Digital marketing agency · Detroit, Michigan
Digital marketing agency Detroit
owners hire once, not three times.
Most Detroit businesses end up with three vendors who never talk: an SEO retainer, an ad manager, and whoever built the website years ago. We build the website, local search, ads and tracking as one foundation, in your name, from an office 20 minutes up Woodward.
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- Foundation build $12,000 to $17,500
- Phase one live in 3 to 4 weeks
- Everything built in your name
Where Detroit marketing budgets leak
Three vendors, three reports, nobody who owns the result.
When the website, the SEO and the ads come from different people, each one can show you its own number going up while the phone stays the same.
- 01
The website nobody touches
Built years ago, owned by someone else, and too slow or too vague to turn a click into a call.
- 02
An SEO retainer with a PDF
Monthly reports on rankings, and no tracking that says which search brought in a job.
- 03
Ads pointed at the homepage
Paid clicks land on a page that was never built for them, so the budget buys bounces.
- 04
Nothing connects the three
No shared tracking, so nobody can tell which piece is working and which one to cut.
Sound familiar?
You’ve paid three invoices and asked where the calls went.
- The SEO report
“Impressions up again. The phone didn’t hear about it.”
- The ad manager’s email
“Clicks are up. Ask the web guy why nobody fills out the form.”
- Stuck on the Lodge
“I don’t even know who has the login to our website.”
- Later
“Maybe marketing just doesn’t work for a business like mine.”
It works when one person builds all of it, in order.
The Foundation builds in three phases. The site and tracking go live first, in 3 to 4 weeks. Local search and ads follow over about another month and a half, and the rest is done within six months of the start, with every account in your name the whole way through.
I don’t sell SEO anymore. I fix your foundation, and the search results follow.
How it works
Five steps, one person, in this order.
- 01
The 30-minute call
We look at your website, your local search and your tracking, and you leave with a ranked fix list whether or not you hire us.
- 02
One plan across all of it
Website, local search, ads and tracking ranked by what’s costing you the most, with one fixed number.
- 03
Phase one: the site and tracking
Live in 3 to 4 weeks, so the site is working and every call and form is counted inside the first month.
- 04
Phases two and three: search and ads
Local search and ads built on top of a site that converts, all of it done within six months of the start.
- 05
Handed over in your name
Every account, login and playbook documented and yours. Keep us for local SEO after launch, or run it yourself.
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
One foundation instead of three vendors.
The Foundation build runs $12,000 to $17,500. Local SEO after launch is $800 a month and up, and hosting and support $350 a month and up, both optional.
A site built to convert
Fast on a phone, clear about what you do in Detroit, and one obvious next step on every page.
Found in Detroit searches
Your Google profile, citations and a page for each service and place you actually serve.
Ads with a page to land on
Google and Meta campaigns pointed at pages built for them, with tracking in place before the first dollar.
One set of numbers
Calls and forms tracked across the site, search and ads, so you can see which piece brings in the work.
Clear to the AI assistants
Your business details kept clear and consistent everywhere they appear, so an assistant has something accurate to repeat.
In your name from day one
The domain, hosting, ad accounts, analytics and every login stay yours.
The rules
Three rules we keep for every Detroit build.
They cost us easy work, and we keep them anyway.
- Order
The site before the ads
Ads pointed at a site that can’t convert burn the budget, so the site gets fixed first.
- Tracking
No campaign without tracking
Every call and form gets counted, so you know which search or ad brought in the job.
- 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 Detroit receipt
A page built for Detroit gets picked.
Fine Strokes, our own studio, runs a page for each service in each place it serves, Detroit included. Its first full Search Console read after the relaunch shows what a page built for one search in one city does next to the site as a whole.
- Detroit lip blush page at average position 4.35
- That page clicked 11.76% of the time
- City pages clicked 4% to 17% of the time
- The whole site averaged position 20.65
Every number here comes from our own studio’s Search Console or our published prices.
Fix my marketing leaksPhase one comes first on purpose: a working site in the first month, before search and ads have anything to send people to.
Common questions
About hiring a digital marketing agency in Detroit.
What does a digital marketing agency in Detroit cost?+
Our Foundation build runs $12,000 to $17,500, one time. Local SEO after launch is $800 a month and up, and hosting and support $350 a month and up, both optional. You get a fixed number on the call.
How long until it’s working?+
Phase one goes live in 3 to 4 weeks, so the site is working inside the first month. Phase two runs about another month and a half, and phase three is the rest, up to six months start to finish.
Can I start with just one piece?+
You can. Start with the website, local SEO or ads, and add the rest when it makes sense. The audit tells you which one is leaking most.
Are you actually based in Detroit?+
Our office is 20 minutes up Woodward, at 33277 Woodward Ave in Birmingham, and we’ve worked across Metro Detroit since 2016. You work directly with me, no account manager, nothing outsourced.
Who owns everything when it’s done?+
You do. The domain, hosting, ad accounts, analytics and every login are in your name from day one.
Is this right for a business that’s just getting started?+
Not yet. If you’re just getting started and capital is tight, or you want something cheap and quick, we’re not the right call, and there are people who serve those needs well. What we build is for owners who already treat marketing as a budgeted line item and want it spent where it compounds.
What we turn down
We’ll tell you to fix the site before we sell you ads.
- No ads pointed at a site that can’t convert
- No campaign without conversion tracking
- No rebuild when the current site is fine
- No recommendation based on the easiest service to sell
The ownership promise
No hostage accounts. No mystery handoff.
Your ad accounts, website, analytics, data and documentation stay in your name. If we stop working together, nothing gets held over you.
The Detroit foundation
Start with the piece that’s leaking most.
Detroit SEO
Get found in Detroit →Detroit web design
A page for every place →Michigan PPC
Ads with tracking first →Michigan web design
The website pillar →Michigan local SEO
The local pillar →AI visibility
When AI names a business →The Foundation package
All four pillars →Fine Strokes case study
Our own studio →Detroit social media marketing
The full marketing foundation →Business marketing consultant
The full marketing foundation →One next step
Find out which of the three is costing you the most.
Thirty minutes with Ervin. We look at your website, your local search and your tracking, and you leave with a ranked fix list whether or not you hire AlbaTech.
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