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Sound familiar?

You've been here before — and the agency was the problem, not the solution.

If any of these landed too close to home, you're in the right place. Every one of them is something we've fixed in the last 12 months.

Complaint 01 / 03

"We're working on it."

— What they told you in month four
Diagnosis

That email is the work, not a report on the work.

Status emails recap activity instead of outcomes. Calls move time forward without moving the needle. Eventually the performance of work becomes a substitute for the work itself.

What's actually happening: no shipping cadence
Complaint 02 / 03

"Your AM is on vacation this week."

— Two months after kickoff
Diagnosis

The person who pitched you was always the bait.

The expert on the sales call is paid to close. The intern running your account is paid to keep the chair warm. Two different jobs, one signed contract — and you only see the one that closed you.

What's actually happening: strategist–doer mismatch
Complaint 03 / 03

"Rankings are up, but the phone isn't ringing."

— Quarter three review
Diagnosis

Position 1 with zero conversions is a vanity metric, not a result.

If the dashboard improves and revenue doesn't, the agency is solving for the dashboard. Traffic without intent is just bandwidth. Wrong keyword targets compound into wrong-fit pipeline.

What's actually happening: wrong-keyword strategy
Issue 01 · Spoken out loud
The Manifesto

Five things we say out loud.

Stakes 01 → 05 · Operating principles
01 / Stake One
Strategy

Depth beats volume.

One pillar that ranks and converts beats fifty thin blog posts that don't. Topical authority is built, not scattered. We say no to content volume that doesn't compound.

We say no to thin content volume
02 / Stake Two
Contract

No 12-month contracts to "let SEO work."

If it's not working, you should be free to leave. Real work earns renewal. Lockouts are how lazy agencies survive — and how good operators get trapped paying for nothing.

We say no to lockout contracts
04 / Stake Four
Channels

PPC and SEO are one funnel, not two channels.

Run them in silos and you're paying twice for the same insight. We run them as one strategic system — the keyword data from one informs the spend on the other, and vice versa.

One funnel, two levers
05 / Stake Five
Local

Local SEO is a community strategy, not a citation checklist.

GBP + 50 directories ≠ market dominance. Real local presence is built on people, place, and persistent value — not submission forms and review-gating workarounds.

Community, not submissions
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Drawn lines, plainly

Most agencies don't work this way. We do.

Five places where the difference compounds. No clever framing — just side by side.

Topic
Most agencies
Digitaleer
Who runs your account
An account manager you'd never met before the contract signed.
The strategist who pitched you — same person on day 1 and day 180.
Contract terms
12-month lockout "to let SEO work." Real work is to keep you stuck.
Month to month. Real work earns renewal. Leave whenever the value stops.
PPC + SEO
Two silos, two managers, two invoices — and contradictory insights about the same keywords.
One funnel, one strategist. Paid data informs organic. Organic informs paid spend.
What you get reported
Activity recap emails. Position changes. Domain authority. Vanity dashboards no operator reads.
Revenue. Pipeline. Conversion. What worked, what didn't, what we'd change next month.
The strategy doc
A generic "growth playbook" reskinned for your industry. No named bets, no kill criteria.
Signed bets with explicit kill criteria. The thing that would have to be true for it to fail.
Clint Butler — Founder & Lead Strategist at Digitaleer
Phoenix · info@digitaleer.com
Profile · The lead strategist

I don't take accounts I can't run personally. The math works the other way around.

Clint Butler Founder & Lead Strategist

A decade-plus in technical SEO, topical authority, and conversion-focused web design — running every Digitaleer account personally. No AM layer, no junior swap, no roadmap-as-product. The strategist who pitches you is the strategist you keep.

Role
Founder & Lead Strategist
Based
Phoenix, AZ · Nationwide
Focus
Technical SEO · Topical Authority · CRO
Approach
Strategist-led · Month-to-month · Named bets
Before · After

What a strategist-led redesign actually looks like.

Drag the handle. Same business, same offer, same Google account. New strategy, new structure, new revenue trajectory.

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Strategist call

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In their own words

What people actually say on Google.

Verified, attributed, public — pulled live from our Google Business Profile, not curated by us.

How we actually work

No onboarding theater. Four steps, with experienced eyes on every one.

Same four steps for a $5k/mo retainer or a $50k strategic engagement. The depth changes; the discipline doesn't.

01
Step One · Week 0–2

Audit. By a strategist, not a checklist.

Real audit by an experienced strategist — not a template scan. We look at where revenue is leaking and where it's hiding. We document what's broken, what's underperforming, and what's quietly working that nobody's compounding.

Delivered: signed audit doc · revenue leak map · quick-win shortlist
02
Step Two · Week 2–4

Strategy with named bets.

A signed strategy doc that names the bets, the rationale, and the explicit thing that would have to be true for it to fail. No vague "we'll iterate" placeholders — every initiative has a hypothesis and a kill criterion.

Delivered: strategy doc · prioritized roadmap · kill criteria
04
Step Four · Ongoing

Iterate on evidence.

Monthly business review. What worked, what didn't, what changes next month. No "let it cook" handwaving — every decision is tied to data we can show you, and every bet that didn't pay gets named and replaced.

Each month: review doc · revenue snapshot · next-bet shortlist
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Local presence

Arizona-based. Working nationwide.

We're rooted in Arizona — Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa — but the work goes wherever the operator does. Local SEO authority. National-grade strategy.

PHOENIX Scottsdale Mesa Tempe Chandler Gilbert Glendale Goodyear Fountain Hills Flagstaff Sedona Prescott Tucson Yuma N 33°27' W 112°04' · DGTLR HQ

Strategist-led, locally.

We're physically based in the Phoenix metro and ship work from here. That's not a citation-bait location page — it's where the strategists actually live, breathe, and watch local SERPs shift in real time.

HQ — Phoenix metro
Service-area city pages
+ Bellevue, WA · served by a remote strategist
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  • No contracts. No "let it work." No theater.
  • Real audit + opinion within 5 business days
  • If the fit is wrong, we'll say so plainly

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