My shop is in Burnaby. Can I rank in Vancouver?
Yes. A service-area business ranks where Google believes it works. We set your service areas on your Google Business Profile, build a page for each Vancouver neighbourhood you cover and point you to the reviews that count: the ones from jobs there. Most trades that serve the city are based outside it, so you are in good company.
Most of my customers are tenants. Who should the website talk to?
Both sides. The tenant finds you and the owner or property manager approves the work. We write a short page for each: what a tenant should send the landlord, and how you handle access, quotes and invoices for owners. In a city where 54.5% of households rent, that page gets used.
Do I need separate pages for Surrey, Richmond and Burnaby?
If you take jobs there, yes. Each is its own city with its own searches, and Surrey is nearly the size of Vancouver. One page that lists ten cities ranks in none of them. We build a real page for each, with the services you offer there.
Can you write pages in Cantonese, Mandarin or Punjabi?
Yes. If you or your crew serve customers in a language, we build proper pages in it for your main services. The census counted more than 119,000 Vancouver residents with Cantonese or Mandarin as a mother tongue. Most of your competitors have nothing written for them.
"SEO Vancouver" looks very competitive. Is this worth it for a small shop?
The hard terms are the ones agencies chase. You are after searches like "strata plumber Fairview" or "dentist Marpole", where the field is a few local shops. A page for each service and area, a full Google profile and new reviews each month is enough to lead there.
What does it cost, and is there a contract?
The website is built free and AI Local Growth is $99/month. Month-to-month. No contract. No setup fee. Love it or pay nothing. See pricing
Sources for the Vancouver figures
- Statistics Canada. Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population: Vancouver, City (population, dwellings, tenure, condominium status, dwelling type, period of construction, household size, mother tongue, value of dwellings) (2021 Census)
- Statistics Canada. Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population: Vancouver (census metropolitan area), Surrey, Burnaby and Richmond (tenure, value of dwellings) (2021 Census)
- Statistics Canada. Table 17-10-0155-01: Population estimates, July 1, by census subdivision, 2021 boundaries (July 1, 2021 and July 1, 2025)
- Statistics Canada. Table 17-10-0148-01: Population estimates, July 1, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration, 2021 boundaries (July 1, 2025)
- Statistics Canada. Table 33-10-1176-01: Canadian Business Counts, with employees, census metropolitan areas and census subdivisions (June 2026)
- City of Vancouver Open Data Portal. Issued building permits (permits issued in 2025, by type of work and permit category) (2025, read November 2026)
- City of Vancouver Open Data Portal. Local area boundary (the city's 22 local areas) (Read November 2026)
- Environment and Climate Change Canada. Canadian Climate Normals 1991 to 2020, Vancouver International Airport (1991 to 2020)
- Ahrefs. Keywords Explorer: monthly search volume and keyword difficulty (Canada, November 2026)
Census figures are from 2021, the most recent census with published results. Percentages are our arithmetic on the published counts. Figures are for the city of Vancouver unless the metropolitan area or another city is named.
Vancouver is searching from every building. Be the name on the screen.
Tell us your trade and the areas you cover. We build the website free, rank it and get you named by AI. You approve it before the plan starts.
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