SEO agency in Los Angeles, California
Local SEO and AI search for service and B2B companies across Los Angeles: Google Business Profile, the map pack and the pages that bring calls. Run in monthly sprints, under your name, with a scorecard you can read in five minutes. We don’t keep an office in Los Angeles: we work remotely, and five of our clients are Los Angeles companies.
four clients tripled conversion, ad return or revenue
projects since 2015
on Clutch in Austin: conversion optimization, landing pages
Why Los Angeles SEO campaigns stall
Rankings and directories fill six of the nine top spots for “seo company los angeles”, so buyers usually meet an agency through somebody else’s list before they see its own site.
A Google Ads click averages about $90 on “3pl los angeles” and $19 on “business attorney los angeles”. A firm that relies on ads alone pays that for every visit, for as long as it wants to be found.
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 Los Angeles, run remotely
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 Los Angeles search. Every account runs under your name.
What a click costs in Los Angeles
Los Angeles click prices run from about $2 to $90, depending on what you sell. Monthly searches and average cost per click in Google Ads, November 2026:
“staffing agency los angeles”
3,600 searches a month · $3.17 a click
“staffing agency long beach”
1,000 searches a month · $2.35 a click
“general contractor los angeles”
1,900 searches a month · $6.67 a click
“business attorney los angeles”
1,900 searches a month · $19.26 a click
“clothing manufacturer los angeles”
880 searches a month · $6.87 a click
“commercial real estate los angeles”
720 searches a month · $2.43 a click
“freight forwarder los angeles”
320 searches a month · $18.29 a click
“3pl los angeles”
210 searches a month · $90.16 a click
Who you’re up against in Los Angeles
We checked page one for “los angeles seo” from a Los Angeles location on November 10, 2026, next to our notes on “seo company los angeles” from the same day.
Names built from the search
All three businesses in the map are named after the search itself. They had 182, 37 and 27 Google reviews and 7 to 10+ years in business, so a firm with a plain brand name usually has a better shot in the organic results than on the map.
Social profiles in the organic results
Two of the eight organic results were the Facebook and X pages of businesses already in the map. Three more were “best agencies” lists, and an AI Overview sat above them all.
Agencies from other cities
On “seo company los angeles”, two of the top nine results were Los Angeles pages published by agencies based elsewhere.
SEO for Los Angeles trade and B2B companies
Much of the Los Angeles economy sells to other businesses. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach keep customs brokers, freight forwarders, 3PLs and warehouses busy from the harbor to the Inland Empire. Garment and cut-and-sew factories still work near downtown, and staffing agencies place workers across all of these industries. Their buyers search for a capability, and each search is worth real money: “customs broker los angeles” gets about 260 searches a month, and a click on it costs about $19. They choose on specifics. A brand looking for a factory wants minimums, lead times and the fabrics it handles; an importer wants to know which goods and ports a broker clears. Each service needs its own page with those facts, written so AI assistants can quote them. We take on California companies with the same plans and the same monthly scorecard. In November 2026 we measured how ChatGPT recommends manufacturers in four Texas metros: 80% of the sources it cited were the companies’ own pages. Read the study
What’s inside Los Angeles 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 website development.
Our projects
Five of our clients are Los Angeles companies, and four of them are here: two recruiting firms, a marketplace whose pages AI assistants cite for California searches, and an appliance repair startup with local SEO.
A massage therapist marketplace: web app with Stripe subscriptions and search by location
A slow, glitchy site fixed, a brand refresh and landing pages that bring more inbound leads and calls
No brand and no site for ads: a rebrand and a one-page site their campaigns now run on
A Los Angeles appliance repair startup’s brand and a mobile-first booking page with local SEO
How we run SEO for Los Angeles 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 Valley to Long Beach, 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.
Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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.
Uwindi’s team is quick to respond via BaseCamp and phone for urgent matters.
Tells it like it is, doesn’t allow you to waste any time going down the wrong road.
Right after launch we started getting real booking requests from homeowners and property managers.
Michael BrockFounder & CEO, PristikaYou ask,
we answer
- Do you have an office in Los Angeles?
No. Uwindi is based in the Austin area and works with clients across the US remotely: most meetings are video calls over a shared workspace, and the price is fixed before the first invoice. If you need someone who will drive to your office, we will tell you on the first call that we are not the right fit.
- Have you worked with Los Angeles companies?
Yes: ECA Partners and Talent Compass in recruiting, MassHere, a marketplace that AI assistants now cite for California queries, Repirex in appliance repair and Pristika in home cleaning.
- Should we have pages for Long Beach, Pasadena or the Inland Empire?
Only where your buyers search by that name, and that depends on what you sell. Staffing has the strongest suburbs: “staffing agency ontario ca” gets about 2,400 searches a month and “staffing agency pasadena” about 390, next to 3,600 for Los Angeles itself. Contractors have smaller pockets: “general contractor pasadena” and “general contractor long beach” get about 320 each, against 1,900 for the city. Logistics buyers hardly use suburb names at all; “3pl long beach” gets about 10 searches a month. So a staffing firm with an Inland Empire branch needs a page for it, while a 3PL does better with one strong Los Angeles page per service.
- When should a Los Angeles business start SEO?
Months before your buyers’ peak, because new pages need time to settle in, and the peaks differ by trade. “business attorney los angeles” jumped to about 3,600 searches a month in January and February 2026 and fell to 720 in August, so a law firm that wants the new-year rush should be under way by late summer. “clothing manufacturer los angeles” peaked at about 1,300 in March, against 720 in the slow months; a factory courting spring orders should start the fall before.
- Do you work with businesses outside Los Angeles proper?
Yes: Santa Monica, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Long Beach, Torrance, the San Fernando Valley and the rest of LA County, plus Orange County and the Inland Empire, on the same plans. B2B companies anywhere in California are welcome, and a firm with several locations gets a Custom SEO proposal.
- Do you also build websites for Los Angeles 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. Website development
