Our Story

We're the SEO Team Businesses Actually Want in Their Corner

CodePeko was built on a simple belief: SEO should be transparent, measurable, and obsessively focused on your revenue — not vanity metrics. No jargon, no lock-in, no BS.

At a Glance
500+
Clients Served
97%
Retention Rate
8+
Years in SEO
32
Team Members
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32 specialists across SEO, content, dev & outreach
2016
Founded in New York
340%
Avg. Traffic Increase
< 48h
Audit Delivery
Our Origin
Started by SEOs frustrated with agencies
that promised everything, delivered little.

In 2016, our founders — a technical SEO engineer and a content strategist — left the agency world to build something different. A firm where every client gets direct access to senior talent, where reporting is brutally honest, and where the only metric that matters is your revenue growth.

Eight years later, we've helped over 500 businesses across 30+ industries climb to page one and stay there. We're still small enough to care deeply about every account, and experienced enough to compete in the toughest verticals.

2016
Founded in New York. Two people, a shared Google Sheet, and five founding clients.
2019
Crossed 100 active clients. Expanded into eCommerce SEO and link building.
2022
Launched GEO Optimization — one of the first agencies to optimize for AI-generated answers.
2025
500+ clients served. Team of 32. Still month-to-month. Still obsessed with results.
500+
Clients Served
97%
Retention Rate
12M+
Organic Clicks Generated
32
SEO Specialists
What We Stand For

The Values That Drive
Every Decision We Make

Radical Transparency
You'll always know exactly what we're doing, why we're doing it, and what impact it's having. No fluff reports. No hidden work. Monthly calls where we walk you through every number.
Revenue Over Rankings
We don't chase rankings for ego. We chase organic sessions that convert. Every keyword we target, every link we build, is selected based on business impact — not search volume alone.
White-Hat Always
We've never used PBNs, spun content, or bought links from link farms. We build rankings that survive Google updates because they're earned through quality — not gamed through shortcuts.
Senior Talent on Every Account
You'll never be handed off to a junior exec. Every client works directly with a senior strategist who has 5+ years of hands-on SEO experience and real accountability for your results.
Speed Without Shortcuts
We move fast. Audits in 48 hours. Implementation briefs within a week. We don't believe slow delivery is a sign of quality — it's a sign of poor process. We have the process dialed in.
Data-Driven Everything
Every decision — from keyword selection to content topics to link targets — is backed by data. We use industry-leading tools and proprietary scoring models to eliminate guesswork from your strategy.
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The People

Meet the Strategists
Behind Your Growth

Every team member at CodePeko is a specialist — no generalists, no account managers who barely understand SEO.

James Rodriguez
Co-Founder & Technical SEO Lead
10+ years in enterprise technical SEO, including 2 years as a Google Search Quality contractor evaluating page quality signals firsthand. James leads all technical audits at CodePeko and has resolved crawl and Core Web Vitals failures for sites with over 5 million indexed pages. He has spoken at SMX and Pubcon on JavaScript SEO and indexability at scale.
Former Google SQ Contractor 10+ yrs Technical SEO Core Web Vitals Specialist
Aisha Larson
Co-Founder & Head of Content Strategy
Former investigative journalist (AP, regional outlets) turned SEO content architect with a HubSpot Content Marketing certification. Aisha designed the topic cluster frameworks used across CodePeko's 500+ client base and has personally overseen content strategies that earned #1 rankings in competitive finance, health, and SaaS verticals. She is the author of CodePeko's E-E-A-T audit methodology.
HubSpot Certified Former AP Journalist Topic Cluster Architect
Marcus Shin
Head of Link Building & Digital PR
8 years building editorial links at scale across B2B, SaaS, and consumer verticals. Marcus has managed outreach campaigns that secured placements on Forbes, TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and Search Engine Journal — without paid placement. He specializes in data-driven digital PR: creating original research assets that earn natural links from journalists and industry publications.
Forbes / WSJ Placements 8 yrs Link Building Digital PR Strategist
Kavya Patel
Local SEO & GEO Specialist
Google Business Profile certified specialist with 7 years managing local SEO for multi-location businesses across the U.S. Kavya has helped 200+ brick-and-mortar clients rank in the local 3-pack, with an average 3x increase in calls from organic search within 90 days. She also leads CodePeko's GEO practice, optimizing clients for AI Overviews and ChatGPT visibility.
Google GBP Certified 200+ Local Clients GEO & AI Search Lead
Daniel Park
Technical SEO Engineer
Technical SEO engineer with deep specialization in crawl optimization, Core Web Vitals, and eCommerce site architecture. Daniel has conducted technical audits for sites ranging from lean 10-page service sites to platforms with 5 million+ indexed URLs, consistently identifying crawl blocks and duplicate content issues that were suppressing rankings undetected.
Core Web Vitals Crawl Architecture eCommerce SEO
Priya Nair
Content Strategist & SEO Writer
Content strategist specializing in SEO content briefs, search intent analysis, and E-E-A-T optimization for B2B and SaaS brands. Priya has built topic cluster architectures that consistently deliver first-page rankings for competitive informational queries within 90 days through rigorous search intent alignment and entity-rich content development.
Content Brief Specialist E-E-A-T Optimization Topic Architecture
Proven Results

Real Clients. Real Numbers.
No Vanity Metrics.

We document every campaign with before/after data. Here are three representative results — the kind we deliver consistently across industries.

eCommerce — Home Goods
+312%
Organic Traffic
47
Keywords → Top 3
9mo
Timeframe

A mid-sized home goods retailer came to us with a site penalty from thin product descriptions and a collapsed link profile. We rebuilt technical foundations, rewrote 200+ PDPs with semantic SEO, and executed a 6-month digital PR campaign. Organic revenue grew 278% over the same period.

Technical SEO Content SEO Link Building
SaaS — Project Management
+218%
Organic Traffic
140→390
Signups / Month
6mo
Timeframe

A Series A SaaS startup needed bottom-of-funnel organic traffic — not just awareness. We built a topic cluster around their core use case, targeting decision-stage keywords with comparison and alternative pages. Organic trial signups grew from 140 to 390 per month without increasing paid budget.

Content SEO Technical SEO GEO
Local Business — Multi-Location Dental
+580%
GMB Profile Views
+220%
Calls from Search
5mo
Timeframe

A 7-location dental group had zero local pack visibility despite years in business. We audited and rebuilt all GBP profiles, standardized NAP across 60+ citations, implemented LocalBusiness schema, and executed a review generation program. Within 5 months all 7 locations ranked in the local 3-pack for their primary service terms.

Local SEO Google Business Profile Citation Building
As Featured In & Cited By
Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Land
Moz Blog
Clutch
G2
Certifications & Accreditations
Google Analytics Certified
Google Search Console Certified
HubSpot Content Marketing Certified
SEMrush SEO Fundamentals Certified
Moz Local SEO Certified
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