# GreenRank Pro

> GreenRank Pro is a regulated-products SEO consultancy in Plano, Texas. We rank CBD, hemp, cannabis, vape and snus brands in Google search and inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — verticals where Google Ads is off-limits, Meta paid age-gates, and SEO has to carry the pipeline. Three retainers from $1,500/month (Foundation) to $7,500/month (Scale), six-month minimum. Founded 2020. Marcus K. Reed, founder.

## Services
- [CBD SEO — Rank a Hemp-Derived CBD Brand Without Paid Ads](https://cbdseoagency.co/services/cbd-seo) — from $1,500 / mo (Foundation). CBD SEO is the discipline of ranking hemp-derived CBD brands in Google and inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews answers when paid acquisition is structurally unavailable.
- [Cannabis SEO — Rank in States Where Cannabis Is Legal](https://cbdseoagency.co/services/cannabis-seo) — from $3,500 / mo (Growth tier recommended). Cannabis SEO is the practice of ranking adult-use and medical cannabis brands in legal states under state-level compliance regimes that differ from federal CBD rules and from each other.
- [Dispensary SEO — Win the Local Pack and Weedmaps](https://cbdseoagency.co/services/dispensary-seo) — from $3,500 / mo (Growth tier). Dispensary SEO is the local-SEO discipline of ranking adult-use and medical cannabis retail stores in Google Local Pack, Weedmaps, Leafly and Dutchie within their legal-state geographic radius.
- [Vape SEO — Rank Vape Shops, E-Cig and Pod Brands](https://cbdseoagency.co/services/vape-seo) — from $1,500 / mo (Foundation). Vape SEO is the regulated-products SEO discipline of ranking vape shops, e-cigarette brands and nicotine-pod operators in Google search and AI answers under FDA PMTA, state-tax and 21+ age-verification constraints.
- [Hemp SEO — Rank Hemp-Derived CBD, CBG, CBN and THC Products](https://cbdseoagency.co/services/hemp-seo) — from $1,500 / mo (Foundation). Hemp SEO is the SEO discipline of ranking 2018-Farm-Bill-compliant hemp products — CBD, CBG, CBN, CBC and hemp-derived THC under 0.3% delta-9 — in Google search and AI answers, in the regulatory gray zone before the 2024-2026 Farm Bill renewal closes the THC loophole.
- [Local CBD SEO — Win the Local Pack for CBD Stores](https://cbdseoagency.co/services/local-cbd-seo) — from $1,500 / mo (Foundation). Local CBD SEO is the local-search discipline of ranking physical CBD retail stores in Google Local Pack, Google Maps and Apple Maps within a city or metro radius.

## Pricing
- Foundation (CBD SEO Foundation): $1,500 / month, min 6 months. Get a CBD or hemp DTC site indexed, structured and citable.
- Growth (CBD SEO Growth): $3,500 / month, min 6 months. Move from indexed to ranking — for CBD brands doing $50–300k/mo.
- Scale (CBD SEO Scale): $7,500 / month, min 6 months. Multi-state dispensary, multi-vertical CBD network, programmatic SEO.

## Verticals (multipliers)
- CBD / Hemp DTC: 1.0×. Lead vertical. Federally legal hemp-derived CBD (≤0.3% THC) under the 2018 Farm Bill. Google Ads broadly disallowed, Meta age-gated, Pinterest restricted, payment-processor friction. Long-tail blog and AEO citations carry most of the pipeline.
- Cannabis Dispensary: 1.2–1.4×. State-by-state legality, no Google Ads, no Meta paid, local-pack and Weedmaps/Leafly the dominant discovery surfaces. Programmatic location pages and review velocity drive results. Higher multiplier reflects compliance copy and citation-source vetting.
- Vape / Snus / Nicotine: 1.0–1.3×. No Google Ads in most regions, age-gate enforcement, 21+ checkout, FDA PMTA constraints (US vape). Snus/pouches more permissive in EU and CH. Long content with regulatory citations + on-page age verification builds trust and indexability.
- Headshop / Cannabis Accessories: 0.7–1.0×. Selling accessories (bongs, grinders, papers, vaporizers) is generally permitted but Google Ads selective. SEO-leaning channel mix, lower compliance overhead than CBD-ingestible products, fast cycle to results.

## Team
- Marcus K. Reed — Founder & Head of SEO. 9 years. Specialties: CBD and hemp DTC SEO, Cannabis dispensary local SEO, AEO/GEO for restricted-products. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-k-reed-seo

## Case studies
- [Public] Healthygarden.de: German headshop from page 3 to top-3 on cannabis-accessory queries — German headshop (cannabis paraphernalia retail) — bongs, grinders, papers, filters, vaporizers, Germany + DACH, 6 mo. https://cbdseoagency.co/cases/healthygarden-de
- [Public] Snuskingdom.ch: Swiss snus retailer to the dominant DACH organic source for nicotine pouches — Swiss snus and nicotine-pouch retailer — DTC e-commerce + cantonal store-locator, Switzerland + DACH, 6 mo. https://cbdseoagency.co/cases/snuskingdom-ch
- [Public] Snus24.com: International snus retailer rebuilds AI-crawler access after WAF cloak audit — Global English-language snus retailer — DTC e-commerce serving EU, Nordics, North America, EU + Nordics + North America, 4 mo. https://cbdseoagency.co/cases/snus24-com

## Blog (latest first)
- [How to Get Cited in Google AI Overviews for CBD Queries](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/google-ai-overviews-cbd-citations) — Marcus K. Reed, 11 min. Google AI Overviews fire on ~40% of CBD queries in 2026 and they cite 2–5 sources per answer. Here's the structural recipe for being one of those cited sources, with the AEO playbook applied to a regulated vertical.
- [Google Ads CBD Policy in 2026: What's Allowed, What's Banned, and What to Do Instead](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/google-ads-cbd-policy-2026) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. Google Ads still bans most CBD products in 2026 — but a narrow topical-CBD allowlist exists, and the rules differ by state. Here's the current map and the SEO/AEO playbook for everyone who can't run paid.
- [Meta CBD Policy 2026: What Topical Brands Can Run and What Kills Accounts](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/meta-cbd-policy-2026) — Marcus K. Reed, 8 min. Meta technically allows topical CBD ads under age-gated targeting in the US, but the approval-rejection-appeal churn loop kills most accounts within weeks. Here's what survives and what doesn't.
- [CBD Keyword Research in 2026: The Vertical-First Approach That Actually Ranks](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbd-keyword-research-2026) — Marcus K. Reed, 12 min. Most CBD keyword research starts with 'best CBD' head terms and dies there. The brands that rank build clusters around the four cannabinoid pillars and the regulatory layer — here's the framework we use.
- [CBG SEO: Own the Emerging Cannabinoid Cluster Before Competitors Arrive](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbg-seo-emerging-cluster) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. CBG (cannabigerol) is where CBD was in 2018: small search volume, almost no competition, AI engines actively under-citing because training data lags the surge. The brands that rank now hold it through the next cycle.
- [CBN SEO for Sleep Products: Positioning the Second-Most-Cited Cannabinoid](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbn-seo-sleep-products) — Marcus K. Reed, 8 min. CBN sits in the cannabinoid sleep cluster with thin competition (3–5 brands) and high commercial intent. Here's how to position a CBN sleep line for both Google rankings and AI citation.
- [Schema Markup for CBD Product Pages: Product + FAQ + Review Done Right](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbd-product-schema-engineering) — Marcus K. Reed, 11 min. Most CBD product pages ship with default Shopify schema and miss every AEO citation slot. Here's the schema stack that works in 2026 — Product, Offer, FAQPage, Review, AggregateRating, Person reviewer.
- [CBD State Restrictions Map 2026: Where Hemp-Derived Cannabinoids Are Sold Legally](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbd-state-restrictions-map) — Marcus K. Reed, 14 min. Hemp-derived CBD is federally legal under the 2018 Farm Bill, but states diverge sharply. Here's the current map of CBD, delta-8, hemp-derived delta-9 and HHC restrictions across all 50 US states as of May 2026.
- [llms.txt for CBD Brands: What to Include, What to Exclude, How AI Engines Use It](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/llmstxt-for-cbd-brands) — Marcus K. Reed, 8 min. llms.txt is the AI-readable site map. Most CBD brands either don't deploy it or treat it like robots.txt. Here's the structure that actually drives AI citations and the sections to skip.
- [CBD Link Building Without HARO: The Channels That Actually Work](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbd-link-building-without-haro) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. HARO works, but most CBD links come from channels HARO doesn't touch — trade press, podcast outreach, expert quoting on regulated-industry publications, and directory placements that compound.
- [Cannabis SEO vs CBD SEO: Why Mixing Them Hurts Both](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cannabis-vs-cbd-seo-difference) — Marcus K. Reed, 8 min. Cannabis and CBD share an audience but not a regulatory regime. Mixing them on one site triggers YMYL miscategorization, breaks state-locked architecture, and dilutes the topical authority both verticals need. Here's how to separate them.
- [Vape SEO Under PMTA: How FDA Enforcement Reshaped the SERP](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/vape-pmta-serp-analysis) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. FDA's PMTA enforcement removed thousands of vape products from US shelves between 2021 and 2026. The SERP that survived favors brands with PMTA approval, transparent disclosure and regulatory-savvy content.
- [Programmatic Location Pages for Dispensary Chains: 50–500 Pages Done Right](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/programmatic-dispensary-location-pages) — Marcus K. Reed, 10 min. Generic templated location pages get filtered by Google's helpful-content systems. The chains that rank build templates with 6–8 unique-content slots per page and per-state compliance variance.
- [Why Most CBD Blogs Don't Rank: 7 Structural Problems and the Fixes](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/why-cbd-blogs-dont-rank) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. CBD blog libraries with hundreds of posts and almost no organic traffic share the same seven structural failures. Here's the full list and the fix sequence in priority order.
- [Dispensary Local Pack Strategy: How to Win the Three-Pin Race in Cannabis SEO](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/dispensary-local-pack-strategy) — Marcus K. Reed, 10 min. Most dispensary buyers never scroll past Google's three-pack. Getting in is a function of proximity, prominence and review velocity — and review velocity is the only one you actually control. Here's the playbook.
- [The CBD Compliance Audit: 14 Things to Check Before Launching SEO](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/cbd-compliance-pre-launch-audit) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. Before any CBD SEO retainer starts, we run a 14-point compliance audit. The checks that catch 80% of the issues that stall ranking later — Google Ads exposure, FDA disclaimer, payment-processor risk, state map.
- [Review and AggregateRating Schema for CBD: Why Yotpo Widgets Aren't Enough](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/review-aggregaterating-cbd-schema) — Marcus K. Reed, 8 min. AggregateRating in JSON-LD only counts when reviews are exposed to Google's review-detection systems. Yotpo-only widgets generate the visual but not the schema signal. Here's the full review architecture.
- [Snus SEO for the DACH Market: Switzerland Wins, Germany Restricted, Austria Gray](https://cbdseoagency.co/blog/snus-seo-dach-market) — Marcus K. Reed, 9 min. DACH-region snus SEO is dominated by Swiss retailers because Switzerland is the only country where snus sale is broadly legal at retail. Germany bans tobacco snus, allows nicotine pouches; Austria sits between.

## Methodology
- Four-layer AI extraction: Hero (≤3 sentences) → X-is-Y intro → Quick Facts table (≥5 rows) → H2-as-question sections with first-sentence direct answers.
- FAQ rule: direct answer ≤30 words, optional 2–3 sentence depth.
- Schema deployed: Article, FAQPage, Service, Person, Organization (ProfessionalService), BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, Product, Review (JSON-LD only).
- Compliance layer: FDA disclaimer placement, age-gate, state-restriction copy, Google Ads policy mapping, Meta CBD policy fit.
- AI crawlers allowed: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot, FacebookBot, cohere-ai.

## Track record
- Founded 2020 (5 years).
- 30+ brands served across CBD, hemp, cannabis, vape, snus and headshop verticals.
- 8 countries — primarily US, with EU/UK/CH for snus and headshop work.
- First AI citation typically lands 30–90 days after technical rollout.

## Out of scope
- Google Ads or Meta paid for cannabis/CBD — structurally banned, we don't run gray-hat workarounds.
- Hourly retainers without written scope.
- Guaranteed citation or ranking counts (both are probabilistic; we publish ranges).
- Brands selling unverified products to minors, running review-incentivisation, or wanting gray-hat link schemes.
- We are an SEO/marketing agency. We do not sell, manufacture, or distribute CBD, cannabis, hemp, or nicotine products.

## Contact
- Sales / discovery: sales@cbdseoagency.co
- General: hello@cbdseoagency.co
- Phone: +1 (469) 217-0925
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenrank-pro
- Office: 9201 Blue Water Dr, Plano, TX 75025, United States