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SEO and AI search · Kenya

SEO services in Kenya, starting with the site itself

We handle the technical side of search for Kenyan WordPress sites: speed, structure, indexing and visibility in AI answers. Content and campaigns stay with your marketing team, and our SEO work sits within Managed Services from $2,000 per year.

Currency
Kenyan shilling (KES)
Payments
M-Pesa, Paystack, Flutterwave
Data protection
Data Protection Act, 2019 (No. 24 of 2019)
Time zone
UTC+3, 2 hours ahead of Lagos
Overview

SEO Services for organisations in Kenya.

Much of what is sold as SEO in Kenya is content production and link building. Those have their place, but they rarely help if the site underneath is slow on mobile data, blocks search engines by accident or buries its key pages three clicks deep.

We are WordPress engineers, so our SEO work is the part engineers do best: making the site fast, crawlable, well structured and clearly understood by search engines and AI assistants. Your marketing team, or a content agency you choose, then writes on a foundation that works.

In detail

SEO Services in Kenya, in detail.

01

A technical audit you can act on

We start by crawling the site and reading Search Console data. Typical findings on Kenyan sites include duplicate pages on http and https, staging copies left open to Google, missing canonical tags, broken redirects from an old redesign and plugin bloat. We also check which tracking scripts load before a visitor consents, a point worth reviewing under the Data Protection Act, 2019. Each issue is listed with its effect and fix, ordered by impact.

02

Speed for searchers on mobile data

Google measures real-world page experience, and most searches in Kenya happen on phones. We cut page weight, serve images in modern formats, defer scripts that are not needed at load and tune caching at the server. Every improvement is measured on a throttled mobile connection, because that is how a visitor in Kisumu or Eldoret actually meets your site, not on the fibre line in your office.

03

Structure that matches how Kenyans search

People search with a place or a payment method in mind: a clinic in Nakuru, a course they can pay for by M-Pesa, a supplier in Mombasa. We shape the site's information architecture so each core service and location you genuinely serve has a clear, indexable page, with internal links and headings that make the relationship obvious. We do not create thin pages for every town; we create pages that deserve to rank.

04

Visibility in AI search

Answers from AI assistants and search summaries draw on pages they can parse and trust. We add accurate structured data for your organisation, services, products, courses or events, keep facts such as prices in KES, opening hours and contact details consistent, and make sure important content is plain HTML rather than locked inside scripts. That groundwork helps both traditional rankings and AI citations.

05

Where our work stops and yours starts

We are clear about scope. We do not write your blog, run ad campaigns or buy links. Your marketing team owns the message, the content calendar and the campaigns; we make the site fast, structured and measurable so that work pays off. Each month you get a short report on technical health, indexing and performance, with recommendations your writers can use.

What our SEO work covers

What our SEO work covers.

Strategy & Design from $1,500 · Development from $5,000 · Managed Services from $2,000 per year. See pricing

  • Technical audit with prioritised fixes
  • Core Web Vitals and mobile speed improvements
  • Indexing, sitemaps, canonicals and redirect clean-up
  • Information architecture and internal linking
  • Structured data for your organisation, services, products or courses
  • Search Console and analytics set up with consent in mind
  • Monthly technical report with notes for your content team
Our work

Platforms we have built.

These platforms show the kind of fast, well-structured WordPress builds our SEO work starts from: an events system, an online school and a podcast platform.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do you write content or build links?

No. Content and campaigns stay with your marketing team or the agency you choose. Our role is technical: speed, structure, indexing, structured data and AI search readiness. We share clear notes on what each page needs so your writers spend their time on the right things.

How long before SEO work shows results?

Technical fixes such as removing indexing errors can show up within weeks of search engines re-crawling, while ranking gains depend on competition and content. We will not promise positions or timelines; we report on measurable changes in speed, indexing and search impressions.

Can you help us rank in Nairobi and other cities?

We make sure each location you genuinely serve has a clear, useful page, consistent contact details and correct structured data, and we check that your Google Business Profile matches the site. We avoid copying the same page for every town, which tends to do more harm than good.

What does AI search optimisation involve?

Making your site easy for AI systems to read and cite: accurate structured data, consistent facts across pages, plain HTML for key content and clear answers to common questions. It overlaps heavily with good technical SEO, which is why we treat the two together.

How much do your SEO services cost in Kenya?

SEO and AI search work is part of our Managed Services, which start from $2,000 per year, priced in US dollars. The scope depends on the size of the site and what the audit finds. You receive the plan and price in writing first.

Does tracking visitors raise data protection issues?

It can. Analytics tools process personal data such as IP addresses and identifiers, so under Kenya's Data Protection Act, 2019 you should be clear about what you collect and why. We configure analytics with consent and minimal data in mind; your lawyer confirms the wording of notices.

Start a project

Tell us what you need WordPress to do.

A new website, a redesign, a client portal, a booking system, or a move from another platform. Tell us what you need and we will tell you how WordPress can carry it.

What happens next

  1. 01
    Introductory callUnderstanding the project, the organisation, and the brief.
  2. 02
    Discovery questionnaireThe detail we need before designing anything.
  3. 03
    Scope agreementDeliverables, timeline, and investment confirmed in writing.
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