Southeast Michigan · SEO
SEO in Ann Arbor
Compounding traffic that doesn't stop when the budget does.
We build SEO for Ann Arbor businesses that compounds — local and organic search that keeps producing qualified traffic long after an ad budget would have stopped. For service businesses across Southeast Michigan, it's often the difference between a good year and a great one.
What you get out of it
- Qualified organic traffic that grows month over month
- Lower blended cost per lead as organic carries more of the load
- Local visibility in the markets you actually serve
The Ann Arbor market
Built for how Ann Arbor actually buys
Ranking in Ann Arbor means showing up for the searches your buyers actually run, and winning the local pack across Washtenaw County. Anchored by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor runs on research, biotech, and a steady pipeline of technology startups — an educated, high-intent market where credibility and clear positioning matter more than volume. We handle the technical foundation, the Google Business Profile work that drives local visibility in Ypsilanti, Saline, and Dexter and the surrounding area, and content built around the terms that convert in industries like higher education and research and biotech and life sciences — not vanity keywords that look good in a report.
Industries we market to here
- higher education and research
- biotech and life sciences
- software and technology
- health care
- professional services
Also serving
Ypsilanti, Saline, Dexter, Chelsea, and Plymouth — and the rest of Washtenaw County.
Market
Ann Arbor, Southeast Michigan — a metro of roughly 370,000 people.
What we do
SEO for an Ann Arbor business
- 01Technical SEO — speed, crawlability, structured data, and the fixes nobody sees but Google does
- 02Local SEO and Google Business Profile management across service areas
- 03Keyword and intent research grounded in what your buyers actually type
- 04Content strategy and production built around the searches that convert
- 05On-page optimization across service and location pages
Why us
The receipts
$2M+/ year
Managed Google Ad spend
Across service, real estate, and supply businesses — budgets we are accountable for every month.
15+years
Graphic design experience
Brand and creative work that predates most of the agencies you're comparing us to.
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Print pricing
Trade buying power keeps print under retail, across a huge range of products.
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CRM pricing
Our platform pricing is the rate we get as an agency partner — not retail per-seat.
Common questions
SEO in Ann Arbor, answered
- How long does SEO take to work in Ann Arbor?
- Usually two to three quarters before it's carrying real weight — SEO is slow by nature. If you need leads inside 30 days we'd start you on Google Ads and layer SEO underneath it, so you're not waiting on rankings to get the phone ringing.
- Can you help my Ann Arbor business rank in the local map pack?
- Yes — local SEO and Google Business Profile management are core to what we do. That's how you show up for "near me" searches across Ann Arbor and nearby Ypsilanti and Saline, which for most local service businesses is where the leads are.
- Do you do SEO and Google Ads together?
- Often, and they make each other better. Our ad search-term data tells us which keywords actually close in the Southeast Michigan market, and that feeds the SEO plan — so we're optimizing for revenue terms, not guesses.
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Know what a lead costs you
Most businesses can tell you what they spent last month. Far fewer can tell you what it produced. This is the spreadsheet we'd build for you in week one — take it and use it, whether or not we ever speak.
- Monthly Tracker
- Twelve months of spend, leads, qualified leads, customers, and revenue. Cost per lead, close rate, CAC, and ROAS calculate themselves.
- By Channel
- The same numbers split by Google Ads, paid social, SEO, email, direct mail, and referral — so you can see what to cut and what to scale.
- Dashboard
- Targets versus actual, with variance signed so positive always means you're winning. Charts for cost per lead and spend against revenue.
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Marketing Metrics Dashboard
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SEO in Ann Arbor — get started
Let's talk seo in Ann Arbor.
Tell us about your Ann Arbor-area business and we'll set up a call. If SEO isn't the right move for what you're trying to do, we'll tell you which service is.
- Response time
- One business day, from a person who read what you sent.
- Based in
- Michigan — working across Michigan and the Great Lakes region