Awkward Media
The Seattle skyline at blue hour across Elliott Bay, with the Space Needle on the left, downtown lit up and Mount Rainier in the distance

SEO company in Seattle, ranking businesses from Ballard to Bellevue

Seattle 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.

movers seattle
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
  • movers seattle
  • gutter cleaning ballard
  • dentist capitol hill
  • personal injury lawyer seattle
  • roofer west seattle
  • mold removal seattle
  • landscape design bellevue
  • plumber queen anne
  • tree removal seattle
  • immigration lawyer seattle

Why Seattle businesses lose the call

4.1 million people. Three counties. Three spots on the map.

Metro Seattle is home to about 4.1 million people across King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, from Everett down to Tacoma and east to Bellevue and Sammamish. The typical household here earns $112,388 a year, about 1.4 times the national figure, so a new customer is worth more here than in most of the country. When a windstorm drops a fir on the roof or the gutters overflow in November, 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

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. Metro Seattle is three counties.

Google favors businesses close to the searcher. Ranking in Capitol Hill doesn’t mean you show up in Ballard, West Seattle or Bellevue.

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.

Read both guarantees

Seattle search, month by month

Rain. Wind. Moving day. Each with its own rush.

We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Seattle. Movers see 2,900 to 9,900 searches a month, more than three times as many in the busiest month as in the quietest. Gutter cleaning runs from 170 to 720 and mold removal from 210 to 720, both at their busiest in the wet months. When it dries out, window replacement climbs from 210 to 880 and deck builders from 90 to 480. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.

Movers

searches a month

2,900 to 9,900

Gutter cleaning

searches a month

170 to 720

Mold removal

searches a month

210 to 720

Window replacement

searches a month

210 to 880

Deck builder

searches a month

90 to 480

Dentist

searches a month

1,600 to 3,600

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

Rank before the rain.

Gutter and mold searches peak in the wet months, then fall away. Rankings take weeks to build, so gutter crews, roofers and restoration companies need to hold the top three before the rain comes back, not chase it. Our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around.

Ballard and Bellevue are their own markets.

Google Maps shows a different top three in Ballard, West Seattle and Bellevue from the one it shows downtown. People search from where they live, so we track the neighborhoods your customers live in, not only the city name, and show you where you stand in each.

No bill for every click.

Ads charge you for every click, and the price climbs when everyone bids after the same windstorm or in the same moving season. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.

An arborist crew cutting up a fallen fir that landed on a parked car on a rainy Seattle street of Craftsman homes, with a bucket truck behind

September 25, 2026 in Seattle

One windstorm. Trees down across the region.

A windstorm swept western Washington on September 25, 2026, with gusts up to 45 mph south of Seattle and along the coast. A tree fell onto a car in Downtown Seattle, fallen trees closed SR 507 near Tenino, and Seattle City Light worked to bring power back to thousands. Tree services, arborists, roofers, electricians and restoration crews all got the calls at once. Even in a normal year, tree removal searches in Seattle run from 110 a month to 210, and water damage restoration from 110 to 260. When the next storm hits, people search, and they call the businesses Google shows first.

Source: FOX 13 Seattle

Get in the top three before the next storm

SEO results in Seattle and across the US

Seattle first. Search it yourself.

Google search and AI answers · Seattle, Washington

Angkorscape

#1

for luxury
landscape design,
and named by AI

Google search for luxury landscape designers: the AI Overview names Angkorscape among the top Seattle firms, and Angkorscape is the first result below it
“Luxury landscape designers” on Google: Angkorscape named in the AI Overview and first in the results below it.

A Seattle landscape design and build firm. #1 on Google for “luxury landscape design”, and named in Google’s AI answers when people ask for the top luxury landscape designers in the Seattle area. Landscaping searches in Seattle run from 70 to 590 a month, and every one of them is a big job.

Read the case study

Google search · Sammamish, Washington

Angkorscape, on the Eastside

#1

For “landscape construction Sammamish”. The same firm wins in Seattle and across Lake Washington, because each market gets its own page and its own search targets.

Read the case study

Google search · Manitoba

Maurice and Sons: 18 of 19 searches couldn’t find them. 21 days later, 15 were top three.

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

Read the case study
Google search for log home restoration Manitoba with Maurice and Sons in first place
“Log home restoration Manitoba” on Google: Maurice and Sons in first place.

How we measure

Your ranking, from Ballard to Columbia City.

Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in Capitol Hill sees a different top three from someone in Ballard, West Seattle or across the lake in Bellevue. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across Seattle and every 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 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.

Illustration of a grid ranking check over Seattle. Each dot is one search location and the number is where the business shows on Google Maps from there.

How our Seattle SEO works

Day 1 to page one.

  1. Day 1

    Audit and the plan

    We search your services across Seattle and the cities 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.

  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 Seattle and Washington 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 and cities, work to get you named in AI answers, and report every ranking each month so you can check it yourself.

What our Seattle 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 Seattle 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 Seattle searches.

  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 and each area you serve, from Ballard to Bellevue, 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 Seattle and Washington news 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 Seattle. 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 Seattle

Movers, roofers, lawyers. The searches Seattle runs on.

Plumber: 720 to 1,000 searches a month

Heating, cooling and plumbing

Electricians run 480 to 880 searches a month and HVAC 210 to 390. 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: 1,600 to 3,600 a month

Dentists and clinics

Cosmetic dentistry adds 170 to 720 and med spas 140 to 320. Grand Oaks Orthodontics went from 203 ranking searches to 818 in 90 days.

Movers: 2,900 to 9,900 a month

Moving and storage

Storage runs 1,600 to 8,100 searches a month. 24/7 Movers is #1 on Google Maps in Edmonton for three of its keywords.

Landscaping: 70 to 590 a month

Landscaping and outdoor living

Deck builders run 90 to 480 searches a month and landscape design 50 to 170. Angkorscape is #1 on Google for “luxury landscape design” and named in Google’s AI answers.

Roofing: 260 to 590 a month

Roofing, remodeling and exteriors

Gutter cleaning runs 170 to 720 searches a month, window replacement 210 to 880 and bathroom remodels 170 to 590. In a city this wet, the roofers already on the map are the ones homeowners call first.

Personal injury lawyer: 390 to 1,900 a month

Law firms

Immigration lawyers see 590 to 1,000 searches a month and family lawyers 260 to 480. The Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.

Real estate agent: 170 to 590 a month

Mortgage and real estate

Mortgage broker searches run 70 to 210 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 Seattle, live, on the call.

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Search figures: Google Ads data for Seattle, Washington over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest.

Areas we serve around Seattle

Every corner of Seattle. And both sides of the lake.

Downtown, South Lake Union and Pioneer Square are packed with law firms, clinics and agencies chasing the same few spots. Capitol Hill, Ballard and Fremont run on walk-in trade and near-me searches. West Seattle, Beacon Hill, Northgate and Lake City are full of families who need a plumber, a roofer or a dentist close to home, and Bellevue, Redmond and Tacoma are markets in their own right. Google shows different businesses in each one, so each one gets its own plan.

Inside Seattle

  • Downtown
  • Belltown
  • Pioneer Square
  • South Lake Union
  • Capitol Hill
  • Queen Anne
  • Magnolia
  • Ballard
  • Fremont
  • Wallingford
  • Green Lake
  • University District
  • Northgate
  • Lake City
  • Beacon Hill
  • Columbia City
  • Rainier Valley
  • Georgetown
  • West Seattle
  • Madison Park
  • Ravenna

Around Seattle

  • BellevueEast
  • RedmondNortheast
  • KirklandNortheast
  • BothellNortheast
  • SammamishEast
  • IssaquahSoutheast
  • RentonSoutheast
  • KentSouth
  • TacomaSouth
  • ShorelineNorth
  • LynnwoodNorth
  • EverettNorth

Our SEO guarantees

Your Seattle 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.

Awkward Media vs a typical Seattle 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 three 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

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, Ballard to Columbia City

One page with the city name swapped in

Rank tracking

A ranking grid across Seattle and the cities 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: Seattle 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 Seattle.

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

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

Seattle SEO, answered.

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

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01 How much does SEO cost in Seattle?

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 Seattle 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 Seattle?

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 Is SEO worth it for a small business in Seattle?

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 windstorm 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.

04 What does a Seattle 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 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.

05 Have you ranked businesses in Seattle?

Yes. Angkorscape, a Seattle landscape design and build firm, is #1 on Google for “luxury landscape design” and named in Google’s AI answers when people ask for the top luxury landscape designers in the Seattle area. Over on the Eastside, it is also #1 for “landscape construction Sammamish”.

06 Do you work with businesses outside Seattle, like Bellevue or Tacoma?

Yes. Google treats Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Tacoma and Everett 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 city and show you where you stand in every one.

07 How do I choose an SEO company in Seattle?

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.

08 How do you optimize a Google Business Profile in Seattle?

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 Seattle location.

09 My business is in Ballard, West Seattle or Capitol Hill. Can I rank across Seattle too?

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 Seattle 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.

10 My work is seasonal. When should I start SEO?

About two months before you need the calls. In Seattle, movers searches climb from 2,900 a month to 9,900, gutter cleaning from 170 to 720 and mold removal from 210 to 720. Window replacement goes from 210 to 880 and deck builders from 90 to 480 when it dries out. Rankings take weeks to build, so the businesses that start early are the ones in the top three when the rush arrives.

11 How do I reach you from Seattle?

Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is 6am to 2pm in Seattle, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Seattle itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see.

12 Can I rank in Seattle and Bellevue at the same time?

Yes. Google shows different businesses in each, so each city gets its own pages and its own search targets, and a second location gets its own Google Business Profile. That is how Angkorscape ranks #1 in Seattle for “luxury landscape design” and #1 in Sammamish for “landscape construction Sammamish”.

13 Do you build backlinks for Seattle businesses?

Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Seattle and Washington news and community sites, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.

14 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 Seattle. Angkorscape is named in Google’s AI answers for luxury landscape designers in the Seattle area, and EquityRich is cited for “commercial mortgage Toronto”.

15 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.