Awkward Media
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SEO company in Austin, ranking businesses from Georgetown to Kyle

Austin SEO agency. 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.

ac repair austin
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

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Why Austin businesses lose the call

2.55 million people. Five counties. Three spots on the map.

Greater Austin is home to about 2.55 million people across Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties, and it added more than 267,000 residents between 2020 and 2024. Every new household needs a plumber, a dentist, a roofer and someone to fix the AC, and most of them start with a Google search, often in a part of town they moved to last year. Google answers with three businesses on the map and ten links below it. If you aren’t in those spots, the call goes to someone who is.

Sources: US Census Bureau 2024 data via Census Reporter and Community Impact

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. Greater Austin is five counties.

Google favors businesses close to the searcher. Ranking on South Congress doesn’t mean you show up in Round Rock, Cedar Park or Kyle.

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.

Read both guarantees

Austin search, month by month

Austin demand moves with the weather.

We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Austin. A hailstorm sends roof repair searches from 110 a month to 1,900. A hard freeze takes furnace repair from 20 to 480. Moving searches swing from 4,400 to 33,100 as people pour into the region. Whatever the trigger, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.

Movers

searches a month

4,400 to 33,100

Roof repair

searches a month

110 to 1,900

AC repair

searches a month

590 to 1,900

Furnace repair

searches a month

20 to 480

Lawn care

searches a month

320 to 1,000

Pool cleaning

searches a month

70 to 590

Each chart is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Austin, Texas, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.

Storm work? Rank before the sky turns.

Nobody can book a hailstorm. Rankings take weeks to build, so roofers, fence crews and restoration companies need to hold the top three before the storm, not start after it. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.

Summer is long. Own all of it.

AC repair never drops below 590 Austin searches a month and climbs to 1,900. Lawn care runs from 320 to 1,000. In a city this hot, the season is most of the year, and a top-three spot keeps the phone ringing through all of it.

No bill for every click.

Austin clicks are expensive. Advertisers bid around $175 a click on personal injury lawyer searches, $75 on foundation repair and $65 on AC repair. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.

A roofer in a safety harness checking fresh hail damage on a wet shingle roof in a Central Texas neighborhood, with storm clouds clearing over the live oaks and a work truck on the street

Hail, heat, freeze, repeat

After the hail, homeowners call the first three names.

In the busiest month, roof repair searches in Austin hit 1,900, up from 110 in the quietest. Roofing climbs from 590 to 2,900. Those calls go to whoever Google shows first. Gutter, fence, window and restoration crews ride the same wave.

Get in the top three before the next storm

SEO results in Texas and across the US

San Antonio to Las Vegas. Search it yourself.

Google search · San Antonio, Texas

Alamo DTF: invisible on Google to 57 ranking searches in 35 days.

A custom printing shop 80 miles down I-35. On July 14, Google showed the site for nothing: no ranking keywords and no estimated traffic. We built the site around the San Antonio searches closest to a sale. By August 18 it ranked for 57 searches, with its core San Antonio searches at #7 and #10, on page one.

Read the Alamo DTF case study

July 14

0

ranking searches

August 18

57

ranking searches

Day 1Day 35

#7

core San Antonio search

#10

core San Antonio search

Google Maps · Louisville, Kentucky

360 Hazardous Cleanup

#50

#2

Their average Google Maps position in 20 days. Every one of their 8 tracked searches landed in the top three, and they are now the first business on the map for “blood cleanup services”. When people need help today, they call one of the first three names.

Read the 360 Hazardous Cleanup case study

Google Maps and search · Williamsburg, Virginia

R.A. Woodall Roofing

#1

For “roofing contractor Williamsburg VA”, and on the map above it, so one roofer fills the screen. The same plan we’d run for an Austin roofer before storm season.

Google search · Las Vegas, Nevada

Purple Flare Wraps: #1, then 78 enquiries in a month.

Number one for “Las Vegas car wrap”, followed by 78 conversions from organic search in June 2025.

See our Las Vegas SEO
Google result: Purple Flare Wraps first for Las Vegas car wrap
“Las Vegas car wrap” on Google: Purple Flare Wraps in first place.

How we measure

Your ranking, from Georgetown to Kyle.

Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching on South Congress sees a different top three from someone at The Domain or in Round Rock. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across Austin and every 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 the region.

  • Fixes aimed at the gaps

    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 Greater Austin. Each dot is one search location and the number is where the business shows on Google Maps from there.

How our Austin SEO works

Day 1 to page one.

  1. Day 1

    Audit and the plan

    We search your services across Austin and the cities around it, 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 Austin and Texas 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 and cities, work to get you named in AI answers, and report every ranking each month so you can check it yourself.

What our Austin SEO services include

Eight jobs. We do all of them.

Every plan, every month. Eight jobs, one goal: your business in the top three on the map.

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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 Austin searches.

  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 and each city you serve, from Round Rock to San Marcos, 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 Austin and Texas news 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 Austin. 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 Austin

Roofs, AC, movers. The searches Austin runs on.

Roof repair: 110 to 1,900 searches a month

Roofing and storm repair

Roofing runs from 590 to 2,900 searches a month. Hail turns a quiet week into the busiest month of the year, and the roofers already on the map take it.

AC repair: 590 to 1,900 a month

HVAC and plumbing

Furnace repair jumps from 20 to 480 in a freeze and plumbers see 1,600 to 3,600 searches a month. Advertisers bid around $65 a click on AC repair. A ranking doesn’t bill by the click.

Foundation repair: 260 to 720 a month

Foundation and concrete

Central Texas clay swells when it’s wet and shrinks when it’s dry, and cracked slabs follow. Foundation repair clicks run around $75 each on ads.

Movers: 4,400 to 33,100 a month

Movers and logistics

One of the biggest local searches in the city, and it swings hard with the season. A top-three spot in the busy months is worth a year of ads.

Personal injury lawyer: 1,300 to 5,400 a month

Law firms

Advertisers bid around $175 a click on personal injury lawyer searches in Austin. Florida Probate Law Group is #1 on Google for “Florida probate lawyer”.

Dentist: 2,400 to 4,400 a month

Dentists and clinics

New residents pick a dentist from Google. Grand Oaks Orthodontics went from 203 ranking searches to 818 in 90 days.

Pest control: 880 to 1,900 a month

Pest control, lawns and pools

Lawn care runs 320 to 1,000 searches a month, pool cleaning 70 to 590 and mosquito control 40 to 210. Seasonal work, won before the season starts.

Don’t see yours?

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

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Search figures and click prices: Google Ads data for Austin, Texas over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest.

Areas we serve around Austin

Every part of Austin. And the cities around it.

Downtown and The Domain are packed with law firms, clinics and agencies chasing the same few spots. East Austin, South Congress and Mueller run on walk-in trade and near-me searches. Round Rock, Cedar Park and Georgetown to the north, and Buda, Kyle and San Marcos down I-35, are some of the fastest-growing places in Texas, and Google shows different businesses in each one. So each one gets its own plan.

Inside Austin

  • Downtown
  • East Austin
  • South Congress
  • Zilker
  • Barton Hills
  • Travis Heights
  • Mueller
  • Hyde Park
  • Clarksville
  • Tarrytown
  • North Loop
  • The Domain
  • Allandale
  • Crestview
  • Circle C
  • Steiner Ranch
  • Westlake Hills
  • Riverside

Around Greater Austin

  • Round RockWilliamson County
  • Cedar ParkWilliamson County
  • GeorgetownWilliamson County
  • LeanderWilliamson County
  • HuttoWilliamson County
  • PflugervilleTravis County
  • LakewayTravis County
  • San MarcosHays County
  • KyleHays County
  • BudaHays County
  • Dripping SpringsHays County
  • BastropBastrop County

Our SEO guarantees

We put our money where our rankings are.

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 Austin 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 city you serve, Georgetown to San Marcos

One page with the city name swapped in

Rank tracking

A ranking grid across Austin and the cities 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: Austin 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 Austin.

A free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in Austin, live, 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

Austin SEO, answered.

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

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01 How much does SEO cost in Austin?

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 Greater Austin you want to win and how strong the businesses above you are. You get your exact number on the free strategy call. Most Austin SEO companies don’t publish a price. We do.

02 How long does SEO take in Austin?

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 Is SEO worth it for a small business in Austin?

Yes, if you’re already doing $20,000 a month or more and want more of the same work. Clicks are expensive here: advertisers bid around $175 a click on personal injury lawyer searches in Austin, $75 on foundation repair and $65 on AC repair. 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.

04 What does an Austin 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 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.

05 Do you have SEO results in Texas?

Yes. Alamo DTF, a custom printing shop in San Antonio, went from no ranking searches at all on July 14 to 57 ranking searches by August 18, with its core San Antonio searches at #7 and #10. Across the US, 360 Hazardous Cleanup in Louisville moved from an average Google Maps position of #50 to #2 in 20 days, and Purple Flare Wraps is #1 on Google for “Las Vegas car wrap”.

06 How do I choose an SEO company in Austin?

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, and a price. We answer all of it in writing, and we’re rated 4.8 on Google from 197 reviews.

07 How do you optimize a Google Business Profile in Austin?

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. Then we make sure your name, address and phone number match on every directory Google checks, so it trusts your Austin location.

08 My business is in Round Rock, Cedar Park or Kyle. Can I rank in Austin too?

Yes. Google Maps favors businesses close to the person searching, so you win your own city first. Then we build a page for each part of Greater Austin you serve, check your ranking from a grid of points across it, and point your listings and mentions at the areas where you aren’t in the top three yet.

09 My work depends on the weather. When should I start SEO?

About two months before your busy season, or now if you work storms. Roof repair searches in Austin swing from 110 a month to 1,900, furnace repair from 20 to 480 and pool cleaning from 70 to 590. Rankings take weeks to build, so the businesses that start early are the ones in the top three when the hail, the heat or the freeze arrives.

10 How do I reach you from Austin?

Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is 8am to 4pm in Austin, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Austin itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see.

11 Can I rank in Austin and San Antonio at the same time?

Yes. Each city gets its own pages and its own search targets, and a second location gets its own Google Business Profile. That 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.

12 Do you build backlinks for Austin businesses?

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

13 Should I use SEO or Google Ads in Austin?

Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many Austin businesses run ads through the busy season 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.

14 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 Austin. Angkorscape is named in Google’s AI answers for Seattle, and EquityRich is cited in Google’s AI answers for “commercial mortgage Toronto”.

15 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.