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SEO and digital marketing for Seattle buyers who evaluate for a living
SEO and digital marketing for Seattle businesses selling to buyers who evaluate for a living, so every claim is specific and checkable.
The market
A headquarters city that evaluates like an engineer
Seattle is a headquarters city for global cloud, retail and consumer technology businesses, and that sets the tone for everything sold here. Buyers have often shipped products themselves and evaluate vendors like an internal proposal.
High salaries and property costs raise the cost of every hour spent on a purchase decision, pushing buyers toward self-service research and vendors who publish enough for an evaluation without a sales call.
The technical talent market is among the most contested in the country, and hiring content competes with some of the largest employers in the world. For a smaller firm, being specific about the work beats competing on perks.
Washington regulates consumer health data unusually broadly, and Seattle has a concentration of products likely to fall inside that definition without their teams expecting it.
A shortlist that only shrinks
Seattle evaluators are looking for reasons to remove you
Buyers here have shipped products themselves and start from a shortlist, working down it by elimination. Every stage is a reason to drop a vendor, not a chance to persuade one.
- 1The shortlist they start with — Evaluation here begins from a list of candidates and proceeds by removing options, not adding them.
- 2After the claims are checked — An unsupported claim is treated as evidence against the vendor by people who verify things for a living.They will check, and the check is quick
- 3After the reading is done — High salaries make every hour of a purchase decision expensive, so buyers want enough published to evaluate alone.No documentation means no self-service evaluation
- 4After the comparison query — Comparison and alternative searches carry disproportionate weight, because that is where removal decisions get made.
- 5Who is left to talk to — Usually the vendor willing to say outright what the product does not do, which reads as confidence, not weakness.
Local businesses
Cloud firms, dev tools and health providers
Software and cloud businesses sell to technical evaluators who read documentation before a landing page and treat an unsupported claim as evidence against the vendor.
Security, infrastructure and developer tooling firms sell to committees where the technical champion and the budget holder need different material, and most sites only write for one.
Clinic groups, allied health providers and wellbeing services work where privacy expectations run high and state health data rules reach the analytics and advertising layer directly.
Consultancies, agencies and specialist professional firms sell expertise to the same buyers and win on demonstrated depth, not claims about process.
How people search
Documentation, comparisons and AI research
How do people in Seattle look for a business like yours? The answer changes what we fix first.
- Technical buyers research through documentation, repositories, community threads and AI assistants before they search for a vendor name. Being described accurately across those surfaces matters as much as ranking on any one.
- Comparison and alternative queries carry outsized weight, because evaluators start from a shortlist and look for reasons to remove options.
- Branded search for the big local employers dominates the volume and is irrelevant for most firms. The useful demand sits in narrow problem-shaped queries those employers never answer.
- Consent handling reduces observable behavior more here than in most markets, so measurement leans on first-party data, server-side collection and self-reported attribution.
Good fit
Industries with the most to gain
Industries we help
- IT Services & Managed Service Providers marketingA steady flow of contract enquiries from your own service area, built around the events that make businesses start looking.
- Physiotherapy & Allied Health marketingGet more first appointments attended. Then protect the course of treatment and the rebooking. A patient who stops at session three costs you more than an enquiry you never got.
- Medical Clinics marketingMake your clinic accurate and easy to use everywhere patients look. Move routine questions off the phone. Market to whoever is scarce, which is often a clinician.
- Management & Specialist Consulting marketingFewer, larger engagements from organisations that already know you, won through published expertise more than search volume.
Where to start
Where we’d start
SaaS SEO
SaaS SEO judged on trials and demos, not traffic. We build comparison and alternatives pages first, then category pages, then early-stage content.
B2B SEO
B2B SEO for low-volume, high-value markets. We build pages for everyone on the buying committee, from the champion to finance, security and procurement.
AI search optimisation
AI search optimisation helps your business get named, and described correctly, when people ask ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini or Perplexity.
Conversion tracking
We check and rebuild conversion tracking so each conversion fires once, respects consent and survives a checkout on another domain. Get it wrong and every report built on it is wrong.
The rules
Marketing rules to know here
- Washington consumer health data law applies to businesses serving Washington residents wherever they sit, and defines health data far wider than clinical records. Consent for collection, separate authorization before any sale, a distinct privacy notice and a ban on geofencing health care facilities for health-related ads touch marketing most directly. Have your counsel scope it before a pixel goes on a page where someone discusses a symptom or books an appointment.
- State consumer protection law backs that regime and lets private parties bring claims, which raises the cost of getting consent wrong compared with states where only a regulator can act.
- Claims about performance, security posture or compliance certifications need evidence held before publication. Here an unsupported claim is also a commercial problem, because the reader will check.
- We're not lawyers. We document, we flag, and we build to what your counsel approves.
Sources
Read the rules yourself
These are the laws and regulators behind the rules above. Check the source before you act. This page isn’t legal advice.
- Washington's consumer health data law, including the geofencing ban
- My Health My Data
- Source: Washington State Attorney General
- Washington Consumer Protection Act, with its private right of action
- RCW 19.86
- Source: Washington State Legislature
- Policy Statement on Advertising Substantiation: claims need evidence before they run
- FTC
- Source: Federal Trade Commission
Working with us
How we work with you
For technical content, we interview your engineers and specialists and write from what they say, keeping each claim beside its evidence so a reviewer can strike a line without rewriting the page.
Before any new tag or tool goes on, we give you a written note of what it collects, where it sends it and why it's there, because in this state that question gets asked.
Questions
Common questions from Seattle businesses
Our buyers are engineers. Does content marketing work on them?
Yes, written the way they read. Architecture notes, benchmarks, failure modes, migration paths and stated limitations get read to the end. Adjectives get closed within seconds.
That usually means interviewing the people who built the thing and publishing what they know, instead of commissioning general category articles.
Why does engineering rewrite everything marketing publishes?
Usually because the draft is a set of claims, and a claim without evidence is something a careful reviewer has to fix, not approve.
Structure drafts as evidence with the claim beside it, and a reviewer can strike or amend individual lines. Publishing cadence tends to improve without adding a single writer.
Does the state health data law apply to our product?
It might, even if you'd never call the product healthcare. The law reaches data from which a health condition or service could be inferred, which pulls in sleep, mood, fitness, fertility and nutrition features.
We'll document what your marketing stack collects so your counsel can answer quickly. The call belongs to them.
Should we admit what our product cannot do?
In this market, yes. A clear statement of poor-fit cases builds credibility with an evaluator and filters out prospects who'd have churned within a quarter.
It also shortens sales conversations, because the objection that would have come up on call three is already answered on the website.
Do you have anyone in Seattle?
No. Nobody on our team lives in the city or the state.
Meetings run on Pacific time, we deliver all work into accounts you own, and any on-site requirement is arranged locally and quoted separately.
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References
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