Local marketing, built for small businesses
CityBoost SEO is a founder-led agency in Montebello. Established in Los Angeles County, we help home-service businesses anywhere in the US get found by the customers searching for them.
Chapter I — meet the founder
Real experience, pointed at small businesses
CityBoost SEO is run by Andrew Martin, who started Alkalyne Solutions back in 2016. Since then he’s worked with all kinds of small businesses — and inside larger agencies — learning firsthand what actually helps a local business get found, and what just runs up an invoice.
That mix matters. Time inside bigger agencies meant working with the same tools and strategies the large players use. Time with small businesses meant seeing what they really need: clear answers, work that pays for itself, and someone who treats their budget like it’s real money — because it is.
CityBoost is where that comes together. Andrew brings his SEO and design know-how to one focused mission: helping local home-service businesses show up online and turn searches into booked jobs — without the jargon, the runaround, or the big-agency price tag.
Some projects call for more than SEO. When our local business clients need brand identity work or custom fabrication — logos, packaging, signage prototypes, 3D-printed parts — that’s handled by our sister company, Alkalyne Design, a Los Angeles creative studio.
Chapter II — what we stand for
How we work
A few things we hold to on every project:
Small businesses, first
We exist to help local businesses compete — not to chase enterprise accounts. Your goals set the plan.
Local, genuinely
Based in Montebello and established in Los Angeles County, where most of our clients work. Wherever you are, the work starts with your cities, not a template.
Agency know-how, personal attention
The strategies and tools the big agencies use — delivered without getting lost in a big shop.
Straight talk, real work
Clear about what we do and what to expect. No jargon, no smoke, no results we can't stand behind.
Chapter III — Why we exist
Why we only work with the trades
An agency that takes any client has to learn every client’s business on their dime. We already know yours.
The playbook is different
How a homeowner picks a plumber at 2am has nothing in common with how anyone buys software. Specializing means we’re not adapting a generic strategy to your trade.
Local means knowing the ground
Housing stock, permit jurisdictions and which cities search in which language. We learned it working the same county repeatedly, and it’s the first thing we map in any new market.
Small roster on purpose
One shop per trade per city means we can’t scale by taking everybody. It also means we’re never quietly working for your competitor.
Chapter IV — How we operate
Five commitments we actually keep
These aren’t values on a wall. Each one is a specific thing we do or refuse to do, and you can hold us to all of them.
Chapter V — Before you call
Who we’re a bad fit for
Saying this up front saves everyone a month. If you’re on this list, we’ll tell you on the first call rather than take the money.
You need leads this week
Local SEO compounds over months. If the phone has to ring immediately, paid ads are the honest answer — and we’ll say so rather than sell you a retainer that won’t deliver in time.
You want guaranteed rankings
Nobody can guarantee a position they don’t control. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either guessing or lying.
You’re not answering the phone
If calls are already going to voicemail, more calls won’t help. Fix the answering problem first — we’d rather point you at that than quietly bill you.
Chapter VI — what we help with
Everything to get you found
The full local-growth stack, under one roof:
Let's get your business found.
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