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Chicago SEO AgencyE-commerce · B2B · AI

Built for catalogs

Wholesale, distribution, and manufacturing search work differently than retail. See how we approach it.

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E-commerce, B2B and AI search visibility

Chicago SEO agency and AI SEO agency for businesses that sell and supply.

We are Chicago SEO Agency, built for online stores and the businesses behind them: brands, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers. One team handles your catalog rankings, your reach outside your own state, and the AI SEO work that gets you named when a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google AI who to buy from.

E-commerceWholesale and B2BManufacturingAEO / GEO
The Chicago SEO agency for businesses that sell and supply. Chicago, IL
Nationwide
AI search

Platforms and tools we work across every day

GoogleSemrushAhrefsShopifyMetaWordpressClutchClaudeBingGeminiAmazonTiktokGoogleSemrushAhrefsShopifyMetaWordpressClutchClaudeBingGeminiAmazonTiktok

Most SEO agencies are built for local service businesses that need one phone to ring. We built this one for the other half of the economy: companies with a catalog to rank and suppliers whose next order starts with a buyer's search.

That focus changes everything about the work, from how we optimize a thousand product pages at once to how we get a brand named inside an AI shopping answer. If you sell products or sell to businesses, you are exactly who we are for.

The shift

Impressions are rising. Clicks are falling.

Search is not dying, it is growing. What changed is how many searches end on the results page instead of on your site. The pie is getting bigger while the slice that reaches your website gets smaller, and that changes what winning looks like.

68%
of US Google searches ended without a click in early 2026, up from 60% in 2024
276
clicks per 1,000 US Google searches now reach the open web, down from 360 in 2024
1 in 5
searches now happens somewhere other than a traditional search engine
80%
of searches still run through search engines, so classic SEO has not stopped mattering

Sources: SparkToro and Similarweb, June 2026 and SparkToro and Datos, March 2026. Figures current as of August 2026. Full breakdown and method.

Manufacturing floor
02
Built in Chicago, working nationwide

Chicago is our address. The whole country is our market.

We are headquartered in Chicago and we know this market cold, but almost none of the work we do is limited to it. A manufacturer in Ohio, a distributor in Texas, a parts supplier in Arizona, and a DTC brand in California all compete in the same national search results. We build the visibility that reaches those buyers wherever they are searching from.

  • National keyword and category coverage, not just city terms
  • Programs built for catalogs, line cards, and spec-driven buyers
  • Remote-first delivery with senior people on the account
  • Local map pack work when you also need the metro
50
States we can serve clients in
15
Product and B2B industries covered
10
SEO and web services under one roof
AI
Built for Google and answer engines
Industries

An SEO agency for brands that sell and supply.

From online stores to warehouses and factory floors.

All 15 industries
Ranking movement

Position is not a vanity metric when the term has buying intent.

Moving from page two to the top of page one changes the volume of qualified traffic a page receives. We target the terms where that shift turns into orders or quote requests, then track the climb.

Warehouse operations
Why they work with us

A senior SEO team, not a content mill.

Most agencies treat a catalog like a blog. We treat it like inventory: structured, prioritized, and measured against revenue.

  • Your buyers are not local. Parts buyers, procurement teams, and wholesale accounts search nationally. Your visibility should too.
  • One team, every timezone. A senior team working US hours, reachable by phone, not a ticket queue.
  • Catalog and B2B specialists. We work in product and supply search all day. Not restaurants, not law firms.
  • Published pricing. You know what a program costs before you ever get on a call.
Where we work

Chicago and the suburbs. Twenty states beyond it.

Seventeen Chicago area pages and twenty state pages, each with its own content, because a warehouse district and a port city do not share a search problem.

All service areas
Product flat lay
03
AI SEO

We are an AI SEO agency, not just a search one.

Your buyers now ask ChatGPT or Gemini for a shortlist before they open a search results page at all. Our AI SEO services cover both halves of that: answer engine optimization (AEO) so Google pulls your answer into the box at the top, and generative engine optimization (GEO) so the assistants name you. Very few agencies in product and B2B categories are doing this properly yet.

  • Structured, quotable answers on every key page
  • Consistent brand facts across your site and profiles
  • Schema that matches what a reader actually sees
  • Prompt testing across major assistants
10
SEO and web services, one senior team
15
Product and B2B industries served
17
Chicago-area service areas covered
AI
Built for Google and AI answers
Who this is for

Who we build this for.

Worth being honest about fit. These are the situations where this work reliably earns its keep, and if none of them sound like you, say so and we will tell you.

01

You sell physical products

Stores and brands whose revenue depends on catalog visibility.

02

You supply other businesses

Wholesale, distribution, and manufacturing with quote-driven pipelines.

03

You carry a deep catalog

Hundreds or thousands of SKUs that need to rank individually.

04

You compete with marketplaces

Resellers and platforms outranking you for your own products.

Search demand

The searches that bring in buyers.

Bracketed terms stand in for your own products and categories. What matters is the shape of the demand, not these exact strings.

Product and category demand

How buyers search when they know roughly what they want.

  • [category] supplier
  • buy [product] online
  • wholesale [product]
  • [attribute] [category]

Sourcing and procurement demand

B2B phrasing that precedes a quote request.

  • [product] distributor near me
  • bulk [product] pricing
  • [product] minimum order
  • [category] manufacturer USA

Research and comparison demand

The shortlist stage across every industry we serve.

  • best [category] for [use]
  • [product] vs [product]
  • [category] buying guide
  • [brand] alternative
Answer engines

AI SEO matters because search now ends without a click.

AI Overviews and assistants answer directly and cite a few sources. Being one of those sources means writing answers a machine can lift cleanly and backing them with structure it can verify.

What changes

What to expect from our SEO and AI SEO services.

We are not going to put invented numbers on this page. What follows is the kind of change a properly built program produces once it has had time to compound.

Category-level authority

Ranking across a whole product area rather than a few lucky terms.

Catalog visibility at depth

More SKUs indexed, eligible, and earning traffic.

Pipeline from search

Quote requests and orders traced back to specific pages.

Named in AI answers

Cited when buyers ask assistants for suppliers in your category.

The difference

How our SEO agency differs from the usual approach.

Plenty of agencies sell something with the same name on the invoice. The difference shows up in what actually gets done each month, so here it is side by side.

Area
Usual approach
How we do it
Approach
One generic SEO playbook applied to every client
Industry-specific query and buying-cycle research
Catalog
Treated as a list of pages
Treated as an architecture with hierarchy and internal links
Content
Blog posts about the industry
Specification, sourcing, and comparison content buyers act on
Channels
Organic only
Organic, Shopping, and AI answers as one connected system
Measurement
Traffic totals
Revenue and inquiries by product line
Chicago from the air
Coverage

Chicago based. Working in all fifty states.

We deliver remotely with senior people on every account, so a distributor in Texas gets the same team as a wholesaler in Bedford Park.

Each state above has its own page. Not listed? We work in all fifty, so just ask.

Pricing

Transparent packages, published up front.

Because the businesses we work with respect a straight answer.

Local SEO
$399
per month, from

For a store or supplier that needs to own one metro and the map pack.

  • Google Business Profile optimization
  • Local and near me keyword targeting
  • Citations and NAP consistency
  • On page and technical fixes
  • Monthly reporting on real outcomes
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E-commerce SEO
$1,499
per month, from

For online stores that need the whole catalog ranking, not just the homepage.

  • Collection and product optimization at scale
  • Merchant Center and Shopping feed
  • Structured data for rich results
  • AI shopping visibility, AEO and GEO
  • Migration safe changes
  • Conversion input on key templates
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National SEO
$1,499
per month, from

For brands and suppliers selling across many states or the whole country.

  • Multi state and programmatic strategy
  • National keyword footprint
  • Authority building and digital PR
  • Entity and brand building for AI answers
  • Scaled content production
  • Technical SEO at scale
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Enterprise
From $3,999
per month

For large catalogs, multiple brands, or international expansion.

  • Dedicated strategist
  • Large catalog programmatic SEO
  • International and hreflang
  • Custom reporting and dashboards
  • Priority content production
  • Roadmap ownership end to end
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Chicago SEO Agency is an SEO agency that helps online stores, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers rank on Google and get named in AI answers, anywhere in the United States. Packages start at $399 per month.

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What does Chicago SEO Agency do?
We are a Chicago based SEO agency for businesses that sell products and businesses that sell to other businesses. We run e-commerce, Shopify, national, local, and AI search optimization as one connected system for online stores and B2B suppliers.
Do you only work with Chicago businesses?
No. We are based in Chicago and serve local clients, but e-commerce and national SEO are not location bound. We work with stores, brands, and suppliers across the United States.
How much does it cost?
Local SEO starts at $399 per month, Growth at $999, E-commerce and National at $1,499, and Enterprise from $3,999. Full pricing is published on the pricing page.
How are you different from a normal SEO agency?
Most agencies optimize for one location and one service. We are built for catalogs and supply chains: ranking thousands of products, reaching national buyers, and getting named in AI shopping answers.
Can you get us visible in AI answers?
Yes. Answer engine and generative engine optimization are built into our work, so your business can be selected for AI Overviews and named by assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini.
Do you offer AI SEO services?
Yes. We are an AI SEO agency as well as a search one, and it is included from the Growth plan up rather than sold as an add on. That covers answer engine optimization (AEO) for Google AI Overviews and featured snippets, and generative engine optimization (GEO) for assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
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