Case studies from real businesses I’ve helped rank.
No stock photography. No invented metrics. Every number on this page came from a real Google Search Console or GBP account, and I have the screenshots to prove it.
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Roofing contractor goes from invisible to map pack in 11 weeks
Marco ran a roofing company in San Jose for eight years. His Google Business Profile was sitting at 42% completion, his NAP was inconsistent across 23 directories, and his website had no schema markup. He was getting maybe 4 calls a month from organic sources. His competitors, smaller companies with half his experience, were showing up in the map pack because they’d done the basics.
Week 1: full audit showed 31 citation inconsistencies, a missing primary category, zero GBP posts, and four service pages with duplicate title tags. Week 3: GBP fully optimized, primary category corrected to “Roofing Contractor” with 3 secondary categories. Weeks 3 to 7: citations cleaned and built across 52 directories. Week 8: on-page fixes deployed, LocalBusiness and FAQPage schema live. Week 11: first map pack appearance for “roofing contractor San Jose.”
The lesson: Marco’s problem wasn’t his website. It was that Google couldn’t trust his business was real. Citation consistency, GBP completion, and schema gave Google the signals it needed. Rankings followed within weeks.
Pest control company scales from 1 to 5 ranking cities in 4 months
A pest control business operating out of one city had ranked well in their home market but couldn’t break into the four surrounding cities despite having legitimate service area coverage. The problem: they had one GBP, no service-area pages, and no city-specific content for any of the surrounding markets.
Phase 1: audited existing GBP, added all 5 cities to service area, and updated the website’s service area schema. Phase 2: built 5 dedicated service-area landing pages, one per city, each with unique content, city-specific H1, LocalBusiness schema with accurate geo coordinates, and internal links to all service pages. Phase 3: 15 new citations built in local directories specific to each target city.
Dental practice builds AI search visibility alongside traditional rankings
Dr. Priya Mehta’s dental practice in Sunnyvale had decent traditional rankings but zero visibility in Google AI Overviews or ChatGPT recommendations, the fast-growing channels her younger patients were using to find a dentist. She needed to show up in both traditional SERPs and AI-generated responses.
The strategy combined traditional on-page optimization with AI-first content engineering: every page was restructured with answer-unit density (one self-contained answer block every 120 to 150 words), FAQPage schema on every service page, Person schema linking Zohaib and Dr. Mehta as co-entities, and an entity cluster covering dental services, patient outcomes, and location signals. Within 8 weeks, the practice appeared in 3 separate Google AI Overview responses for “dentist Sunnyvale” related queries.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
In their own words
“I’d paid two agencies before Zohaib. Both gave me reports full of numbers that had nothing to do with calls or revenue. Zohaib told me in plain English what was broken, fixed it, and within 3 months I was in the map pack. First honest SEO experience I’ve had.”
Marco Delgado, Owner, Delgado Roofing · San Jose, CA
“My practice was getting overlooked by patients using AI search to find dentists. Zohaib structured our content specifically for AI Overviews and we started showing up in ChatGPT and Google’s AI results within two months. That’s not something any other SEO specialist was even talking about.”
Dr. Priya Mehta, Owner, Mehta Family Dental · Sunnyvale, CA
“We were spending $1,400 a month at an agency and getting a monthly PDF with charts that didn’t explain anything. Zohaib charges less, does more, and actually messages me back when I have a question. My HVAC business went from 2nd page to map pack in San Jose and Campbell within 4 months.”
Steve Okonkwo, Owner, CoolBreeze HVAC · San Jose, CA
“I run a landscaping company in Denver and had no idea why I wasn’t showing up in local searches when I clearly served those neighborhoods. Turned out to be citation inconsistency and a GBP that was set up wrong. Zohaib found it in the audit and fixed it within the first month.”
James Whitfield, Owner, Whitfield Landscaping · Denver, CO
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HOW TO READ THESE RESULTS
Case study questions, answered directly
How are these case studies verified?
Every number on this page comes directly from the client’s own Google Search Console or Google Business Profile account, not a third party tracking tool. Screenshots from these accounts are shown on the homepage as proof.
Do all clients see results this fast?
No. These are real outcomes, not average outcomes. Timeline depends on the starting condition of the Google Business Profile, the level of local competition in that specific city, and how quickly citation and content fixes get implemented. The realistic range for most businesses is covered on the process page.
What is the most common first sign of progress?
Almost always it is a Google Business Profile change: a corrected category, a completed service list, or new photos, showing up in search within days to a few weeks. Organic website rankings move slower and compound over months.
See the exact month by month process behind these results, or check current package pricing. Google’s own guide to ranking in Google Business Profile covers the ranking factors referenced in these case studies.