Awkward Media
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SEO company in Los Angeles, ranking businesses across LA County and Southern California

Los Angeles 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.

plumber pasadena
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 pasadena
  • ac repair van nuys
  • car accident lawyer downtown la
  • movers santa monica
  • termite control glendale
  • med spa beverly hills
  • dentist burbank
  • roof repair long beach
  • personal injury lawyer koreatown
  • hvac repair sherman oaks

Why Los Angeles businesses lose the call

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

The City of Los Angeles alone is home to about 3.9 million people, and the metro around it to about 12.9 million, from Long Beach and Anaheim to Pasadena, Burbank and the Valley. When the AC quits in a heat wave or a pipe bursts in a hillside home, 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 Los Angeles and the Los Angeles 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. LA is a city of neighborhoods inside a county of cities.

Google favors businesses close to the searcher. Ranking in Downtown LA doesn’t mean you show up in Santa Monica, Pasadena or Van Nuys.

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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Los Angeles search, month by month

Heat waves. Termites. Moving day. Each with its own rush.

We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Los Angeles. AC repair swings from 2,400 searches a month to 12,100 when the summer heat arrives, and HVAC repair climbs from 480 to 2,400 with it. Plumber never drops below 5,400 and peaks at 14,800. Termite control runs from 880 to 4,400, roof repair from 590 to 2,400 and car accident lawyer from 1,900 to 8,100, while movers never drop below 3,600. 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

2,400 to 12,100

Plumber

searches a month

5,400 to 14,800

Termite control

searches a month

880 to 4,400

Roof repair

searches a month

590 to 2,400

Car accident lawyer

searches a month

1,900 to 8,100

Movers

searches a month

3,600 to 9,900

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

AC and HVAC? Rank before summer.

AC repair searches here run five times higher in the hottest months than in the quietest. Rankings take weeks to build, so AC, HVAC and plumbing companies need to hold the top three by spring, not start when the heat hits. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.

Moving never stops.

“Movers Los Angeles” runs from 3,600 to 9,900 searches a month, and moving company from 1,900 to 5,400. A mover click costs around $38 on Google Ads in Los Angeles. In a city that moves this much, a top-three spot is worth more every single month.

No bill for every click.

On Google Ads in Los Angeles, a click costs around $222 for car accident lawyer, $117 for personal injury lawyer, $145 for water damage restoration, $78 for roof repair and $43 for plumber. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.

A crew clearing dry brush on a Los Angeles hillside above homes, making defensible space before fire season

After the January 2025 fires

Two fires. 16,251 structures lost. A county rebuilding.

The Eaton and Palisades fires both started on January 7, 2025. By the time they were contained on January 31, they had burned 37,469 acres, destroyed 16,251 structures and taken 31 lives. The county estimates about 6,800 businesses and 47,000 workers were affected. The rebuild is still going on, and the homeowners doing it are searching for help: over the last twelve months in Los Angeles, fire damage restoration searches ran from 110 to 590 a month, roof repair from 590 to 2,400 and general contractor from 1,300 to 14,800. For the contractors, roofers, restoration crews and brush clearance companies doing that work, being easy to find on Google matters.

Source: County of Los Angeles, Eaton and Palisades Fires anniversary fact sheet

Get found by the people searching

SEO results in Southern California and across North America

Big markets. Hard searches. Built for Los Angeles.

Google Maps · Newport Beach, California

Sanjay Grover MD

#17 → #1

For “best plastic surgery near me” on Google Maps, in 20 days, in one of the most competitive cosmetic surgery markets in the country. “Best breast augmentation surgeons” went from #15 to #1 and “cosmetic surgeons near me” from #24 to #2. Seven of eight target searches finished in the top three, four of them at #1.

See our case studies

Google Maps · Canton, Massachusetts

Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo

#10 → #1

For “car accident attorneys near me” on Google Maps, in 20 days. In Los Angeles, a car accident lawyer click costs around $222 on Google Ads, and searches swing from 1,900 to 8,100 a month. A top-three spot doesn’t bill by the click.

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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 Los Angeles, 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 the Valley to Long Beach.

Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in Santa Monica sees a different top three from someone in Pasadena, and someone in Van Nuys sees another. In Los Angeles the map can change from one freeway exit to the next. 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 LA County.

  • 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 Los Angeles. Each dot is one search location and the number is where the business shows on Google Maps from there.

How our Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Sherman Oaks to San Pedro, 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles. 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 Los Angeles

AC, termites, lawyers. The searches Los Angeles runs on.

AC repair: 2,400 to 12,100 searches a month

HVAC and air conditioning

HVAC averages 8,100 searches a month in Los Angeles, HVAC repair runs 480 to 2,400 and furnace repair 390 to 2,400 when it cools down. An AC repair click costs around $27 on Google Ads, and in a heat wave the calls come all at once.

Plumber: 5,400 to 14,800 a month

Plumbing, water damage and mold

Emergency plumber runs 320 to 2,900 searches a month at around $76 a click. Water damage restoration and mold removal average 1,000 each, at around $145 and $84 a click. Every one of those clicks is a customer you could be getting from a ranking instead.

Personal injury lawyer: about 6,600 a month

Law firms

A car accident lawyer click costs around $222 on Google Ads in Los Angeles and a personal injury click around $117. Car accident lawyer searches swing from 1,900 to 8,100 a month. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.

Termite control: 880 to 4,400 a month

Pest and termite control

Pest control runs 1,600 to 3,600 searches a month at around $30 a click, and termite control costs around $16. In a warm city full of wood-framed homes, the calls never really stop, and the top three take most of them.

Dentist: about 18,100 a month

Dentists, dermatologists and med spas

Dermatologist averages 6,600 searches a month and med spa 4,400, and clinics fight over the same few spots on the map in every neighborhood. Sanjay Grover MD in Newport Beach went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.

Locksmith: about 8,100 a month

Movers, locksmiths and home services

“Movers Los Angeles” runs 3,600 to 9,900 a month at around $38 a click and a locksmith click costs around $21. Pool cleaning runs 260 to 1,300 searches a month and tree removal averages 480.

General contractor: 1,300 to 14,800 a month

Contractors, ADUs and rebuilds

Roofing contractor runs 1,000 to 9,900 searches a month and roof repair costs around $78 a click. ADU builder averages 480 at around $38, solar installation 1,000 at $38, foundation repair 590 and seismic retrofit 170 at around $54 a click.

Don’t see yours?

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

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Search figures: Google Ads data for Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles

All of LA. Neighborhood by neighborhood.

Most agencies write one “Los Angeles” page and hope it covers 12.9 million people. It doesn’t. Google shows a different top three in Santa Monica than in Silver Lake, and a different one again in Van Nuys or Long Beach. So we plan area by area: the neighborhoods you already win, the ones close enough to take next, and the ones worth a page of their own.

Westside

Law firms, clinics, med spas and cosmetic practices chasing the same few spots on the map.

  • Santa Monica
  • Venice
  • Brentwood
  • West LA
  • Westwood
  • Beverly Hills
  • Century City
  • Culver City
  • Marina del Rey
  • Playa Vista
  • Mar Vista
  • Pacific Palisades

Central LA

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

  • Downtown LA
  • Hollywood
  • West Hollywood
  • Koreatown
  • Silver Lake
  • Echo Park
  • Los Feliz
  • Mid-Wilshire
  • Fairfax
  • Highland Park
  • Eagle Rock
  • Boyle Heights

San Fernando Valley

Houses, pools and hot summers, so AC, plumbing, pool and roofing work is always in demand.

  • Burbank
  • Glendale
  • Sherman Oaks
  • Studio City
  • Encino
  • Van Nuys
  • North Hollywood
  • Woodland Hills
  • Northridge
  • Reseda
  • Chatsworth
  • Santa Clarita

San Gabriel Valley

Hillside homes and family businesses, from Pasadena out along the foothills.

  • Pasadena
  • Altadena
  • South Pasadena
  • Arcadia
  • Alhambra
  • Monrovia
  • San Gabriel
  • Monterey Park
  • El Monte
  • West Covina
  • Pomona
  • La Cañada Flintridge

South Bay and Long Beach

Beach cities, the port and big suburbs, each with its own top three.

  • Long Beach
  • Torrance
  • Manhattan Beach
  • Hermosa Beach
  • Redondo Beach
  • El Segundo
  • San Pedro
  • Palos Verdes
  • Inglewood
  • Carson
  • Gardena
  • Lakewood

Around Los Angeles

  • IrvineOrange County
  • AnaheimOrange County
  • Santa AnaOrange County
  • Newport BeachOrange County
  • Huntington BeachOrange County
  • RiversideRiverside County
  • OntarioSan Bernardino County
  • Rancho CucamongaSan Bernardino County
  • Thousand OaksVentura County
  • OxnardVentura 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 Los Angeles 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, Santa Monica to Long Beach

One “Los Angeles” page for 12.9 million people

Rank tracking

A ranking grid across every part of LA 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: Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles.

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

Los Angeles SEO, answered.

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

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01 How much does SEO cost in Los Angeles?

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 LA and the cities around it 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 Los Angeles?

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 Los Angeles too competitive for SEO?

It is one of the toughest local markets in North America, and that is exactly why it pays to do it properly. Competition is set search by search and neighborhood by neighborhood, not for the whole city. “Plumber los angeles” and “plumber pasadena” 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 Los Angeles?

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 Los Angeles a car accident lawyer click costs around $222, a water damage restoration click around $145 and a plumber click around $43. 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 a Los Angeles 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 Southern California?

Yes. In Newport Beach, Sanjay Grover MD went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps for “best plastic surgery near me” in 20 days, with seven of eight target searches in the top three and four of them at #1. Across the West, Purple Flare Wraps is #1 for “Las Vegas car wrap” and Angkorscape is #1 for “luxury landscape design” in Seattle. On the call, we show you results in your own industry.

07 Can you rank my business across all of LA?

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 the Valley. Can I rank in Santa Monica or Downtown LA too?

Yes, for the searches where Google looks past distance. On the map, Westside searchers mostly see Westside businesses, 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 city.

09 Can I rank in Los Angeles and Orange County at the same time?

Yes. Irvine, Anaheim and Newport Beach share a metro with Los Angeles, 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 Los Angeles?

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 Los Angeles?

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 Los Angeles location.

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

Yes. Plumbers, HVAC companies, movers, pest control and pool companies 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 AC and HVAC companies start SEO in Los Angeles?

By early spring. In Los Angeles, AC repair searches run from 2,400 a month to 12,100 in the hottest months, and HVAC repair from 480 to 2,400. Rankings take weeks to build, so the companies that start early are the ones in the top three when the first heat wave hits.

14 Do you work with law firms in Los Angeles?

Yes. Law is one of the most expensive fields to advertise in here: a car accident lawyer click costs around $222 on Google Ads in Los Angeles and a personal injury click around $117, while personal injury lawyer searches run from 4,400 to 12,100 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 contractors, roofers and restoration companies?

Yes. General contractor searches run from 1,300 to 14,800 a month in Los Angeles, roof repair from 590 to 2,400 and fire damage restoration from 110 to 590. ADU builder averages 480 searches a month at around $38 a click, and seismic retrofit 170 at around $54. We build a page for each service and each area you cover, so a homeowner in Altadena and a building owner in Koreatown both find you.

16 Do you build backlinks for Los Angeles businesses?

Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles?

Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying, and Los Angeles clicks are expensive: around $222 for a car accident lawyer. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles. 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 Los Angeles?

Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 6am to 2pm Pacific (9am to 5pm Eastern), or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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.