SEO company in Hamilton, ranking businesses from Dundas to Stoney Creek
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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The lower city. The Mountain. Three spots on the map.
Hamilton runs from the harbour up over the escarpment, from Dundas and Westdale in the west to Stoney Creek in the east, and from the lower city up the Mountain to Ancaster, Binbrook and Waterdown. Every household in it needs a plumber who picks up, a furnace that works in January and a dry basement after a summer downpour. When the water comes up through the floor drain or the heat quits in a cold snap, 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.
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 favours businesses close to the searcher. Ranking downtown doesn’t mean you show up on the Mountain, in Ancaster or in Stoney Creek.
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. Storms. Spring. Each with its own rush.
We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Hamilton. Plumbers see 1,600 to 4,400 searches a month, and the busiest months land when the storms do. Basement waterproofing runs from 50 to 320, furnace repair from 50 to 1,000 when the cold sets in and snow removal from 20 to 1,000 in a snowy month. Then spring flips it: landscaping goes from 170 to 880 and roofing from 210 to 1,000. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.
searches a month
1,600 to 4,400
searches a month
50 to 320
searches a month
50 to 1,000
searches a month
20 to 1,000
searches a month
170 to 880
searches a month
210 to 1,000
Each chart is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Hamilton, Ontario, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.
When a storm floods basements across the lower city, nobody scrolls. They call the first plumber or waterproofing company Google shows, and plumber searches climb to 4,400 a month. Rankings take weeks to build, so plumbers, waterproofing crews and restoration companies need to hold the top three before the rain, not after it. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.
Google Maps shows a different top three on the Mountain, in Ancaster and in Stoney Creek from the one it shows downtown. People search from where they live, so we track the parts of Hamilton 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 in the same snowstorm or the same storm season. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.
July and August 2026 in Hamilton
Four rainstorms. One summer of flooded basements.
Severe rainstorms hit Hamilton on July 21, July 28, August 2 and August 7, 2026, and flooded homes across the city. The City of Hamilton set up a one-time compassionate grant of up to $2,000 for homeowners and tenants with flood costs their insurance didn’t cover. Plumbers, waterproofing crews, restoration companies and roofers all got the calls at once. Even in a normal year, plumber searches in Hamilton run from 1,600 a month to 4,400. When the next storm hits, people search, and they call the businesses Google shows first.
Source: City of Hamilton
Get in the top three before the next stormOntario first. Then the rest of Canada.
Google search · Oakville, Ontario
#1
for emergency
and cosmetic
dentistry in Oakville
An Ontario dental practice, first on Google for “emergency dental care centre Oakville” and “cosmetic dentistry Oakville”, with five dental searches in the top three. Oakville is a short drive down the QEW, and the same work ranks clinics in Hamilton.
Read the case studyGoogle search · Barrie, Ontario
#1
First on Google for “Barrie family lawyers”. Law is a steady search in Hamilton too: family lawyer searches run from 390 to 720 a month, and personal injury lawyer from 170 to 1,600.
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 · Ontario
#10 → #1
Candace and Basil in Mississauga, while their Toronto store went from #18 to #2.
Google and AI answers · Toronto
#1
EquityRich for “commercial mortgage Toronto”, and cited in Google’s AI answers.
Google Maps · Edmonton
3 at #1
24/7 Movers, first on Google Maps for three of its keywords.
Organic traffic · Canada
+1.8K
Canadian Furniture visitors a month from Google, now 6.7K.
Google · Canada
+5,000
CloudCure clicks from Google search, for a newer health brand on a crowded results page.
Google · national
#1
Luxury Fire, ranking first across the whole country, not one town.
Your ranking, from Dundas to Stoney Creek.
Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching downtown sees a different top three from someone up the Mountain, or out in Ancaster or Stoney Creek. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across Hamilton and every town 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 Hamilton and the towns 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 Hamilton and Ontario 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Canadian 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 Dundas to Stoney Creek, written for the people searching there. No city-name swaps.
Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions from Hamilton and Ontario 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 Hamilton. 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, clinics, basement crews. The searches Hamilton runs on.
Plumber: 1,600 to 4,400 searches a month
HVAC runs 320 to 1,000 searches a month, furnace repair 50 to 1,000 and basement waterproofing 50 to 320. Electricians add 320 to 590 more.
Massage: 1,900 to 2,900 a month
Clinics win on near-me searches, block by block. Burloak Centre Dentistry is #1 on Google for emergency and cosmetic dentistry in Oakville.
Movers: 720 to 1,300 a month
Storage runs 880 to 1,300 searches a month. 24/7 Movers is #1 on Google Maps in Edmonton for three of its keywords.
Snow removal: 20 to 1,000 a month
Almost nothing in summer, then 1,000 in a snowy month. Landscaping runs 170 to 880 and lawn care 30 to 320 when the snow melts. Each rush is short, and it goes to the businesses Google shows first.
Roofing: 210 to 1,000 a month
Window replacement runs 70 to 720 searches a month, eavestroughs 110 to 480 and foundation repair 30 to 170. After a winter of freeze and thaw, the roofers already on the map are the ones homeowners find first.
Family lawyer: 390 to 720 a month
Real estate lawyer searches run 170 to 390 more, and personal injury lawyer 170 to 1,600. Chapman McAlpine is #1 on Google for “Barrie family lawyers”.
Mortgage broker: 140 to 590 a month
Real estate agent searches run 140 to 590 a month. EquityRich is #1 on Google for “commercial mortgage Toronto” and cited in Google’s AI answers.
Don’t see yours?
We’ll search your service in Hamilton, live, on the call.
Book my free strategy call
Search figures: Google Ads data for Hamilton, Ontario over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest.
Every corner of Hamilton. Above and below the escarpment.
Downtown and James North are packed with law firms, clinics and agencies chasing the same few spots. Locke Street, Westdale and Ottawa Street run on walk-in trade and near-me searches. The Mountain, Ancaster, Stoney Creek, Binbrook and Waterdown are full of families who need a plumber, a roofer or a dentist close to home, and Burlington, Grimsby and Brantford are markets in their own right. Google shows different businesses in each one, so each one gets its own plan.
Your Hamilton rankings, dated before the next storm. 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.
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 area you serve, Dundas to Stoney Creek
One page with the city name swapped in
Rank tracking
A ranking grid across Hamilton and the towns 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: Hamilton 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 Hamilton, 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton and the towns around it 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 storm or in the same spring rush. 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. Burloak Centre Dentistry, just down the QEW, is #1 on Google for “emergency dental care centre Oakville” and “cosmetic dentistry Oakville”, with five dental searches in the top three. Chapman McAlpine is #1 for “Barrie family lawyers”, and Candace and Basil went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in Mississauga.
Yes. Google treats Burlington, Grimsby, Caledonia and Brantford 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 town 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 Hamilton location.
Yes. Google Maps favours businesses close to the person searching, so you win your own area first. Then we build a page for each part of Hamilton 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 Hamilton, plumber searches climb from 1,600 a month to 4,400, basement waterproofing from 50 to 320 and furnace repair from 50 to 1,000. In spring, landscaping goes from 170 to 880 and roofing from 210 to 1,000. Rankings take weeks to build, so the businesses that start early are the ones in the top three when the rush arrives.
Call our Canadian line on +1 437 561 0203, 9am to 5pm Eastern, the same clock as Hamilton, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Hamilton itself, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, 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. 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.
Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Hamilton and Ontario news and community sites, 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 Hamilton. EquityRich is cited in Google’s AI answers for “commercial mortgage Toronto”, and Maurice and Sons is named for “log home rot repair Manitoba”.
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.
