SEO company in Chicago, ranking businesses from Lincoln Park to Hyde Park
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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9.4 million people. Three states. Three spots on the map.
Metro Chicago is home to about 9.4 million people across Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, from Kenosha down to Gary and west to Aurora and Elgin. The typical household here earns $90,770 a year, about 10 percent more than the national figure, so a new customer is worth more here than in most of the country. When a cold snap bursts a pipe or the first snow buries the driveway, 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
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 Lincoln Park doesn’t mean you show up in Logan Square, Bridgeport or Naperville.
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
Snow. Freeze. Moving day. Each with its own rush.
We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Chicago. Snow removal searches swing from 10 a month to 1,000, a hundred times as many in the busiest month as in the quietest. Furnace repair runs from 70 to 720 and tuckpointing from 90 to 720. Injury lawyers see 1,900 to 8,100, movers 5,400 to 9,900 and landscaping 320 to 1,600. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.
searches a month
10 to 1,000
searches a month
70 to 720
searches a month
1,900 to 8,100
searches a month
5,400 to 9,900
searches a month
320 to 1,600
searches a month
90 to 720
Each chart is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Chicago, Illinois, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.
Snow removal and furnace searches jump when the cold arrives, then fall away. Rankings take weeks to build, so snow crews, heating companies and plumbers need to hold the top three before the first freeze, not chase it. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.
Google Maps shows a different top three in Lincoln Park, Logan Square and Naperville from the one it shows in the Loop. People search from where they live, so we track the neighborhoods and towns your customers live in, not only the city name, and show you where you stand in each.
Ads charge you for every click, and the price climbs when everyone bids after the same cold snap or in the same moving season. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.
January 20, 2026 in Chicago
One cold snap. Pipes bursting across the city.
On January 20, 2026, with windchills in the single digits, a burst pipe forced air traffic controllers out of the main O’Hare tower a little after 1 a.m., and nearly 900 flights were delayed. In Auburn Gresham, water poured through an apartment building ceiling, and Pro Services Plumbing and Sewer said it was taking 10 percent more calls than average. Plumbers, heating companies and restoration crews all got the calls at once. Even in a normal year, plumber searches in Chicago run from 1,900 a month to 3,600, and furnace repair from 70 to 720. When the next freeze hits, people search, and they call the businesses Google shows first.
Source: CBS Chicago
Get in the top three before the next freezeRanked 52 miles out. Search it yourself.
Google Maps · Wilmington, North Carolina
#1
for storm shutters
near me, 52 miles
from the front door
Most local businesses disappear from Google Maps a few miles from their address. In a metro that runs from Kenosha to Joliet, that leaves most of your customers out of reach. We built town by town relevance across the area this company actually serves, and it holds first place on the map 52 miles away.
Read the case studyGoogle search · Pool enclosures
#2
from outside
the top 100
For “pool enclosures”, nationwide. It also reached #4 for “pool enclosures Illinois”, and Google’s AI answers started naming Covers in Play.
Read the case studyGoogle search · Manitoba
7
searches at #1 on Google
15 of 19
in the top three in 21 days
83 → 203
visitors a month from Google
21 days
from not found to the top three
Google Maps · Canton, MA
#10 → #1
Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo for “car accident attorneys near me”, in 20 days, with all eight tracked searches in the top three.
Google Maps · Cape Coral, FL
8 of 8
Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating, every tracked HVAC search in the Google Maps top three.
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 Maps · Tucson, AZ
5 at #1
Southwest Kitchen and Bath, a remodeler holding first place on the map for five of its searches.
Google · Florida
#1
Florida Probate Law Group for “Florida probate lawyer”, across the whole state.
Your ranking, from Rogers Park to Hyde Park.
Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in Lincoln Park sees a different top three from someone in Logan Square, Bridgeport or out in Naperville. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across Chicago and every suburb 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.
Day 1 to page one.
Day 1
We search your services across Chicago and the suburbs 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.
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 Chicago and Illinois websites are building behind the scenes.
Day 61 and on
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.
Eight jobs. We do all of them.
Every plan, every month. Every job aims at one thing: your phone ringing from the three spots Chicago 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 Chicago searches.
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 and each area you serve, from Rogers Park to Naperville, written for the people searching there. No city-name swaps.
Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions from Chicago and Illinois news 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 Chicago. 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.
Plumbers, lawyers, movers. The searches Chicago runs on.
Plumber: 1,900 to 3,600 searches a month
HVAC runs 880 to 1,300 searches a month, furnace repair 70 to 720 and electricians 720 to 1,000. Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating holds all 8 of its tracked searches in the Google Maps top three.
Injury lawyer: 1,900 to 8,100 a month
Immigration lawyers see 1,000 to 2,400 searches a month and family lawyers 590 to 1,900. The Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.
Movers: 5,400 to 9,900 a month
Storage runs 2,400 to 5,400 searches a month. 24/7 Movers is #1 on Google Maps in Edmonton for three of its keywords.
Cosmetic dentist: 390 to 2,400 a month
Med spas add 480 to 1,600 searches a month. Grand Oaks Orthodontics went from 203 ranking searches to 818 in 90 days.
Roofer: 260 to 880 a month
Tuckpointing runs 90 to 720 searches a month, window replacement 320 to 480 and gutter cleaning 170 to 590. R.A. Woodall Roofing in Virginia is #1 for “roofing contractor Williamsburg VA” with its Maps listing on the same screen.
Landscaping: 320 to 1,600 a month
Snow removal runs 10 to 1,000 searches a month and tree removal 110 to 1,000. Angkorscape is #1 on Google for “luxury landscape design” and named in Google’s AI answers.
Pest control: 880 to 1,900 a month
Mold removal runs 170 to 590 searches a month and basement waterproofing 70 to 480. 360 Hazardous Cleanup went from an average of #50 on Google Maps to #2 in 20 days.
Don’t see yours?
We’ll search your service in Chicago, live, on the call.
Book my free strategy call
Search figures: Google Ads data for Chicago, Illinois over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest.
From the Loop to Beverly. And every suburb off the Kennedy and the Eisenhower.
The Loop, River North and the West Loop are packed with law firms, clinics and agencies chasing the same few spots. Lincoln Park, Wicker Park and Logan Square run on walk-in trade and near-me searches. Rogers Park, Bridgeport, Jefferson Park and Beverly are full of families who need a plumber, a roofer or a dentist close to home, and Naperville, Schaumburg and Evanston are markets in their own right. Google shows different businesses in each one, so each one gets its own plan.
Your Chicago rankings, set before the first freeze. Day 20 and day 60, in writing.
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.
Dates in writing. Not two to six months of maybe.
Awkward Media
The usual agency deal
First results
Visible improvement in 20 days, or $200 back on top of that period’s payment
“Early improvements” in two to three 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
A starting price, with the real number decided later
Contract
Month to month
Often 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 area you serve, Rogers Park to Hyde Park
One page with the city name swapped in
Rank tracking
A ranking grid across Chicago and the suburbs 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: Chicago 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 Chicago, 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
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 Chicago 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 neighborhoods and suburbs 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.
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 the price climbs when everyone bids after the same cold snap or in the same moving season. 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 and area 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 is #1 on Google Maps for “storm shutters near me” from a search point 52 miles from its address, farther than the drive from the Loop to Joliet. The Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days, and Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating holds all 8 of its tracked searches in the top three. You can search every one of them yourself.
Yes. Google treats Naperville, Schaumburg, Evanston, Oak Park and Joliet as their own markets, so a business that serves them gets its own pages and search targets for each. We track the searches your customers actually type in each suburb and show you where you stand in every one.
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.
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 Chicago location.
Yes. Google Maps favors businesses close to the person searching, so you win your own neighborhood first. Then we build a page for each part of Chicago 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.
About two months before you need the calls. In Chicago, snow removal searches climb from 10 a month to 1,000, furnace repair from 70 to 720 and tuckpointing from 90 to 720. Injury lawyers see anywhere from 1,900 to 8,100, and plumbers 1,900 to 3,600. Rankings take weeks to build, so the businesses that start early are the ones in the top three when the rush arrives.
Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is 8am to 4pm in Chicago, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Chicago itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see.
Yes. Google shows different businesses in each, so each area gets its own pages and its own search targets, and a second location gets its own Google Business Profile. Town by town pages are how American Hurricane Shutters ranks #1 on Google Maps 52 miles from its own address.
Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Chicago and Illinois news and community sites, chambers of commerce, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.
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 Chicago. Super Fabrications in Reston, Virginia is named in Google’s AI Mode for fence gates and recommended by ChatGPT, and Google’s AI answers name Covers in Play for pool enclosures.
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.
