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SEO · Spain

An English-speaking SEO agency in Spain, for people who cannot brief one in Spanish.

Your customers search in Spanish. You do not have to. We do the keyword work, the technical fixes and the Google Business profile, and explain all of it in English in a report you can read in two minutes.

How we work

  • Reporting inEnglish
  • Keywords inSpanish, English, Dutch
  • ReportMonthly, two minutes
  • Lock-inNone

We work across Europe from Girona and Málaga. Meetings happen at your premises or by video call, whichever suits you.

Two Selva Digital colleagues reviewing search results together on an office monitor
First we look at who wins those searches today, then we propose.

Your customers search in Spanish. You do not have to.

This is the position a lot of foreign business owners in Spain end up in. The business works, the customers are happy, and online almost nothing happens.

When you try to fix it you get a choice between a Spanish agency where you are discussing nuance in your third language, and an agency back home that does not know this market at all.

We sit in between. We work across Europe from Girona and Málaga, we report in English, and the site targets the language your customer actually buys in.

Translating is not targeting

A site translated out of English usually reads oddly in Spanish, and more importantly it is built around the words English speakers use. Your Spanish customer types something else, and sometimes searches for a thing that has no separate word in English at all.

So we start with what is genuinely searched in Spanish and English in your sector. Only then does anyone write.

Volume is not the same as customers

"Plumber" gets searched a lot and almost nobody typing it is ready to hire. "Emergency plumber Sunday" plus a town name gets searched rarely and whoever types it calls within ten minutes.

We go after the second kind. Less volume, far more buying intent, and usually much less competition because the big players chase the broad terms.

What works differently in Spain

Google Business matters more than you think

For a local business here, a well-maintained profile is often worth more than the website. Opening hours that are correct, the right category, photographs that are not from 2019, and reviews that get answered.

It is the fastest available result and it sits untouched at almost every business we look at. We take it first.

People phone and message rather than email

Spanish customers reach for the phone or WhatsApp before they fill in a form. If your number is not immediately visible, that costs you enquiries. It is not SEO in the narrow sense, but it decides whether the search traffic turns into anything.

The season sets the calendar

If you work on the coast, what has to perform in July is built in winter. Search is slow before it is fast, so starting in May means you are already working on next year.

Test it yourself Search for your own business on your phone the way a Spanish customer would, with your town name after it. Are the number, the opening hours and the photos correct? That is the first thing your customer sees and the last thing most owners look at.

What we need from you

Access to the site and to Google Business, half an hour a month, and for you to tell us where the work that comes in is coming from.

That last part is what tells us whether this is producing customers or just visitors. Rankings and visits measure themselves. Whether the phone rings more often is something only you know.

Half an hour and you will know whether there is anything to win.

We look at your site, your competitors and what your market actually searches for. If there is nothing worth doing, we say that.

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Where our clients are

Costa BravaGironaBarcelonaMálagaCosta del SolMarbella
Why us

What changes with an agency that works in your language.

Not the translation. It is that you can question a recommendation properly instead of nodding at it.

A Selva Digital colleague pointing at a result on screen while a colleague takes notes

You can question the plan

Everything is explained in English, so you can push back on a recommendation rather than approving something you half understood.

We know how Spain searches

Spanish customers phone and message more than they email, and Google Business carries more weight here than most owners expect.

Two languages from the start

Which searches to chase in Spanish and which in English is decided before anything is written, not bolted on afterwards.

No lock-in

You can stop any month. Everything we do stays on your site and in your accounts, in your name.

Where our clients are

Foreign-owned businesses across Spain.

Local search behaves differently by region, so the plan differs by region too.

Real work

Three projects you can read in full.

Named businesses, live sites, and a story you can check.

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Questions

What foreign business owners ask us about SEO

Which language should I target?

The one your buyers use, which is rarely English on its own. If you sell to Spanish customers, Spanish is the whole story. If your buyers arrive from abroad, English often carries more revenue and faces lighter competition, because many local businesses translate a site and then never work the language. We check your analytics before deciding rather than guessing.

How long before I see anything?

The technical work shows in weeks. Content and authority take months, and anyone promising you first place in thirty days has not looked at your competitors. It is normal to see real movement between the third and sixth month, which is why the first report comes much sooner: so you can see what is happening while you wait.

Why do you start with Google Business?

Because for a local business in Spain it produces the fastest return and because it is neglected almost everywhere. Correct opening hours, the right category, current photographs and answered reviews move the phone more often than any change to the website does.

Do I need a new website first?

Usually not. We look at the one you have first. If it loads quickly and can be edited, we work on it. We only propose a rebuild when the current site genuinely blocks the work, and in that case we explain exactly what is blocking it rather than asserting it.

What happens if I stop working with you?

Everything stays on your site and in your accounts, in your name. There is no lock-in and no penalty. Rankings you have gained do not collapse the next day, though without maintenance they erode over time, and we say that plainly rather than implying otherwise.

More specific

If you know which part you need

Half an hour and you will know whether there is anything to win.

We look at your site, your competitors and what your market actually searches for. If there is nothing worth doing, we say that.