Paul Weidner
Founder & Owner
Leads SEO strategy and client growth. He’s the one on your strategy calls, mapping the plan to your market and staying accountable to the results.
A small, dedicated Tampa-based team building SEO, web development, and custom software for businesses ready to grow — with the same people on every call, every campaign, and every result.
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Search Strength SEO was founded in 2023 by Paul Weidner, who still leads strategy and client growth with a hands-on approach. He works alongside Steven, a very close friend and the most talented developer and problem-solver he has ever worked with. Together they operate as an equal core team — and they’re the two people you’ll actually talk to. Behind the work sits more than twelve years of combined search and build experience, a BBB accreditation with an A+ rating, and a 5.0 rating across 27 Google reviews.
Paul Weidner
Founder & Owner
Leads SEO strategy and client growth. He’s the one on your strategy calls, mapping the plan to your market and staying accountable to the results.
Steven
Co-Owner & CTO
Heads web development and custom software. He turns the strategy into fast, well-built sites and the tooling that keeps your campaigns moving.
It is a fair question to ask any two-person team, and the answer is deliberate rather than improvised. Every account is documented in shared playbooks instead of living in one person’s head, both of us hold full access to every client property, and the client portal keeps the work log, reporting history, and page status independent of whoever wrote it. Recurring work runs on an internal automation platform rather than on memory, and paid search — for the clients who need it — is handled by a vetted partner agency coordinated against the same plan.
Paul Weidner is the founder and owner of Search Strength SEO and the person who plans and writes the search work for every client. He has been ranking and building websites since 2013, and in 2023 he opened Search Strength SEO in Tampa to do that work under his own name rather than inside another agency.
His focus is the part of search that decides whether a local phone rings: Google Business Profile setup and review routines, the map pack, service and neighborhood pages that answer a buyer’s question in their opening line, and, more recently, getting businesses named inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews.
Paul works from the New Tampa office and sits down with Tampa Bay clients in person when a kickoff or quarterly review calls for it. His public profile is on LinkedIn, and the sections below explain how the work divides between him and Steven, who serves as co-owner and CTO.
Montesanti Construction is a Tampa contractor whose services, from concrete and pavers to kitchen and bathroom remodels, had been folded into a few general pages. Someone searching for one specific job in Tampa found no page answering that exact question, so Google had little reason to show the site for it.
Paul mapped each trade to a single search intent and wrote seven Tampa service pages around them: concrete, pavers, drywall, flooring, bathroom remodeling, kitchen remodeling, and general construction and remodeling. Each page answers its own questions, links to its neighbors and keeps every claim inside the scope of the company’s state contractor license. All seven went live on September 18, 2026.
The same thinking shaped the Element Roofing Solutions rebuild for a Riverview-based roofer: the homepage speaks to the whole Tampa Bay region, a dedicated page owns Tampa searches and the Riverview page stays live for its home market, so no two pages chase one search. Rankings and leads for both clients are measured against their own baselines on fixed dates, and client figures appear here only after the client approves them.
Paul does the SEO himself. He builds each client's plan, writes or edits the pages and reviews the monthly reports, and no separate sales team stands between him and the work.
Our base is the New Tampa area of Tampa. Paul and Steven meet clients on-site around Tampa Bay or remotely, whichever suits the project, and (813) 656-0707 is the quickest way to set a time.
Most clients are in Tampa Bay, spread across Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties. The team also serves companies in Orlando and the Midwest remotely, with the same reporting portal and direct access.
Steven, co-owner and CTO, owns the technical side: hosting on our server, site speed, structured data, custom WordPress plugins and the reporting portal each client logs into.
Start with a free written audit, or phone (813) 656-0707. Paul reviews your rankings, your Google profile and your nearest competitors, then walks you through what he found.
Not principles — the mechanics. This is the same sequence every account follows, whether it is a two-van trade business or a multi-location practice.
Month one is baseline and repair, not publishing. We record where you rank and what the site currently earns, fix the technical faults that would undermine anything built on top, and complete the Google Business Profile. Publishing starts once that is done, so later movement can be attributed to something.
Paul owns search strategy, content and the local work. Steven owns development, custom software and the reporting portal. Nothing is handed to a junior after the sales call, because there is no junior and there was no sales call — you spoke to both of us.
Leads, calls, texts and form fills are counted separately and shown against the page and the month that produced them. It is the same view we work from rather than a monthly PDF assembled after the fact, and you can open it at two in the morning without asking us for it.
Results get checked on dates set in advance rather than whenever the numbers happen to look good. When a month goes backwards you hear why it went backwards, which is the part that tells you whether the person reporting is reading the data or decorating it.
A young company invites a fair question, so here is the straight answer: the firm is newer than the people running it. The combined search and build experience behind the work predates the business by years — what changed in 2023 is that it stopped being done inside someone else’s agency.
The upside is one most established shops cannot claim. Every method we run was built for search as it works now — map pack, review velocity, and answer engines quoting pages back at people who never click through — rather than adapted from a playbook written for 2018 and patched ever since. There is nothing here we are protecting because it used to work.
That also means we say no to things that used to be standard. We do not buy links, we do not run private blog networks, and we do not chase a vendor authority score, because the 2026 spam updates went back and devalued exactly those profiles. What we build instead is slower and it keeps working.
Worth reading before you call. Any of these being a dealbreaker is better discovered now than in month three.
Nobody outside Google controls the results. A guaranteed ranking is either luck or a phrase so obscure that owning it changes nothing about your week. We commit to the work, the baseline and honest reporting against it.
We are organic-first by design. When paid genuinely fits — a new location, a seasonal push, cover while search builds — a vetted partner agency runs it against the same plan. You will not be quietly sold a channel you did not ask about.
We offer both flexible terms and longer-term contract options. A longer-term agreement is the shape most of our work takes, because it lets us plan a full sequence rather than a month at a time, and we will tell you plainly which one fits what you are trying to do.
The site, the domain, the Google profile and the analytics history stay in accounts you own. We ask for access rather than creating things under our name, which is what makes leaving straightforward if you ever want to.
Most clients start with search, add a better website when visitors are not converting, and bring us custom software once the work behind each lead piles up.
Google Maps, service pages and technical repairs, planned and written by Paul. Tampa companies can start with our Tampa SEO company page.
WordPress sites on our own hosting, with the search plan inside the design. See our web design and development work.
Quote calculators, client portals and automations built by Steven. Details are on our custom software page.
Paul really is the real deal and knows what he is talking about. If you need someone to help your online presence, I wouldn't go to anyone else but Paul.
Search Strength help me our when it came to my SEO. I knew nothing about SEO and had no idea how important it was to my business. 10/10
Paul is a very bright person. His knowledge about AI and SEO is impeccable. Look forward to working with him.
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Great service and super fast!
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We had such a great experience with the Search Strength SEO team! They made our website look better than ever and handled our Google Business Profile setup flawlessly. Everyone was kind, responsive, and extremely thorough.
Anytime we had a question or needed help, they were right there. We’re so grateful for everything they did for us!
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The Search Strength team has been incredible to work with. They know exactly what they’re doing when it comes to optimizing a Google Business Profile. Our visibility and engagement here in Tampa have noticeably improved thanks to
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Working with this team has been an absolute pleasure. Their communication is top-notch — always quick to respond, clear, and proactive. They truly understand SEO and deliver high-quality work that drives results. From technical
audits to content optimization, everything was handled with professionalism and attention to detail. Highly recommend for anyone looking to level up their SEO game!
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