Digital marketing agency · Ann Arbor, Michigan
Digital marketing agency Ann Arbor
owners can judge on one number.
Ann Arbor searchers in our own data shop for marketing one service at a time: “best seo and ppc agencies”, “google ads management agency”, “content marketing”. We build the website, local search, ads and tracking as one foundation in your name, so there’s one result to hold us to.
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- One build, $12,000 to $17,500
- Site and tracking live in 3 to 4 weeks
- Every account opened in your name
Where Ann Arbor marketing budgets split
Hired one service at a time, graded by three different vendors.
Buy SEO from one firm, ads from another and the website from whoever built it, and each one reports its own good news. Nobody reports the phone.
- 01
SEO measured in rankings
A monthly chart of positions, with nothing that ties a search to a customer walking in.
- 02
Ads sent to the homepage
Paid clicks land on a page built for everyone, so the budget pays for people who leave.
- 03
A site frozen at launch
Built years ago, forms untested since, and a login held by someone you no longer work with.
- 04
Three reports, no shared count
With no common tracking, nobody can say which piece earns its fee and which one to drop.
Sound familiar?
You’ve read three proposals and still can’t tell who’s working.
- The ads invoice
“Clicks are fine, apparently. The web person swears the form works.”
- Proposal number four
“Another retainer, another dashboard, same question.”
- Later
“Maybe people here just don’t search for what we do.”
They search. The pieces just aren’t built to catch it together.
Fine Strokes, our own studio, runs five pages written for Ann Arbor, one per service. A page for each service in each place you serve is exactly what we build for you.
I don’t sell SEO anymore. I fix your foundation, and the search results follow.
How it works
Four steps, in the order that pays off.
- 01
Half an hour on a call
We go through your site, your local search and your tracking, and you get a ranked fix list either way.
- 02
One plan, one price
Site, search, ads and tracking ranked by what’s costing you most, with a fixed number before anything starts.
- 03
The site and tracking first
Live in 3 to 4 weeks, so every call and form is counted before a dollar goes to search or ads.
- 04
Search and ads on top, then the keys
Local search and ads built on a site that converts, done within six months, every login handed to you.
Proof, before the pitch
Real evidence should survive an incognito window.
Result one
A Troy med spa we relaunched, already winning its market.
Rêve came to AlbaTech for a full relaunch. We rebuilt the site, the local-search foundation and the review engine together, and the treatments people actually search for now surface the business.
- Search: med spa troy
- Market: Troy, Michigan
- Result: first web result
- First web result under the map, and it holds that spot every time we check
- In the map pack too, highest rated of the three at 5.0 from 111 reviews
- Also in the pack for botox troy and laser hair removal troy
Result two
Our own studio, first for “microblading Michigan”.
Fine Strokes is our own studio. We built the website and the local search setup around the service customers actually search for. We ran the method on our own business before we sold it to anyone.
- Search: microblading Michigan
- Market: Birmingham, Michigan
- Result: first position shown
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What’s included
The Ann Arbor foundation, in three parts.
The build runs $12,000 to $17,500. After launch, local SEO is $800 a month and up, and hosting and support $350 a month and up. Both are optional.
A site that counts its leads
Fast on a phone, clear about what you do, and every call and form tracked from launch day.
Found in Washtenaw County
Your Google profile, listings and a page for each service and each place you really serve.
Paid clicks with a page to land on
Google and Meta campaigns aimed at pages built for them, measured before the first dollar.
The rules
Three rules for an Ann Arbor build.
Each one has cost us an easy sale at some point.
- Order
No ads before the site converts
Paid traffic sent to a page that can’t turn it into a call just spends faster.
- Tracking
Counted before it’s spent
Calls and forms are tracked first, so any search or ad can be traced to the work it brought.
- Honesty
No rebuild you don’t need
About 1 in 5 of the sites we review end with us telling the owner not to rebuild.
The Ann Arbor receipt
23 Ann Arbor searches, 72 impressions, no clicks yet.
In September we folded our old Ann Arbor SEO page into this one, because two pages were chasing the same searches. Across the site, Search Console showed 23 searches naming the city in 90 days. The best of them sat on page two.
- “ann arbor digital marketing”, 11 impressions, position 26.9
- “best seo and ppc agencies in ann arbor”, 8 impressions, position 16.4
- “local seo ann arbor”, 6 impressions, position 45.5
- Clicks across all 23: zero
That’s the honest starting line for this page. The next read gets published here too.
Fix my marketing leaksSitewide numbers for queries naming Ann Arbor, all from before the merge.
Common questions
Hiring a digital marketing agency for Ann Arbor.
What does it cost for an Ann Arbor business?+
The Foundation build is $12,000 to $17,500, paid once. Local SEO after launch starts at $800 a month and hosting and support at $350 a month, and you can skip both. The call ends with a fixed number.
Are you based in Ann Arbor?+
No. Our office is at 33277 Woodward Ave in Birmingham, and we’ve worked across Metro Detroit since 2016. You work directly with me, with no account manager and nothing outsourced.
Can we hire you for only SEO or only ads?+
Yes. Start with the website, local SEO or ads, and add the rest later. The call tells you which piece is leaking most.
Who owns the accounts when it’s done?+
You do, from the first day. The domain, hosting, ad accounts, analytics and every login are set up in your name.
What we turn down
We’ll sell you less when less is what works.
- No ads before the site can convert
- No spend we can’t track
- No rebuild of a site that’s fine
- No retainer without a number to judge it by
The ownership promise
Your accounts, never ours.
Ad accounts, website, analytics and data are opened under your name. If the work ends, every login is already in your hands.
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County
Annarbour in 1824, a city in 1851.
John Allen and Elisha Rumsey registered the plat as the Village of Annarbour in 1824, naming it for their wives, both named Ann, and the stands of bur oak. The Ann Arbor Land Company offered 40 acres for the state capitol, lost to Lansing, and the land became the University of Michigan’s site in 1837. The fallback built the town.
Michigan local SEO
The local pillar →Michigan web design
The website pillar →Michigan PPC
Ads with tracking first →The Foundation package
All four pillars →Fine Strokes case study
Our own studio →AI visibility
When AI names a business →Conversion-ready websites
Fix, rebuild or leave it →Local SEO guide
Read it →Grand Rapids marketing agency
The full marketing foundation →Kalamazoo marketing agency
The full marketing foundation →Michigan content marketing
The full marketing foundation →One next step
Find out which vendor is leaking the most.
A 30-minute call with Ervin. We look at your site, your search presence and your tracking ahead of time, and you leave with a ranked fix list whether you hire AlbaTech or not.
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