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If you’re searching for an SEO agency in Chicago to support your local or national business, then it’s time to deal with our SEO experts.
From The Loop to Wicker Park, River North to Lincoln Park, we help Chicago brands dominate search and drive an average of 300% ROI.
Ready for more traffic than Navy Pier in peak season? Our SEO services led directly by specialists will put your business front and center in the Windy City.
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By focusing on the core fundamentals and what actually works rather than chasing something shiny, we’re hitting home runs for our clients.
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By rewriting the SEO playbook for our Chicago-based clients, we’re hear to make SEO your most profitable marketing strategy. We cut out the middle-men and have 120+ staff globally ready and waiting to deliver an award-winning strategy for your brand. Let us show you how with a free audit and consultation.
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As SEO & AI Search specialists, we’re bringing something new to the table. Most agencies across the US are generalists, and our take is that unless you are 100% focused, you might be missing the next development in the industry. We also offer no lock-in contracts and you will have direct access to our Chicago SEO specialists - no fluffy middle-men.
While our US HQ is in Atlanta, we have clients all over the United States including in Chicago. Want an in person visit arranged? No problem. We’re often traveling all across the States to visit our clients face to face.
SEO is a long-term marketing channel. If you’re looking for immediate returns then SEO is not the channel for you. Think about it like owning vs renting a home. SEO is owning, Paid Media is renting. SEO will give you the most returns in the long-term, it just takes some time to kick in. Our clients typically start to see leading measures (keyword visibility growth and traffic) within 3-6 months of the campaign commencing and lagging measures (conversions and ROI) within 6-12 months.
Absolutely! Whether you’re operating in a specific niche or have a more general product offering, we can help get your business visible across the US.
Yes, local SEO is highly impactful for small businesses and those operating in a specific service area. Our team is well versed in both local SEO and national SEO.
While many brands often have their own in-house teams, they will also lean on an SEO agency in Chicago like StudioHawk. This is because bandwidth in an in-house team can be limited and some areas of SEO like link acquisition and technical SEO require specialist knowledge to be effective. We can help you to decide what makes the most sense for your business based on your current marketing team set up and your budget.
Not having a clear goal in mind for your website and business’ online presence, leaning heavily into “brand” approaches which makes the entity murky, and undertaking a website migration with no SEO support.
We’re glad you asked! Yes, our SEO services in Chicago also incorporate support for website migrations. While we don’t design and build websites ourselves, we will integrate directly with your development team or external company to make sure that any legacy SEO visibility is protected and the site continues to grow upon launch.
Content is still vital for SEO and always will be, as it helps bots to determine exactly who you are and what you do, while providing users with the information that they need to make a clear decision about your brand. The amount of touchpoints a consumer needs before converting is extending and the more you can host those different content interactions on your website the better. But user experience should always be first. When our Chicago SEO specialists create content for your website, we’re not looking to add 1000’s of words unnecessarily onto a page. We want to match user intent and ensure that any content we create integrates directly into your existing branding.
SEO and AI Search operate hand in hand. Many of the fundamentals of SEO crossover with AI Search. Find out more about our AI Search Services.
Absolutely. We like to have as much data as possible to inform our SEO strategy and that also means speaking with your existing PPC and other marketing channel providers to see what’s working and what’s not, and where SEO can fill the gaps. We have many case studies of how we’ve helped brands to reduce their PPC spend by investing more into SEO for long-term gains. Speak to one of our specialists to find out more.
Keywords do still matter in SEO, but not quite as much as they used to. The reason for that is because search intent is changing, volumes are changing and search is becoming more personalized. We will always track keyword visibility as that’s a strong indicator of SEO growth, but our most important focus is the impact our Chicago SEO agency is having on your bottom line.
We want to be as transparent as possible about all of the work that we’re doing. You will receive a monthly report as standard from our Chicago SEO specialists, but many of our clients also receive weekly written updates. Further to this, you can decide early on in the campaign what communication cadence works best for you - weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. We will also provide you with 6 month and 12 month reviews so you can better understand the long-term growth trajectory and overall strategy plans for your Chicago-based business.
All of our team members are located in our Atlanta office, with no offshore staff outside of the global offices in Melbourne, Sydney and London.
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Highlights include Best Large Global SEO Agency in the 2025 and 2021 Global Search Awards, ‘Best Agency 2019’ in the SEMRush Search Awards, 2019 winner for the Mumbrella Awards, and more.
We didn’t win these awards by being another “me too” SEO agency. These awards come from pushing the envelope, creating a new playbook and redefining what it means to work with an SEO agency in today’s rapidly changing world.