SEO and marketing agency in New York
Local SEO and AI search for service and B2B companies across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and Jersey City: 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 New York: we work remotely, the way we work with clients across the US.
four clients tripled conversion, ad return or revenue
projects since 2015
on Clutch in Austin: conversion optimization, landing pages
Why New York SEO campaigns stall
Six of the top nine results for “marketing agency new york” are lists, and the map belongs to firms with 189 to 230 reviews. In a market like that, a newer business gets found through a page that answers the buyer’s questions, not through the map.
Advertisers on “self storage nyc” pay that on average, and commercial cleaning firms about $20 on “commercial cleaning nyc”. Paid visits end with the budget; the rankings you build stay with the business.
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 New York, 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 New York search. Every account runs under your name.
What a click costs in New York
In New York the same budget buys very different traffic depending on the category. Below, for November 2026: monthly searches for each phrase and what advertisers paid per click on average.
“self storage nyc”
8,100 searches a month · $43.48 a click
“self storage brooklyn”
5,400 searches a month · $31.27 a click
“property management nyc”
2,900 searches a month · $8.63 a click
“general contractor nyc”
1,900 searches a month · $7.02 a click
“cpa nyc”
880 searches a month · $18.47 a click
“business lawyer nyc”
480 searches a month · $20.37 a click
“commercial cleaning nyc”
390 searches a month · $20.25 a click
Who you’re up against in New York
We searched “new york seo” inside the city on November 10, 2026, and found three things:
The narrow search has a thin map
The map’s three agencies showed 20, 2 and 79 Google reviews, against about 200 each for “marketing agency new york”.
One publisher owns a third of page one
Lists took five of the nine organic spots, and three came from the same directory, including a post from eight years ago.
Few agency pages, not all of them local
Agencies’ own pages took just three spots, and one of those agencies is based in another state. Another spot went to a LinkedIn company page.
SEO for New York building-services and B2B firms
In New York, city law creates whole B2B markets. Owners of larger and taller buildings must file facade inspections under Local Law 11, gas piping inspections under Local Law 152 and energy audits under Local Law 87, and meet the emissions limits of Local Law 97. Engineers, contractors and consultants sell that work, and their buyers search by the law, not the trade: “local law 97” averages 2,400 monthly searches (6,600 in October 2025), “local law 11” about 1,300 and “local law 152” about 720, while “facade inspection nyc” gets about 70. A firm in that market needs a page for each law it handles, named the way owners type it, with the filings, buildings and results that prove the work, written so an AI assistant can cite it. We take on companies across the tri-state area 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 New York 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 New York web design.
Our projects
Chosen for New York’s professional and B2B firms: an Austin studio with a steady flow of leads and no ad spend, a business networking group that ranks first for the search it cares about, and a recruiting firm whose repaired site and new landing pages win more inbound inquiries.
An Austin embroidery studio’s name, brand, site and SEO, without ads: 50+ leads a month
An Austin networking group’s AI-built site and app, guided by us: #1 for its main search
A slow, glitchy site fixed, a brand refresh and landing pages that bring more inbound leads and calls
How we run SEO for New York 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 five boroughs, 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.
New York 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 New York 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 New York 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.
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 New York?
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.
- Should we have pages for Brooklyn, Queens or Long Island?
For a few categories, yes. Storage demand splits by borough: “self storage brooklyn” gets about 5,400 searches a month, the Bronx 2,400, Queens 1,900 and Staten Island 1,600, together more than the 8,100 for “self storage nyc”. An operator with sites in those boroughs should have a page for each. Property management splits unevenly: Brooklyn has 880 searches of its own, Queens about 170. Accountants mostly search the city: “cpa long island” gets about 170 a month, a fifth of the 880 for “cpa nyc”. Contractors sit in between, with 720 for Long Island and 590 for Brooklyn against the city’s 1,900. We build a borough page only when both the searches and your work in that borough are there.
- When should a New York business start SEO?
It depends on whether your demand has a season. “property management nyc” hit 5,400 in October 2025, held 4,400 through December and January, then fell to 1,300 by September 2026, so a management company should start in spring to have pages ranking by fall. “general contractor nyc” barely moves, at 1,600 to 1,900 in most months, so a contractor can start any time and judge progress month to month. Either way, rankings take months; a page started in October arrives after the rush.
- Do you work with businesses outside New York City?
Yes: northern New Jersey from Newark to Hoboken and Jersey City, Westchester and Long Island, on the same plans. Multi-location companies get a Custom SEO proposal, and firms that sell to businesses nationwide fit B2B SEO and AI search.
- Do you also build websites for New York 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 New York web design.
