Rank your business across Stuart and the Treasure Coast.
Good At Marketing is a founder-led SEO shop based in Boynton Beach, about 50 minutes down I-95 from Stuart. We help Martin County businesses in marine, healthcare, legal, hospitality, and waterfront real estate get found across the Treasure Coast. Founder Donnie Strompf has spent 15-plus years putting Florida companies on page one, from XO Jets in private aviation (now a top-3 result for the term “Private Jet”) to neighborhood service brands.
SEO in Stuart is the work of getting a Martin County business found in Google’s organic and map-pack results across the Treasure Coast. Stuart’s economy leans on marine services, healthcare, legal, and waterfront real estate. A well-run program combines technical SEO, on-page content, Google Business Profile optimization, and earned citations, measured against rankings and revenue.
Why SEO matters in Stuart.
Stuart is the county seat of Martin County and the commercial heart of the Treasure Coast. The city itself is small, about 16,500 residents, but its trade area pulls from Palm City, Jensen Beach, Sewall’s Point, Hobe Sound, and Port Salerno. Historic Downtown Stuart and the Osceola Street district anchor dining and retail, Cleveland Clinic Martin Health anchors healthcare, the Manatee Pocket boatyards and Witham Field anchor the trades, and the St. Lucie River shapes a waterfront economy. The SERP reflects all of it.
Three things make Stuart SEO different from generic local SEO:
Sailfish Capital demand
Boatyards, yacht brokers, marinas, and sportfishing charters cluster around the Manatee Pocket and the St. Lucie Inlet. These are high-ticket, research-heavy purchases. Buyers compare and read reviews before they call, so ranking for terms like “Stuart boat repair” or “Stuart fishing charter” captures real revenue.
Small city, county-wide pull
Stuart is the Martin County seat and home to Cleveland Clinic Martin Health’s hospitals. Legal, medical, and professional-services demand concentrates here far beyond what a 16,500-resident population suggests. The daytime and patient-draw population dwarfs the resident count, and the searches follow.
Regional map pack, not municipal
Martin County caps building height at four stories and limits density on purpose, so Stuart stays small while serving the whole Treasure Coast. Customers search from Palm City, Jensen Beach, Hobe Sound, and Sewall’s Point, so the map pack you compete in is regional, not just the city line.
Meet the SEO mind ranking Florida businesses since 2008.
Donnie Strompf
Born in Amsterdam. Built his first national #1 ranking for MBMI Metal Buildings in 2009, taking them to the top of Google for “Steel Buildings” and “Metal Buildings” in 16 months. Sharpened his craft at PMPMG (digital arm of Morgan & Morgan), led teams at Shark Bite SEO, and founded Good At Marketing in Palm Beach County in July 2017. Lives in Boynton Beach, about 50 minutes south of Stuart on I-95, and also runs Rapid SEO Host and Asset Linkable.
“Local SEO isn’t about gaming Google, it’s about being the most useful, most credible, most clearly relevant result for the person searching in your city. Everything we ship is built around that one idea.”
An SEO program built around how Stuart actually searches.
Click through to see what we ship every month. Nothing generic, every line item is tied to a Stuart-area zip code, a competitor, or a search you want to win.
Local SEO for Stuart
We make sure your business shows up in the Google map pack for every area you serve, from Historic Downtown and Osceola Street to Palm City, Jensen Beach, and the Hutchinson Island corridor.
- Google Business Profile optimization
- Citation cleanup across 60+ directories
- Geo-targeted landing pages by zip
- Review generation system
- Local schema & NAP consistency
- Competitor map-pack analysis
On-page optimization
Every page on your site rebuilt around the queries your Stuart customers are actually typing, with the structure Google rewards.
- Title & meta rewrites
- Internal linking architecture
- Header hierarchy audit
- Image alt + compression
- Schema markup
- Conversion-focused CTAs
Content built for search + humans
Long-form, locally-relevant content that earns ranking AND books appointments. We write for both algorithms and Stuart customers.
- Service-area landing pages
- “Best of Stuart” guides
- FAQ & schema content
- Monthly blog cadence
- Topic cluster mapping
- AI-resistant E-E-A-T content
Technical SEO
The plumbing nobody sees, but every ranking site has. We make sure Google can crawl, render, and trust every page.
- Core Web Vitals optimization
- Mobile speed + UX
- XML sitemap + robots.txt
- Canonical tag cleanup
- HTTPS / security audit
- Index coverage monitoring
Authority & backlinks
Earned links from real Florida publications, chambers, and community sites, the kind that actually move rankings.
- Local PR & press placements
- Chamber & directory partnerships
- Digital PR campaigns
- Toxic link disavow
- Resource page outreach
- Competitor backlink reverse-eng
Specialized for the verticals that win in Stuart.
We’ve ranked clients in private aviation, legal, home services, hospitality, healthcare, and ecommerce. Every industry has its own SERP, we know how to win each one.
Marine & Boating
Boatyards, charters, marinas, brokers
Healthcare
Practices near Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
Legal
Built campaigns at Morgan & Morgan’s digital arm
Real Estate
Waterfront brokers + property management
Home Services
Contractors, HVAC, roofing, plumbing
Hospitality
Downtown restaurants, hotels, venues
Professional Services
County-seat firms, B2B, financial
Ecommerce
Product schema + category SEO
Real rankings. Real revenue. Real clients.
XO Jets: page 2+ to top 3 for “Private Jet”, and doubled revenue.
Started October 2019. By early 2020, we’d taken XO from position 20+ to position 3 on Google for “Private Jet,” lifted organic traffic by 100%, grew new leads from 2k to 4k, and doubled organic revenue. (Engagement paused during COVID, resumed 2021โ2023.)
MBMI Metal Buildings, top-ranked for “Steel Buildings”
Donnie’s first national #1 ranking, taking MBMI from invisible to the top of Google for the most competitive terms in the steel-buildings category.
Avg. local client: 312% organic traffic lift
Across our Palm Beach County local SEO clients, average 12-month organic traffic gain. Most see top-3 map pack rankings inside 4โ6 months.
See what a top-3 ranking is worth to your Stuart business.
Drag the sliders to match your business. We’ll show you the monthly revenue you’re leaving on the table by sitting on page 2.
Math: Monthly searches ร est. local share ร CTR uplift from rank 8 โ 1 ร your close rate ร avg. job value.
Your numbers
Serving Stuart from Boynton.
Across the Treasure Coast.
Good At Marketing is based in Boynton Beach, about 50 minutes south of Stuart on I-95. We work with businesses across Stuart and Martin County, from Historic Downtown and the Osceola Street shops to the Manatee Pocket boatyards and Hutchinson Island. When in-person makes sense, we travel up to you; default working mode is Google Meet or Zoom.
From audit to ranking, in 4 steps.
Free local audit
We analyze your site, your competitors, and your top Stuart search terms, and tell you exactly what’s broken.
Custom strategy
You get a 90-day plan: keywords we’ll target, pages we’ll build, and the revenue model behind it.
Execution
Content, links, technical fixes, shipped every month, with weekly check-ins and a transparent dashboard.
Rankings + revenue
Most clients see top-3 local rankings inside 4โ6 months and 2โ3x organic traffic by month 12.
Trusted by Treasure Coast businesses (and one private jet company).
We began with GoodAtMarketing in October. Since January 1, we’ve seen a 100% increase in organic traffic from the previous roughly 180 days, 2k new leads up to 4k. We began in position 20+ for key terms like “Private Jet” and now are in position 3. Thanks to Donnie and his team’s high level of knowledge and passionate responsiveness with regard to technical SEO, link building, internal linking and content creation, we’ve doubled our revenue from these efforts.
Donnie and the team treat our business like it’s theirs. We’ve gone from off the map to consistently top-3 in Stuart for the searches that actually book new patients.
Other agencies talked. GAM delivered measurable results in 90 days. The transparency around what’s actually being done, and what it’s doing for revenue, is what keeps us with them.
Questions Stuart business owners ask us.
Why does SEO matter for a city as small as Stuart?
Do you serve Historic Downtown, Hutchinson Island, and the rest of Martin County?
Can you help marine and boating businesses in the Sailfish Capital?
How long until I see SEO results in Stuart?
Do you work with Stuart healthcare practices and law firms?
What does local SEO cost for a Stuart business?
Can I see proof of past SEO results?
Services that compound your SEO.
SEO services across the Treasure Coast.
Stuart sits at the heart of Martin County and the Treasure Coast. These are the neighboring cities and communities we serve.
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Get your free Stuart SEO audit.
We’ll show you exactly what’s ranking, what’s broken, and how many leads you’re missing every month, in a 30-minute call with Donnie or one of our senior strategists.