SEO Agency New York

Driving SEO Growth for Ambitious New York Brands

Trustpilot

Search in New York is changing fast as people turn to AI for answers, and we make sure your brand shows up first wherever they look.

Why Circulate

Why work with Circulate on your SEO

Content SEO Specialists

Your site’s content should be as enticing for your customers as your brand. We help you demonstrate experience, expertise, authority and trust: critical signals for search engines and emerging AI search tools. Every piece of content we produce will be made with your tone of voice built in, so you know it’s not just great but fully represents you.

A Real New Yorker

We improve your local listings, landing pages, and citations so you show up when people search in your area. By keeping your business information accurate everywhere, we help you attract local customers, increase visibility and bring more qualified leads to your business. No matter the borough, we can get you to appear where and when you want to.

Clean Technical SEO

Don’t leave any part of your site to chance. We clean up every site journey to increase crawlability and user experience. Your site journeys will take users and bots alike and lead them to pages that matter to you and increasing your business’ metrics.

Unique Strategies

Whether you’re aiming to generate more qualified leads, reduce your reliance on paid traffic or establish your authority in a competitive market, we deliver search strategies designed to grow with your business. We don’t focus on vanity metrics. Every strategy is built around commercial goals, growing revenue, improving lead quality and building long-term search equity.

Trusted by leading brands

The New York SEO agency that’s built global brand trust

Visibility that turns into revenue

At Circulate, we specialise in helping New York-based businesses turn search visibility into meaningful results.

From Brooklyn to Midtown

From growing eCommerce brands in Brooklyn to established service businesses in Midtown Manhattan, we’ve helped organisations across New York improve organic visibility and turn that traffic into profit.

Growth from Google

If you rely on Google to bring you business, or want to start doing so, we’ll help you build a strategy that makes a difference.

Case studyApologia

Apologia. 52% SEO revenue increase in under 12 months.

A homeschool education provider held back by site structure and thin search visibility. We rebuilt the architecture around the questions parents actually ask, and SEO revenue rose 52% in under a year.

52%Revenue
40Category pages
8,249Ranking keywords

Case studyBuzz Capital

Buzz Capital. 480+ commercial keywords, from a standing start.

Buzz Capital had a site that was not built for search and messaging that did not land. We rebuilt the structure and the content around commercial intent, taking them from low visibility to more than 480 commercial keywords.

480+Commercial keywords
100Core Web Vitals

Case studyAlumierMD

AlumierMD. 3 territories migrated in one move.

A medical grade skincare brand active across the UK, US and Canada needed to scale without losing what it had built. We planned and ran the migration across all three territories and protected rankings through the switch.

18%Domain Authority
25.8%Click-through rate
95+Site health

Reporting

We show you what’s working, and what isn’t

Our own industry-leading reporting suite tracks the whole strategy across Google and every major AI platform. You see where you’re moving, what’s driving it, and what we’re changing.

Scroll to move through the report. Demo data.

AI searchAI referral traffic

Visits sent by AI platforms, month by month · from Google Analytics

1,284visits from AI platforms in October213% year on year

ChatGPT61%

Perplexity18%

Gemini12%

Copilot6%

Claude3%

Nov410Dec455Jan520Feb498Mar610Apr690May742Jun815Jul930Aug1,010Sep1,150Oct1,284 visits

1,284 visits

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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ConversionsOctober conversions1–31 Oct, compared with October 2025

Conversion rate12.4%+1.6 pts

October 2025912conversions

1,43557% year on year

Where they came from

Form submissions612

Phone clicks391

Strategy calls booked248

Demo requests184

October 2025 · 912Growth this year · +523

Across every assistant trackedVisibility

Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on monthImprovedDeclined

Brand mentionsAI search

214

18%from 181 in September

Answers naming youAI search

31%

9 ptsfrom 22% in September

Times your site was citedAI search

118

24%from 95 in September

Prompts trackedAI search

240

40 addedfrom 200 in September

Competitors trackedAI search

2 addedfrom 4 in September

Answers analysedAI search

640

7%from 600 in September

Average position in answersAI search

3.4

Holdingfrom 3.3 in September

AI Overview citationsGoogle

3from 15 in September

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Assistants and competitorsWho named you

Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on monthYouOthers

Assistants

Gemini96

36% of 266 answers

ChatGPT71

27% of 263 answers

Perplexity47

18% of 261 answers

Share of answers across competitors

Competitor A268

37% of mentions

Your brand (you)214

29% of mentions

Competitor B112

15% of mentions

Competitor C58

8% of mentions

Competitor D44

6% of mentions

Competitor E38

5% of mentions

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Visibility by assistantPrompts you appeared in

Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on month

PromptVisible onSentimentCheckedChange

Best [your service] provider in the UKGPTGEMPPXPositive6New

[Your brand] vs [competitor]GPTGEMPPXPositive6+1 answer

Top alternatives to [competitor]GPTGEMPPXNeutral6+2 answers

Is [your brand] worth it?GPTGEMPPXPositive6No change

Which [your service] provider is best for [use case]?GPTGEMPPXNot named6−1 answer

What does [your service] cost in the UK?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6No prior scan

[Your service] agency near meGPTGEMPPXPositive6+1 answer

Who are the leading [your service] companies?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6New

Is [competitor] better than [your brand]?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6No change

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AudienceWhere your audience is

1–31 Oct · from Google AnalyticsMost visitsSome visitsNo visits

41%of visits came from the United Kingdom, out of 32 countries sending traffic.

Sessions by country

United Kingdom41%

United States18%

Ireland7%

Germany6%

Netherlands5%

Australia4%

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Site healthTechnical SEO

PageSpeed and crawl data · compared with last monthGoodNeeds workPoor

Mobile PageSpeedPageSpeed

82/100Needs work+11 month on month

Desktop PageSpeedPageSpeed

97/100Good+4 month on month

Crawl healthSite audit

94/100Good+6 month on month

Largest contentful paintMobile

2.9sNeeds work−0.8s month on month

Interaction to next paintMobile

140msGood

Cumulative layout shiftMobile

0.02Good

Pages with errorsSite audit

3GoodDown from 41

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Demo data. Your report uses your prompts, your competitors and your numbers.

SEO in New York: your questions answered

What does an SEO agency in New York do?

Technical SEO, content, digital PR and AI search in a single plan, aimed at the terms that bring US buyers to you. New York categories are usually contested by brands with large budgets and long histories, so we are honest about which terms are winnable and in what order. We fix the technical foundations first, then build content on buying intent and earn the authority that makes you a credible answer in both Google and the AI assistants.

How much does SEO in New York cost?

We scope every retainer to your site, and New York briefs often need more because the terms are harder and the content and digital PR requirement is heavier. We invoice in pounds and can quote the US dollar equivalent. After an audit you get a fixed monthly figure and a clear view of what it buys.

How long does New York SEO take?

Technical improvements can land inside a few weeks. Competitive New York terms usually take six months or more against established incumbents. We set a mixed target list at the start, so there are terms you can win this quarter alongside the ones worth a year of work, and report monthly on pipeline rather than only positions.

Can you work with US brands from the UK?

Yes. We run US accounts from the UK, with calls in your afternoon and our evening, and everything else handled asynchronously. Reporting is set up so your team can see progress without waiting for a meeting.

Start with a free strategy session

We’ll look at what you rank for, where competitors are winning instead, and what is worth fixing first. No charge, and the findings are yours either way.

Book a free strategy session

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