An Ottawa marketing agency built for service businesses.
We do the marketing that makes a website produce work: the build, the local search that finds it, your Google Business Profile, and an AI front desk that answers the lead. Not brand campaigns. Not media buying.
$299 CAD/mo, hosting included. Published, month-to-month, and no promise of a position.
We are not a full-service agency.
Velogics is a web, SEO and software studio. The marketing we do is the marketing that turns a website into booked work - and here is the honest boundary, before you spend an hour on a call.
What we do
- Build the website, hand-coded and fast on a phone - most Ottawa searches are
- Local SEO for Ottawa and Gatineau: technical, on-page, and the map pack
- Run your Google Business Profile - the listing that feeds Maps results
- Fix your citations so your name, address and phone match across directories
- Put an AI front desk on the site that answers and books, day or night
- Text back the calls you miss, because an unanswered phone is a lost job
- Send a report every month you can hold us to, flattering or not
What we do not do
- Media buying - we do not run or manage Google, Meta or LinkedIn ad spend
- Brand campaigns, naming, taglines, or creative concepting
- Print, radio, TV, billboards, or any other out-of-home advertising
- Social media management - posting, community, or influencer work
- Video production, photo shoots, or studio creative
- PR and media relations
If that list is what you are shopping for, you want a full-service advertising or creative agency, and we will tell you so on the call rather than take the work and hand it off. What we do is narrower on purpose, and it is run by the same people who build the site.
Not sure yet whether ads or SEO is the right spend? SEO vs Google Ads sets out what each one buys, and the map results that neither of them buys.
One team, from the build to the booked job.
Most Ottawa service businesses do not need more marketing. They need the four links in one chain to actually connect: a site worth landing on, search that finds it, something that answers the enquiry, and a number at the end of the month.
Split those across a designer, an SEO and a call service and every gap between them is where the lead goes missing. Here they are one job, so there is nobody to hand the ticket to.
The website itself is a separate one-time build from $499, and it is optional - the monthly work runs just as well on the site you already have.
Get found - Hosting + SEO, $299/mo
- On-page and technical SEO - the parts of ranking we actually control
- Local search and Google Maps 3-Pack optimization for Ottawa and Gatineau
- Google Business Profile management - categories, services, photos, posts
- Local citations and listings, with one consistent name and phone everywhere
- Monthly ranking reports, whether the news is good or bad
- Everything in Hosting & Care: managed hosting, SSL, backups, updates
- A listed profile on the Ottawa Service Directory, our own homeowner directory
Get answered - add AI Agents, $388/mo
- AI chatbot and smart forms that capture the lead on the page
- Automatic appointment booking straight into your calendar
- Missed-call text-back, so a missed call is not a lost job
- Google review follow-up after every completed job
- Lead notifications to your phone
Measure, build, publish, report.
The same four steps every month. Writing the baseline down first is what makes month one checkable - otherwise “it is working” is just an opinion, and it is usually ours.
Free scoping call
What you sell, where you serve, and where the work comes from today. If marketing is not the thing holding you back, we will say so on the call.
Baseline and audit
Where you rank right now, what your site does with the traffic it already gets, and the state of your Google Business Profile. Written down, so month one has something to be measured against.
Build and publish
The site first if it needs one, then the technical and on-page SEO, the Business Profile, the citations, and the AI front desk if you want leads answered around the clock.
Report every month
Rankings, what moved, what did not, and what is next. The SEO and AI portions are month-to-month, so the report has to earn the following month.
A real number, published.
Ottawa marketing is almost always sold as “request a quote”. Ours is on the site: $299 CAD a month for Hosting + SEO - the SEO work plus managed hosting, SSL, backups, updates and priority support in one flat monthly figure, on a site we build or the one you already have.
Add the AI front desk that captures and books the lead and it is $388 a month. An AI voice receptionist answering the phone 24/7 is a further $149 a month on that plan. If you need the site built too, a custom hand-coded build is from $499 one-time - $4,087 all-in for year one on Hosting + SEO, in writing before we start. The SEO and AI portions are month-to-month, so they have to keep earning the next one.
Hosting + SEO
$299/mo
CAD · month-to-month SEO
With a build from $499 one-time - $4,087 all-in for year one.
- On-page and technical SEO - the parts of ranking we actually control
- Local search and Google Maps 3-Pack optimization for Ottawa and Gatineau
- Google Business Profile management - categories, services, photos, posts
- Local citations and listings, with one consistent name and phone everywhere
- Monthly ranking reports, whether the news is good or bad
Want the leads answered and booked around the clock as well? That is the $388/mo plan with AI Agents, and the voice receptionist is +$149/mo on top.
Is SEO still worth it in 2026?
Yes, for a service business whose customers search before they call, as long as two things hold: your site turns a visit into an enquiry, and you can wait months rather than weeks. Google’s SEO Starter Guide says some changes “might take effect in a few hours, others could take several months”, and nobody can tell you in advance which kind yours will be.
AI search has not retired it. Google’s documentation on AI features opens with “The best practices for SEO remain relevant for AI features in Google Search (such as AI Overviews and AI Mode)”. The Ottawa SEO work that gets a page into ordinary results is the same work that makes it eligible to be linked from an AI Overview.
You can check the money before any call. Hosting + SEO is $299 a month, $3,588 over twelve months. Work out what one job is worth to you and how many extra jobs a year would cover that. If the number sounds plausible in your trade, SEO in Ottawa is worth a test. Our guide to what SEO costs in Ottawa works through that sum and what sits behind the price.
Two situations call for something else first. If you need the phone to ring this week, search will not do it, and paid ads might. If your site already loses the visitors it gets, the money does more on the pages than on rankings.
What Ottawa businesses ask before they hire us.
How much does a marketing agency cost in Ottawa?
Ours is published rather than quote-only. Hosting + SEO is $299 CAD a month - the SEO work plus managed hosting, SSL, backups, updates and priority support in one flat figure. Adding the AI front desk that captures and books the lead makes it $388 CAD a month, and an AI voice receptionist that answers the phone 24/7 is a further $149 a month on that plan. If you also need the website built, a custom hand-coded build is from $499 CAD one-time - which puts year one at $4,087 all-in on the Hosting + SEO plan. Every project starts with a free scoping call and a written, fixed quote, and the SEO and AI portions are month-to-month.
Are you a full-service advertising or creative agency?
No. Velogics is a web, SEO and software studio, and the marketing we do is the marketing that makes a website produce leads: the build, local search, your Google Business Profile, and AI lead capture and booking. We do not do brand campaigns, naming, media buying, print, radio, TV, out-of-home, social media management, video production or PR. If those are what you are shopping for, you want a full-service advertising or creative agency, and we would rather tell you that now than take the work and hand it off.
Do you run Google Ads or social media ads?
No. We do not buy or manage ad spend on any platform. Everything we do is earned rather than paid - ranking on Google, showing in the Maps results, and converting the people already searching for what you sell. Paid ads and earned search are genuinely different disciplines, and doing one badly alongside the other is worse than not doing it. If paid advertising is the right answer for your situation, we will tell you that on the scoping call rather than sell you something else.
Are you a digital marketing agency?
For the part of digital marketing that happens on your website and in Google search, yes. That means the build, local SEO, your Google Business Profile, your citations, and AI lead capture on the site. We do not run paid ads on Google, Meta or LinkedIn, and we do not manage social media. If that is what a digital marketing agency means to you, we are the wrong hire, and we would rather say so here than on a call.
We already have a website. Can you market it without rebuilding it?
Yes. The $299/mo Hosting + SEO plan covers both the hosting and the SEO and it works on the site you already have - hosting is inside that number, not billed on top of it. Bring the current site to the free scoping call and we will tell you honestly whether it can carry the work as it stands. Sometimes the honest answer is that the site is not what is holding you back, and we would rather say so than sell you a rebuild you do not need.
What does AI lead capture actually mean?
Three concrete things on the Hosting + SEO + AI Agents plan. An AI chatbot and smart forms on your site that answer questions and capture the enquiry instead of letting someone bounce. Automatic booking that puts the job straight into your calendar. And missed-call text-back, so when you are up a ladder and cannot pick up, the caller gets an immediate reply rather than dialling the next name on the list. The plan also sends a review request after a completed job and pushes new leads to your phone. If you want the phone itself answered, the AI voice receptionist is a separate add-on.
Do you sell AEO or AI SEO as a separate service?
No, because it is not separate work. Being cited in ChatGPT or in Google's AI answers leans on the same things as ranking in ordinary search: a page that answers the question plainly, a site Google can crawl, a complete Business Profile, and listings that agree with each other. That work is already inside the $299 Hosting + SEO plan. If someone quotes you AEO or GEO as an extra line, ask what it includes that their SEO does not. Our guide on what AEO is sets out the checks we would run first.
Can you guarantee more leads, or a number-one ranking?
No, and anyone who does is guessing. Nobody outside Google controls where you rank, and the inputs that matter most locally - your competition, how long you have been established, how many customers review you - are not things an agency can switch on. What we are accountable for is the work: the site, the technical and on-page SEO, the Google Business Profile, the citations, the AI front desk, and a monthly report that shows movement or the absence of it.
Do you only work with Ottawa businesses?
Every business we run marketing for is in Ottawa or Gatineau, which is why this page is aimed here and why what we know about the local search landscape is specific rather than general. None of the work is physically tied to a city - it is remote, and we would take on a service business somewhere else. But local SEO is the part that does not travel unchanged: the competitors, the directories and the map pack are different in every market, and somewhere else we would be learning yours rather than already knowing it. That is worth hearing before you hire us.
Let's find out what is actually in your way.
Tell us what you do, where you serve, and where your work comes from today. On the scoping call we will tell you honestly which part of the chain is broken - and if it is a part we do not cover, we will say that instead of selling around it.
Only need one piece of it? Web design in Ottawa covers the build on its own, and SEO in Ottawa covers getting found when the site you have is already fine.
Asked to buy AEO, GEO or AI search as a separate line? Read what AEO actually is first. It is three checks that end in a verdict, and none of the verdicts is a separate agency.