Vendar ranks 15 of 46 SEO agencies serving Los Angeles for SEO audit: the ones with documented SEO audit work on file, verified through September 2026. The top three by evidence-weighted score are Icepop (79/100), GR0 (70) and HawkSEM (70). 4 of them have documented SEO audit work for clients in Los Angeles itself. No paid placements; every position below cites its sources. 31 more Los Angeles SEO agencies have no SEO audit claim on file yet and are listed unranked.
Ranked agencies have at least one claim from an outside source that names an audit the agency delivered: a technical, site, content or backlink audit, what it found, and what changed after; official case studies and third-party reviews weigh most, profile tags least. Full rubric 2026.09.1 and the scoring model: How we rank.
Grouped by the clients named in documented SEO audit work: client reviews and case studies, not the agencies' own positioning. The number is the place in the ranking below.
Grouped by the clients named in documented SEO audit work: client reviews and case studies, not the agencies' own positioning. The number is the place in the ranking below.
“Independent” means a third-party source names SEO audit work. Each profile holds the claims with their sources; the points per criterion behind every position are in the machine-readable feed.
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49
HQ in Los Angeles · From $5,500/month 2 documented
Property manager of a real-estate company: …March 2025) says icepop delivered a comprehensive SEO audit, keyword research and an SEO roadmap, "a roadmap outlining specific steps to improve rankings"… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 50-199
HQ in Los Angeles · From $7,000/month 1 documented
Hailey Pink, director of growth at Alleyoop in Los Angeles: …in the beauty and skincare space", says GR0 began with a site audit and competitive research, then keyword research, link building from press coverage and… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2006
HQ in Los Angeles · From $4,500/month no outside source
DILO: …rankings from a new website launch or migration" and a technical SEO audit after the redesign that fixed speed and navigation issues, with keyword and… (hawksem.com)
Irvine, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2014
serves Los Angeles from Irvine · From $6,000/month 1 documented
Head of marketing at a technology agency in Los Angeles: …"leading a website audit and content refresh". The client reports traffic up 35% year over year, keywords in the top three up 52.6% and leads up 61%. (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 2-9
HQ in Los Angeles · From $2,500/month 1 documented
Co-founder of a Los Angeles gaming-tools provider with 1–10 employees: …"This included a detailed SEO audit, competitor analysis, and keyword research to optimize our website's content and improve search engine rankings." The… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2017
HQ in Los Angeles · Projects from $5,000 2 documented
Anthony Delsener, president and CEO of AHD Vintners: …published June 2026), says Brenton Way conducted an SEO audit and competitor analysis, keyword research and on-site optimisation. The client reports more… (verified client review)
Profile below decision-ready status
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49
HQ in Los Angeles · From $3,000/month 2 documented
Kenzie Jackson, Marketing Manager at Lowtemp Industries: …"The team has conducted a website audit and implemented a content strategy. Avidon Marketing Group has helped the client increase their monthly organic visits from 9,432 to 22,554… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 51-200 · since 2009
HQ in Los Angeles · From $1,800/month no outside source
Asphalt Kingdom: …"with a full technical and content audit to identify ranking losses, crawl issues, duplicate pages, and missed internal linking opportunities", alongside… (coalitiontechnologies.com)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2014
HQ in Los Angeles · Projects from $5,000 1 documented
Senior SEO manager for Document Cloud at Adobe: …company: topical market research, competitive analysis and SEO audits to find content gaps in Adobe Acrobat content and build semantic expansions. The… (verified client review)
Profile below decision-ready status
La Mirada, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2012
serves Los Angeles from La Mirada · From $5,000/month 1 documented
Online advertising manager of a fan manufacturer in Temecula, California: …"conducted a website audit and created a roadmap" (in the words of the review summary) covering technical SEO, content and off-page work. The client… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2007
HQ in Los Angeles · From $2,000/month no outside source
SoCalTruckIns.com: …"conducted full website audits to fix technical SEO issues and improve indexing", alongside 102 published blog posts, internal linking and Google Business… (blissdrive.com)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · since 1995
HQ in Los Angeles · From $1,800/month 1 documented
Inge Rätsep, owner and CEO of Interlex Translations in Tallinn: …"performed a thorough site audit" and implemented its technical recommendations: page speed, structured data and multilingual tags, plus on-page updates… (verified client review)
El Segundo, CA, USA · team 200+
serves Los Angeles from El Segundo · From $7,000/month 1 documented
A national wireless retailer with 750 locations: …analyst, describes the engagement opening with an SEO audit: "It started off with a full site audit, which was eye-opening. They showed us domain… (verified client review)
North Hollywood, CA, USA
serves Los Angeles from North Hollywood · From $5,000/month no outside source
Ambient Edge: …"started with a full site audit followed by a site rebuild and redesign" to find what was holding traffic back. The case study reports a 1,400% increase… (hennessey.com)
Glendale, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2020
serves Los Angeles from Glendale · Projects from $1,000 1 documented
CEO and co-founder of Zebracat: …The agency, then called Digital World Institute, ran an SEO audit (technical, on-page, content, links), keyword clustering, technical SEO fixes for… (verified client review)
Profile below decision-ready status
On the Los Angeles SEO list, but nothing on file names SEO audit work. One sourced claim moves an agency into the ranking.
No SEO audit claim on file yet.
Only Vendar profile tags name SEO audit; no outside source on file yet.
Evidence-weighted ranking 2026.09.1: each agency is scored on the SEO audit query from claims with sources. Evidence for this query 30 · Fit to this query 25 · Capability depth 15 · Reliability 10 · Transparency 10 · Reputation 5 · Market credibility 5, minus penalties; confidence is shown separately. Paid visibility never changes the order of a listing. The points, the claims and the limits behind every position are on its card above; the criteria, penalties, eligibility and ordering rules are on How we rank.
An audit earns its price when it separates technical blockers, content gaps and conversion problems, and says which to fix first. A crawl export is not an audit: it is the raw material for one. Los Angeles has the deepest pool on this site, so an audit here is also a way to sort agencies: ask two of them what they would look at first and compare the answers.