SEO company in Raleigh, ranking businesses from Brier Creek to Garner
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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1.6 million people. Three counties. Three spots on the map.
Metro Raleigh is home to about 1.6 million people across Wake, Johnston and Franklin counties, from Wake Forest down to Clayton and west to Cary and Apex. The typical household here earns $102,144 a year, about 25 percent more than the national figure, so a new customer is worth more here than in most of the country. When a summer storm drops an oak on the roof or the AC quits in a heat wave, 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 North Hills doesn’t mean you show up in Brier Creek, Garner or Cary.
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
Storms. Heat. Moving day. Each with its own rush.
We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Raleigh. Roofing searches swing from 260 to 3,600 a month, nearly fourteen times as many in the busiest month as in the quietest. Personal injury lawyers run from 390 to 3,600 and mold removal from 110 to 880. Dentists see 1,900 to 4,400, landscaping 210 to 880 and movers 1,000 to 1,900. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.
searches a month
260 to 3,600
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1,900 to 4,400
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390 to 3,600
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110 to 880
searches a month
210 to 880
searches a month
1,000 to 1,900
Each chart is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Raleigh, North Carolina, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.
Roofing searches climb nearly fourteen times over in the busy months, then fall away. Rankings take weeks to build, so roofers, tree crews and restoration companies need to hold the top three before the storms come, not chase them. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.
Google Maps shows a different top three in North Hills, Brier Creek and Cary from the one it shows downtown. 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 storm or in the same busy season. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.
July 28, 2026 in Raleigh
One night of storms. Trees down across North Raleigh.
Storms tore through Wake County on the night of July 28, 2026. At the peak, more than 11,000 people lost power, and Duke Energy lost a transmission tower near Cedar Hills Park. Trees blocked East Millbrook Road near Six Forks, both ends of Pinecrest Road and Valley Drive, and Ray Road closed between Strickland and Lynn roads. Tree services, roofers, electricians and restoration crews all got the calls at once. Even in a normal year, tree removal searches in Raleigh run from 170 a month to 480, and roofing from 260 to 3,600. When the next storm hits, people search, and they call the businesses Google shows first.
Source: WRAL
Get in the top three before the next stormNorth Carolina first. Search it yourself.
Google Maps · Wilmington, North Carolina
#1
for storm shutters
near me, 52 miles
from the front door
A North Carolina storm protection company. Most local businesses disappear from Google Maps a few miles from their address. We built city by city relevance across the coast they actually serve, and they hold first place on the map 52 miles away.
Read the case studyGoogle search · Ecommerce
#3
from page 5
For “UNC hat”, above New Era and Amazon. Page five used to be a good day. Now Google puts a small store above the giants for the hat the Triangle actually wears.
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 Brier Creek to Southeast Raleigh.
Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in North Hills sees a different top three from someone in Brier Creek, Southeast Raleigh or over in Cary. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across Raleigh 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 Raleigh 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 Raleigh and North Carolina 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 Raleigh 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 Raleigh 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 Brier Creek to Garner, written for the people searching there. No city-name swaps.
Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions from Raleigh and North Carolina 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 Raleigh. 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.
Roofers, dentists, lawyers. The searches Raleigh runs on.
Roofing: 260 to 3,600 searches a month
Gutter cleaning runs 260 to 720 searches a month and window replacement 170 to 320. R.A. Woodall Roofing in Virginia is #1 for “roofing contractor Williamsburg VA” with its Maps listing on the same screen.
Plumber: 880 to 1,300 a month
Electricians run 320 to 720 searches a month and AC repair 140 to 720. Pest control adds 390 to 1,000 more. Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating holds all 8 of its tracked searches in the Google Maps top three.
Dentist: 1,900 to 4,400 a month
Cosmetic dentistry adds 110 to 590 and med spas 70 to 590. Grand Oaks Orthodontics went from 203 ranking searches to 818 in 90 days.
Personal injury lawyer: 390 to 3,600 a month
Family lawyers see 590 to 1,300 searches a month and immigration lawyers 210 to 480. The Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.
Movers: 1,000 to 1,900 a month
Storage runs 140 to 390 searches a month. 24/7 Movers is #1 on Google Maps in Edmonton for three of its keywords.
Landscaping: 210 to 880 a month
Tree removal runs 170 to 480 searches a month and deck builders 50 to 260. Angkorscape is #1 on Google for “luxury landscape design” and named in Google’s AI answers.
Mortgage broker: 70 to 720 a month
Real estate agent searches run 70 to 170 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 Raleigh, live, on the call.
Book my free strategy call
Search figures: Google Ads data for Raleigh, North Carolina over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest.
Every corner of Raleigh. And the whole Triangle.
Downtown, Glenwood South and the Warehouse District are packed with law firms, clinics and agencies chasing the same few spots. North Hills, Five Points and Cameron Village run on walk-in trade and near-me searches. Brier Creek, Wakefield, North Raleigh and Southeast Raleigh are full of families who need a plumber, a roofer or a dentist close to home, and Cary, Durham and Wake Forest are markets in their own right. Google shows different businesses in each one, so each one gets its own plan.
Your Raleigh rankings, dated before storm season. 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
Map Pack movement in four to six 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 quote form or a budget dropdown
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, Brier Creek to Southeast Raleigh
One page with the city name swapped in
Rank tracking
A ranking grid across Raleigh 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: Raleigh 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 Raleigh, 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 Raleigh 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 Raleigh and the Triangle 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 busy 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 in Wilmington is #1 on Google Maps for “storm shutters near me” from a search point 52 miles away in Ocean Isle Beach. And The Game Caps climbed from page five to #3 for “UNC hat”, above New Era and Amazon.
Yes. Google treats Cary, Apex, Durham, Chapel Hill and Wake Forest 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 Raleigh 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 Raleigh 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 Raleigh, roofing searches climb from 260 a month to 3,600, mold removal from 110 to 880 and landscaping from 210 to 880. Personal injury lawyers see anywhere from 390 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, the same hours as Raleigh, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Raleigh itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see.
Yes. Google shows different businesses in each, so each town gets its own pages and its own search targets, and a second location gets its own Google Business Profile. City by city pages are how American Hurricane Shutters ranks #1 on Google Maps 52 miles from its Wilmington address.
Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Raleigh and North Carolina 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 Raleigh. Super Fabrications in Reston, Virginia is named in Google’s AI Mode for fence gates and recommended by ChatGPT, and EquityRich is cited for “commercial mortgage Toronto”.
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.
