The Reason Floodlight Exists

You built your business by being excellent at what you do. The problem is the marketing world rarely rewards excellence by default. It rewards noise. It rewards gimmicks. And when your competitors start showing up ahead of you — even when their work isn’t as strong — it feels wrong.

You’re not alone. I’ve spent years watching skilled builders lose projects to companies that play the algorithm better. Chiropractors with better patient outcomes buried under clinics that promote harder. Tradespeople outperformed online by anyone willing to chase shortcuts.

They weren’t losing because they lacked talent. They were losing because they weren’t being seen. And the tools they were handed to fix it were confusing, inconsistent, or flat-out misleading.

Floodlight exists to fix that. You deserve clarity instead of noise. A clear path instead of guesswork. A marketing system that supports the quality of the work you already do.

The Philosophy Behind the Work

Marketing should respect the reality of your business. That’s the center of everything we do. You don’t need jargon or endless tactics. You need clarity about where you stand, a clean plan to move forward, and a partner who can guide the process without adding complexity.

That’s why we built the Floodlight Framework. It organizes your visibility, your message, and your trust signals into something you can actually understand and act on. Every decision we make runs through that system so your strategy stays focused and grounded.

When you see your situation clearly, you avoid expensive mistakes, choose better priorities, and grow without chaos.

How Floodlight Approaches Marketing

Your growth starts with a simple goal: eliminate confusion. We begin with a diagnostic conversation to understand your current visibility, message, and trust signals. When you know what’s holding you back — and what’s working — you can make smart decisions.

From there, the plan becomes straightforward. Sometimes the first move is tightening on-site fundamentals. Sometimes it’s sharpening your message so customers instantly understand your value. Sometimes it’s building the trust signals that make choosing you feel like the obvious next step.

The work is methodical. No guessing. No trend-chasing. No scattered priorities. You get a partner who keeps the path clear and guides you with a plan that fits the way real businesses grow.

What Clients Can Expect

By the time most clients reach us, they’re tired of trying to solve marketing alone. They’ve been burned by agencies that promised quick wins, overwhelmed by reports that didn’t make sense, or frustrated by spending money without seeing momentum.

Working with Floodlight feels different. You’ll always know what we’re doing, why it matters, and how it moves you toward your goals. You get steady communication, clean priorities, and a team that treats your reputation with care.

Our clients stay for years because they feel the stability of working with someone who thinks long-term, shields them from unnecessary spending, and keeps their strategy focused. When your visibility, message, and trust signals align, marketing stops feeling random — you gain control, consistency, and the confidence that your business is on the right track.

Where Floodlight Is Headed

The future we’re building is calm, structured, and reliable. Every year, our systems get sharper and our processes get clearer so the work becomes easier for clients to understand and easier for our team to execute.

The goal is simple: a well-run operation that gives you predictable support. A business that doesn’t rely on guesswork or personality, but on systems that produce consistent results. A partner you can count on not only today, but years from now.

Your business deserves a marketing team built to last — not one sprinting after whatever the industry buzzes about next.

A Note From the Founder

I’ve spent most of my career helping businesses that deserve to win but aren’t being seen. The pattern was always the same. The people who care the most about their work often have the weakest visibility. Not because they’re doing anything wrong, but because mastering their craft left little time to master marketing.

I started Floodlight to close that gap so you don’t have to choose between doing great work and having customers find it. You’ve earned the right to be chosen for the strengths you’ve spent years building. My job is to guide you toward clarity, momentum, and a marketing system you can trust.

If we work together, you’ll get a partner who values steady progress, honest communication, and long-term relationships. Marketing becomes clear, structured, and surprisingly calm when it’s guided well.

A Guiding Principle

“Good work is our salvation and our joy.”

American author and poet Wendell Berry’s line captures what motivates us. Businesses built on good work deserve to be found, trusted, and chosen.

Your Next Step

The path forward is simple:

STEP 1

Start with a clarity call.

STEP 2

See what’s helping you and what’s slowing you down

STEP 3

Move forward with clarity.

If you’re ready to understand your current situation and chart a path you can trust, we’ll walk through it together.

About Floodlight SEO

Floodlight SEO is an Internet Marketing company based out of Minnesota that specializes in Search Engine Optimization and Reputation Marketing.

Our Offerings (SEO and Reputation Marketing)

Back when we started over a decade ago (then under the name J Rhoades Consulting) we had a much wider focus than we do now.  We did more with social media and website design among other online marketing activities.  Over the years, however, we kept finding that the biggest return on investment that we could get for our clients was always based around Search Engine Optimization and Reputation Marketing.

Eventually we pruned all of those extraneous services out of our offerings to focus (almost) exclusively on SEO and Reputation.

Our Purpose

Floodlight SEO exists for one purpose – to help small and medium sized local businesses across the world grow and become the default business in their market.  To achieve that goal, the Floodlight SEO team puts into play intelligent and aggressive internet marketing campaigns to generate more visitors, more leads, more clients, and ultimately more revenue.

Our Philosophy

The Floodlight Philosophy is simple.  Do good work and treat our clients how we would hope to be treated if we were in their position.  When companies come to us, they’re typically pretty nervous about taking the first step and starting an SEO campaign.  And we understand. Real SEO isn’t cheap so it’s an investment rather than an impulse decision.  Real SEO isn’t fast so you are often operating on faith that it’s going to work for months.  Those are real concerns and we do everything we can to instill a sense of confidence in our clients at least until they start winning.  After that the results speak for themselves.  Because when it takes off it’s almost like magic how it makes your phone ring and fills up your calendar with new work.

What Makes Floodlight SEO Different than our Competition

  • Month to Month Agreements – No Long Term Binding Contracts.  We understand why other companies use binding year long contracts.  It’s nice to be able to count on that revenue for a full year.  It also makes it so they only have to impress you right before the contract is up for renewal.  That’s never sat well with us.  We only do month to month agreements that can be canceled by either party at any time.  To us that just makes sense.  We help clients…we don’t take hostages.
  • Data Driven SEO – Most SEO companies have a set recipe that they do for every client regardless of size or the strength of the competition.  That’s silly.  We do extensive market research and determine exactly what needs to be done to win in your market.  We compare your site against the winning competitors on over 500 different datapoints that Google takes into account when determining where you rank.  Then we come up with a specific plan for your site.  This makes it so we don’t overcharge or undercharge (both of which are very bad).  It also makes the positive outcome where your business becomes the default business in your market much more certain.
  • We don’t limit you on the number of keywords we go after.  Most companies have set packages with 5, 10, or 15 keywords that they’ll optimize for.  That’s not great.  Most companies we work with have dozens of keywords that matter.  Many have hundreds of keywords.  Our way of thinking is this…we want to make you the number one business in your market.  We can’t do that if we are ignoring dozens or hundreds of keywords.  Each one of those ignored keywords is a way for your competition to get customers that should be going to our clients.  That’s unacceptable.  If there’s a keyword that would bring in business…we want to rank for it.  That’s just common sense, right?
  • We won’t work with your competition.  A lot of SEO companies will accept anyone who’s willing to pay them.  That makes sense if you’re a printer or an advertising agency.   It’s completely unethical for an SEO company to do that though.  If we have 2 competitors in the same market in the same area then we would have to choose which one wins.  That’s terrible.  When you choose to work with us, you can be confident that we’re not secretly working for who you’re paying us to beat.

If you would like more business from the internet, contact Floodlight SEO and we’ll get started.

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