Awkward Media
Midtown Atlanta skyline at blue hour, reflected in Lake Clara Meer in Piedmont Park

SEO company in Atlanta, ranking businesses across metro Atlanta and Georgia

Atlanta SEO company. Page one of Google in 60 days.

If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. You see the first improvements in 20 days. Month to month, with our prices published.

30 minutes on Google Meet. For businesses doing $20k a month or more.

plumber decatur
Illustration: how a listing climbs into the Google Maps top three. Not a real search result.

4.8

on Google, from 197 reviews

4.6

on Trustpilot, from 55 reviews

Top 5%

SEO agencies in the world, by Mayple

13 yrs

ranking businesses in the US and Canada

As seen in and rated on

USA Today LA Weekly Clutch TopSEO UpCity
  • plumber decatur
  • ac repair marietta
  • truck accident lawyer atlanta
  • movers buckhead
  • termite control alpharetta
  • med spa midtown
  • dentist sandy springs
  • roof repair smyrna
  • personal injury lawyer downtown atlanta
  • tree removal roswell

Why Atlanta businesses lose the call

6.4 million people. One metro. Three spots on the map.

The City of Atlanta is home to about 520,000 people, and the metro around it to about 6.4 million, from Marietta and Alpharetta to Decatur, Lawrenceville and Peachtree City. When the AC quits in a July heat wave or a pipe bursts in a January freeze, people pick up a phone and search, and Google answers with three businesses on the map and ten links below it. If you aren’t in those spots, the job goes to someone who is.

Source: US Census Bureau 2024 American Community Survey via Census Reporter, for the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta metro

The top three take the calls.

Most people pick from the three businesses Google shows on the map. Fourth place still has a listing, but far fewer people ever see it.

Google Maps is local. Atlanta is a city of neighborhoods inside a metro of cities.

Google favors businesses close to the searcher. Ranking in Midtown doesn’t mean you show up in Marietta, Decatur or Alpharetta.

Two dates, in writing.

First movement by day 20. Page one by day 60, or we keep working free. And our prices are on the website.

Our guarantees

Page one in 60 days, or we work free until you are.

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Atlanta search, month by month

July heat. January freezes. Spring termites. Each with its own rush.

We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Atlanta. AC repair runs from 1,300 searches a month to 3,600 at the height of summer, and plumber from 1,900 to 5,400. When it turns cold, furnace repair jumps from 210 to 1,900 and garage door repair from 1,300 to 6,600. Termite control climbs from 260 to 880 in spring, water damage restoration runs from 170 to 1,000, and “movers Atlanta” never drops below 2,900. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.

AC repair

searches a month

1,300 to 3,600

Plumber

searches a month

1,900 to 5,400

Furnace repair

searches a month

210 to 1,900

Garage door repair

searches a month

1,300 to 6,600

Termite control

searches a month

260 to 880

Water damage restoration

searches a month

170 to 1,000

Each chart runs January to December and is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Atlanta, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.

Heating and AC? Rank before each rush.

Atlanta has two HVAC seasons. AC repair searches nearly triple into summer, and furnace repair searches run nine times higher in December and January than in June. Rankings take weeks to build, so HVAC and plumbing companies need the top three before each rush, not after it starts. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.

Moving never stops.

“Movers Atlanta” runs from 2,900 to 5,400 searches a month, and moving company from 1,000 to 1,900. A mover click costs around $20 on Google Ads in Atlanta. In a metro this size, a top-three spot is worth more every single month.

No bill for every click.

On Google Ads in Atlanta, a click costs around $702 for truck accident lawyer, $228 for workers’ compensation lawyer, $104 for personal injury lawyer, $125 for water heater repair, $121 for mold removal and $31 for plumber. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.

A tree crew in a bucket truck cutting a fallen oak off the roof of a brick ranch house on a wet Atlanta street after a storm

After Hurricane Helene, September 2024

11.12 inches of rain in 48 hours. A record that stood since 1886.

When Helene’s rain reached Atlanta in late September 2024, the gauge at Hartsfield-Jackson recorded 11.12 inches in 48 hours, breaking the city’s record of 9.59 inches set in 1886, according to Georgia’s state climatologist. Creeks flooded and trees came down across the metro. When that happens, homeowners search: over the last twelve months in Atlanta, water damage restoration ran from 170 to 1,000 searches a month, tree removal from 140 to 2,400 and roof repair from 260 to 880. For the restoration crews, tree services and roofers doing that work, being easy to find on Google matters.

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on Helene’s record rainfall in Atlanta

Get found by the people searching

SEO results in the Southeast and across North America

Big markets. Hard searches. Built for Atlanta.

Google Maps · Canton, Massachusetts · 20 days

Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo

#10

#1

For “car accident attorneys near me” on Google Maps, in 20 days. All eight of the firm’s tracked searches finished in the top three. In Atlanta, a truck accident lawyer click costs around $702 on Google Ads and a personal injury click around $104. A top-three spot on the map doesn’t bill by the click.

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Google Maps · Cape Coral, Florida

Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating

8 of 8

Tracked HVAC searches in the Google Maps top three. Southern heat, a crowded map. The same plan we’d run for an Atlanta heating and air company before the summer rush and again before the first freeze.

Google search · Manitoba

Maurice and Sons: 18 of 19 searches couldn’t find them. 21 days later, 15 were top three.

A log home restoration contractor. On March 10, eighteen of its nineteen tracked searches sat outside Google’s top 100. Twenty-one days later, seven were #1, fifteen were in the top three, and Google’s AI was citing the business by name.

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March 10

1 of 19

searches inside the top 100

21 days later

15 of 19

searches in the top three

Day 1Day 21

7

searches at #1 on Google

21 days

from not found to the top three

Google search · Toronto

EquityRich: #1, above the banks.

Mortgage searches are crowded with banks, government pages and national finance sites. EquityRich ranks #1 for “commercial mortgage Toronto” and appears as a cited source in Google’s AI answer. In Atlanta, that is the fight every lender, law firm and clinic is in.

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Google result: EquityRich first for commercial mortgage Toronto
“Commercial mortgage Toronto” on Google: EquityRich in first place.

How we measure

Your ranking, from Alpharetta to Downtown.

Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in Buckhead sees a different top three from someone in Marietta, and someone in Decatur sees another. In Atlanta the map can change from one side of the Perimeter to the other. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across every neighborhood and city you serve, and you get that map back every month: green where you’re in the top three, red where you aren’t yet. Then we go after the red.

  • A grid, not a guess

    Your real position from dozens of points across metro Atlanta.

  • Fixes aimed at the gaps

    Neighborhood and city pages, listings and links for the places you don’t win yet.

  • Check it yourself

    Every search we report, you can type into Google.

Illustration of a grid ranking check over metro Atlanta. Each dot is one search location and the number is where the business shows on Google Maps from there.

How our Atlanta SEO works

Day 1 to page one.

  1. Day 1

    Audit and the plan

    We search your services across the neighborhoods and cities you serve, map who holds the top three and page one, and fix what’s broken on your Google Business Profile and website. We agree your qualifying keywords in writing.

  2. Day 20

    First movement

    Listings cleaned up, service and city pages live, reviews coming in. If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.

  3. Day 60

    Page one

    If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Links and mentions from Atlanta websites are building behind the scenes.

  4. Day 61 and on

    Top three, then more

    We push for the top three on the map, add searches, neighborhoods and cities, work to get you named in AI answers, and report every ranking each month so you can check it yourself.

What our Atlanta SEO services include

Eight jobs. We do all of them.

Every plan, every month. Every job aims at one thing: your phone ringing from the three spots Atlanta taps first on Google Maps.

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  1. 01

    Google Business Profile

    We pick the right categories, list every service, add real photos of your work and post regular updates, so Google has everything it needs to show you for the right Atlanta searches, neighborhood by neighborhood.

  2. 02

    Google reviews

    We set up an easy way for happy customers to leave a review and reply to every one. Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs, and they’re what people read before they pick up the phone.

  3. 03

    Local listings

    Your name, address and phone number, matching on every directory Google checks, from US business directories to the big data providers that feed maps, apps and voice assistants.

  4. 04

    Website fixes

    Faster pages, a site that works on every phone, and behind-the-scenes labels that tell Google what each page is about, so nothing on the technical side holds your rankings back.

  5. 05

    Service and city pages

    A real page for each service, neighborhood and city you serve, from Alpharetta to Peachtree City, written for the people searching there. No city-name swaps.

  6. 06

    Links and mentions

    Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions from Atlanta news, neighborhood and community sites, associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms.

  7. 07

    AI answers

    We work to get your business named when people ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire in Atlanta. Included in every plan, never an add-on.

  8. 08

    Monthly reporting

    Every ranking, every month, with the searches listed and the ranking grid attached, so you can check any of it on Google yourself.

Industries we rank in Atlanta

Heat, termites, lawyers. The searches Atlanta runs on.

AC repair: 1,300 to 3,600 searches a month

HVAC, heating and air

HVAC averages 2,900 searches a month in Atlanta, furnace repair jumps from 210 to 1,900 when it turns cold and heat pump repair runs 90 to 720. An AC repair click costs around $32 on Google Ads, and in the first hot week the calls come all at once.

Plumber: 1,900 to 5,400 a month

Plumbing, water damage and mold

Emergency plumber runs 110 to 880 searches a month at around $82 a click, and a water heater repair click costs around $125. Mold removal averages 480 searches a month at around $121 a click. Every one of those clicks is a customer you could be getting from a ranking instead.

Personal injury lawyer: 1,300 to 4,400 a month

Law firms

A truck accident lawyer click costs around $702 on Google Ads in Atlanta, a workers’ compensation click around $228 and a personal injury click around $104. Divorce lawyer averages 1,600 searches a month. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.

Termite control: 260 to 880 a month

Pest and termite control

Pest control averages 1,000 searches a month at around $29 a click, bed bug exterminator 880 at around $40, and a rodent control click costs around $83. In a warm, humid city full of wood-framed homes, the calls never really stop, and the top three take most of them.

Dentist: about 6,600 a month

Dentists, orthodontists and med spas

Dermatologist averages 2,900 searches a month, orthodontist 1,900 and med spa 880, and clinics fight over the same few spots on the map in every part of town. Sanjay Grover MD in Newport Beach went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.

Movers Atlanta: 2,900 to 5,400 a month

Movers, locksmiths and home services

“Movers Atlanta” runs 2,900 to 5,400 searches a month at around $20 a click. A locksmith click costs around $18 and a garage door repair click around $76, and dryer vent cleaning averages 1,000 searches a month.

Roofing contractor: 390 to 1,600 a month

Roofers, contractors and restoration

Roof repair runs 260 to 880 searches a month at around $37 a click. General contractor averages 720, crawl space encapsulation 390 at around $20 a click, foundation repair 210 at around $60 and window replacement 320 at around $69.

Don’t see yours?

We’ll search your service in Atlanta, live, on the call.

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Search figures: Google Ads data for Atlanta over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest; single figures are monthly averages.

Areas we serve in Atlanta

All of metro Atlanta. Inside the Perimeter and out.

Most agencies write one “Atlanta” page and hope it covers 6.4 million people. It doesn’t. Google shows a different top three in Buckhead than in Decatur, and a different one again in Marietta or Alpharetta. So we plan area by area: the neighborhoods and suburbs you already win, the ones close enough to take next, and the ones worth a page of their own.

Intown Atlanta

The densest part of the metro, with each neighborhood its own market on the map.

  • Downtown
  • Midtown
  • Buckhead
  • Old Fourth Ward
  • Inman Park
  • Virginia-Highland
  • Poncey-Highland
  • Grant Park
  • West Midtown
  • Kirkwood
  • East Atlanta
  • West End

North Metro

Fast-growing suburbs, big homes and busy practices, each with its own top three.

  • Sandy Springs
  • Dunwoody
  • Brookhaven
  • Chamblee
  • Roswell
  • Alpharetta
  • Johns Creek
  • Milton
  • Peachtree Corners
  • Norcross
  • Duluth
  • Cumming

Cobb County

Houses, yards and hot summers, so HVAC, plumbing, pest and roofing work is always in demand.

  • Marietta
  • East Cobb
  • Smyrna
  • Vinings
  • Kennesaw
  • Acworth
  • Mableton
  • Austell
  • Powder Springs
  • Cumberland

DeKalb and Gwinnett

Busy, diverse and spread out, from Decatur all the way out to Buford.

  • Decatur
  • Tucker
  • Avondale Estates
  • Stone Mountain
  • Lithonia
  • Lawrenceville
  • Suwanee
  • Snellville
  • Lilburn
  • Buford
  • Dacula
  • Grayson

South Metro

Around the airport and south of the city, where the suburbs keep growing.

  • East Point
  • College Park
  • Hapeville
  • Union City
  • Fairburn
  • Fayetteville
  • Peachtree City
  • Newnan
  • Stockbridge
  • McDonough
  • Jonesboro
  • Riverdale

Around Atlanta

  • AthensClarke County
  • GainesvilleHall County
  • CantonCherokee County
  • WoodstockCherokee County
  • CartersvilleBartow County
  • DouglasvilleDouglas County
  • ConyersRockdale County
  • CovingtonNewton County
  • CarrolltonCarroll County
  • MaconBibb County

Our SEO guarantees

Southern hospitality is nice. Dates in writing are better.

Guarantee 01

20days

If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.

What we measure: your traffic, what that traffic is worth, how much authority your site and its pages carry, and how many other sites link to you, against the day we start.

Guarantee 02

60days

If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.

What counts: at least one high-value search for your business on page one of Google.

No long-term contracts. Results keep you here. Paperwork doesn't.

Awkward Media vs a typical Atlanta SEO company

Same searches. Better odds.

Awkward Media

The usual agency deal

First results

Visible improvement in 20 days, or $200 back on top of that period’s payment

“Give it 6 to 8 months”

Page one

Qualifying keywords on page one in 60 days, or we work free until they are

No date in writing

Price

Published: $1,497 to $5,000 a month

“Call us for a quote”

Contract

Month to month

6 to 12 months

Proof

Client names and rankings you can search yourself

Logos with no results, or none at all

Local pages

A page for each neighborhood and city you serve, Buckhead to Lawrenceville

One “Atlanta” page for 6.4 million people

Rank tracking

A ranking grid across every part of metro Atlanta you serve, every month

One position, checked from one spot

AI answers

Included in every plan: Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT

An add-on, or missing

Who it’s for: Atlanta businesses doing $20,000 a month or more, with the crew to take on more work.

Why we cap it: we take on 15 new clients a month, so we can keep the ranking promises we make to the clients we already have.

Your next step

See who's ahead of you in Atlanta.

A free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in Atlanta, live, area by area, and show you who holds page one and the top three spots on Google Maps, why, and what it takes to pass them.

Bring with you

Your websiteYour main serviceTowns you serveCompetitors you see
  1. 01

    We search your market live

    The way your customers do, in the towns you serve.

  2. 02

    We show who's above you, and why

    On Google, on Maps and in the AI answers.

  3. 03

    You leave with a road map

    Yours to keep. If we can help, we'll invite you to work with us.

For established businesses doing at least $20,000 a month.

FAQ

Atlanta SEO, answered.

What Atlanta business owners ask us before they hire an SEO company.

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01 How much does SEO cost in Atlanta?

Our plans for Google Maps and the main Google results (local and organic SEO) run $1,497 to $5,000 a month, and $5,000+ a month when you have several websites. Every plan is month to month and includes AI SEO. Where you land depends on your service, how many parts of metro Atlanta you want to win and how strong the businesses above you are. You get your exact number on the free strategy call.

02 How long does SEO take in Atlanta?

You should see the first improvements within 20 days. If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.

03 Isn’t Atlanta too competitive for SEO?

Atlanta is one of the biggest local markets in the Southeast, and that is exactly why it pays to do it properly. Competition is set search by search and area by area, not for the whole metro. “Plumber atlanta” and “plumber marietta” are different fights with different winners. On the call we search yours live, show you who holds each spot and agree the qualifying keywords our 60-day guarantee covers, in writing.

04 Is SEO worth it for a small business in Atlanta?

Yes, if you’re already doing $20,000 a month or more and want more of the same work. Ads charge you for every click, and in Atlanta a truck accident lawyer click costs around $702, a mold removal click around $121 and a plumber click around $31. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click, and our guarantees put dates on it: visible improvement in 20 days, qualifying keywords on page one in 60.

05 What does an Atlanta SEO company actually do?

Eight jobs, all done for you: we set up and run your Google Business Profile, grow your Google reviews, fix your local listings, fix your website so Google can read it, build a page for each service, neighborhood and city you serve, earn mentions on trusted websites, get you into AI answers, and show you every ranking each month so you can check it on Google yourself.

06 Have you ranked businesses in the Southeast?

Yes. Florida Probate Law Group is #1 on Google for “Florida probate lawyer”, across the whole state. Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating in Cape Coral has all 8 of its tracked searches in the Google Maps top three. In Virginia, R.A. Woodall Roofing is #1 for “roofing contractor Williamsburg VA”, and in Louisville, 360 Hazardous Cleanup went from an average of #50 to #2 on Google Maps in 20 days. On the call, we show you results in your own industry.

07 Can you rank my business across all of metro Atlanta?

Yes, one step at a time. Google Maps favors businesses close to the person searching, so you win the neighborhoods around your address first. Then we build a page for each neighborhood and city you serve, check your ranking from a grid of points across them, and point your listings and mentions at the areas where you aren’t in the top three yet. A second location gets its own Google Business Profile, which is how Candace and Basil won two cities at once: their Mississauga store went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps while their Toronto store went from #18 to #2.

08 My business is in Marietta. Can I rank in Buckhead or Midtown too?

Yes, for the searches where Google looks past distance. On the map, people searching in Buckhead mostly see businesses near Buckhead, so we win your own area first and then build pages, links and mentions aimed at the areas you want next. In the main Google results below the map, where location counts for less, a strong page can rank across the whole metro.

09 Can I rank in Atlanta and the suburbs at the same time?

Yes. Alpharetta, Marietta and Lawrenceville share a metro with Atlanta, but Google shows different businesses in each. Each city you serve gets its own pages and its own search targets, and we track your ranking in every one of them each month.

10 How do I choose an SEO company in Atlanta?

Ask every agency three things: what will move in 20 days, what will be on page one in 60, and what happens if it isn’t. Then ask for client names and rankings you can search yourself, a price, and how long the contract runs. We answer all of it in writing, and we’re rated 4.8 on Google from 197 reviews.

11 How do you optimize a Google Business Profile in Atlanta?

We choose the categories that match what your customers search, list every service, add real photos and post regular updates, and keep new reviews coming in with a reply to each one. Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs. Then we make sure your name, address and phone number match on every directory Google checks, so it trusts your Atlanta location.

12 I don’t have a storefront. Can I still show up on Google Maps in Atlanta?

Yes. Plumbers, HVAC companies, movers, pest control and tree services can run their Google Business Profile as a service-area business, with the address hidden and the areas they cover listed. Google still uses your business location when it decides who to show, so we build pages and mentions for every area you serve to carry you further.

13 When should HVAC companies start SEO in Atlanta?

A couple of months before each rush, and Atlanta has two. AC repair searches run from 1,300 a month to 3,600 in summer, and furnace repair from 210 to 1,900 in December and January. Rankings take weeks to build, so the companies that start early are the ones in the top three when the first heat wave or the first freeze hits.

14 Do you work with law firms in Atlanta?

Yes. Law is one of the most expensive fields to advertise in here: a truck accident lawyer click costs around $702 on Google Ads in Atlanta, a workers’ compensation click around $228 and a personal injury click around $104, while personal injury lawyer searches run from 1,300 to 4,400 a month. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps for “car accident attorneys near me” in 20 days, and Florida Probate Law Group is #1 for “Florida probate lawyer” statewide.

15 Do you work with roofers, tree services and restoration companies?

Yes. Roofing contractor searches run from 390 to 1,600 a month in Atlanta, roof repair from 260 to 880, tree removal from 140 to 2,400 and water damage restoration from 170 to 1,000. Crawl space encapsulation averages 390 searches a month at around $20 a click, and foundation repair 210 at around $60. We build a page for each service and each area you cover, so a homeowner in Decatur and a building owner in Midtown both find you.

16 Do you build backlinks for Atlanta businesses?

Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Atlanta news, neighborhood and community sites, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.

17 Should I use SEO or Google Ads in Atlanta?

Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying, and some Atlanta clicks are very expensive: around $702 for a truck accident lawyer and $228 for a workers’ compensation lawyer. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many Atlanta businesses run ads while SEO builds. Local SEO gets you onto the map, regular SEO gets your website into the results below it, and every plan covers both.

18 Can you get my business into Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT?

AI SEO is included in every plan, and it works to get your business named when people ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire in Atlanta. EquityRich is cited in Google’s AI answers for “commercial mortgage Toronto”, and Angkorscape is named in Google’s AI answers for Seattle.

19 How do I reach you from Atlanta?

Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is Atlanta time, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Atlanta itself, area by area, so you see what your customers see.

20 What happens on the free strategy call?

Thirty minutes on Google Meet. We search your service in Atlanta live, in the areas you serve, and show you who holds page one and the top three spots on Google Maps, why they’re there and what it would take to pass them. You keep the plan either way. The call is for businesses doing $20,000 a month or more.

21 Am I locked into a long contract?

No. Every plan is month to month, and results keep you here, not paperwork. We work with established businesses already doing $20,000 a month or more, and we take on 15 new clients a month so we can keep the ranking promises we make to the clients we already have.