From Shem Creek to the map pack. Charleston, booked.
We run the Google Ads, Meta, SEO, booking site and the phone line for a Mount Pleasant charter operator. In July 2026, $9,653 in ad spend returned $54,331 in tracked bookings across 110 trips.
charlestonsharkteethhunting.com New site: impressions 1,623 to 5,018 and clicks 21 to 105 in its first month, average position 38 to 14.
Proof from Mount Pleasant
One operator, two brands, a season we can show you in Search Console
Tourism in Charleston is seasonal and competitive. This is what the numbers looked like for a Shem Creek charter business in summer 2026.
Charters · Shem Creek
Lowcountry Coastal Excursions
Dolphin, sunset, harbor and bachelorette charters departing Shem Creek. We run the paid media and the booking site, with FareHarbor and Rezdy feeding an owner dashboard every morning.
July 2026: $9,653 spend, $54,331 tracked revenue, 5.6× return
June 2026: $8,247 spend, $43,494 revenue, 5.3× return
Performance Max campaign built around occasions, not keywords
Tour buyers call. We put an AI agent on the operator's Charleston number that answers pricing, departure and weather questions from a written knowledge base and books the trip.
Answers rates for shark tooth hunts, sunset cruises and private charters
Hands off to a human for anything outside the script
What a Charleston tour or hospitality business gets from us
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Paid media judged on return, not clicks
Charleston bookings swing with the season, so we manage budgets week to week and report return on ad spend from real booking data, not platform estimates.
Google Ads search and Performance Max built around occasions
Meta campaigns with the Conversions API so bookings attribute correctly
Referral exclusions and UTM discipline so your own domains stop stealing credit
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Local SEO for a tourism SERP
For Charleston queries the top ten is TripAdvisor, Viator and listicles. We match your entity name there exactly and build the pages that earn the rest.
One product page per tour with real price, duration and departure point
A seasonality page: tides, sunset times, shark-tooth season
Google Things To Do and CVB listings kept consistent
03
Booking sites that convert on a phone
Tourists book on cellular data. Sticky Book Now bar, one-tap call, weather policy in plain words, and a checkout that does not lose the sale.
FareHarbor and Rezdy integrated, not iframed as an afterthought
Server-rendered pages an AI crawler can read
Owner dashboard refreshed daily from the booking systems
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AI search and answer engines
"Best boat tour in Charleston" is being asked in ChatGPT now. We put your operator in the sources the engines cite and give them a page with numbers nobody else has.
Entity audit across TripAdvisor, Google, Yelp and Viator
A data page: teeth found per trip by month, trips run, seasons sold out
Monthly prompt panel across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews
Where we work
Charleston, Mount Pleasant and the islands
Charleston County and the beach towns. We work with operators, restaurants, rentals and the service businesses that keep them running.
CharlestonMount PleasantIsle of PalmsSullivan's IslandDaniel IslandJames IslandFolly BeachNorth CharlestonSummervilleKiawah Island
Carolinas team
Served from Huntersville, NC and Los Angeles
Our Carolinas office is in Huntersville. Charleston clients get the same team that runs the Shem Creek accounts, on site when the work needs it and on a daily dashboard when it does not.
Charlotte & Lake Norman16833 Knoxwood Dr Huntersville, NC 28078
Los Angeles15406 Cabrito Rd Ste 8 Van Nuys, CA 91406
The one account we can show you did 5.3× in June 2026 and 5.6× in July 2026 on tracked booking revenue. Your number depends on your prices, capacity and season. We report it from booking data, not from what the ad platform claims.
Both. The Shem Creek operator above runs Rezdy at native checkout and FareHarbor alongside it, and both feed an owner dashboard that refreshes every morning.
Budgets come down, content and citations go up. Winter is when the seasonality page, the review base and the TripAdvisor entity work get done, so the next spring starts from a higher position.
Yes, and it is common. Purchases show up as self-referral when an old domain or a booking iframe breaks the session. The fix is referral exclusions, ad-level UTMs and the Meta Conversions API. We have done exactly this for the account above.
They recommend what they can read and trust. We make your name identical across TripAdvisor, Google and Viator, publish a page with numbers only you have, and open the site to AI crawlers. Then we measure it monthly. No one can promise a citation, and we do not.
Ready to grow in Charleston?
Send us your booking system and your last season's numbers. You get a written plan for the next one, with the ad budget and the pages spelled out, before you pay anything.
