Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
For IT Companies

We help IT companies dramatically boost website traffic and generate high-quality leads through strategic, results-driven SEO.

Since 2018 We've Helped Brands Like These Generate 35,000+ Leads
And Generate More Than $10,000,000 In Marketing Sourced Revenue

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Is It Time to Scale Your IT Business to $10 Million+ in ARR?

If your IT business has ambitious goals for sales, marketing, and revenue, organic search is a channel you can’t afford to ignore. SEO not only generates leads but drives lead volume—a critical factor for scaling. For mature IT companies, organic search delivers 10x more traffic than social media and 15x more than paid ads. It’s the cornerstone of a high-performing marketing funnel.

Benefits of Leveraging Our IT SEO Services

Since 2018, we’ve worked with IT companies and B2B tech brands to create effective SEO strategies. We know how to identify high-value keywords, develop engaging content, and convert website traffic into actionable leads. Our approach has helped clients achieve millions in new ARR.

Put the power of the Tortoise in your marketing engine to grow organically.
It’s like a 401k for your business.

More Traffic

Create more inbound traffic vectors via blog content and landing pages. Grow your top-line traffic figures and get more ICP visits to your website.

More Leads

Capture leads from your website traffic with content upsells to collect emails for drip campaign nurture or manual outreach from your sales team.

More Revenue

User the power of your SEO traffic engine to create more pipeline and close more deals.  We've helped our clients earn millions in new ARR.

IT SEO Services Offered

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.  Developing a sound SEO strategy by conducting a competitive analysis, and researching the SEO landscape in your market will save you thousands over the long run and greatly accelerate your timelines for generating an ROI.  

We help our customers develop winning SEO strategies and position their content offerings for success.

We help you find the best keywords to target and measure the performance of your rankings to better understand your visibility and market share for the keywords that are important to you.

Climbing the ranks for competitive keywords requires well-structured content, semantic keyword parity, and oftentimes the right supporting media such as embedded videos or slide decks. We use specialized SEO software to help determine what it will take to optimize your on-page factors and send positive signals to search engines about visitor experiences.

Technical SEO is a game of striking a balance between available company resources, current technology stacks, and the ability to make incremental improvements to a website to improve its quality, load times, its accessibility, and its performance across a wide range of browsers and devices.  

We work almost exclusively with WordPress and have deep experience configuring WordPress instances, modifying themes, and configuring popular SEO plugins such as Yoast.  

We use SEO software to run SEO audits at regular intervals to identify SEO issues such as broken links, orphaned pages, missing meta descriptions, missing page titles, and a range of other issues that can negatively affect user experience and send negative signals to search engines. 

The web is a living organism and websites naturally decay if not maintained properly. We keep our clients websites maintaining a site health score in the 90th percentile or greater.

Our focus here is on creating high quality content that can naturally attract backlinks.  We do not do manual outreach and leave that to PR firms.  However we do offer basic link building services such as directory citations, directory listing management, social links, and online press release distribution.  These links serve as a solid foundation that gives your website enough authority to stand on it's own to feet with a solid baseline of traffic. 

Building traffic for more locally focused technology companies, such as MSPs, requires a bit more attention to detail with things like building listings in local business directories, optimizing business profiles on things like Google Business Profile, gathering local reviews, and using special care to work in local keywords into website content.  

We manage local SEO efforts for these types of companies and help build a search engine presence in specific geographies.

According to HubSpot research, companies with 40 or more landing pages generate 12x more leads than those that don't.  We help create search optimized landing pages that help attract search engine traffic.  We'll create unique landing pages to slice up your offerings by things like industry targeting, price point, use case, and more.

Attract the long tail keyword traffic and reach your ICP more effectively without bidding on Google Ads by creating blog content that your customer cares about.  How To's, Top 10 Lists, Industry Commentary, and other content types serve as the foundations of an effective content marketing strategy. We also help distribute your blog content on social media with posts to help generate more traffic to your blog and engage new readers.

Google offers a tool called Google Search Console to help you get a better understanding of the health of your website.  We manage your Google Search Console account, make sure sitemaps are readable, address reported errors, ensure content is indexed, and many other tasks related to keeping your website healthy.

Our clients love how easy we make reporting and progress updates.  We roll up reports into custom data studio dashboards that are easy to digest for executive level stakeholders. We hold monthly reporting calls to walk our clients through the work completed and the connection to results generated.  

Pillars of SEO Success

Keyword Targeting

Keyword targeting is one of the most important factors of SEO success and is one where most companies fall short. It’s important to be realistic and focus on keywords that can actually be ranked for given your businesses competitive position and website’s search engine strength.

Website Optimizations

Once a keyword targeting plan is in place it’s important to put the necessary optimizations in place on your website. There are sitewide optimizations to consider and optimizations for each individual web page. These are code level optimizations that can’t be visually seen when viewing a site.

Content Creation

Creating content expands the reach of your website by increasing the base of keywords it generates search impressions for.  Showing Google that your site is a content producing authority builds trust, attracts links, and helps you climb the rankings and generate more leads.

Link Building

Links to your website and it’s web pages count as vote for it’s awesomeness. It’s a core part of how search engines decide who wins when two people are competiting for rankings on the same keyword. Active outreach for linkbuilding is an important part of a successful SEO strategy.

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Featured Case Study

Read more about how we helped a local MSP more than double their size over a 2 year period using a combination of SEO and Google Ads

Frequently Asked Questions About IT SEO

An IT-focused SEO agency understands the complexities of the IT industry, including its technical audience, long sales cycles, and competitive landscape. We develop strategies tailored to your market, ensuring your content resonates with decision-makers. General agencies may lack the expertise to fully address these nuances, resulting in missed opportunities.

Results depend on your current online presence and competition. However, a specialized IT SEO strategy can improve search rankings, increase organic traffic, and generate more qualified leads over time. The ultimate goal is to position your brand as an industry leader while driving growth.

SEO is a long-term investment. While quick wins like technical fixes may show early results, meaningful traffic and lead growth often take 6–18 months. For IT companies, this aligns well with longer buying cycles and recurring revenue models.

You’ll receive monthly updates, including detailed reports on keyword rankings, traffic growth, and lead generation metrics. We also provide actionable insights to refine your strategy and ensure alignment with your goals.

If you’re aiming to scale, SEO is essential. It’s one of the most cost-effective ways to generate high-intent traffic, build a sustainable lead pipeline, and complement paid advertising with remarketing opportunities.

Apply Now  For A Free IT Search Engine Optimization Consultation

We offer free 1-hour search engine optimization consultations via a Microsoft Teams video conference to discuss your pain points and determine if Tortoise and Hare Software is the right fit for you.

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