Awkward Media
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Toronto SEO agency at 30 Ordnance Street, ranking businesses across the GTA

SEO agency in Toronto. Page one of Google in 60 days, or we keep working for free.

Awkward Media is an SEO agency in Toronto, at 30 Ordnance Street, ranking businesses on Google and Google Maps across the GTA.

30 minutes on Google Meet. For businesses doing $20k a month or more.

4.8

on Google, from 200 reviews

4.6

on Trustpilot, from 55 reviews

Top 5%

SEO agencies in the world, by Mayple

17 yrs

ranking businesses in Canada and the US

Comparing SEO agencies in Toronto?

Three answers you'd ask us anyway. Here they are, before the call.

01What does it cost?

Google Maps

$1,497+

a month. Higher for multiple locations, websites and complexity.

Google rankings

$2,697+

a month. Higher for multiple locations, websites and complexity.

AI answers come with every plan. Every plan starts with a full check of your website, your Google Maps listing and the businesses ranked above you: see our SEO audit services.

See what every plan includes →

02What if it doesn't work?

Two guarantees, in writing.

Guarantee 1 · Day 20

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.

Key metrics: your website traffic, what that traffic is worth, your site's authority and the number of sites linking to you, agreed before we start.

Guarantee 2 · 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.

Qualifying keywords: the searches we agree on together on your strategy call.

03Who will I talk to, and what happens?

30 minutes on Google Meet with a member of our team. We search your service in Toronto live, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, and show you who holds the Google Maps top three and page one, and why, and what it would take to pass them. That plan is yours to keep either way.

For businesses already doing $20k a month or more.

Pick a time. Free, 30 minutes.

Very limited spots left for the month of November. We put a cap on clients we can take in to keep our promises.

As seen in and rated on

USA Today LA Weekly Clutch TopSEO UpCity
  • plumber etobicoke
  • family lawyer north york
  • movers scarborough
  • dentist yorkville
  • immigration lawyer toronto
  • basement waterproofing east york
  • pest control leslieville
  • real estate lawyer toronto
  • snow removal north york
  • nail salon king west

Why Toronto businesses lose the call

2.8 million people. 1.16 million households. Three spots on the map.

The 2021 Census counted 2,794,356 people in the City of Toronto, in 1,160,890 households, and 6,202,225 in the Toronto metro area. 48% of households rent, 30% of homes are condominiums, and 46.6% of residents are immigrants. From Etobicoke and the Junction to Yorkville, Leslieville and Scarborough, it is a city of neighbourhoods that each run like a town of their own. When a basement floods in a semi, a tooth cracks or a lease ends at the end of the month, 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: Statistics Canada 2021 Census, from the City of Toronto’s population, housing and immigration backgrounders

Illustration
12A plumber two streets over★★★★★ 4.7 · Plumber · Open 24 hours
23A franchise from across town★★★★☆ 4.4 · Plumber · Closes 6 pm
34Whoever started SEO first★★★★☆ 4.5 · Plumber · Open now
1Your business★★★★★ Plumber · Etobicoke · Open now

Illustration. Sources: City of Toronto neighbourhood profiles (158, 2022). Who holds the three spots changes street by street, so we check yours on the call.

158

neighbourhoods on the City of Toronto’s own map. Google weighs how close the searcher stands, so a few streets can change the three.

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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. In Toronto, the next neighbourhood is a few stops away.

Google favours businesses close to the searcher. Ranking in Liberty Village doesn’t mean you show up in North York, Scarborough or Etobicoke.

Two dates, in writing.

First movement by day 20. Page one by day 60, or we keep working for free. And our prices are on the website.

Our guarantees

Page one in 60 days, or we keep working for free.

Read both guarantees

Toronto search, month by month

Winter tires in November. Snow removal in January. Patios in May. Every season, a new rush.

We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for Toronto. Snow removal toronto goes from 110 searches a month in June to 12,100 in January, and winter tires from 720 in the spring to 14,800 in November. Window replacement toronto peaks at 1,900 in October and basement waterproofing toronto at 2,900 in September and October. Then the city turns around: patio toronto climbs from 390 in the winter to 8,100 in May and June, and cockroach exterminator reaches 1,900 in July and August. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.

Snow removal

searches a month

110 to 12,100

Winter tires

searches a month

720 to 14,800

Window replacement

searches a month

260 to 1,900

Basement waterproofing

searches a month

590 to 2,900

Patio

searches a month

390 to 8,100

Cockroach exterminator

searches a month

210 to 1,900

Each chart runs January to December and is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for Toronto, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.

Snow crews, roofers and window companies: rank by September.

Roofing toronto peaks at 4,400 searches in September, window replacement in October, winter tires in November and snow removal in January. Rankings take weeks to build, so our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around: start in the summer, be in the top three when the first storm comes.

Restaurants, patios and landscapers: rank by March.

Restaurants toronto averages 18,100 searches a month and brunch toronto 12,100. Patio toronto hits 8,100 in May and June, and landscaping toronto peaks at 2,400 in May. Start before the thaw and you hold the top three when the patios open.

Basements and pests: the work after the weather.

Basement waterproofing toronto runs from 590 searches in June to 2,900 in the fall, and pest control toronto averages 3,600 a month all year. Plumber toronto averages 4,400 and climbs to 8,100 in September. When water comes through the wall, people call the first names Google shows.

A restoration technician in rubber boots carrying a pump and hose through floodwater on a street of red-brick Toronto semi-detached houses after a summer storm, with a white van at the curb

Toronto, July 16, 2024.

97.8 mm in one morning. $940 million in damage.

On the morning of July 16, 2024, Pearson Airport recorded 97.8 mm of rain, more than a month’s worth. Union Station flooded, the Don and Humber rose to very high levels and more than 165,000 Toronto Hydro customers lost power. The Insurance Bureau of Canada put the insured damage across Toronto and southern Ontario at over $940 million. Flooded basements, burst sewers and ruined drywall were work for plumbers, restoration crews and contractors for months. Today a homeowner with water coming up through the floor drain does what everyone does: searches, and calls one of the first names Google shows. Basement waterproofing toronto reaches 2,900 searches a month in the fall, and plumber toronto averages 4,400. Being one of those first names is the job.

Sources: The Weather Network and the Insurance Bureau of Canada, August 2024, from CatIQ estimates. Search figures: Google Ads, Toronto.

Get found by the people searching

SEO for a city of newcomers

1.3 million immigrants. No one to ask. Google makes the referral.

The 2021 Census counted 1,286,140 immigrants in the City of Toronto, 46.6% of everyone who lives here, against 23% for Canada as a whole. 12.4% of the city arrived in the ten years to 2021 alone, and 52.9% of residents are first generation. Most new arrivals have no neighbour to ask for a dentist, a lawyer or a mortgage broker yet. They search. Immigration lawyer toronto averages 1,900 searches a month, real estate lawyer toronto 1,600, daycare toronto 2,900 and apartments for rent toronto 18,100. The businesses in the Google Maps top three become the referral nobody else could give.

  • Immigration lawyers
  • Real estate lawyers
  • Mortgage brokers
  • Accountants
  • Dentists
  • Daycares
  • Movers
  • Property managers
  • Tutors
  • Barbers

Of Toronto residents

46.6%

are immigrants: 1,286,140 people, twice the national share.

New in the city, no referrals yet.

Someone who landed last year can’t ask a cousin who to call. Google Maps, the reviews on it and Google’s AI answers decide which lawyer, dentist or accountant gets the first appointment, and often the next ten years of work.

Every move restarts the search.

48% of Toronto households rent and 30% of homes are condos. A tenant who moves from the Annex to North York needs a new dentist, a new barber and a new daycare, and searches for every one of them. We build a page for each neighbourhood you serve, so you are the name they find when they land.

Win the neighbourhoods newcomers choose.

Google Maps favours businesses close to the searcher. We find the parts of the city where your customers live and settle, from Scarborough and North York to Etobicoke and Mississauga, and aim your profile, pages and listings at the top three there first.

Sources: Statistics Canada 2021 Census, from the City of Toronto’s immigration and housing backgrounders. Search figures: Google Ads data for Toronto over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026.

Toronto SEO results

Toronto names. Top positions. Search them yourself.

Google search · Toronto · Mortgages

Everything Mortgages

#1

For “2nd mortgage Toronto” and “mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto”: the first unpaid result on Google, and a source in Google’s AI answer for the renovation search. Everything Mortgages is also #1 for “mortgage north york”, and #3 in Newmarket and Whitby.

SEO for mortgage brokers

Google search · Oakville · Dentistry

Burloak Centre Dentistry

#1

For “cosmetic dentistry Oakville”

And the first unpaid result for “emergency dental care centre Oakville”: the search a patient makes when it hurts.

Read the case study

Google search · Toronto

Everything Mortgages: first unpaid result on Google.

Mortgage searches are crowded with banks, government pages and national finance sites. In Toronto, that is the fight every lender, law firm and clinic is in.

Google result 1 for mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto: Everything Mortgages
“Mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto” on Google: Everything Mortgages is the first unpaid result.

Before and after · Google search

From outside the top 100 to #1.

Where Pathways Dental Clinic started on two Calgary searches, and where Google shows them now.

Google search · Calgary
BeforeNow

Pathways Dental Clinic

“Same day emergency dentist in NE Calgary”: up from outside the top 100 to the first unpaid result, with the map above it.

Google search · Calgary
BeforeNow

Pathways Dental Clinic

“General dentistry in NE Calgary”: the same climb on a second search, from outside the top 100 to the first unpaid result.

Google Maps · Eglinton, Toronto

Top 3

Owl Hearing Clinic: four hearing searches in the Google Maps top three around Yonge and Eglinton.

More Toronto, Ontario and Canadian results

The screenshots. Google and Google’s AI.

Just a few of the Toronto, Ontario and Canadian businesses we rank, straight from their reports. Each one shows the search, the business and where it lands.

Google search · Toronto, Ontario and Canada

Mortgage brokers, dentists, a protection dog trainer. All in the top three.

Where a starting position is shown, it is from the first report.

Google · North York

#1

Everything Mortgages

Google result 1 for mortgage north york: Everything Mortgages
“mortgage north york” on Google: Everything Mortgages is the first unpaid result.
Mortgage broker SEO

Google · Toronto

#1

Everything Mortgages

Google result 1 for 2nd mortgage Toronto: Everything Mortgages
“2nd mortgage Toronto” on Google: Everything Mortgages is the first unpaid result.
Mortgage broker SEO

Google · Oakville

#1

Burloak Centre Dentistry

Google result 1 for emergency dental care centre Oakville: Burloak Centre Dentistry
“emergency dental care centre Oakville” on Google: Burloak Centre Dentistry is the first unpaid result.
Read the case study

Google · Calgary

Not in top 100 → #1

Pathways Dental Clinic

Google result 1 for same day emergency dentist in NE Calgary: Pathways Dental Clinic
“same day emergency dentist in NE Calgary” on Google: Pathways Dental Clinic is the first unpaid result.
SEO in Calgary

Google · Edmonton

#1

Noble Protection Dogs

Google result 1 for executive protection dogs Edmonton: Noble Protection Dogs
“executive protection dogs Edmonton” on Google: Noble Protection Dogs is the first unpaid result.
SEO in Edmonton

Google · Oakville

#2

Burloak Centre Dentistry

Google result 2 for emergency dental clinic Oakville: Burloak Centre Dentistry
“emergency dental clinic Oakville” on Google: Burloak Centre Dentistry second.
Read the case study

Google’s AI answer · Toronto and across Canada

Named in Google’s AI answers.

The same pages that rank also get picked as sources when Google answers with AI.

Google’s AI answer · Toronto

Cited

Everything Mortgages

Google AI answer for mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto: Everything Mortgages
“mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto”: Everything Mortgages as a source card in Google’s AI answer.
Mortgage broker SEO

Google’s AI answer · Edmonton

Cited

Noble Protection Dogs

Google AI answer for personal protection k9 Edmonton: Noble Protection Dogs
“personal protection k9 Edmonton”: Google’s AI answer names Noble Protection Dogs and lists it first under providers.
SEO in Edmonton

Our Toronto SEO company

An SEO company in Toronto. One you can call, visit and check.

Awkward Media is a Toronto SEO company at 30 Ordnance Street, serving downtown from the Financial District, King West, Liberty Village, Queen West, CityPlace and the waterfront out to North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough and Mississauga. For 17 years we have been getting businesses in Canada and the US onto page one of Google and into the top three on Google Maps, and the owners who hired us rate us 4.8 on Google from 200 reviews. You get a Toronto phone line, a team in your time zone and rankings checked from the city your customers search in.

$1,497

a month to start for Google Maps, with every price on our website

60 days

to page one, in writing, or we keep working for free

Very limited

spots left for the month of November. We put a cap on clients we can take in to keep our promises.

Awkward Media

4.8★★★★★(200)

SEO agency in Toronto

  • 30 Ordnance St #2006, Toronto, ON M6K 0C8
  • +1 437-561-0203
  • Calls 9am to 5pm Eastern

Open our Google profile

Our Google Business Profile, redrawn. Rating and review count as of October 2026.

How we measure

Your ranking, from Etobicoke to Scarborough.

Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in Liberty Village sees a different top three from someone in North York, and someone in Scarborough sees another. In a city this size, the map can change from one subway stop to the next. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across every neighbourhood and city you serve, and you can see that map whenever you want it: 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 Toronto.

  • Fixes aimed at the gaps

    Neighbourhood 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 Toronto. Each dot is one search location and the number is where the business shows on Google Maps from there.

How our Toronto SEO services work

Day 1 to page one.

  1. Day 1

    Audit and the plan

    We search your services across the neighbourhoods 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 Toronto 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, neighbourhoods and cities, work to get you named in AI answers, and show you every ranking whenever you want it, so you can check it yourself.

Step 1 · Match the search

Google knows exactly what you do.

A page for every service you sell, written the way Toronto people search for it, and a Google Business Profile with the right categories and services.

  • Service pages and city pages
  • Google Business Profile set up in full
  • Website fixes Google can read

Step 2 · Reach further

You show up past your own block.

Pages and listings for the neighbourhoods you serve, from Etobicoke to Scarborough, so Google shows you to people a few stops away, not just next door.

  • Neighbourhood and GTA pages
  • Local listings that match, everywhere
  • Your area set right on Maps

Step 3 · Earn trust

The web vouches for you.

Google trusts a business other sites point to. We earn links and mentions from Toronto and trade sites, keep your reviews coming in as one signal among many, and build up your site’s authority.

  • Links and mentions
  • Reviews, kept steady
  • Your name in AI answers

The result

Page one of Google, and a shot at the map’s top three.

The same work counts on Google search, on Google Maps and in AI answers. Both of our promises are set out in full in our SEO guarantees.

  • Google search
  • Google Maps
  • AI answers, on every plan

What our Toronto 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 Toronto 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 Toronto searches, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

  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 Canadian 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, neighbourhood and city you serve, from Etobicoke to Scarborough, 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 Toronto news, neighbourhood 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 Toronto. Included in every plan, never an add-on.

  8. 08

    Reporting

    Every ranking, whenever you want it, with the searches listed and the ranking grid attached, so you can check any of it on Google yourself.

Toronto SEO services, priced

SEO services in Toronto. Priced before you call.

Every plan includes the eight jobs above and the AI answers in ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s AI Overviews. We can run Google Maps, Google rankings, or both. Your price depends on your market: how many services and neighbourhoods you want to win, and how strong the businesses above you are. Here is what it costs.

Google Maps

$1,497+

a month. Higher for multiple locations, websites and complexity.

  • Local SEO: the top three on Google Maps, in the neighbourhoods you serve
  • AI SEO included, month to month

Google rankings

$2,697+

a month. Higher for multiple locations, websites and complexity.

  • Organic SEO: page one of the main Google results, below the map
  • AI SEO included, month to month

Two guarantees, in writing

Day20

Visible improvement in your key metrics, or we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.

Day60

Your qualifying keywords on the first page of Google, or we keep working for free until they are.

Read both guarantees

Toronto SEO services, already working

Industries we rank in Toronto

Lawyers, plumbers, patios. The searches Toronto runs on.

Family lawyer toronto: 4,400 a month

Law firms

Family lawyer toronto averages 4,400 searches a month, immigration lawyer toronto 1,900, real estate lawyer toronto 1,600 and personal injury lawyer toronto 1,300. Florida Probate Law Group is #1 on Google for “Florida probate lawyer”, and we run the same plan for Toronto firms.

Plumber toronto: up to 8,100

Plumbers, heating and electricians

Plumber toronto averages 4,400 searches a month and climbs to 8,100 in September. Emergency plumber toronto reaches 1,600, electrician toronto averages 880, furnace repair toronto peaks at 720 and duct cleaning toronto averages 480.

Snow removal: up to 12,100

Roofers, renovators and snow crews

Snow removal toronto climbs from 110 searches a month in June to 12,100 in January. Roofing toronto peaks at 4,400 in September, basement waterproofing toronto at 2,900, and bathroom renovation toronto averages 1,300.

Dentist toronto: 4,400 a month

Dentists, clinics and therapists

Dentist near me averages 40,500 searches a month in Toronto and dentist toronto 4,400. Dermatologist toronto averages 4,400 and therapist toronto 2,900. Burloak Centre Dentistry is #1 for “cosmetic dentistry Oakville”, and Owl Hearing Clinic holds four searches in the Maps top three.

Restaurants toronto: 18,100 a month

Restaurants, bakeries and cafes

Restaurants toronto averages 18,100 searches a month and brunch toronto 12,100, and patio toronto climbs from 390 in the winter to 8,100 in May and June. The restaurants in the Google Maps top three take the walk-ins and the reservations.

Moving company toronto: up to 9,900

Movers, storage and cleaners

Moving company toronto averages 5,400 searches a month and peaks at 9,900 in July. Storage units toronto averages 3,600, pest control toronto 3,600 and cleaning services toronto 1,900.

Hair salon toronto: 5,400 a month

Salons, daycares and personal services

Hair salon toronto averages 5,400 searches a month, barber toronto 3,600, daycare toronto 2,900 and nail salon toronto 1,900. Every new tenant and every new arrival looks for all of them.

Don’t see yours?

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

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Search figures: Google Ads data for Toronto over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest; single figures are monthly averages.

Local SEO across Toronto and the GTA

Every neighbourhood. And the rest of the GTA.

Most agencies write one “Toronto” page and hope it covers 2.8 million people. It doesn’t. Google shows a different top three in Liberty Village than in North York, and a different one again in Scarborough or Etobicoke. The highways, the ravines and the lake split the city into dozens of small markets, and Mississauga, Vaughan and Markham are markets of their own. So we plan area by area: the neighbourhoods you already win, the ones close enough to take next, and the ones worth a page of their own.

Downtown, King West and the waterfront

Towers, condos, head offices, restaurants and the busiest streets in the country.

  • Financial District
  • King West
  • Liberty Village
  • Queen West
  • St. Lawrence
  • Distillery District
  • CityPlace
  • Harbourfront

Midtown, Yorkville and the Annex

Boutiques, clinics, offices and family streets, from Bloor up to Eglinton.

  • Yorkville
  • The Annex
  • Rosedale
  • Forest Hill
  • Yonge and Eglinton
  • Davisville
  • Leaside

The east end

Main streets, semis and the beach, from the Don Valley out to the Bluffs.

  • Leslieville
  • Riverdale
  • The Danforth
  • The Beaches
  • East York
  • Little India

The west end

Old main streets and new condos, from Trinity Bellwoods out to the Humber.

  • Little Italy
  • Roncesvalles
  • High Park
  • The Junction
  • Bloor West Village
  • Parkdale

North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke

The suburbs inside the city: plazas, family homes and some of the biggest search markets in Toronto.

  • North York
  • Willowdale
  • Don Mills
  • Scarborough
  • Agincourt
  • Etobicoke
  • Mimico

Across the GTA

  • MississaugaPeel Region
  • BramptonPeel Region
  • VaughanYork Region
  • MarkhamYork Region
  • Richmond HillYork Region
  • OakvilleHalton Region
  • BurlingtonHalton Region
  • MiltonHalton Region
  • Ajax and PickeringDurham Region
  • BarrieSimcoe County

Our SEO guarantees

Toronto picks its top three every day. Be one of them: page one in 60 days.

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 Toronto SEO company

Same searches. Better odds.

Awkward Media

The usual agency deal

First results

Visible improvement in 20 days, or your payment for that period back, plus $200

“Give it 6 to 8 months”

Page one

Qualifying keywords on page one in 60 days, or we keep working for free until they are

No date in writing

Price

Google Maps from $1,497+ a month. Google rankings from $2,697+.

“Call us for a quote”

Contract

Month to month

6 to 12 months

Proof

Named clients, real rankings and the screenshots to prove them

“A local HVAC company”, no name, no ranking

Local pages

A page for each neighbourhood and city you serve, the Annex to Oakville

One “Toronto” page for every neighbourhood

Rank tracking

A ranking grid across every part of the city you serve, whenever you want it

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: Toronto businesses doing $20,000 a month or more, with the crew to take on more work.

Why we cap it: Very limited spots left for the month of November. We put a cap on clients we can take in to keep our promises.

Want names? See Toronto SEO agencies compared: 11 firms side by side on published prices, contracts and guarantees.

Your next step

See who's ahead of you in Toronto.

A free 30-minute call on Google Meet. We search your service in Toronto live and show you who's above you, and why.

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FAQ

Toronto SEO, answered.

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

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01 How much does SEO cost in Toronto?

Google Maps starts at $1,497 a month. Google rankings start at $2,697 a month. Both go up for multiple locations, multiple websites and complexity. AI answers come with every plan. Every plan is month to month. Where you land depends on your service, how many neighbourhoods and GTA cities you want to win and how strong the businesses above you are. You get your exact number on the free strategy call, and the prices are published on our website before you ever talk to us.

02 What is the typical cost of SEO services in Canada?

It depends on how the work is charged: by the hour, by the project or on a monthly retainer. Our guide, How much does an SEO consultant cost?, lays out 2026 rates in the US and Canada. Google Maps starts at $1,497 a month. Google rankings start at $2,697 a month. Both go up for multiple locations, multiple websites and complexity.

03 How long does SEO take in Toronto?

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.

04 Is Toronto too competitive for SEO?

Some searches are crowded and others are wide open, and the only way to know is to look. Competition is set search by search and neighbourhood by neighbourhood, not for the whole city. “Plumber toronto” and “plumber etobicoke” 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.

05 What is the best SEO company in Toronto?

The one that puts dates in writing and shows you rankings you can search yourself. Ask every agency three things: what moves in 20 days, what is on page one in 60, and what happens if it isn’t. Our guarantees answer all three, we’re #1 on Google Maps for “SEO agency Toronto” searched from our own office, and we’re rated 4.8 on Google from 200 reviews.

06 What does a Toronto SEO agency 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, neighbourhood and city you serve, earn mentions on trusted websites, get you into AI answers, and show you every ranking whenever you want it, so you can check it on Google yourself.

07 Is SEO worth it for a small business in Toronto?

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 they stop the day you stop paying. 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.

08 Why hire an SEO company that guarantees results in Toronto?

Because most don’t put a date on anything, and some say no honest agency can. We do it in writing: if you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics in the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period, and if your qualifying keywords aren’t on page one of Google in 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Our prices are published, every plan is month to month, and every ranking we report is one you can search yourself.

09 Do you have an office in Toronto?

Yes. Awkward Media is at 30 Ordnance St #2006, Toronto, ON M6K 0C8. Call our Toronto line on +1 437-561-0203, 9am to 5pm Eastern. Strategy calls run on Google Meet, so you don’t need to come in.

10 Have you ranked businesses in Toronto?

Yes. Everything Mortgages is the first unpaid result on Google for “2nd mortgage Toronto”, #1 for “mortgage north york” and a source in Google’s AI answer for “mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto”. Owl Hearing Clinic has four searches in the Google Maps top three around Yonge and Eglinton, and in Oakville, Burloak Centre Dentistry is #1 for emergency and cosmetic dental searches. On the call, we show you results in your own industry.

11 Can you rank my business across all of Toronto?

Yes, one step at a time. Google Maps favours businesses close to the person searching, so you win the neighbourhoods around your address first. Then we build a page for each neighbourhood 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, so each address can win the neighbourhoods around it.

12 My business is in Etobicoke. Can I rank in North York or downtown too?

Yes, for the searches where Google looks past distance. On the map, people searching in North York mostly see businesses near North York, 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.

13 Do you work with businesses outside downtown Toronto?

Yes. We rank businesses across the GTA, from Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville and Burlington to Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Ajax and Pickering. Each city is its own market to Google, so each one you serve gets its own page and search targets, and you can see your ranking in every one of them whenever you want.

14 Do you work with immigration lawyers and consultants?

Yes. 46.6% of Toronto residents are immigrants, according to the 2021 Census, and 12.4% of the city arrived in the ten years to 2021. Immigration lawyer toronto averages 1,900 searches a month and immigration consultant toronto 260. People new to the country can’t ask a neighbour who to trust, so Google Maps, the reviews on it and Google’s AI answers decide who gets the consultation.

15 When should snow removal, roofing and window companies start SEO in Toronto?

By the summer. Roofing toronto peaks at 4,400 searches a month in September, window replacement toronto at 1,900 in October, winter tires at 14,800 in November and snow removal toronto at 12,100 in January. Rankings take weeks to build, so the companies that start early are the ones in the Google Maps top three when the calls come.

16 Do you work with plumbers, basement waterproofing and HVAC companies in Toronto?

Yes. Plumber toronto averages 4,400 searches a month and climbs to 8,100 in September, and basement waterproofing toronto reaches 2,900 in the fall. The July 16, 2024 flash flood dropped 97.8 mm of rain on Pearson in one morning and caused over $940 million in insured damage across Toronto and southern Ontario, and every flooded basement started with a search. We build a page for each service and each neighbourhood you cover, set up your Google Business Profile for the areas you serve and get your listings and local mentions in place well before the next storm.

17 Do you work with law firms in Toronto?

Yes. Family lawyer toronto averages 4,400 searches a month, immigration lawyer toronto 1,900, real estate lawyer toronto 1,600 and personal injury lawyer toronto 1,300. Florida Probate Law Group is #1 on Google for “Florida probate lawyer”, and we run the same plan for Toronto firms.

18 Do you work with dentists, clinics and therapists?

Yes. Dentist near me averages 40,500 searches a month in Toronto and dentist toronto 4,400, dermatologist toronto 4,400 and therapist toronto 2,900. Clinics fight over the same few spots on the map in every neighbourhood. Burloak Centre Dentistry is #1 for both emergency and cosmetic dental searches in Oakville, and Pathways Dental went from outside the top 100 to #1 for “same day emergency dentist in NE Calgary”.

19 Do you work with real estate agents, mortgage brokers and property managers?

Yes. In a city where 48% of households rent, property search never stops: apartments for rent toronto averages 18,100 searches a month, condos for sale toronto 5,400, property management toronto 1,300, real estate agent toronto 1,000 and mortgage broker toronto 880. Everything Mortgages is the first unpaid result for “2nd mortgage Toronto” and #1 for “mortgage north york”.

20 Do you work with restaurants and food businesses in Toronto?

Yes, when they’re doing $20,000 a month or more. Food is some of the busiest searching in Toronto: restaurants toronto averages 18,100 searches a month, brunch toronto 12,100, and patio toronto climbs to 8,100 in May and June. The restaurants in the Google Maps top three, with recent photos and a steady flow of reviews, take most of the walk-ins.

21 Do you work with movers, storage and cleaning companies?

Yes. Moving company toronto averages 5,400 searches a month and peaks at 9,900 in July, storage units toronto averages 3,600 and cleaning services toronto 1,900. Rankings take weeks to build, so we start in the spring and have your Google Business Profile, listings and a page for each area you move from in place before the summer rush.

22 Do you work with salons, daycares and personal services?

Yes. Hair salon toronto averages 5,400 searches a month, barber toronto 3,600, daycare toronto 2,900 and nail salon toronto 1,900. Every new tenant and every new arrival looks for all of them, and Google Maps decides who they see first.

23 How do I choose an SEO company in Toronto?

Ask every agency four things: what will move in 20 days, what will be on page one in 60, what happens if it isn’t, and which named clients you can search for yourself. Then ask for the price and how long the contract runs. We answer all of it in writing, with published prices, month-to-month plans and a 4.8 rating on Google from 200 reviews.

24 How do you optimize a Google Business Profile in Toronto?

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 Toronto location.

25 I don’t have a storefront. Can I still show up on Google Maps in Toronto?

Yes. Plumbers, movers, cleaners, roofers, snow crews and mobile services 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.

26 Do you build backlinks for Toronto businesses?

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

27 How often do you add new content to my website?

Every month we add or improve the pages that matter most for your keywords: service pages, neighbourhood pages and answers to the questions buyers ask before they call. How many depends on how crowded your market is in Toronto, and we map it out with you on the strategy call.

28 What’s the difference between local SEO and SEO?

Local SEO gets you onto the map and into the three businesses listed under it when someone nearby searches. Regular SEO gets your website into the main Google results below. Most Toronto clients run both, because the same work feeds the two, and we can run either one or both.

29 Should I use SEO or Google Ads in Toronto?

Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many Toronto businesses run ads while SEO builds, then spend less on ads once they hold page one and the Google Maps top three.

30 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 Toronto customers ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire. Everything Mortgages is already a source in Google’s AI answer for “mortgage refinancing for renovations Toronto”.

31 What will I see from you each month?

Every keyword we work on, where it stood the day we started and where it stands now, a ranking grid across the parts of Toronto and the GTA you serve, what we’ve done and what comes next, whenever you want it. Every ranking is one you can search on Google yourself, measured against our 20-day and 60-day guarantees.

32 What happens on the free strategy call?

Thirty minutes on Google Meet. We search your service in Toronto live, in the neighbourhoods 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.

33 Am I locked into a long contract?

No. Every plan is month to month. Results keep you here, not paperwork.

34 Who do you work with in Toronto?

Established businesses already doing $20,000 a month or more: law firms, dentists and orthodontists, clinics, mortgage brokers, home services, retailers and ecommerce brands. Very limited spots left for the month of November. We put a cap on clients we can take in to keep our promises.

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