Albany Viking

Operating out of Albany, New York, Albany Viking is the one-person practice of Eric, a freelance SEO consultant and developer who has spent over ten years working with small businesses and startups in the Capital Region and remotely. His work centers on WordPress, WooCommerce, and other content management and ecommerce platforms, serving small business owners who need help getting found online and improving their websites rather than large enterprise clients. The service offering covers technical SEO, on-page SEO, off-page SEO, and local SEO. Technical SEO work focuses on making sites easier for search engines to crawl and index while improving page speed. On-page SEO addresses ranking individual pages through keyword targeting, while off-page SEO involves activities conducted away from the client's own site, such as backlink building, content efforts, and relationship development. Local SEO work is aimed at increasing search visibility within a business's own community. Beyond SEO, Albany Viking builds and designs business websites, including WordPress and WooCommerce or Shopify ecommerce sites, and provides WordPress hosting, email, and site management, along with pay-per-click advertising. New client engagements typically begin with a free 25-minute consultation by phone or video, during which Eric researches the prospective client's business in advance and presents an initial high-level strategy before outlining service options and next steps.