SEO consultant/Google Product Expert/Web developer/Founder
Local SEO from someone who reads the source code.
I'm Kevin Pauls. I help local businesses get found on Google, I build the websites and the software that make it repeatable, and I share what I learn along the way. Founder of Simple SEO Marketing and Local Visibility Lab, based in Kelowna, BC.
- Platinum Product Expert for Google Business Profile — one of the senior tiers in Google's program
- 2 Companies founded: Simple SEO Marketing (agency) and Local Visibility Lab (platform + community)
- $50K → $400M+ Annual revenue range of the businesses I've worked with, from mom-and-pop shops to national brands
- CA + US Clients served directly and through marketing agencies and software platforms
What I do
Four things, one thread: getting local businesses understood by Google.
You want people to find you online. That only happens when Google understands who you are, what you do, and where you do it. Everything below is in service of that.
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Local SEO & Google Business Profile
Ranking in the map pack, verification, suspensions and reinstatement, multi-location cleanup. Direct for businesses, and behind the scenes for agencies across Canada and the US.
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Web design & development
Fast, accessible sites where page structure is treated as a ranking input. SvelteKit on Cloudflare today, years of WordPress before that. Self-taught, and I still read the source.
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Products & tools
Local Visibility Lab, the Google Business Profile platform my agency runs on, now open to agencies and multi-location brands. Plus smaller tools like the GBP Categories lookup.
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Content & community
Videos, long-form articles, a weekly group consulting call, and answers in Google’s own Business Profile Help Community, where I’m a Platinum Product Expert.
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Product · Local Visibility Lab
Equip the agency. Empower the owner.
Local Visibility Lab started as the internal tooling my agency used every day to manage client Google Business Profiles: tracking changes, answering reviews at scale, and dealing with the suspensions that are unavoidable once you manage enough profiles.
It's now a platform for agencies (white-label) and multi-location brands, with a practitioner community and a weekly group call where real profiles and real problems get worked through live. It still runs my agency's work. That's the point.
- 01 Every profile in one dashboardChange tracking, review response, posts, and reporting across all the locations you manage.
- 02 Reinstatement toolkitReadiness audits that catch issues before Google does, and AI document review that checks evidence against Google's guidelines.
- 03 White-label for agenciesYour brand on the dashboard and the reports, with client workspaces kept cleanly separate.
- 04 Community + weekly callsSuspensions, policy questions, and optimization problems, worked through live with other practitioners.
Agency · Simple SEO Marketing
The agency: local SEO that works.
Simple SEO Marketing is the agency I founded in Kelowna. We manage Google Business Profiles, run local SEO, handle verification and reinstatement problems, and build and optimize websites for service businesses across Canada and the United States.
Consulting · Worked with
Mostly behind the scenes, through agencies and platforms.
Most of my consulting runs through marketing agencies and software companies you may recognize. That's given me a look inside a wide range of industries and business sizes.
Latest
Things I've published recently.
Videos on the channel, long-form articles on the Local Visibility Lab blog, and the occasional thread. All of it from the practitioner side.
Reinstate a Suspended Google Business Profile with AI Document Review
White-Label Client Reports That Build Themselves
GBP Tools Built By An Agency, Not A Product TeamGet in touch
Working on something local?
Depending on what you need, one of these is the fastest path. Not sure? Just write to me.
Say hello
Consulting, speaking, collaborations, or a question you'd rather ask a person.
Contact → PlatformManage profiles at scale
Agencies and multi-location brands: the platform, the community, and reinstatement help.
localvisibilitylab.io → AgencyHave my team run it
Google Business Profile management, local SEO, and websites for service businesses.
simpleseo.biz →


