technical SEO, local SEO, content and now answer-engine optimisation — run by senior operators, not account managers. Since 2009.

Tack Media is an SEO agency serving San Jose, California. We have run technical SEO, local SEO, content and now answer-engine optimisation for 300+ brands since 2009 across 15+ industries. We are based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles — 293 miles from San Jose. Everything we do runs remotely, and we travel for kickoffs and shoots when the engagement justifies it. Engagements start with a 20-minute fit call where you get real pricing on the same call, and work starts within a week of signature.
At 997,368 residents, San Jose is large enough to have real competition on every commercial keyword and small enough that a focused campaign can own a category inside two quarters. That window is the opportunity.
Who this page is for: someone whose organic traffic has flattened or fallen since AI answers arrived. If that is not you, the fit call takes twenty minutes and we will tell you so.
Design, build, conversion optimisation and ongoing iteration
Positioning, identity, messaging and the system to apply it
Content production, paid social and community management
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See the page →Tell us what you are trying to hit in San Jose and by when. We will tell you straight whether we are the right team, and what it costs, before you hang up.
Tracked keyword positions usually start shifting inside 60 to 90 days. Organic revenue you can plan around tends to arrive between month four and month six, because crawl coverage, ranking and conversion rate all have to improve before the money shows up. We report those three separately, so you can see which one is holding the account back instead of staring at a single blended number.
It depends on where the buyer sits, not on the size of the city. A San Jose service business usually needs the Google Business Profile, review velocity and location pages handled first. A San Jose brand selling across California or nationally needs topical depth, internal linking and earned links instead. We read your existing query data before choosing, because guessing here wastes the first quarter.
Answer engine optimisation is the work that gets a brand quoted inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI answers and similar systems. It does not replace SEO. It sits on top of it: clean entity data, a direct answer near the top of the page, question level headings, schema a machine can parse, and an llms.txt file that tells crawlers what matters. We run both together because the same pages feed both.
Yes. We are based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, with production studios in Northridge, and San Jose is about 293 miles from that office. The work runs the same way either way: scheduled calls, shared dashboards and a named lead on the account. We also serve nearby markets including Sunnyvale, CA, Fremont, CA, Hayward, CA.
Retainers start at 5,000 dollars a month, and most engagements land between 5,000 and 25,000 dollars a month depending on how many channels are live and how much media is under management. Project work is quoted separately. The fastest way to a real number is a 20 minute call, or you can price it yourself with our estimator before you speak to anyone.
We start with access and measurement, not opinions. Week one is auditing what you already have running and instrumenting the conversions properly, because most accounts cannot tell a form fill from a bounce. Week two we fix what is obviously broken and stop the spend that is going nowhere. Weeks three and four we put the first real tests live and you get a reporting view you can read without us on the call. You will know by day 30 whether the numbers are moving and why.