Seattle SEO Company
Rankings, Map Pack Calls, and AI Search Citations Earned on Both Sides of Lake Washington, City and Eastside Alike
Egochi is a Seattle SEO company providing SEO services that earn rankings, Map Pack visibility, and AI search citations for Puget Sound businesses since 2014. Seattle is not one search market: Lake Washington splits it in two, so a plumber in Ballard, a med spa in Kirkland, and a software vendor selling into the Eastside ecosystems compete in different results against different names. We build SEO campaigns for that reality, shore by shore and neighborhood by neighborhood, with content that answers what buyers actually type, technical work that survives an audience full of engineers, and reporting that ties rankings to calls and revenue. Pricing is published before the first call, there are no setup fees, and plans run month to month. Start with a free SEO audit.
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Why Seattle SEO Is a Two-Shore Game
The Map Pack decides most local-service searches here, and the Map Pack rewards proximity. That is a hard constraint in a metro split by a lake: a business pinned in Fremont will not surface for a searcher in Redmond no matter how good its reviews are, so the first strategy question is always which side of the water your campaign should genuinely fight for, and whether the tolls and bridges make the other side worth crossing. Seattle adds its own wrinkle: people here search by neighborhood name. "Dentist Ballard" and "electrician West Seattle" are real query patterns, which means locally relevant pages built around genuine neighborhood coverage earn rankings a citywide page never will.
The other constant is churn. Every hiring cycle delivers thousands of transplants who arrive knowing nobody, hold no loyalties, and search for everything from a dentist to a dog groomer from scratch. 93% of local purchases start with a search per BrightLocal's consumer survey, and in a market that refills itself this fast, the business that shows up first often becomes the habit. That is the demand a Seattle SEO campaign is really competing for.
The B2B Side of Seattle Search
The giants give Seattle SEO a second lane few metros have. Amazon, Microsoft, and the aerospace corridor support sprawling vendor ecosystems, consultancies, staffing firms, facility services, software shops, and logistics operators, and the people who buy from those vendors research in silence: a program manager comparing options on a weekday afternoon, reading capability pages, case studies, and pricing explainers before any call gets made. Ranking for those searches takes different work than the Map Pack does, entity-clean service pages, comparison content, and authority signals, and it pays differently too, because one vendor-list decision can be worth a year of consumer leads.
AI search adds the newest layer, and this city adopted it first. When Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, or Perplexity answers "best roofing company in Seattle" or "Seattle SEO company," the cited sources win the click that used to go to position one. We structure content, schema, and entity signals so those answers can cite you, and we report AI citations alongside classic rankings, because both now carry real demand.
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Why Choose Egochi As Your Seattle SEO Company
Two-Shore Campaigns, Content Buyers Actually Search For, and Reports That Name the Calls
Plenty of agencies will sell Seattle businesses a citywide SEO package with one keyword list and a Space Needle photo. We build search campaigns for how this metro actually behaves: a Map Pack that rewards proximity on both sides of the lake, searchers who type neighborhood names, a vendor economy that researches in silence, and AI answers that now sit above the results everyone fights over.
From Ballard storefronts to Eastside office parks, your customers are already searching. What that means for SEO:
- 93% of local purchases start with a search per BrightLocal, and in most Seattle service categories the Map Pack gets the first call, which makes proximity, reviews, and profile quality the local battleground on whichever shore you serve.
- Seattleites search by neighborhood name, which rewards businesses with genuine neighborhood pages and punishes the citywide template nobody believes.
- Contested categories are genuinely contested. Legal, dental, home services, and B2B results are crowded with national lead sellers and established firms funded by tech-economy budgets, and beating them takes structure and patience, not tricks.
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Campaigns Mapped to Both Sides of the Lake
Keyword research here gets built shore by shore: neighborhood-name demand from Ballard through West Seattle, Eastside consumer searches in Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland with their own price points, and the vendor-ecosystem B2B lane that lives on LinkedIn hours and weekday research. Each area gets its own pages and its own line in the report, so you can see where the calls actually come from.
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Map Pack Work That Respects the Proximity Math
We tell you plainly which neighborhoods your pin can win and which it cannot, then build the Google Business Profile program around that truth: categories, services, photos, posts, review velocity, and locally relevant pages. Where you genuinely serve across the bridges, service-area pages do the reaching, honestly labeled and written with real local specifics rather than a find-and-replace neighborhood name.
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Content That Answers What Buyers Type
Seattle buyers research hard before they call: cost questions, comparison questions, is-it-worth-it questions, and in this climate, a lot of how-bad-is-it questions about roofs, moss, gutters, and basements. We write service pages and explainers that answer them directly, in plain language, with the page structure search engines and AI answers can quote. No filler posts, no keyword stuffing, no content mill under your name.
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AI Search Citations Reported Alongside Rankings
When AI Overviews, ChatGPT, or Perplexity answers a question in your category, we want your business in the citations, and no market adopted those tools faster than this one. Entity-clean pages, schema, and answer-first structure are built into every campaign, and the monthly report tracks where AI answers cite you, because a growing share of Seattle searches ends without a classic click.
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Technical Work That Survives Technical Buyers
Fast pages, clean architecture, correct schema, and Core Web Vitals that pass on real phone connections, including the ferry commute. Some of your customers build software for a living and notice when a site is slow or broken. For multi-location operations across the metro, we handle the location-page structure and internal linking that keep areas from cannibalizing each other.
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Published Pricing and No Setup Fees
SEO plans start at $1,500 monthly with every tier published before the first call. There are no setup fees, plans run month to month, and the audit ends with a fixed quote, not a range that grows later. If SEO is not the right spend for your situation yet, the audit says so instead of taking the fee.
We are your partner for turning Puget Sound search demand into tracked calls, booked work, and revenue, one shore and one keyword cluster at a time.
Watch Clients Talk About Their Results
"The results are just amazing"
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What Clients Say About Egochi
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Maria Antoinette
Founder, Antoinette Realtors
"Significant increase in leads"
"As a realtor, my business heavily relies on having a strong online presence. Egochi has helped me achieve just that. They have improved my search engine rankings and increased my online visibility. I am seeing a significant increase in leads and conversions. I highly recommend Egochi to any business looking to strengthen their online presence."
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Krispen Culbertson
Sr. Partner, Culbertson Law
"Blown away by the results"
"I was skeptical about investing in digital marketing. But after working with Egochi, I am blown away by the results. They have helped me reach a wider audience and attract more clients to my law firm. The team is professional, knowledgeable and always goes above and beyond to ensure I am satisfied with the services. I highly recommend Egochi to any business looking to expand their reach."
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Justin Tyme
Owner, Reef Side Tattoo
"Couldn't be happier"
"Having an online presence is crucial for attracting new clients for any tattoo shop. Egochi has helped me reach a larger audience and showcase my portfolio in the best light possible. The team is dedicated and knowledgeable, always working to improve my online visibility. I am seeing a noticeable increase in bookings and I could not be happier with the services provided by Egochi."
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Search Campaigns Built for Both Sides of the Lake, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
Every campaign below runs on the same discipline as our national SEO services: one page per intent, technical work first, content buyers actually search for, and reporting tied to tracked calls instead of positions alone.
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Local SEO and Map Pack Visibility
Google Business Profile management, review programs, citations, and locally relevant pages that earn Map Pack calls in the neighborhoods you actually serve. Proximity decides much of the pack, so we are honest about which side of the lake your pin can win and build service-area coverage for the rest.
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Keyword Research and Strategy
Shore-by-shore keyword mapping across the metro: what Ballard types, what West Seattle types, what a Bellevue buyer types, and which of those searches your business can realistically win this year. The plan names targets, competitors, and expected timelines before any content gets written.
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On-Page SEO and Content
Service pages, neighborhood pages, and cost explainers written to answer the exact questions Seattle buyers ask, with titles, headings, and internal links tuned page by page. Every page targets one search intent, so your own pages compete with the market instead of with each other.
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Technical SEO
Crawlability, site speed, Core Web Vitals, schema, and index management. Contested Seattle categories leave no room for a slow or messy site, technical debt quietly caps what every content dollar can earn, and this audience notices broken things faster than any market we serve. This work runs first and stays maintained.
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Link Building and Authority
Links earned from real publications, industry sites, and local sources that actually get read, never bought networks. In categories where national lead sellers crowd the results, authority is the difference between page one and page three, and it compounds monthly.
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AI Search Visibility
Answer-first content structure, entity signals, and schema built so Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity can cite your business when Seattle buyers ask for the best option in your category. Reported monthly alongside classic rankings, because both now carry demand.
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How Your Seattle SEO Campaign Gets Managed
Every campaign runs VERTEX Search™, our 18-step search framework, through five stages tuned to how this metro searches.
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Discover
A full audit of your site, your Google Business Profile, your competitors, and the areas you serve on both sides of the lake, plus keyword mapping across the metro. The output names what you can win, what it costs, and how long it honestly takes.
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Structure
Site architecture, neighborhood and service-page structure, internal linking, schema, and the technical fixes that everything later builds on. Multi-location and cross-lake structure gets decided here so areas never cannibalize each other.
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Create
Service pages, neighborhood pages, and answer-first explainers written for the questions Seattle buyers actually type, in plain language your customers and AI answers can both quote.
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Validate
Rankings, Map Pack positions, calls, and AI citations checked against the plan every month. Pages that underperform get diagnosed and rewritten, and the report says which is which in plain words.
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Amplify
Link building, review velocity, and content expansion into the next neighborhood or service line, sequenced by what the data says is working, so growth compounds instead of scattering.
VERTEX Search™ is the search discipline inside the EGOCHI VERTEX™ Growth System, the operating system behind every Egochi engagement.
What SEO Costs in Seattle
SEO at Egochi starts at $1,500 monthly for single-location local campaigns, and most Seattle programs land between $1,500 and $7,500 depending on whether you compete on one side of the lake or both and how contested your category is. Legal, dental, and multi-location scopes run toward $7,500 and up. Every tier is published before the first call.
There are no setup fees, plans run month to month with no long-term contracts, and the free audit ends with a fixed quote, not a range that grows later. If a smaller scope would honestly serve you better, the audit says that too.
Is Egochi the Right Fit for Your Seattle SEO Plan
Who this is for
- You run a service business, practice, firm, or store anywhere in the Puget Sound region and want rankings that produce tracked calls and booked work, not a monthly PDF of positions.
- You compete in a contested category, legal, dental, home services, B2B, and want a campaign built shore by shore instead of one citywide keyword list.
- You want pricing published before the first call, no setup fees, month-to-month terms, and a report you can verify line by line in your own Search Console.
When we may not be the right fit
- You need leads this week. SEO compounds over months; if the need is urgent, paid ads carry the front while the rankings work builds, and we will say exactly that in the audit.
- You want promised rankings. Nobody honest controls Google, and in contested Seattle categories anyone promising position one is selling the promise, not the work.
- Your budget sits under the realistic floor for your category. A few hundred dollars a month cannot out-build firms funded by tech-economy budgets, and the audit will say so rather than take the fee.
Fair Questions Seattle Owners Ask About SEO
Can we rank in Seattle and on the Eastside at once?
Not from one pin, and anyone who promises otherwise is ignoring how the Map Pack works. Proximity is a heavy ranking factor, so your profile wins near your location and fades across the lake. What a campaign can do is win your genuine radius, build honest service-area pages for the areas your crews actually reach, and expand shore by shore as authority grows. The report shows it area by area.
Does SEO still matter now that AI answers many searches?
More than before, because AI answers are built from the same pages classic rankings reward. When ChatGPT or an AI Overview recommends businesses, it cites sources, and the businesses with clean entities, answer-first pages, and real authority are the ones cited. In a market that adopts these tools first, we treat AI citations as a reported outcome alongside rankings, and the same disciplined work earns both.
Why does a competitor with worse reviews outrank us?
Usually structure, not luck. A competitor with dedicated service pages, a fully built Google Business Profile, faster pages, and steady review velocity beats a better business with a thin site in most Seattle categories. The audit names exactly which of those gaps apply to you, in plain words, and the campaign closes them in order of impact.
Should we hire a Seattle SEO company or can the agency be anywhere?
The work travels; the honesty does not. Rankings are earned with research, content, and authority, not with a local mailbox, and several agencies ranking for Seattle terms run their work from other states anyway. What matters is whether the agency knows how this metro splits at the lake and tells you plainly where it sits. We do both: no Washington office, Pacific-morning scheduling, and every number where you can check it.
More Ways We Grow Seattle Businesses
Rankings work best when every channel pulls the same direction. The same team runs the full mix, paid, social, and the website, across the Puget Sound:
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Seattle Digital Marketing Agency
Every channel, one plan, for the tech, port, and aerospace economy from downtown to the Eastside.
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Seattle PPC Agency
Paid campaigns sized for Seattle budgets and tracked to booked work.
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Seattle Social Media Agency
Content and paid social that sound like Seattle, measured in leads.
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Seattle Web Design
Fast, conversion-first sites for Seattle firms and service brands.
SEO Results From the Egochi Portfolio
These receipts come from SEO and multi-channel engagements across the whole Egochi client roster, not a Seattle-only list. Where an engagement covered more than one channel, the numbers describe the whole engagement, labeled honestly.
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Culbertson Law
Family Law Firm
A law firm competing for some of the most contested rankings in local search, the same fight King County family and injury firms wage daily. Search work, local visibility, and call tracking tied rankings to signed cases.
- +156% Organic Traffic
- +91% Qualified Calls
- 9 → 2 Map Pack Position
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NY Endodontics Studio
Specialty Dental Practice
A specialty practice competing against hospital systems for the same patients, the position independent Seattle practices hold against the big medical networks. A faster patient-first site and profile work grew sessions and cut what each new lead cost.
- 110% Organic Sessions Lift
- 132% GBP Discovery Views
- 32% Lower Cost per Lead
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Mellow Mushroom
Restaurant Franchise
A restaurant brand whose locations win or lose on local search, the exact position of every multi-location operator across the Puget Sound. Location-level profile work, review programs, and local pages turned nearby searches into orders.
- +312% Local Traffic
- +245% Online Orders
- Top 3 Local Pack
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Pro Numb
Health Products Ecommerce
A Shopify brand that needed to own its category in classic search and AI answers alike. Answer-first content, snippet targeting, and entity work carried it to the top of a fiercely contested term.
- +340% Organic Traffic
- 47 Featured Snippets Won
- $2M+ Monthly Revenue
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Grown Brilliance
Luxury Jewelry Ecommerce
A lab-grown diamond retailer competing against the category's national names for engagement ring searches. Product schema, faceted-navigation control, and comparison content carried the growth.
- 160K+ Organic Visits
- $2.1M → $4.2M Non-Brand Revenue
- $200M Annual Revenue
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MissGuided
Fast-Fashion Ecommerce
A fast-fashion brand competing against the biggest names in the category. Topic clusters, buyer-question content, and product schema turned research-stage searches into sessions and sales.
- 32,000 → 56,000 Organic Sessions
- 1.8% → 3.1% Conversion Rate
- 28 Featured Snippets Won
The Team Running Your Seattle SEO Campaign
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Jobin John
Chief Executive Officer
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Justin Brown
Head of Search Engine Optimization
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Bryan Thomson
Head of Web Design & Development
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Ina Komins
Head of Social Media Marketing
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Kierra Pita
Head of Advertising & Content Marketing
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Patricia Turner
Chief Creative Officer
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William Carter
Chief Digital Strategy Officer
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Andrew Miller
Senior SEO Strategist
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Amy Robinson
Content Marketing Manager
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Betty Harrison
PPC Campaign Specialist
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Anthony Carter
Lead Digital Account Executive
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Amanda Cooper
Social Media Director
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Carol Parker
Senior Client Success Manager
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Barbara Bennett
Email Marketing Lead
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Charles Turner
Technical SEO Analyst
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Brian Sullivan
Creative Director
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Christine Walker
Director of Project Management
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Christopher Brooks
Digital Marketing Strategist
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Daniel Wright
Senior Analytics Specialist
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David Henderson
Lead Content Strategist
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Donna Mitchell
Client Communications Manager
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Elizabeth Foster
Director of Paid Advertising
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Supriya J. John
Brand Experience Specialist
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Emma Scott
Social Media Content Creator
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George Crawford
Technical Solutions Architect
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Jacob Evans
Digital Content Coordinator
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James Anderson
Marketing Automation Specialist
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Jason Palmer
Junior Copywriter
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Jeffrey Reynolds
Paid Media Analyst
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Jennifer Lewis
Community Engagement Specialist
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Jonathan Murphy
SEO Reporting Specialist
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Joseph Morgan
Influencer Marketing Coordinator
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Kenneth Stevens
Digital PR Manager
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Kimberly Harper
Digital Marketing Intern
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Kevin Morris
SEO Outreach Specialist
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Lee Dawson
Junior Web Developer
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Linda Peterson
Email Campaign Coordinator
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Lisa Thompson
Social Media Ads Specialist
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Margaret Bradley
Marketing Operations Lead
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Mark Richards
Data & Insights Analyst
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Mary Kennedy
Senior Copyeditor
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Matthew Clark
Growth Marketing Manager
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Michelle Sanders
Junior Marketing Designer
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Michael Foster
Senior Conversion Rate Specialist
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Nancy Wheeler
Digital Analytics Manager
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Nicholas Pierce
Affiliate Marketing Specialist
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Nicole Adams
Outreach Program Coordinator
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Paul Franklin
Paid Social Campaign Manager
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Richard Barnes
Reputation Management Specialist
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Robert Murphy
Lead Solutions Architect
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Ronald Davis
Marketing Technology Analyst
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Ryan Bell
Paid Media Buyer
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Sandra Gregory
Digital Account Coordinator
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Scott Hopkins
CRM Implementation Specialist
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Shirley Ellis
Customer Insights Manager
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Stephanie Cross
Brand Content Designer
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Steven Greene
Web Analytics Specialist
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Susan Price
Affiliate Campaign Manager
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Thomas Fisher
Lead Technical Architect
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Timothy Nash
Mobile Marketing Strategist
Where Your Seattle SEO Campaign Is Run
Egochi has four offices: New York, Miami, Milwaukee, and Madison. None of them is in Washington, and we say so instead of renting a South Lake Union suite for the website. Seattle engagements run on Pacific-morning call schedules, your 9 a.m. is our working afternoon, with campaign reviews over video and your Search Console data on screen, and the toll-free line reaches the people doing the work. Rankings are earned with research, content, and authority, not with a mailbox, so judge us on the rankings and the call log.
Common Questions About Seattle SEO
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How much do SEO services cost in Seattle?
SEO at Egochi starts at $1,500 monthly, with most Seattle campaigns between $1,500 and $7,500 depending on how many areas you cover and how contested your category is. Legal, dental, and multi-location scopes run higher. There are no setup fees, plans run month to month, and every tier is published before the first call, which is rarer in this market than it should be.
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How long does SEO take to work in Seattle?
Google Business Profile work usually shows Map Pack movement in 4-6 weeks. New content starts ranking for long-tail and neighborhood searches in 2-3 months, and competitive head terms in categories like legal, dental, and home services take 6-12 months of steady work. Honest agencies show progress monthly against a named plan instead of asking you to wait in the dark.
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Is SEO worth it for Seattle small businesses?
Usually yes, because local results are proximity results: a West Seattle bakery competes for searches within a few miles, not against the whole metro. Profile quality, reviews, and genuine neighborhood pages decide those results, and small businesses that work them beat bigger names in their own areas daily. The honest exception is a business that needs leads this week, which paid ads serve better first.
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Who is the best SEO company in Seattle?
The honest answer depends on your category and budget, and this market includes shops that have done SEO since before Google existed. Vet any Seattle SEO company on four things: published pricing, proof you can verify, a straight answer about where its team sits, and reporting tied to calls rather than positions alone. Egochi has done this work since 2014, publishes its pricing up front, and carries 250+ Google reviews at a 5.0 rating.
More Answers About SEO in Seattle
Do you follow Google's guidelines?
Yes, entirely. No bought link networks, no doorway pages, no AI-spun filler published under your name. Shortcut tactics in a market this technically literate get caught, and the penalty costs more than the shortcut ever earned. Everything we build is work you could show a Google engineer without flinching, and in this town you might be serving one.
What do you need from us to start?
Access, not homework: Google Business Profile, Search Console, Analytics, and your website. The audit runs from there. After kickoff we need a subject-matter check on drafted content, usually under an hour a month, because pages about your work should sound like your work.
Do you write the content or do we?
We do, with your review. Our writers draft service pages, neighborhood pages, and explainers from keyword research and an interview with your team, you correct anything that reads wrong, and nothing publishes without your sign-off. If you have in-house writers, we can plan and edit instead; the structure matters more than who types.
Can you handle multiple locations across the metro?
Yes, and the structure is the hard part, especially across the lake. Each location gets its own page and profile program, internal linking keeps the areas from competing with each other, and reporting splits by location so a strong Ballard store cannot hide a struggling Bellevue one. Franchise and multi-location work runs on the same published tiers.
What happens if we stop?
Plans are month to month, so stopping takes notice, not negotiation. Everything built stays yours: the content, the pages, the profile work, and the authority they earned. Rankings do not vanish on cancellation, though in contested categories they erode over time as competitors keep building.
Do you report on AI search visibility?
Yes. The monthly report tracks where Google AI Overviews and AI assistants cite your business alongside classic rankings, Map Pack positions, and tracked calls. A growing share of searches ends in an AI answer, Seattle adopted those tools early, and a report that ignores them is measuring last year's search market.
Get Your Free Seattle SEO Proposal
Find out which rankings you can win, on your side of the lake and across it, and what they would honestly take.
Egochi Stats
- 250+ Google Reviews
- 5.0 Clutch Rating
- 12+ Years Experience
- $200M+ Revenue Generated
- 4 US Offices
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