People-First Search Marketing

Search marketing should feel less mysterious and more human.

Cadence SEO helps businesses build meaningful visibility across traditional search, AI-powered discovery, and the complete digital customer journey—with experienced people, clear communication, and a strategy shaped around the business.

  • Open Communication
  • Flexible Partnerships
  • Experienced Specialists
The Cadence Approach Built for Partnership
How We Work
A search partnership should make your priorities clearer, your team stronger, and your next move easier to understand.
01 Clear communicationFrequent conversations, direct answers, and no hiding behind a report.
02 Flexible engagementMonth-to-month relationships designed to earn your continued trust.
03 Specialists close to the workAccess to people who understand the strategy and the implementation.
04 Business-first decisionsSearch activity connected to customers, growth, and meaningful outcomes.
Why Cadence SEO

An agency relationship built to feel like a real working partnership.

We built Cadence SEO around the things clients often say are missing from agency relationships: honest communication, flexibility, access to experienced people, and a clear connection between the work and the business.

FLEX

No Long-Term Lock-In

Our month-to-month structure keeps the relationship accountable and gives businesses room to adapt as priorities, budgets, and circumstances change.

TALK

Direct, Honest Communication

We begin with frequent check-ins, explain what is happening in plain language, and make sure your team understands both the opportunities and the challenges.

TEAM

Experienced People Doing the Work

You should be able to speak with specialists who understand your website, your priorities, and the strategy—not only the people who sold the engagement.

VALUE

Search That Supports the Business

SEO, AI visibility, content, authority, paid media, and conversion strategy should work together to support meaningful customer and business outcomes.

Our Origin Story

Resilience shaped the company before strategy did.

Cadence SEO was founded by Christy Olsen and Kevin McLauchlin, two people whose lives had already taught them the value of persistence, curiosity, honesty, and rebuilding when the path changes unexpectedly.

Christy entered the SEO industry while supporting five children after becoming a widow. She learned quickly, asked relentless questions, and developed a deep understanding of how search strategy, client service, and agency operations fit together.

Kevin was rebuilding his own life, overcoming depression, self-sabotage, and alcohol addiction. Their paths eventually crossed, bringing together a shared love of endurance, family, business, and the belief that companies—and people—can become better through consistent, purposeful work.

They founded Cadence SEO after seeing how often businesses paid too much for disconnected strategies, unclear communication, and work that did not reflect the value clients deserved. The mission was simple: put people first, do the right thing, and build partnerships worth keeping.

Integrity before convenience
Curiosity before assumptions
Value before vanity metrics
Partnership before process
Meet the Founders

Two perspectives. One commitment to doing better work.

Christy and Kevin bring different strengths to Cadence SEO, but share the same expectations: be honest, stay involved, keep learning, and never forget that a client is trusting real people with a real business.

Account Strategy

Christy Olsen

Christy helps connect search strategy, client needs, company direction, and the evolving opportunities created by modern search and AI-powered discovery.

Her approach combines deep curiosity with a practical understanding of what clients, teams, and websites need to move forward.

SEO Strategy

Kevin McLauchlin

Kevin focuses on strategy, relationships, customer experience, business development, and helping organizations make clearer decisions about their search and digital marketing investments.

He believes the strongest agency relationships are built through candor, responsiveness, and a willingness to explain the work without hiding behind jargon.

What Guides the Work

Values are useful only when they change how decisions get made.

These principles influence how we communicate, prioritize, respond to difficult situations, and evaluate whether a recommendation is genuinely useful for the client.

01 · INTEGRITY

Do the Right Thing

Even when it is inconvenient, difficult to explain, or not the most profitable option in the moment.

02 · CLARITY

Make It Understandable

Clients should know what is happening, why it matters, what comes next, and where uncertainty still exists.

03 · CURIOSITY

Keep Asking Better Questions

Search changes constantly. Strong strategy requires learning, testing, challenging assumptions, and staying open to evidence.

04 · ACCOUNTABILITY

Earn the Partnership

Flexibility should create greater accountability—not less. The work and the relationship should continue because they create value.

What Partnership Looks Like

Stay informed without spending your week managing the agency.

We begin new relationships with frequent communication so the teams can build context, align on priorities, and resolve questions quickly. The cadence can evolve as the partnership matures, but transparency should never disappear.

  • Frequent check-ins during onboarding and early implementation
  • Plain-language explanations of opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs
  • Direct access to subject-matter experts when deeper context is needed
  • Flexible month-to-month engagements with a simple notice period
  • Recommendations organized around business value and practical ownership
ALIGN Start With ContextUnderstand the business, customers, website, internal resources, and decisions the work needs to support.
PLAN Set Clear PrioritiesSeparate meaningful opportunities from noise and define the sequence, ownership, and dependencies.
TALK Communicate the Full PictureDiscuss progress, challenges, changing conditions, and the decisions that require client input.
ADAPT Adjust With PurposeChange direction when performance, priorities, resources, or the market provide a reason—not because every headline demands a pivot.
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