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Those two words are a hint, not a switch. Commercial searches get localized to wherever the person typing them is standing, whether or not anyone spells it out. Type the same three words in Ballard and again in Renton and the list of companies can come back in a different order, with different companies in it. What adding “near me” really signals is intent: this person wants somebody they can hire, not an article explaining the topic.
That has a consequence most owners miss. You are the worst possible person to test your own rankings. You are signed into your own account, sitting at your own address, on a device that has visited your website more often than any customer ever will. Drive across town and the ordering can shift. Two people on the same street can see different results on the same afternoon. So checking by searching for yourself, which is what nearly every owner does, is close to the least reliable test available.
The measure that holds up is Google Search Console, which reports the average position real searchers saw over a date range you choose. Every position number Kihan Marketing quotes comes from there with the window attached. Cryo Sanctuary, a med spa in Renton, moved from an average position of 20.8 to 11.4 with clicks up 231% over the 90 days ending August 11, 2026. That is stated-window data on real searchers, not a screenshot of one search on one laptop. Ask for the same from anyone you are considering.
A local commercial search usually returns a short list of businesses attached to a map, and ordinary website links underneath it. Those are two different contests with different inputs, and a business can win one while losing the other completely. It is common to find a company with a well kept Google Business Profile and a website nobody can find, or a decent website attached to a profile nobody has touched in three years. If you only ever look at one of the two, you will misread where your problem is.
The map list is built from your Google Business Profile: the categories you picked, the address or service area you claim, your hours, your photos, and the reviews a stranger reads before deciding whether to call. Distance between the searcher and your location is part of it too, and it is the one input nobody can edit. For the record, Kihan Marketing has a 5.0 rating from 7 reviews on Google. Seven is a small number and we would rather say so than let it read as a big one. Any agency telling you review volume decides everything should be willing to show you their own profile first.
The website links are a different problem. If you sell four services across six suburbs and you have one page covering all of it, that page is competing in twenty four separate searches at once, and specific pages tend to beat it. Driftwood Builders Roofing, a roofing company in Austin, moved from an average position of 48.3 to 20.4 over the 90 days ending August 11, 2026, with clicks up 25%. Read that honestly. Position 48 means nobody saw them. Position 20 is roughly the second page of results, which is real movement and is not finished.
Kihan Marketing is headquartered in Seattle and there is no second office anywhere. Clients around the US are served remotely, by phone at (425) 954-3452 and by email at info@kihanmarketing.com, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Pacific. That is worth stating plainly, and it is worth asking any agency that appears in your own local results whether anyone actually works at the address listed there.
Some jobs genuinely need a local hire, and it is better to say so than to argue you out of it. If a large share of the work is photography and video of your building, your crew and your finished projects, someone who can show up with a camera is worth more than someone who cannot. If your leadership decides things in a room and wants the marketing person in that room, remote will frustrate everyone involved. Nobody from Kihan Marketing is going to drive to your location, shoot your storefront, or walk in when something breaks on a Thursday afternoon. If that is the job, hire someone in your city.
Outside those situations the work happens in a browser. Your Google Business Profile is edited in one. Your website is edited in one. Search Console returns the same figures opened in Seattle or in Texas. Driftwood Builders Roofing is in Austin. Over that same 90 days ending August 11, 2026, Island Dreams Realty saw clicks up 51% with average position moving from 21.9 to 11.6, and Panama Elite Homes saw clicks up 847% with impressions up 4,397%. Of 39 projects delivered, 27 are apartment community websites built for operators including Pacific Crest Real Estate and Olympic Multi-Family Management.
So trade distance for better filters. Ask for the Search Console figures behind any claim, with the date window attached. Ask which specific pages they intend to build and what each one is meant to rank for. Ask what month one looks like next to month four, and what happens if the results do not arrive. Kihan Marketing’s answers: Website design is scoped to your project, SEO at $1,500 per month, the combined SEO, ads and content package at $3,000 per month, everything month to month with no long contract, and the honest expectation is traction in 60 to 90 days rather than in week one. If an agency down the road from you will match those terms and beat the plan, hire them.
Do I need to hire a marketing agency in my own city?
For most of the work, no. Your Google Business Profile, your website and your Search Console data are all reached through a browser, so a shared zip code changes nothing about how the work gets done. Proximity earns its money when the job needs someone physically present: on site photography and video, or meetings you want attended in person. Kihan Marketing is headquartered in Seattle, has no other office, and works with clients across the US remotely.
Why do my search results look different from what my customers see?
Because commercial searches are localized to the person doing the searching, and you are the worst available test subject. You are signed in, sitting at your business address, on a device that has visited your site repeatedly. Move across town and the order can change. The check that holds up is Google Search Console, which reports the average position real searchers saw over a date range you specify.
How do I check an agency’s results claims before I hire them?
Ask for Google Search Console figures with the date window attached, for a named client, showing average position and clicks at the start and at the end. Phrasing like “first page results” with no window, no client and no numbers is not evidence. Ask about reviews too, and read the count rather than the score: Kihan Marketing has a 5.0 rating from 7 reviews on Google, which is a small sample, so the Search Console numbers are the stronger signal.
How fast will I show up for searches in my area?
Expect traction in 60 to 90 days, and expect your starting point to matter a great deal. Over the 90 days ending August 11, 2026, Cryo Sanctuary, a med spa in Renton, moved from an average position of 20.8 to 11.4 with clicks up 231%. In the same window Driftwood Builders Roofing in Austin moved from 48.3 to 20.4 with clicks up 25%, which is significant movement and still short of the first page. Anyone promising you a specific ranking on a specific date is guessing.
Does Kihan Marketing have an office in my city?
No. Seattle is the only location and there is no office anywhere else. Clients elsewhere in the US are served remotely by phone at (425) 954-3452 and email at info@kihanmarketing.com, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Pacific. Driftwood Builders Roofing, in Austin, is an example of work delivered that way.
What does it cost?
Website design is scoped to your project. SEO is scoped to your goals. The growth package combining SEO, ads and content is scoped to your goals. All of it is month to month with no long contract, so the ongoing work has to keep earning the renewal.
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