SEO company in Charlotte, ranking businesses across the Charlotte metro and the Carolinas
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.
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
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2.9 million people. Two states. Three spots on the map.
The City of Charlotte is home to about 943,000 people, and the metro around it to about 2.9 million, from Concord and Gastonia to Huntersville, Matthews and Rock Hill across the South Carolina line. When the AC quits in a July heat wave or ice brings a limb down on the roof, 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 Charlotte and the Charlotte metro
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 favors businesses close to the searcher. Ranking in Uptown doesn’t mean you show up in Matthews, Huntersville or Fort Mill.
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
January ice. Spring lawns. Moving season. Each with its own rush.
We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Charlotte. “Movers Charlotte” runs from 2,400 searches a month to 8,100 in February, and plumber from 1,300 to 2,900. When January’s ice came, roof repair jumped from 110 to 1,600. Lawn care climbs from 320 to 1,600 in March, pest control runs from 590 to 1,600 through the warm months, and garage door repair swings from 480 to 2,400. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.
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2,400 to 8,100
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1,300 to 2,900
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110 to 1,600
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480 to 2,400
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320 to 1,600
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590 to 1,600
Each chart runs January to December and is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Charlotte, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.
Lawn care searches in Charlotte jump five times over between December and March, and landscaping climbs from 170 to 1,000 by April. Rankings take weeks to build, so lawn, landscaping and pest control companies need the top three before the first warm weekend, not after it. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.
“Movers Charlotte” peaks at 8,100 searches in February, more than three times the quietest month, as people relocate for jobs in one of the fastest-growing metros in the country. A mover click costs around $23 on Google Ads here. A top-three spot pays all year.
On Google Ads in Charlotte, a click costs around $178 for workers’ compensation lawyer, $102 for personal injury lawyer, $92 for window replacement, $80 for HVAC repair, $75 for emergency plumber and $67 for garage door repair. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.
The ice storm, January 2026
The first ice storm warning in 20 years. 12,100 searches for power outages.
On January 23, 2026, the Charlotte region got its first ice storm warning since 2005, according to WBTV, and a snowstorm followed a week later. That January, “power outage Charlotte” reached 12,100 searches, against about 1,000 in a quiet month. Roof repair searches went from 110 at their quietest to 1,600, and roof replacement from 30 to 880. When limbs come down on roofs and lines, homeowners pick from the first few names Google shows them. For the roofers, tree services and restoration crews doing that work, being one of those names is the job.
Source: WBTV, on the Charlotte region’s first ice storm warning in over two decades. Search figures: Google Ads, Charlotte.
Get found by the people searchingBig markets. Hard searches. Built for Charlotte.
Google Maps · Wilmington, North Carolina
#1
52 miles out
For “storm shutters near me” on Google Maps, searched from Ocean Isle Beach, 52 miles from the shop in Wilmington. Here in North Carolina, that is how far a strong profile can carry. In Charlotte, the same work reaches from Uptown out to Concord, Gastonia and across the state line to Fort Mill.
Read the American Hurricane Shutters case studyGoogle Maps · Canton, Massachusetts · 20 days
#1
from #10
For “car accident attorneys near me”, in 20 days, with all eight tracked searches in the top three. In Charlotte a personal injury click costs around $102 on Google Ads and a workers’ compensation click around $178. A top-three spot on the map doesn’t bill by the click.
Google search · Manitoba
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.
Read the case studyMarch 10
1 of 19
searches inside the top 100
21 days later
15 of 19
searches in the top three
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searches at #1 on Google
21 days
from not found to the top three
Google search · Toronto
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 Charlotte, that is the fight every lender, law firm and clinic is in.
Read the case study
Google · statewide, Florida
#1
Florida Probate Law Group for “Florida probate lawyer”, across the whole state.
Google · organic search
203 → 818
Grand Oaks Orthodontics: searches it ranks for on Google, in 90 days.
Google Maps · Louisville, KY
#50 → #2
360 Hazardous Cleanup, average Google Maps position in 20 days, with all 8 tracked searches in the top three.
Google · Williamsburg, VA
#1
R.A. Woodall Roofing for “roofing contractor Williamsburg VA”, with its Maps listing on the same screen.
Google · Seattle
#1
Angkorscape for “luxury landscape design”, and named in Google’s AI answers.
Google · Las Vegas
#1
Purple Flare Wraps for “Las Vegas car wrap”, followed by 78 conversions from organic search in June 2025.
Your ranking, from Huntersville to Ballantyne.
Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in South End sees a different top three from someone in Matthews, and someone in Huntersville sees another. In Charlotte the map can change from one side of I-485 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 the Charlotte metro.
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.
Day 1 to page one.
Day 1
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.
Day 20
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.
Day 60
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 Charlotte websites are building behind the scenes.
Day 61 and on
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.
Eight jobs. We do all of them.
Every plan, every month. Every job aims at one thing: your phone ringing from the three spots Charlotte taps first on Google Maps.
Book my free strategy callWe 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 Charlotte searches, neighborhood by neighborhood.
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.
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.
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.
A real page for each service, neighborhood and city you serve, from Cornelius to Fort Mill, written for the people searching there. No city-name swaps.
Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions from Charlotte news, neighborhood and community sites, associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms.
We work to get your business named when people ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire in Charlotte. Included in every plan, never an add-on.
Every ranking, every month, with the searches listed and the ranking grid attached, so you can check any of it on Google yourself.
Lawns, lawyers, locksmiths. The searches Charlotte runs on.
Plumber: 1,300 to 2,900 searches a month
HVAC averages 720 searches a month in Charlotte, and an HVAC repair click costs around $80 on Google Ads. An emergency plumber click costs around $75, and mold removal runs 170 to 590 searches a month at around $50 a click. Every one of those clicks is a customer you could be getting from a ranking instead.
Personal injury lawyer: 880 to 2,400 a month
A workers’ compensation lawyer click costs around $178 on Google Ads in Charlotte and a personal injury click around $102. Car accident lawyer runs 720 to 3,600 searches a month and divorce lawyer averages 1,300. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.
Pest control: 590 to 1,600 a month
Pest control averages 1,000 searches a month at around $35 a click. Lawn care jumps from 320 to 1,600 in March and landscaping from 170 to 1,000 by April. Long, humid summers keep all three busy, and the top three on the map take most of the calls.
Dentist: 4,400 to 9,900 a month
Dermatologist averages 2,900 searches a month and med spa runs 70 to 880, and clinics fight over the same few spots on the map in every part of town. Sanjay Grover MD went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.
Movers Charlotte: 2,400 to 8,100 a month
“Movers Charlotte” runs 2,400 to 8,100 searches a month at around $23 a click. Locksmith averages 4,400 searches a month at around $22, electrician 720 at around $24, and a garage door repair click costs around $67.
Roof repair: 110 to 1,600 a month
Roofing company averages 720 searches a month at around $20 a click. A window replacement click costs around $92, bathroom remodel around $47, foundation repair around $34 and crawl space encapsulation around $31. Water damage restoration runs 70 to 390 searches a month.
Tree service: 140 to 480 a month
Charlotte is the City of Trees, and the canopy keeps tree crews busy. Tree removal runs 170 to 480 searches a month and tree service 140 to 480, at around $11 to $13 a click, and both climb after every storm. The crews already in the top three get the first calls.
Don’t see yours?
We’ll search your service in Charlotte, live, on the call.
Book my free strategy call
Search figures: Google Ads data for Charlotte over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest; single figures are monthly averages.
All of metro Charlotte. Both sides of the state line.
Most agencies write one “Charlotte” page and hope it covers 2.9 million people. It doesn’t. Google shows a different top three in SouthPark than in University City, and a different one again in Concord or Rock Hill. So we plan area by area: the neighborhoods and towns you already win, the ones close enough to take next, and the ones worth a page of their own.
The densest part of the city, with each neighborhood its own market on the map.
Big homes, busy practices and fast growth, each part with its own top three.
University City up to the lake, where new homes and new practices keep coming.
Fast-growing towns east and southeast of the city, where new subdivisions keep the trades busy.
Across the Catawba and into South Carolina, where many Charlotte customers live and search.
Charlotte banks on numbers. Ours come with dates.
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.
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 town you serve, SouthPark to Concord
One “Charlotte” page for 2.9 million people
Rank tracking
A ranking grid across every part of metro Charlotte 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: Charlotte 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
A free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in Charlotte, 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
We search your market live
The way your customers do, in the towns you serve.
We show who's above you, and why
On Google, on Maps and in the AI answers.
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
What Charlotte business owners ask us before they hire an SEO company.
Book my free strategy callOur 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 the Charlotte metro you want to win and how strong the businesses above you are. You get your exact number on the free strategy call.
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.
Charlotte is one of the fastest-growing 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 charlotte” and “plumber matthews” 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.
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 Charlotte a personal injury lawyer click costs around $102, an HVAC repair click around $80 and a plumber click around $50. 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.
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 town 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.
Yes. American Hurricane Shutters in Wilmington is #1 on Google Maps for “storm shutters near me”, searched from Ocean Isle Beach, 52 miles away. Nearby in Virginia, R.A. Woodall Roofing is #1 for “roofing contractor Williamsburg VA”, and Florida Probate Law Group is #1 for “Florida probate lawyer” across the whole state. 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.
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 town 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.
Yes, for the searches where Google looks past distance. On the map, people searching in SouthPark mostly see businesses near SouthPark, 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.
Yes. Fort Mill, Rock Hill and Tega Cay are part of the Charlotte metro, and plenty of your customers live there, but Google treats them as their own towns. Each one you serve gets its own page and search targets, your listings carry the service area on both sides of the line, and we track your ranking in every town each month.
Yes. Huntersville, Concord and Matthews share a metro with Charlotte, but Google shows different businesses in each. Each town you serve gets its own pages and its own search targets, and we track your ranking in every one of them each month.
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.
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 Charlotte location.
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.
In the winter. Lawn care searches run from 320 a month in December to 1,600 in March, landscaping climbs to 1,000 by April, and pest control stays near its peak from spring through fall. Rankings take weeks to build, so the companies that start in December and January are the ones in the top three when the first warm weekend hits.
Yes. Law is one of the most expensive fields to advertise in here: a workers’ compensation lawyer click costs around $178 on Google Ads in Charlotte and a personal injury click around $102, while car accident lawyer searches run from 720 to 3,600 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.
Yes. After January’s ice storm, roof repair searches in Charlotte went from 110 to 1,600 a month and roof replacement from 30 to 880. Roofing company averages 720 searches a month, tree removal runs 170 to 480, and water damage restoration 70 to 390. We build a page for each service and each area you cover, so a homeowner in Mint Hill and a property manager in South End both find you.
Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Charlotte news, neighborhood and community sites, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.
Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying, and some Charlotte clicks are expensive: around $178 for a workers’ compensation lawyer and $92 for window replacement. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many Charlotte 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.
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 Charlotte. EquityRich is cited in Google’s AI answers for “commercial mortgage Toronto”, and Angkorscape is named in Google’s AI answers for Seattle.
Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is Charlotte time, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Charlotte itself, area by area, so you see what your customers see.
Thirty minutes on Google Meet. We search your service in Charlotte 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.
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.
