SEO agency in Houston, Texas
Local SEO and AI search for service and B2B companies across Greater Houston: Google Business Profile, the map pack and the pages that bring calls. Run in monthly sprints by a Texas team based in the Austin area, under your name, with a scorecard you can read in five minutes.
four clients tripled conversion, ad return or revenue
projects since 2015
on Clutch in Austin: conversion optimization, landing pages
Why Houston SEO campaigns stall
For “seo company houston”, directory lists took three organic spots and national agencies’ Houston pages three more; firms based in the city held the remaining three.
At $19.54 a click on “property management houston”, fifty visits a month cost about $977, close to $11,700 a year. Pause the budget and the visits end the same day; nothing you paid for keeps ranking.
Directory spam, purchased links, AI-generated pages. It works until it doesn’t; then the site drops and you own nothing.
Traffic went up, calls didn’t. Nobody tied calls and forms back to search, so nobody can say what the retainer bought.
Local SEO for Greater Houston, run from Austin
Uwindi is based in the Austin area, with our own team of 13 and no white-label handoffs. Local SEO comes down to three things, improved in monthly sprints: your Google Business Profile and reviews; consistent profiles on Apple Maps, Bing and Yelp; and service pages tuned to how people in Houston search. Every account runs under your name.
What a click costs in Houston
Caption: Before choosing SEO or ads, look at what Houston charges per visit. Google Ads data for seven of our categories, November 2026:
“self storage katy”
1,900 searches a month · $25.34 a click
“self storage houston”
8,100 searches a month · $23.52 a click
“property management houston”
1,900 searches a month · $19.54 a click
“law firm houston”
1,600 searches a month · $17.48 a click
“cpa houston”
720 searches a month · $13.51 a click
“general contractor houston”
1,600 searches a month · $6.73 a click
“commercial real estate houston”
1,300 searches a month · $2.68 a click
Who you’re up against in Houston
Our Houston pull for “seo company houston”, dated November 10, 2026:
The map is within reach
The three agencies on it had 94, 7 and 104 Google reviews, in that order, and the one with 7 has 25+ years in business. Hundreds of reviews are not the entry ticket here.
Out-of-state numbers on Houston pages
Three national agencies rank with Houston pages; one of them shows a Los Angeles phone number in its result, and none of the three appears on the map.
A list that ranks its author first
A “best SEO companies in Houston” post from October 2026 puts the agency that published it at the top of its own list. Two other lists, an agency directory and a review site, ranked beside it.
SEO for Houston’s port and industrial companies
Much of Houston’s B2B business depends on the Ship Channel: the Port of Houston, the refineries and the chemical plants along it. Around them work freight forwarders and customs brokers, fabricators, inspection and maintenance contractors, and the suppliers energy companies buy from. Their buyers search by service and place, and far less often than consumers do: “freight forwarder houston” draws about 390 monthly searches at $8.40 a click, with a high of 590 in July 2026, and “pipe fabrication houston” barely registers at about 10. For a forwarder, that is a short list of serious shippers each month, and the requests go to the firms whose pages answer them. A fabricator is found by capability more than by city. Winning either means a page per service, trade lane or capability, proof a buyer can check, and the specifics AI assistants need to quote you accurately. We take on Texas companies outside Greater Houston with the same plans and the same monthly scorecard. In November 2026 we measured how ChatGPT recommends Texas manufacturers in Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio: 80% of the sources it cited were the companies’ own pages. Read the study
What’s inside Houston SEO management
SEO plans change your live site, so they run alongside a Website Care plan. If the site itself holds rankings back, start with Houston web design.
Our projects
These three were built to be found without a large ad budget: Neatko in Central Texas, Repirex and MassHere in Los Angeles, the same groundwork a Houston storage operator or forwarder would get.
An Austin embroidery studio’s name, brand, site and SEO, without ads: 50+ leads a month
A Los Angeles appliance repair startup’s brand and a mobile-first booking page with local SEO
A massage therapist marketplace: web app with Stripe subscriptions and search by location
How we run SEO for Houston businesses
First 90 days: an audit of the site, your Business Profile and what AI assistants say about you, then a roadmap and a baseline to measure against. Every month after: one focused sprint on Essentials, up to two on Growth, checked on a local ranking grid across the metro, from The Woodlands to Pearland, and a short report on what changed and what comes next. Accounts and data stay in your name.
No setup fee; your Business Profile and accounts stay yours.
Three months to start, then month to month, 30 days’ notice.
Houston SEO pricing
No setup fee. SEO Essentials and SEO Growth start with a 3-month initial engagement, then month to month.
SEO Essentials
A local Houston service business that needs a strong, focused search foundation.
- 1 website, 1 Google Business Profile, 1 location
- 3–5 priority local search themes
- 1 focused SEO sprint a month
SEO Growth
A competitive Houston business with several important services and a larger opportunity.
- Everything in SEO Essentials
- Up to 2 SEO sprints a month
- Content roadmap and SEO briefs (production separate)
Custom SEO
Multi-location, multi-market, national or technically complex websites.
SEO plans run alongside Website Care, $150 a month. Full plan details, extras and terms: SEO and AI search.
Small tweaks he recommended that would make a large difference.
Uwindi’s team is quick to respond via BaseCamp and phone for urgent matters.
Based on our very positive experience, we will definitely expand the areas of our cooperation.
Jojo DeaMarketing Manager, MoticYou ask,
we answer
- Do you have an office in Houston?
No. We’re a Texas team based in the Austin area. Most meetings are video calls, the work runs in a shared workspace, and prices are published before the first invoice; when a project calls for a face-to-face meeting, we drive over.
- Should we have pages for Katy, Cypress or Sugar Land?
That depends on the trade, and Houston’s suburbs split sharply. Storage searches in Katy (about 1,900 a month) and Cypress (1,600) together come close to half of the 8,100 for Houston, so a storage operator out there should give each town its own page. Sugar Land (390) and The Woodlands (480) are much smaller. Contractors hardly search by suburb: “general contractor katy” gets about 90 searches and the same search for The Woodlands about 50, against 1,600 for Houston. Accounting sits between: “cpa katy” draws about 260 a month and 480 in March. A Katy page makes sense for a CPA firm; a contractor does better with one well-built Houston page and a well-kept Business Profile.
- When should a Houston business start SEO?
Several months before your peak. An accounting firm sees “cpa houston” at about 1,300 searches in March and 390 in August, so a firm that starts in late summer has its pages and profile settled by tax season. Storage swings harder: “self storage houston” reached 14,800 in October 2025 and 9,900 in January and February, against 5,400 in May, June and August, so a storage operator should start in spring. Begin in the busy month and you pay ad prices for the whole season while the pages catch up.
- Do you work with businesses outside Houston proper?
Katy, Cypress, Pearland, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Spring, Pasadena and Baytown are all covered, across Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties, and so are B2B firms from any corner of Texas. A company with branches in several of these towns is a Custom SEO scope, quoted in a proposal. Selling nationwide rather than to Houston buyers? B2B SEO and AI search is the better page.
- Do you also build websites for Houston companies?
Yes. A 5-page Business Website starts at $3,800 and goes live in 3–4 weeks, built on Astro with a headless CMS, or on WordPress with Bricks if your team prefers traditional hosting. If the site holds rankings back, we fix that first, because SEO can’t outrank a page buyers leave. See Houston web design.
