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Vape & smoke shop SEO

They took your ads years ago. Nobody handed you a plan B.

Google Ads: bannedMeta: bannedSearch & AI: wide open

Tobacco and vape products are banned from Google and Meta advertising, full stop. Every customer who walks in found you some other way, and that other way is search. We make sure the map pack and the AI answer both come back with your name, not the shop across town.

No contracts. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice.

The reality

Three fights you're in, whether you know it or not.

Every shop looks identical online.

Same products, same profile, same three photos. Google can't tell you apart, so it ranks whoever's closest. We build the signals that break the tie in your favor.

New lines launch silently.

You can't announce anything with ads. Product and category pages that rank are how customers find out you carry what they want.

AI answers skip the little guy.

Where to buy near me questions get answered with whoever has mentions and citations. Most vape shops have zero. Building them is the whole play.

How we fight it

Two battlefields. One scoreboard.

The map pack and the AI answer run on different algorithms. We fight both: your profile, reviews, and coverage pages for the map, and the entities, mentions, and citations that put your name inside AI answers. Every month you see the same heat map we audited you with, updated.

  • Age-gated, policy-clean. We build pages that respect every platform rule for tobacco retail, so rankings never come at the cost of the profile.
  • Reviews on a steady drip. Velocity and response time beat raw count. We set the system so every regular becomes a signal.
  • Multi-location ready. Two shops or ten, each location gets its own clean presence without duplicate-page penalties.
"vape shop near me" · area visibility after 90 days

Each cell is a real map location. The number is your ranking there.

Free local search audit

Find out which shop the AI names when someone asks where to buy.

One audit. Your real map, your real rankings, and what ChatGPT and Google answer today. If you're already winning, we'll tell you that too.