About Dope SEO
No gimmicks, shiny suits or predatory contracts!
We have put together a passionate team of bad ass digital marketers who also happen to be cannabis enthusiasts. We love what we do, and we genuinely appreciate all of our clients and work to our fullest ability to get them the best results possible.
We have clients from coast to coast and understand what it takes to drive traffic and sales. Our team has been behind the scenes in the industry for years, and we have helped our clients make millions from online marketing.
Most recently Max was invited to Co-Host the award winning MITA Unshackled Podcast.
Where you may have seen us
Who We Work With
The cannabis industry is arguably one of the most restrictive industries online. While the stigma around hemp, CBD, cannabis and other hemp derived products are lowering, the lack of support from a digital standpoint is still pretty obvious. There are more and more agencies dipping their toes in the water with big promises and very little experience. We have been doing this since 2016 and have helped grow dozens of companies from 4 figures a month to 5, 6 and 7 figure organizations.
As the industry progresses, so do we.
There were a ton of limitations on how and where to market, and to be honest most of the “solutions” offered by companies with huge financing were crap repackaged as better crap. This leads to a whole lot of business owners still operating like Blockbuster video stores when everyone else has multiple streaming services.
Digital Marketing for the Cannabis Industry
We prefer to work with cannabis/ THC companies more than anything. We are selective on who we choose to work with.
Why?
There are a number of reasons for this, but the real reason is that we just kick ass at cannabis and CBD/ HEMP ecommerce optimization requires a budget that goes beyond local optimization.
Our services work for both national Ecom and Local Optimization. We combine our expertise in both ecommerce and local SEO and have put together strategies that just work for shops.
We even went ahead and helped build our own custom ECOM platform for cannabis dispensaries that is far better than anything that any of the multimillion dollar companies has released.
Want to see it?
Check out BudPlug
Meet the Core Team at Dope SEO
Max Juhasz
Founder/ SEO Expert/ CoHost of the Award Winning MITA Unshackled Podcast
Max got started in digital marketing back in 2014. With almost 20 years in sales and marketing it only made sense to jump head first into the future. He made his first 5 figures from organic YouTube marketing in 2016. Max went on to help a large number of local and national businesses rank and grow online.
He has worked with a number of high level CBD and cannabis companies. After seeing the results he could create for his current clients, it only made sense to focus his energy into the cannabis industry exclusively.
In 2021 he became a coach for Search Marketing Institute, where he taught SEO and YouTube SEO to over 150 different agency owners and freelancers. He left in early 2022 to focus on the agency.
He lives in Texas (a very unfriendly state for cannabis), he spends most of his time working & strategizing. As a free thinking independent universalist agnostic, he passionately works on helping other businesses grow while advocating for the eventual TX cannabis legalization….
Max also wrote the book “Cannabis SEO – The do’s and don’ts of cannabis digital marketing”. You can grab a copy for yourself on Amazon.
Michael C.
Dev Supreme, Email Marketing, Conversion Tracking & So Much More…
Providing strong leadership for the implementation of new technology trends in the areas of SEO, CRO, AI, and Automatization. Having an initial background as a server side developer, Michael works with various platforms to implement technologies. Leveraging a wide array of skill sets to provide growth through unique marketing channels.
Courtney V.
Influencer Outreach / Marketing & Promotions
Courtney Vanhorn is a Social Media Marketing Manager and content creator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her areas of focus include, but aren’t limited to, Social Media outreach, developing creative and engaging social media strategies, managing the day-to-day handling of all social media channels, outsourcing engaging multimedia content across multiple platforms, and managing new promotional competitions and campaigns, and facilitating social media communities by responding to social media posts and develop discussions. She is extremely committed to the companies she works with and quickly becomes invested in the work shes doing for each client.
Besides working diligently on social media marketing, Courtney owns and operates her own small business; creating and selling handmade jewelry via her shop on Etsy. She uses her experience in social media marketing for growth in her personal business endeavors, as well as her work helping other companies grow.
When she isn’t creating or Instagramming, Courtney loves to socialize, spending time with her son and friends, adventuring around Baltimore and the surrounding area.
Matt M
SEO Strategy
Matt McDermott has been involved with internet marketing for the last 15 years including running his own company serving clients across the country in a wide range of industries. He helps these business owners with online marketing strategy, choosing solid keywords which will lead to new customers once ranking, finding ways to help clients leverage their unknown/hidden digital assets, ads, YouTube and other video marketing, and much more.
Regarding SEO, he has helped hundreds of websites and/or their associated website properties rank on the first page of Google for keywords which have confirmed legitimate monthly search volume.
In addition to serving online marketing clients he also has operated websites dedicated to the independent professional baseball industry, a set of baseball leagues which have run concurrently to Minor League Baseball since 1993. In 2021 he led the effort to produce and market the first-ever non-fungible token (NFT) baseball card team set for a professional minor league baseball team.
He is an Eagle Scout, has played and worked in professional baseball leagues for several seasons, and has years of experience in the U.S. equities and commodities trading industry including trading software.
How it all started.
Cannabiz Marketing Solutions wasn’t planned. There were no corporate meetings behind closed doors with billionaire backers looking to angel invest in a marketing company for cannabis. It just kind of happened…. like evolution.
After years of affiliate, client and local SEO projects, there came a point of clarity.
The original local SEO company, Rebel Base SEO helped tons of local and small businesses generate positive ROI online. The pain point was that we maintained a constant influx of random leads and each new project required tons of research for the niche. Sometimes we did our job too well, and the client ended up selling their business for a massive profit while we were left in the dust holding a big bag of “thanks.” (This happened 4 times in 3 years).
It took a bit of deep diving, soul searching and number crunching for figure out what we were truly passionate about. When the dust settled we figured out that the best clients we ever worked with as a whole came from the cannabis industry.
It’s always a little risky turning down multiple 6 figures a year in client SEO, but the heart wants what the heart wants. When it all boils down to it, we are passionate about cannabis… and we know what it takes to get results.