About

A working agency that also trains SEOs.

SEO Training in Nepal is operated by Orka Socials Pvt. Ltd., a Lalitpur-based digital marketing agency that runs live SEO retainers for clients in the United States, Australia, Europe, and Nepal today. The training program shares the same instructor team and the same client case-study library as the agency. Students learn online from people who ship work for paying clients every week.

2020Founded
25+Team
500+Projects
12Countries
575+Google Reviews
4.9★Average Rating
122Course Lessons
12Curriculum Modules
Who we are

An operating agency, not a training-only brand

SEO Training in Nepal is operated by Orka Socials Pvt. Ltd., a digital marketing agency based at Bhyuti Marga, Lalitpur 44600, Nepal. Founded in January 2020 by Rambabu Thapa, Orka Socials runs live SEO retainers for clients in Nepal, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe alongside the training program. The agency holds a 4.9-star Google Business Profile with 575+ reviews and a team of 25+ working out of the Lalitpur office.

The training brand sits under Orka Socials and shares the same instructor team and client case-study library as the agency. Students in the SEO Mastery Course can observe and contribute to real Orka Socials client projects under confidentiality guardrails. That is the pedagogical feature no other Nepal SEO training offers.

Rambabu Thapa started the company solo in Kathmandu in early 2020, after two and a half years as a full-time technical SEO contractor for Xtensio, a SaaS platform in Los Angeles. The work at Xtensio drove 4x organic traffic growth and a 6x ranking-keyword expansion. The lesson Rambabu took from that engagement, and the lesson the agency operates on now, is that SEO is figured out by sitting inside a real product team, not by reading about it.

The office moved from Kathmandu to its current ground-floor space in Lalitpur as the team grew. Today Orka Socials serves clients across Nepal, the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, Morocco, Singapore, and New Zealand. The SEO Mastery Course runs fully online and is taught by the same team that ships client work from the Lalitpur office.

The Orka Socials team at the office in Lalitpur, Nepal.
The Orka Socials team in Lalitpur. 25+ specialists across SEO strategy, technical execution, content, and client work.
Beyond the training

What Orka Socials does for paying clients

The training program is the public-facing arm of the agency. The retainer work happens in parallel and feeds the curriculum. These are the service categories Orka Socials runs day to day.

Law Firm SEOPersonal injury, employment, family law. Practice-area architecture and case-intake tracking.
E-commerce SEOShopify, WooCommerce, Magento. Product-page optimisation and revenue attribution.
SaaS SEOProduct-led growth, programmatic feature pages, docs-to-demand funnels.
Local SEOGoogle Business Profile optimisation, citations, multi-location architecture.
Technical SEOCrawl and indexing diagnostics, Core Web Vitals, schema, JS rendering, migrations.
GEO and AI SearchGenerative Engine Optimisation for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
SEO AuditsStandalone diagnostic engagements covering architecture, indexation, schema, and conversion paths.
WordPress SEOTheme and plugin work, Core Web Vitals tuning, schema integration on WordPress sites.

Documented retainer outcomes include 4x organic traffic growth for a Los Angeles SaaS, 2,372% organic growth in 6 months for a B2B ad-intelligence platform, 7.5x revenue for the Culprit Underwear DTC brand, and a 4,650-page indexation recovery after a Volusion-to-Shopify migration. Full case studies live on rambknows.com.

Origin

Why we started the training

Rambabu started teaching in 2019, before Orka Socials existed, after watching the same pattern repeat for years. People in Nepal would finish a YouTube SEO playlist, a Google certification, or a generalist digital-marketing course, then sit down in front of a real client site and freeze. They knew the words. They could not ship the work. The gap between the two is what kills careers, and it is a gap nobody can close on their own. You close it by sitting next to someone who does the work, watching the actual decisions get made, and then doing the work yourself with that person checking the output.

That is what an agency junior gets in their first six months on the job. It is not what a self-taught marketer in Pokhara, Butwal, or Birgunj gets, because the agencies are in Kathmandu and the seats are few. The training program is built to bridge that gap. Lessons come from active client work, not from textbook chapters. Project assignments are scoped against real sites. Weekly coaching is run by Rambabu and the senior agency team, the same people running paid retainers for international clients the same week.

The other reason the training exists is that the existing market in 2026 has not caught up. Most Nepal SEO courses still teach 2015-era playbooks that lost effect years ago. The 12-module curriculum is built around what works in a search market that includes AI Overviews, semantic retrieval, and LLM citation, alongside the classic technical and content fundamentals. Module 9 covers AI SEO, LLMO, and GEO at a serious level because nobody else in Nepal teaches it that way and it is now a paid skill.

The bigger purpose behind all of this is the SEO Aware Nepal mission: putting a global-paying skill within reach of every Nepali, from Kathmandu to Karnali, so geography stops being the thing that decides what someone earns.

What makes this different

Four things you cannot get from a YouTube playlist

The pedagogy works because it sits inside an operating agency. Every claim on this page is something you can verify before you enrol.

01 · Operator pedagogy

Taught from live client work

Lessons reference current client campaigns under confidentiality, not stale textbook examples. When a tactic stops working in the wild, the curriculum updates that month.

02 · 2026 curriculum

12 modules, 122 lessons, AI SEO included

Modules cover keyword research, on-page, technical SEO, off-page, local, content, auditing, GA4, GSC, project management, and freelance SEO career paths. AI SEO, LLMO, and GEO sit inside the core, not as a bolt-on.

03 · Working instructor

Rambabu still ships client work weekly

15+ years in SEO, 500+ projects across 12 countries, Upwork Top Rated Plus, WordCamp speaker (Pokhara 2018, Kathmandu 2023, Nepal 2025), author of four books on SEO. The instructor is not a retired teacher, he is the agency founder. See Rambabu Thapa's full profile.

04 · Verifiable proof

Real reviews, real outcomes, real address

4.9★ on 575+ Google Business Profile reviews, traceable client case studies on rambknows.com, a physical office in Lalitpur you can visit. Walk-in consultations are welcome during business hours.

Inside Orka Socials

The agency behind the training

The office, the team, and the conferences. Orka Socials runs international client retainers and produces the SEO Mastery Course out of the same building in Lalitpur. The course itself is delivered online.

Rambabu Thapa standing in the Orka Socials office in Lalitpur.
The Lalitpur office where retainers and training run side by side
The Orka Socials senior team working at the Lalitpur office.
The senior team at the Orka Socials office in Lalitpur
The Orka Socials team at a partner event in Kathmandu.
The team at a partner event
Rambabu Thapa at the SEO Aware Nepal community campaign launch.
SEO Aware Nepal community campaign
Rambabu Thapa with attendees at SEO Conference Nepal 2025.
SEO Conference Nepal 2025 attendees
Where we are

Visit the Lalitpur office

Walk-in consultations are welcome during business hours. The office is on the ground floor, near Arun Thapa Chowk.

Orka Socials Pvt. Ltd.

Bhyuti Marga
Lalitpur 44600, Bagmati Province, Nepal

Phone: +977 1 5914543
WhatsApp: +977 9801373251
Email: training@orkasocials.com
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (NPT)
Saturday: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (by appointment)

Talk to the people who built this

Meet Rambabu, see the courses, or message the office directly. The same team that runs international retainers will answer.