Chicago SEO that gets your business found and the phone ringing.

The range above is set by two things: how much of Chicago and its suburbs you want to cover, and the revenue a typical job brings you. Ranking for one trade on the North Side takes fewer pages and links each month than ranking for five services citywide plus the suburbs. We size it on the first call and put the number in writing.

You should typically see site fixes land in month one and the first local ranking gains by month three. Technical repairs usually register within 30 days, while rankings for local and long-tail searches tend to climb between day 60 and day 90 as your area pages and Google profile take hold. Revenue usually builds from the fourth month on, and call tracking runs from week one, so each report shows the trend.

Rarely, and no one can promise it will. Proximity weighs heavily in the Map Pack, so a single address won’t show for every search across a city this size. We guarantee the work, not a ranking: area pages for the parts of Chicago you serve, a complete profile and listings that agree with your site, all aimed at showing up in more of the places you take jobs.

Yes. Answer-first copy, schema markup and business facts that match across the web make your company easier for ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews to understand, and all of it is part of the retainer. No AI Overview showed for “plumber chicago” when we checked, though that can change any day, and nobody can promise an AI mention.

Not much after the start. We need access to your website and Google Business Profile, your service list, the parts of Chicago you want work from and photos from real jobs. After kickoff, your main job is asking finished customers for reviews and telling us which leads turned into work.