The website design industry has gotten severely watered down on the promises and guarantees of fishing charter SEO for website design. Let’s be honest here, have you been to a website design company website and NOT seen them advertise their SEO services? Kinda scary, to be honest.

The truth is, there are really only a few legit SEO companies for fishing charters in the industry. Trust me, I know who they are and where we stand. And trust me, there are A LOT of fly-by-night experts popping up everywhere recently, too.

If you go to Google and simply search SEO, it won’t take long to learn the 101’s of how it works in website design. But here’s the catch, those are 101s that MOST people know nowadays anyways. But my point is, a few articles later and everyone is an SEO expert, it seems.

Proper fishing charter SEO goes FAR beyond the basics if you want your website to rank and generate leads for your business. And don’t forget the obvious here, at the end of the day, the leads are what matters. I say it all the time, if your phone ain’t ringing it simply ain’t working.

EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICING SEO

I don’t know anyone who’s been making fishing websites for as long as myself, honestly. The first website I created was called Nodak Outdoors in 2002 (sold it to another company in 2013 along with 10 other websites including DuckHuntingChat.com). It wasn’t easy at the time, and that wasn’t a bad thing, either. In the early days, if you wanted to build a website, you used code (HTML). You either knew it or you didn’t, it was just that simple. So obviously the competition was low, and even better, nobody had a clue how SEO worked then. Google was still in its infancy, so I called it the “Wild Wild West Days”.

Fast forward to today, and building a website is as easy as ever. Nobody really writes code anymore, unless you’re looking into software development. But with that ease of use, means ANYONE can be a website designer nowadays as well.

So how does experience matter in fishing charter SEO? Well, not only have I seen a thing or two in 23 years, but I’ve been closely following proper SEO tactics and trends since. I’ve personally built hundreds of fishing websites in my time, and that means I have A LOT of websites to track analytics and patterns (stats don’t lie). 

And here’s a fact here at Flyway Media. Myself (Chris Hustad), the owner of Flyway Media, does 100% of the SEO here. WE DO NOT FARM THIS OUT, EVER. It’s one of those, if you want it done right you gotta do it yourself types of skills. I stopped training SEO many, many years ago. Why? Well as soon as they learn “enough”, they will bail and go on their own. And quite honestly, SEO isn’t something that’s easy to teach because the Google algorithm is SO ADVANCED, nowadays.

WE’RE ANGLERS OURSELVES

Everyone on staff here at Flyway Media likes to fish, and fishes often. Why does this matter? Well, I can tell you through the years, I’ve seen a lot of “off-looking” websites for fishing charters. You can usually spot these “non-angler” companies easily by the verbiage and pictures used. And what’s worse these days, is AI images companies are using as stock photos…yikes. 

And when it comes to writing for fishing charter SEO, it obviously comes more naturally when it comes from someone who actually lives it. I’ve been writing fishing articles since I started web design 23 years ago. Not only for the websites I owned and published, but for other websites and magazines, too. If you don’t think verbiage doesn’t matter, well, it does. In fact, not only is that often the core of SEO methods, but also important when it comes to conversions (a.k.a. Leads). And again, in the end, the leads are what matter most.

VAST FISHING CHARTER NETWORK AND CONTENT FOR FISHING CHARTER SEO

Okay, so this is one part of our Fishing Charter SEO that I’d prefer to be more vague about. Why? Well don’t think for a minute my competitors don’t read my stuff, enough said. But I can tell you that over the years of building fishing websites, I've built a network of solid content that so few can come close to touching. 

Why does this matter for fishing charter SEO? That answer is easy; funnels. We have a proven method to funnel traffic and leads to your fishing charter website. As I said earlier, stats don’t lie. You will see it in your traffic logs. And that is as far as I need to go to make this point… ;-)

CREATIVE ONLINE MARKETING TACTICS

Here’s a truth about fishing charter website design today. NOBODY can guarantee how long it will take to turn your website SEO around, exactly. And if you DO run into someone who claims they can, RUN. Honestly, SEO is a long-term process. It’s a marathon, not a sprint when it comes to what we’re trying to accomplish. Not only do we want to rank your website well on search engines, but we want to keep you there. Brand new websites today can take many months before it’ll start being recognized and ranked highly on Google. I wish I could say it comes overnight, but that would simply be a weak sales pitch and not a fact.

And solid fishing charter SEO can’t be done by secret little tricks, trust me. The Google algorithm is VERY advanced today compared to years prior, and they can spot those “tricks” quite easily. And let’s face it, when we’re talking SEO for fishing charters, we’re talking Google because they still hold between 89 to 90% of the search market share online as of mid-July 2025.

Proper SEO means taking ZERO shortcuts in the design. That’s what I run into most when redesigning websites for SEO. Web designers SHOULD know these things, and often do, they simply skip these critical steps in order to get the website out the door.

And when I say SEO is a long-term practice, it means the website should be constantly growing in the eyes of Google. That means continuous work inside and outside of the website, throughout the life of the website itself.

And we’re human, too. Meaning, if we somehow miss the mark initially, we can easily spot weaknesses in the audit of the website stats. So we can act and make the appropriate changes to turn it around.

WE UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR FISHING CHARTER GOOGLE BUSINESS PROFILE WORKS WITH YOUR WEBSITE

This is yet another area I like to be gray about, for reasons stated earlier. But first off, if you DON’T have a Google Business Profile for starters, you’re missing out on A LOT of “free” traffic and leads. But again, like websites, just because you have one, doesn’t mean it’ll rank well and do a lot for you unless you know what you’re doing.

And believe it or not, the power of your Google Business Profile goes far beyond the actual profile itself. Again, won’t get into the details but it’s simple reasons like this why companies hire Flyway Media for their fishing charter SEO for their websites. 

Recap on Fishing Charter SEO Today

I cannot stress the importance of choosing the right web design company for doing your fishing charter SEO on your website. Don’t be tricked into spending huge budgets on ads and the like by web design companies. While ads obviously have a time and place, proper SEO is always your best ROI for your online marketing. If you break down all the money spent, and the leads you’re receiving regularly will be an easy way to identify if you made the right choice for your fishing charter’s website SEO.

We’d love to be that company if you’re a fishing charter looking for a new website or simply wanting to redesign and recharge your marketing. We’ve got methods and a system that’s been proven time and time again online with various fishing charters across North America. And I will say it again for a third and final time, stats never lie!

Tight Lines

CHRIS