SEO for Winnipeg businesses, starting with how your customers compare and decide

Before anyone in Winnipeg calls a business, they search, open a few sites and make a short list. We make sure you're on it, and that your site answers what they check next. You see the plan and the price before any work starts.

Generated for clients
$100M+
Clients
500+
In business
10 Years
In-house team
30+
A Setsail Marketing strategist thinking through a client's search plan at his desk

Your Google Business Profile, not ours

Winnipeg searches mapped to what you sell

From $2,500 a month

Here’s the short version → Setsail Marketing provides SEO services to businesses in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

For:
Winnipeg, Manitoba businesses: local services · ecommerce · B2B · trades & construction · pro services · health · public sector
What we do:
Search planning · technical SEO · service and location pages · each client’s own Google Business Profile for map results · link building · pages structured so AI answers can cite them
Engagement:
From $2,500 a month · month to month
How we work:
A fresh plan every quarter · reporting on calls, forms and booked appointments
Where:
Remote from offices in Vancouver, British Columbia + Beaverton, Oregon · no Winnipeg office
Guarantee:
100% money-back guarantee on your first 90 days
Proof:
10 years · $100M+ generated for 500+ clients · B Corp certified · Google Partner
Team:
in-house team of 30+

SEO results we can name, and where they happened

Both are in British Columbia, and both are here because the work is the work we'd do for you: fix the site, earn the searches, track what comes in.

  • Ray Blinds: From 5 ranking keywords to 32 in two months

    Home improvement · Surrey, BC · not a Winnipeg client

    A window-coverings company in Surrey, BC, with SEO and Google Ads running through us. Its site had more than 8,000 broken pages. We cleaned them up, and within two months it ranked for 32 keywords instead of 5, three of them on Google's first page.

    A living room fitted with Ray Blinds window coverings
  • TQ Construction: $28,500 in tracked leads from $6,700 in Google Ads

    Construction · Greater Vancouver · not a Winnipeg client

    A design-build contractor in Greater Vancouver. We rebuilt its website and ran SEO alongside its paid search, all measured with the same call and form tracking. The ads returned 4.25 times their spend in tracked leads.

    A kitchen built by TQ Construction

Plans designed to reach your goals, at a pace that matches your ambition

Every plan includes the live dashboard, a monthly report, a monthly strategy call, and month-to-month terms. No lock-in.

SEO

$2,500/mo

For businesses that need to win Google first.

What’s included?

  • Your technical foundation fixed, so Google can find, read, and trust your site
  • 2 money pages optimized every month, so the pages that pay you climb first
  • Developer hours included, so fixes ship instead of sitting in a ticket queue
  • Your local presence managed end to end, so “near me” searches find you
  • $300/mo of real link outreach, so your site earns the authority rankings require. Never bought links.
Most popular

SEO + GEO

$3,500/mo

For businesses that want the AI answers too.

What’s included?

Everything in SEO, plus:

  • Your key pages restructured for AI, so assistants can cite you when buyers ask
  • Answers written the way people ask, so the engines quote you word for word
  • Weekly AI-visibility tracking across all five engines, so you see exactly where you’re recommended, and where you’re not yet
  • 3 page optimizations, double the dev hours, $500/mo outreach, so more of your site compounds every month

SEO + GEO + Digital PR

$6,500/mo

For brands out to own the whole conversation.

What’s included?

Everything in SEO + GEO, plus:

  • Pillar pages + topic clusters, so you own whole subjects, not single keywords
  • Proactive AI-citation building, documented monthly, so the engines keep recommending you
  • Digital PR: data studies + journalist outreach, so high-authority publications point at your business
  • 4 page optimizations, $800/mo outreach, 5 new pages per cycle, so growth compounds on every front

What you see when you search for SEO in Winnipeg

That's the page you're on now, or close to it. We won't be in that map, and we won't call ourselves a Winnipeg company to get onto the list. We're a Vancouver, BC team. The map position we work on is yours: your address, your profile, your reviews.

If you're comparing SEO companies in Winnipeg, ask each one for the same two things up front: the monthly price and the plan for the first 90 days. Ours are on this page. No one can honestly promise you a ranking, so we don't.

The plan itself starts with your customer, not a keyword export: what they type, which names they compare, and what makes them pick up the phone. That research is what we've done for 10 years, and you see it before you pay for delivery.

  • Sample map results for “seo winnipeg”: agencies with Winnipeg addresses

    The map

    Three agencies with Winnipeg addresses and 204 phone numbers. Map spots go to businesses with a local address.

  • Sample search results for “seo winnipeg”: a local firm, an out-of-town agency, a directory list and an agency promising rankings

    The list below it

    Winnipeg firms, out-of-town agencies with a page that calls them a Winnipeg company, and directory lists of the top SEO companies in the city. Plenty of them promise rankings.

When your customer asks an AI assistant instead of Google

Some people now put the question to ChatGPT or Google's AI answer before they open a single site. The pages that get quoted are the ones that answer plainly, so that's how we write yours.

  • Sample AI answer that recommends your business for “best SEO company in Winnipeg”, citing your site, Google Maps and Clutch

    The answer first

    Each page opens with the short answer to the question it exists for, then the detail. It's the part an AI summary lifts, and the part a busy reader wants anyway.

  • Sample report showing site health after 90 days: schema coverage from 12% to 100%

    Facts that agree everywhere

    Your services, service area and hours, marked up in schema and matched across your profile and listings, so nothing online contradicts your own page.

  • Sample report showing Winnipeg searches mapped to the pages that answer them

    One page per question

    A set of focused pages, each written for one search and linked so the structure is obvious, instead of one long page that aims at everything.

  • Sample Google position chart for the search “seo winnipeg”

    Checked against what gets cited

    We watch which of your pages appear in AI answers and search features, and rework the ones that don't. It's in the same monthly report as rankings and leads.

For businesses that want to be the answer an AI tool gives when a customer asks, our SEO + GEO plan goes further. It's on the pricing page.

SEO services in Winnipeg, line by line

A plan draws on six kinds of work. Not every business needs all six in the first 90 days; your plan says which you're getting and why.

  • Technical SEO

    Crawl errors, redirect chains, slow pages, mobile layout and Core Web Vitals. The groundwork that lets everything else count.

  • Local search in Winnipeg

    Your Google Business Profile, local citations and location pages for the neighbourhoods and nearby towns you really serve, so local searches find the right page.

  • Pages for people close to deciding

    Service, comparison and location pages written for someone who already knows what they need. No filler posts to look busy.

  • Search planning

    Searches grouped by what the person wants and mapped to one page each, so two of your pages never compete for the same search.

  • Links and mentions

    Links from sites your customers already read, such as trade bodies, partners and local media. Nothing bought, nothing that puts the site at risk.

  • Tracking and reporting

    GA4, Search Console, and call and form tracking. You see which pages bring enquiries, not just visits.

Your first 90 days of Winnipeg SEO, step by step

  1. A Setsail Marketing strategist studying a client's starting numbers on screen

    1 · Weeks 1 and 2

    The starting line and the written plan

    • We record where you stand before anything changes: rankings, map visibility, traffic, calls and forms.
    • We audit the site and your Google Business Profile.
    • You get a written 90-day plan. Nothing starts until you sign it.
  2. A Setsail Marketing specialist working through technical fixes at his laptop

    2 · The first month

    Fixes and tracking

    • Call and form tracking, GA4 and Search Console set up or repaired, so every later number can be trusted.
    • The technical problems costing you most get fixed first, each one dated in the log.
    • Your profile's categories, services and photos corrected.
  3. A Setsail team member writing a client page at his desk

    3 · Months two and three

    Pages and links

    • The service and location pages your Winnipeg customers read before they call, written or rebuilt.
    • Links and mentions from sites that make sense for your business.
    • Monthly reports on what moved and what didn't, misses included.
  4. 4 · Around day 80

    The results review

    • We sit down with you and go through the results: what worked, what didn't, and why.
    • If your first 90 days haven’t produced results, you get a full refund. If they have, the next 90-day plan is built from what worked.

Build better.Ideate faster.Grow quicker.

Who we do SEO for in Winnipeg

  • A Setsail team member smiling behind his monitor

    Owners who paid an agency before and couldn't tell what they got

    You see the plan and the price before you pay for delivery. After that, a monthly report shows the misses next to the wins, and anything outside the plan is flagged and priced, never quietly dropped.

  • A Setsail team member working on a laptop beside the Google Partner sign

    Contractors and trades

    People hire the name they find and trust, often from the map. We build your listing and the pages behind it so you're on that short list when the job is in your area, aiming for the calendar you'd choose: booked out weeks ahead.

  • A Setsail team member at his desk in the studio

    Firms people engage for advice

    Clients engage an advisor after reading carefully. Pages that answer their questions plainly, and say what you don't do, hold up to that kind of read.

  • A Setsail team member smiling at his monitor

    Online stores and retailers

    If a past agency's numbers looked better than your bank balance, you'll want sales from search reported against the plan each month, gaps included.

Trusted by governments and 500+ businesses

10 years · $100M+ revenue generated · 500+ clients

In their words · Reviews ★★★★★

In our clients’ words

From political campaigns to nationwide rebrands and massive product launches: an in-house team that moves fast and delivers, across North America and worldwide.

“If I have a client who needs something up in three weeks, you guys will just do it… I never hear no, or ‘it can’t be done’.”

Theodora Jean

Founder & CEO, Coldwater Communications

“Everything that Setsail has designed for us, we try to incorporate that now in all of our presentations, including investor materials.”

Dorthy Cheng

Executive Assistant, CleanDesign

“You made yourselves part of Charlo. You made yourselves part of my story.”

Lia Psomiadis

Founder, Charlo

“We changed our direction of our business and Setsail has been matching that pace each and every time that we made that adjustment.”

Blake Voyer

Microworks Handyman

“I’ll immediately hear from somebody… It’s just handled. It’s just white glove considerate handled without a white glove price tag.”

Melanie Clarance

Co-Founder, AetherEV

“Creating a real strategy with KPIs that aren’t out of touch… this isn’t a pie in the sky story, this is an actionable work plan.”

Lucas Ens

Economic Development Officer, City of Prince George

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“We’ve been working with Setsail for 7 years for all our marketing materials, website design, product design, videos, photos. They’ve been great. Responsive, responsible, great materials.”

Larry Knurik

VP Logistics, GVA Brands

“It’s been really easy, smooth, and it’s been a great time, and I’d recommend it to anyone.”

Antonio Zivanovic

Founder, ElektraFi

“Tom and Jason are a thrill to work with… The direction and strategy that they bring to the table is top notch.”

Gordon Lai

Surface 604

“If you’re looking for a marketing team that really gets it and delivers outstanding results, Setsail Marketing is the way to go.”

Sam Atakhanov

Founder, DŌST Bikes

10 Years in Business$100M+ revenue generated500+ clients

  • B Corp Certified
  • Google Partner
  • Meta Business Partners
  • OpenAI
    Channel Partner
  • Anthropic
    Claude Partner
  • Shopify Partners
  • Clutch, rated 4.9 out of 5

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Bring your website and the services you most want Winnipeg to find you for.

10 years · $100M+ revenue generated · 500+ clients

Before the call, we run a 200+ point audit of your full online presence, so we arrive already knowing your starting point. On the call, we’ll walk you through:

  • What we found and what it means for your business
  • Where your competitors are outperforming you
  • Your top priorities — what to fix first

Bring your goals and challenges. We’ll bring the data.

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Hiring an SEO company in Winnipeg? What to check first.

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Choosing an SEO company in Winnipeg

Ask every company for the same two things up front: the monthly price and the plan for the first 90 days. Be careful with anyone who promises a ranking or a map position, because no one honest can. Then ask what the monthly report will show. Setsail agrees the scope and price with you before work starts, and reports on the calls, forms and booked appointments that came from search, misses included.

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Winnipeg SEO agency vs out-of-town SEO company

Map spots for “SEO Winnipeg” go to agencies with a Winnipeg address, and some out-of-town agencies publish a page calling themselves local. Neither tells you much about the work. Compare what each will do for your own profile, pages and listings. Setsail is a Vancouver, BC team with no Winnipeg office, and says so. You get calls booked in your time zone, a live dashboard and a monthly report.

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Questions Winnipeg business owners ask before hiring an SEO company

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Setsail Marketing

Average client relationship

7+ years

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In Business Since
2016
In‑House Team
100%

Vancouver, BC + Beaverton, OR

1. What is the pricing for SEO for a Winnipeg business?
Our SEO plans start at $2,500 a month, and every plan is listed on our pricing page. Whatever you pay, check what it covers and what happens if it doesn't work. With us, the scope and the price are agreed before we start, and if your first 90 days don’t produce results, you get a full refund.
2. Is SEO still worth it in 2026?
It's worth it when people search for what you sell, and that's something we check rather than assume. On the Growth Strategy call we look at the searches for your services in Winnipeg and tell you plainly if SEO isn't the right first move for you.
3. You're in Vancouver, BC. Why would a Winnipeg business choose you?
Because where your SEO company sits doesn't decide your rankings; your site, your content and your own Google Business Profile do. We don't have a Winnipeg office or a local number, and we won't pretend to. You get calls booked in your time zone, a live dashboard and a written report every month. If you'd rather work with a Winnipeg SEO agency down the street, that's a fair choice; ask them for the same things up front.
4. Can you get my business into the Winnipeg map results?
Nobody honest can promise a map position, and we can't move your pin. Local SEO in Winnipeg works on what you control: a complete Google Business Profile, steady reviews, accurate listings and local pages that back them up. If you serve customers at their location, we set your service area to match where you really work.
5. How long before SEO shows results?
Expect early movement on smaller, specific searches in the first two to three months, and bigger gains in traffic and leads between months six and nine.
6. Do you use AI in your SEO work?
Yes. We built our own delivery system. AI runs the analysis and the monitoring; senior people make every decision and sign off on everything you see. It's why your strategy arrives in days with every number sourced instead of six weeks with adjectives. We learn patterns, never share data: no client's information is pooled with or exposed to anyone else.
7. What happens on the Growth Strategy call?
It's 30 minutes, free to book, no obligation. We ask what you sell, who your customers are and what search brings you now, then tell you whether we're a fit and what we'd look at first. If we are, the next step is the Growth Strategy: a sourced read of your market. It starts with a deposit, credited in full against your first month, and it's yours to keep either way.
8. What will my monthly report show?
What we changed and when, where your rankings and map visibility moved, the calls, forms and booked appointments that came from search, and how it compares with where you started, misses included. Plain words, no vanity charts.

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