New York and the tri-state area
SEO services New York businesses can actually measure, priced before we start and built borough by borough. Manhattan buys differently from Brooklyn, Queens carries the airport and freight economy, and the Bronx and Staten Island run on local trades and neighbourhood restaurants. We work at borough level, quote before we start, and price month one at $750 so you can judge the work before you commit to anything else.
The questions that cost you money
People now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI answers for a recommendation instead of scrolling results. If you are not in the answer, you are not on the shortlist. We build the structured data, entity signals and citable passages that put you there — AEO and GEO work, measured rather than guessed at.
Check where you actually sit for the terms that pay the bills, not the ones that flatter the report. If you are on page two for your own trade in your own borough, you are paying for traffic you never receive. Technical fixes, content and links, then we show you the movement every month.
In this city that is where most restaurants and trades lose money — the phone rings during service and there is no one free to pick it up. An AI host answers every call, takes the booking and texts it to you, in 13 languages, for less than one lost table a week.
The local question
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island behave like five markets, and the tri-state commuter belt adds a sixth. Profile management, reviews and a page per district — $750 a month for three locations.
What we would actually do here
The main event, and where the borough split actually matters. We fix the technical base, build the service and location pages each borough needs, and earn the links that make them hold. Manhattan competes for finance, legal and B2B terms, Brooklyn for hospitality and retail, Queens for freight and trade suppliers. One page cannot rank for all of them, which is why we price the districts you sell into rather than the city.
See what it costsNew York restaurants lose covers to a phone nobody can answer during service. Our AI host answers every call, takes reservations, handles the usual questions about hours, dress code and allergies, and texts the booking straight to your system. It works in 13 languages, which matters in a city where a third of your callers are not first-language English. It does not call in sick and it does not put anyone on hold.
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 named in AI answers, not just ranked in links.
See what it costsOwn the map pack in your borough, not just the city.
See what it costsEnquiries this month rather than next year.
See what it costsTurn traffic you already have into bookings.
See what it costsPages that answer the search and close the sale.
See what it costsAuthority that holds its value.
See what it costsThe New York market
Manhattan is finance, law, media and B2B services, and it competes on terms that cost real money — the names setting the pace are JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bloomberg and Warner Bros. Discovery, and the suppliers selling into them are chasing the same keywords. Brooklyn is hospitality, retail and a fast-growing technology and creative scene, with Etsy and a deep bench of smaller product companies. Queens carries JFK, air freight and one of the most linguistically diverse small-business economies in the country. The Bronx is healthcare, trades and neighbourhood retail. Staten Island is local trades and services. Healthcare is its own market across the city, anchored by Mount Sinai, NYU Langone and Memorial Sloan Kettering. On top of the five boroughs sits a tri-state commuter layer — Jersey City, Newark, Long Island, Westchester — that searches New York terms from outside the city line.
That layering is the opening. Most competitors publish one New York page and hope, so it speaks to nobody in particular. A restaurant in Astoria and a law firm on Madison Avenue are not chasing the same search, and a page built for one of them will not rank for the other.
We do not guess at this. The first month goes into your site, your competitors and your call data, and the ongoing quote follows what that actually showed.
Where your customers are
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island behave like five markets with five sets of competitors, and the tri-state commuter belt adds a sixth. We build for the areas you actually sell into.
How it runs
Tell us the borough, the trade 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 in New York is typically published at $2,000–$4,000 a month, with mid-market programs at $4,000–$8,000 and competitive or enterprise work at $8,000–$15,000+. New York runs 25–40% above the national average, and most of the big agencies here publish no prices at all.
$3,500/month flat, and month one is $1,750 so you can judge the work before committing to anything else. Google Maps and profile management from $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location after three. Websites from $1,000. No setup fees, no minimum term, and we quote before we start.
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 agencies serving New York, gathered September 2026. They are ranges from public rate cards, not one company’s quote, and they move — check before you rely on them.
What it costs
SEO retainers from $3,500/month, with month one at $1,750. Google Maps and profile management from $750/month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location after three. Websites from $1,000. Paid search and the AI receptionist are quoted on scope.
One missed restaurant booking a night costs more than a year of the AI host. Nothing is charged until the scope is agreed, and there is no minimum term.
Straight answers
No proposal document and no discovery call to get a number. Ask directly and you will get a straight answer.
Ask about New YorkRetainers start at $3,500 a month, and month one is $1,750 so you can judge the work before committing to the rest. 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.
Yes, and that is the point. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island behave like separate markets with separate competitors. We build for the districts you actually sell into and leave the rest alone.
Two things. Search work so people looking for what you serve in your neighbourhood find you, and an AI host that answers every call, takes reservations and handles the usual questions during service when nobody can pick up. Most restaurants start with the AI host because the missed covers pay for it fastest.
If nobody can find you, start with SEO or local search. If you are found and people leave without booking, the website is the problem. If you need covers this month, Google Ads or the AI host. 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.
