SEO Agency in Chicago

What separates us from most Chicago SEO agencies

Ask an agency to fix your page speed and most of them will email your developer. We are the developer. Chicago Tech Solutions builds custom websites and mobile apps as well as running search campaigns, so when an audit turns up render-blocking scripts, a broken canonical, or a checkout that loses people on mobile, we open the code and fix it that week.

That matters more than it sounds. A large share of SEO recommendations never get implemented, because they sit in a PDF waiting on somebody else’s sprint. Nothing waits here.

Local SEO and the Chicago map pack

For most Chicagoland businesses, the map pack is worth more than the blue links beneath it. Somebody searching “plumber near me” in Lincoln Park is not browsing — they are about to call somebody. Getting into those three results is a specific job:

Google Business Profile, properly filled in. Every service you actually perform, listed as a service. Correct primary category. Service areas that match where you really go. Photos that are yours, geotagged, and recent.

Consistent name, address and phone across every directory that mentions you. Contradictions here quietly cap how far you can rank.

Reviews that name the job and the neighbourhood. “They rewired our Oak Park kitchen in a day” does more for your ranking than a five-star review with no words in it.

Pages for the places you serve. One page listing forty suburbs ranks for none of them. We build the ones worth having — and we already have them live for Evanston, Naperville, Skokie, Wilmette and more.

Technical SEO: the part most agencies quietly skip

Technical work is unglamorous and it is usually where the ranking is stuck. On a typical first month we are looking at crawlability and index bloat, Core Web Vitals on real mobile hardware rather than a lab score, structured data that actually validates, internal linking that spreads authority instead of hoarding it on the homepage, and the redirect chains left behind by whoever rebuilt the site last.

We publish what we find in plain language. If something is not worth fixing, we say so rather than billing for it.

Content written for Chicago buyers, not for a word count

We start from what people actually type. That means keyword research with real search volume attached, then pages that answer one question properly instead of ten questions badly. A furnace page for a Naperville contractor reads differently from one for a Loop office building, and it should.

Everything is written by people here. If you want to see the standard before you commit, read the plain-English marketing glossary we publish for Chicago small businesses, or the pieces in Ideas.

Reporting you can actually read

Rankings on their own are vanity. Every month you get the keywords that moved and why, the calls and forms that came in, the work we did, and the work queued next. One page. If a number went the wrong way, it will be in there with the reason.

Who we do this for

We work with Chicagoland businesses where a phone call is worth real money: HVAC contractors, plumbers, roofers, law firms, restaurants, home care agencies and staffing firms.

Questions we get asked