Detroit and Southeast Michigan
SEO Detroit businesses can hold to a number, priced before we start. This is an engineering city before it is anything else — Ford, GM and Stellantis, the supplier and tooling base around them, automation and robotics, and the freight that runs north across the border into Canada. Add healthcare, and a downtown technology and ecommerce scene that has grown up around Corktown and New Center, and you have a market where the searches are as spread out as the work is. Month one is $750.
The questions that cost you money
Detroit runs on relationships — the supplier who has held the same program for fifteen years does not need to be found. New business is different. Programmes are re-tendered, engineers change employers, and procurement teams start with a search. If that search returns your competitors and not you, the shortlist was written without you in it.
Southeast Michigan sits against a border and a state line, so a fair share of a loosely targeted budget is spent on people who will never buy from you. We build campaigns around the plants, corridors and suburbs you actually cover, exclude the searches that never convert, and report cost per qualified enquiry rather than clicks.
Supplier and manufacturing businesses run lean, so a 2pm call or an online order question waits until somebody is free. An AI host answers every one, qualifies it, books it into the calendar and routes it to the right person — order status, stock, returns and delivery windows included, in 13 languages.
The local question
Detroit, Dearborn, Troy, Southfield, Royal Oak, Sterling Heights, Warren, Ferndale and Ann Arbor are separate searches with separate competitors, not one market. Profile management, reviews and a page per location — $750 a month for three locations.
What we would actually do here
An online store answers the same handful of questions all day: where is my order, is this in stock, can I return it, when will it arrive, and will it fit. Our AI host handles them on the phone, on the site and after hours — order status, stock checks, returns, delivery windows and product questions — and hands anything it cannot resolve to a human with the context attached. It absorbs the spikes a launch or a promotion creates without adding headcount, and it works in 13 languages.
See what it costsSoutheast Michigan is not one advertising market. A campaign aimed at the city reaches Windsor, Toledo and half of Oakland County, so we build around the districts, corridors and counties you actually serve, exclude the searches that never convert, and report cost per qualified enquiry rather than clicks. Remarketing is set up for the longer supplier and ecommerce cycles, and the ad spend stays in your account.
See what it costsThe rest of what we sell
Nothing here is bundled to make the invoice look bigger. Pick the one costing you money.
Get found by the engineering, procurement and local buyers already searching for what you sell.
See what it costsSites that carry a longer, more technical sale.
See what it costsOwn the map pack in your district and the suburbs you serve.
See what it costsSpec pages, case studies and answers that close a technical sale.
See what it costsAuthority that holds its value in a market that checks credentials.
See what it costsGet named in AI answers, not just ranked in links.
See what it costsThe Detroit market
Ford, GM and Stellantis anchor the region — headquarters, technical centers and proving grounds across Dearborn, Warren and Auburn Hills — and the supplier, tooling and automation base around them is the deepest in North America. Add robotics and industrial software, the freight and customs economy that runs across the Ambassador Bridge into Windsor, the healthcare cluster around the medical district in Midtown, and a downtown technology and ecommerce scene that has grown up around Corktown and New Center.
The money, though, is spread across Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. Troy, Southfield, Sterling Heights, Warren, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Dearborn and Ann Arbor are separate searches with separate competitors, and an engineer in Troy does not search the way a buyer in Dearborn does. We build for the districts and suburbs you actually sell into rather than for a metro on a map.
We do not guess at any of it. The first month goes into your site, your competitors and your enquiry data, and the ongoing quote follows what that actually showed.
Where your customers are
Downtown, Midtown and Corktown are one set of searches. Dearborn, Troy, Southfield, Royal Oak, Sterling Heights, Warren, Ferndale and Ann Arbor are eight more, each with its own competitors, and a supplier in Sterling Heights shares no buyer with an ecommerce brand downtown. We build for the areas you actually cover.
How it runs
Tell us the district, what you sell and what a customer is worth. We quote before any work starts.
$750, spent on the site and the evidence rather than on publishing volume.
At the end of month one we show you what we found and what the ongoing work costs. You decide.
Technical fixes, content and links. Reported every month, no minimum term.
What this normally costs
A full SEO retainer typically publishes at $1,500–$5,000 a month, competitive or multi-location programs at $5,000–$10,000, and enterprise work at $10,000 and beyond. The average agency retainer sits around $3,209. Detroit is not one of the cities we hold a local range for, so we quote from the US snapshot rather than inventing a city figure.
Single-channel SEO from $1,500/month and the full program at $2,500/month. Month one is $750 so you can judge the work first. Websites from $1,000. Google Maps and profile management from $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location. That is roughly what most people pay, minus ten percent.
We are fluent English speakers, and we work the way you do — WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or a plain phone call, whichever suits you. Most South African SEO and digital marketing specialists already work inside US agencies, so there is a fair chance you have been served by one without knowing it. We cut out the middle man: you pay for the work, not for the agency layer sitting on top of it.
Market figures are prices published by US agencies, gathered September 2026. They are ranges from public rate cards, not one company’s quote, and they move.
Straight answers
No proposal document and no discovery call to get a number. Ask directly and you will get a straight answer.
Ask about DetroitDetroit is not one of the cities we publish a local range for, so we quote from the US market figures rather than inventing a city number: a full SEO retainer typically publishes between $1,500 and $5,000 a month, competitive or multi-location programs run $5,000 to $10,000, enterprise work goes past $10,000, and the average agency retainer sits around $3,209. Our own prices are single-channel SEO from $1,500 a month and the full program at $2,500, with month one at $750 so you can judge the work first. Local SEO and Google Business Profile management is $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location after three. Websites start at $1,000.
It is a large part of what the region is. Supplier and tooling businesses sell to a small number of very large buyers on long cycles, so the work is technical pages, capability and specification content, case studies that survive procurement scrutiny, and search coverage for the engineers who write the shortlist. The AI receptionist and the lead tracking around it matter for the same reason: an enquiry that sits unanswered for a day is a program you were never considered for.
Yes, and in many cases that is the easier win. Troy, Southfield, Sterling Heights, Royal Oak and Ann Arbor are substantial markets with distinctly less competition than Detroit proper, and the searches are separate. We build for the cities you actually serve.
We work with US and Canadian businesses, but not on the same page. Windsor and the rest of Ontario are a different search market with different competitors, and a Detroit page does not rank there. Cross-border trade is different again: if your buyers are US companies moving goods into Canada, that is content and pages of its own rather than a line on this one.
If nobody can find you, SEO or local search. If buyers find you and still do not enquire, it is usually the website or the proof. If you sell online and lose orders to unanswered questions, the AI receptionist. If you need enquiries this quarter, Google Ads. We will say which, including when the cheapest one is right.
There is no minimum term. You stop whenever you like and you keep the site, the content, the profiles and the accounts.
Get a price
One reply, with the package, the price and exactly what it covers. If we are not the right answer, we will say that too.
