SEO agency in New York

Team coverage · New York

Proof of Pixel is an SEO agency working with New York businesses, with team coverage in New York. We run local SEO, technical SEO and AI SEO as one monthly programme for NYC firms and small businesses: ranked in the neighborhoods their buyers search from, and named when a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google's AI answers who to call.

Every neighborhood, every answer.

SEO from Proof of Pixel in New York is a monthly programme in three parts: local SEO that wins the map and neighborhood results for each location, with the Business Profile and reviews kept current; technical SEO for speed, structure, schema and crawlability; and AI SEO that makes your pages and listings quotable for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. Each month ends with a report tied to enquiries.

SEO in NYC is won block by block. A dentist in Park Slope and one on the Upper East Side compete in different map results, and a buyer in Midtown who searches near me picks from the three businesses Google shows. Winning takes a Business Profile for every location, pages for the services and neighborhoods you cover, and reviews that keep arriving every month.

Below the map sits the rest of page one: Yelp, directories, national chains and lists of the best firms in the city. The same pages feed the AI answers. When we asked ChatGPT for the best agencies in New York, its searches carried the words best, reviews and pricing, and it read directories and review sites before naming anyone. So AI SEO here happens partly off your own site, on the lists the assistants read.

What changes in New York

  1. NYC search is neighborhood-level: Park Slope, Astoria and the Upper East Side are separate map results, each needing its own profile and page.
  2. Page one is crowded with Yelp, directories and best-of lists, and AI assistants read the same pages, so being on them is part of the work.
  3. Buyers compare several providers in one session, so the page that ranks has to show proof, price logic and the next step.

Who it is for

New York businesses that live on enquiries and bookings: dental practices and clinics, law and accounting firms, real estate brokers, studios and trainers, home services across the five boroughs, and online shops selling across the US. A small business with one storefront in Queens fits as well as a firm with offices in Manhattan and New Jersey.

How a project starts

  1. A 15-minute call. Questions only: what you rank for today, which neighborhoods and services matter, whether we fit. On video, at a time that works in New York.
  2. A read-only look at your data. Search Console, Analytics, every Business Profile, your reviews and listings, and the site. We also ask ChatGPT what your buyers ask and record who gets named.
  3. One plan, one monthly fee. SEO runs as Grow, our monthly work: quoted in USD, priced on what ships rather than hours, three months minimum, the fee fixed once we have seen the data.

Want the plan first? That is the Diagnostic: one week with read-only access, then a plan and one fixed price. If the website itself holds you back, the fix is a Build, tracking and follow-up included.

Book the 15-minute call.

Proof

Two of these case studies are US dental practices, neither of them in New York, and none of the three was sold as an SEO programme. Pristine Smile was built with on-page SEO and schema from the start; Annandale Dental Care ships every page as finished HTML that Google and AI assistants read in full; Life Experts, a Belgian broker, kept every old address in its rebuild.

  • Pristine Smile Full dental practice website built end-to-end
  • Annandale Dental Care Family dental practice moved off WordPress onto a fast new site, built to be read by Google and AI assistants
  • Life Experts Trilingual website for an FSMA-regulated insurance broker, rebuilt without losing a single old URL

All work

Questions asked in New York

Can you rank us in more than one NYC neighborhood?

Yes, where you serve those customers. Each location gets its own Business Profile and page, and a service-area business gets pages for the boroughs it covers. Keywords alone will not rank a Brooklyn address in the Bronx map results.

What is AI SEO?

AI SEO is the work that gets your business named when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews for a recommendation. It covers your own pages, written as clear answers with schema and open to AI crawlers, and the third-party sites the assistants read: directories, review sites and best-of lists.

Do reviews matter for SEO in New York?

Yes. Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs for the map results, and Yelp, the directories and AI assistants quote them. We set up an automated request after each visit or job, so reviews arrive from real customers.

What does SEO cost in New York?

SEO runs as Grow, our monthly programme: one fixed monthly fee in USD, priced on what ships rather than hours, three months minimum. The fee is set after a read-only look at your data, before anything starts. There is no public price list.

How long before SEO shows results?

A cleaned-up Business Profile and technical fixes can move things within weeks. Content, reviews and authority take three to six months to compound, hence the three-month minimum. In a city this competitive, page one in thirty days means terms nobody searches.

Every answer about Proof of Pixel, on one page

Where we are

New York is one of Proof of Pixel's five team locations, alongside the head office in Dubai, and London, Antwerp and Malaysia. US work runs remotely, with a fixed overlap in New York hours for decisions and a short report at the end of every month.

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