Back Road Building · San Luis Obispo

Websites built to perform. Search strategy that delivers. Ads that pay back.

Fifteen years building the parts of digital marketing that actually move the needle — websites, search, and ads working together instead of pulling apart.

Michael Venia
Michael Venia.
San Luis Obispo · 15 years in digital marketing · Google Certified
About me
What I do

Three services, built to work together.

01 / Web Design

Custom-built websites with room to grow.

Flexible WordPress and custom builds — the kind of site that keeps working as your business changes, not the kind you outgrow in 18 months. Squarespace and Shopify when they're the right fit.

Web design →
02 / SEO

Show up in the right searches.

Technical SEO, local search, and content strategy built to compound — pages that perform today and keep pulling traffic two years from now. Structured for Google and the AI answer engines reshaping how people search.

SEO →
03 / Paid Ads

Every dollar tracked to a lead.

Google and Meta campaigns built on tight targeting and clean attribution. Every dollar ties back to a specific lead, call, or sale — so you know where the budget went and what it bought.

Paid ads →
Michael Venia, digital marketer based in San Luis Obispo
Who's behind the work

Hi — I'm Michael.

I've spent 15 years in digital marketing. Google Certified. Based in San Luis Obispo, working with clients across the Central Coast and beyond. Every project starts with a real conversation — what your business actually does, where you want it to be, what's been tried, what's worked.

From there, I build the site, run the campaigns, and turn the data into decisions worth acting on.

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Return on ad spend
$80K from $7.3K · Q3 2025
Case study · compliance training

Every dollar in Google Ads returned $11 in revenue.

The account had potential — it just needed sharper focus. I rebuilt the campaigns around the products driving real margin, redirected budget away from keywords that were burning through spend, and tightened targeting to match actual buyer behavior. Q3 2025 closed at $80,530 in revenue from $7,270 in Google Ads spend.

What it looks like

Custom Looker Studio dashboards for every client — the metrics that matter to your business, pulled live from GA4, Search Console, and ad accounts. Clear visibility, in one place.

Michael Venia performing
Beyond the work

Before digital marketing, I spent years mastering records — listening closely, making small adjustments, working on a song until it actually lands. That habit carries into the marketing work, too.

Live with Carbon City Lights

Selected work

Where the numbers came from.

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Web design · tree service
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Custom builds · same client

Two websites, both custom-built around how their customers actually decide. Clean, modern, easy to use — the kind of site that keeps working as the business grows.

SEO + paid ads · medical practice
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Patient inquiries · Q3 2025

Phone calls and contact forms from local search and paid search working together — the kind of conversions that actually move the needle for the practice.

Full-stack · real estate
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Inquiries · Q3 2025

Calls and form submissions for a California brokerage in a single quarter — site, SEO, and paid ads all pulling in the same direction.

Real clients, real results

In their words.

Reviews pulled directly from Google. If you want to leave one, or see the rest, you can head there directly.

★★★★★

"Michael has built two websites for us now and we couldn't be happier. The website layouts are very nice, modern, and easy for our potential customers to use."

Jasper La Fein
Google Review
★★★★★

"We're so happy with how our website turned out. It's been a huge help to get our business ranked higher on our local Google search. Great communication through the process."

North Coast Junk Removal
Google Review
★★★★★

"From conducting a detailed SEO audit to enhancing the overall design, he transformed my site into something far more polished and user-friendly. The difference is noticeable."

Kirrin Bereznak
Google Review
Who I work with

Built for specific businesses.

Medical

Practices that grow through trust, visibility, and making it easy for patients to reach them.

Real Estate

Brokerages whose websites need to work as hard as their agents do.

Wineries

Tasting rooms and direct-wine-sales programs that deserve a site as considered as the wine.

Home Services

Contractors who want the phones to ring with the right kind of leads.

Ready to see where you're at?

Start with a free strategy audit.

Honest observations, concrete next steps — yours whether we work together or not.