Local SEO agency in NYC for service businesses
We help New York service businesses show up on Google Maps and in local results when people nearby search for what they do, and turn those searches into calls and inquiries.
- Google Partner
- 5.0 from 15 Google reviews
- Cavan, New York and Liverpool
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FreeTell us where your website is. We'll look it over before a free 20-minute call, then walk you through what we'd fix first.
- Your website: speed, mobile layout and what stops people inquiring
- How you show up on Google for the services you sell
- Your Google Business Profile and reviews
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Local SEO in NYC is about getting your business into the map results and local listings when someone nearby searches for your service. It suits businesses that serve a defined area, such as storage facilities, movers, law firms and brokers, whether customers come to you or you go to them.
It covers your Google Business Profile and reviews, a page on your website for each service and area you serve, listings on the main directories and the technical fixes that let Google read your site. You’ll find our New York office in Midtown Manhattan, and we’ve run local SEO for businesses from Harlem and Queens to upstate New York and Westchester.
Google Business Profile, reviews and the NYC map pack
The map pack is the block of businesses Google shows near the top of the results for most local searches. Google chooses them on how relevant, how close and how well known each business looks, so your profile, your reviews and your website all feed into it.
We fill out the profile properly, with the right categories, the services you offer and a website link that leads somewhere useful. InjuryUp Law’s profile in Queens linked to a domain with no website behind it. We rebuilt the site on that domain, added the law firm category to the profile and listed 18 of the firm’s services.
Reviews count too, and staff at a storage facility see customers only now and then. For New York S. Storage we set up MyReviews, our own review platform, which prompts customers by QR code, SMS or email so nobody on the team has to chase anyone.
SEO services for New York businesses
On the website, we give each service and each area you cover its own page, aimed at the searches people make before they call. Rather than chase broad phrases that established competitors have held for years, we start with the more specific searches underneath them, where a newer site has a realistic chance.
For Keepsake Moving & Storage, that meant a page for each of the five boroughs, with neighborhood pages beneath them. Moving out of a Park Slope brownstone and moving out of a Long Island City tower are different jobs, and the pages treat them that way.
We also fix the technical problems that stop Google reading a site, and keep adding and improving pages after launch. Every month you get a report on what we did, what moved and what we plan next.
What we did for Big Apple Mini Storage in Harlem
Big Apple Mini Storage runs two self-storage facilities in Harlem, and when it came to us it had no website at all. People searching for a unit nearby were finding national chains and long-established New York operators instead.
We built the site from scratch, with a location page for each facility and every page planned around a search New York storage customers make. After launch we kept going, adding content, improving pages and fixing technical issues month after month.
The business now gets 150 to 200 calls and form inquiries a month from organic search alone. Our page on self-storage marketing covers how we approach storage businesses more generally.
More New York SEO work
New York S. Storage competes with national chains for the same local searches. We built its website with a page for each search storage customers make, and its automated review requests keep adding to its Google reviews.
In Queens, InjuryUp Law’s website and Google profile now point to the same place, and anyone can start a case review at any time of day or tap to call from any page.
Move Whalens had no website when it came to us. We built its first site and planned its pages town by town across upstate New York and Westchester, and it now ranks for local moving searches and brings in regular inquiries. Our page on SEO for moving companies explains the approach.
S.R.P. Brokers works in New York commercial real estate, where established brokerages with years of links fill the first page. We aimed its SEO at the specific searches its clients make, and it has had more inquiries about commercial developments and leasing since the rebuild.
Local SEO case studies from New York
Each case study starts where the business was when it came to us, then explains what we did and why.
Big Apple Mini Storage
Our SEO work for this two-facility storage business in Harlem brings in 150 to 200 calls and form inquiries a month from organic search.
Read the case studyNew York S. Storage
We built the website, took on the local SEO and set up automated review requests. The site now brings in regular inquiries from people looking for storage nearby.
Read the case studyInjuryUp Law
We gave this Queens personal injury firm a working website on its own domain, with a guided case review that emails each inquiry to the firm. A separate questionnaire recommends a free attorney review instead of predicting a settlement.
Read the case studyQuestions about local SEO in New York
If your question isn't answered here, email [email protected] and we'll get back to you.
Do you work with businesses outside Manhattan?
Yes. We’ve worked with a law firm in Queens and a mover with pages for all five boroughs, as well as a mover covering upstate New York and Westchester. The first step is the free audit on a 20-minute call, so your borough or town makes no difference to getting started.
How long does local SEO take in New York?
It depends on how crowded your corner of the market is. A mover in the Westchester suburbs can rank on solid basics, while a new self-storage website in Harlem competes with national chains and needs steady work month after month.
Once we’ve looked at your site and your competitors on the audit call, we’ll give you our view of what’s realistic. If you need inquiries in the meantime, Google Ads can run alongside the SEO.
Can you guarantee a spot in the map pack?
No. Google decides who appears in the map pack, and the results change depending on where the searcher is. What we can do is make your profile, reviews and pages as strong as possible and report every month on where you show up.
How do you help us get more Google reviews?
We use MyReviews, our own review platform, to send customers a short request by SMS or email, or to show them a QR code at the counter. It asks every customer the same way, so reviews keep coming in without staff having to remember, and every review comes from a real customer.
We don’t have a storefront. Can we still rank locally?
Yes. Movers and other businesses that go to their customers can set a service area on their Google Business Profile instead of showing an address. We then build pages for the neighborhoods and towns you cover, as we did town by town for Move Whalens in upstate New York and Westchester.
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Send us your website and we'll look it over before a free 20-minute call, then walk you through the changes in order of priority. If the site is in good shape, we'll tell you so.