The search data for St Louis
- 620 searches a month in St Louis for SEO agency terms, on Ahrefs' US keyword data. Local figure.
- 32.8% of 317 US commercial keywords we measured returned a local pack — rising above 93% in legal services and home services. Indexed, 2026. National figure, not specific to St Louis.
- None of the 23 local-intent keywords in that sample returned an AI Overview, against 56.5% of the other 294 — so for a business competing on "near me" searches, the map pack still decides the click. Indexed, 2026. National figure, not specific to St Louis.
What we do in St Louis. Indexed is an SEO agency working with businesses in St Louis on organic search and AI search visibility. The work is usually some combination of technical fixes, content built around what people actually search for locally, Google Business Profile and review strategy for businesses competing in the map pack, and links earned rather than bought. We report on leads and revenue rather than rankings alone, and we publish our own research on how search results are changing.
Quoting a figure from this page? Source: Indexed, "Where AI Overviews Actually Appear", September 2026, joinindexed.com/studies/ai-overview-by-industry-2026
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St. Louis serves as a major logistics and transportation hub for the Midwest, with companies like Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, and Centene Corporation headquartering operations here. The metro's diverse economy spans healthcare, financial services, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing, creating intense competition for local search visibility across multiple industries.
See our local SEO approach →High-intent local search demand across Healthcare & Life Sciences and Financial Services
Well-funded national brands running active SEO campaigns
Underserved long-tail queries with strong conversion potential
AI Overview placements going to agencies with strong entity authority
A fast-growing, highly competitive market — where visibility is everything.
The St. Louis region benefits from Washington University's research prowess and the Cortex Innovation District, attracting biotech and tech startups while established giants like Boeing Defense and Emerson maintain significant operations. The metro's central location and Mississippi River access have made it a distribution center for companies serving national markets, while the growing startup ecosystem in areas like the Central West End drives demand for digital marketing expertise. Recent downtown revitalization and the expansion of companies in Clayton and Chesterfield have intensified competition for talent and customers across the region.
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We work with businesses in St Louis and across the entire Missouri market — from local service businesses to multi-location brands.
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"Exceptional communication throughout the project. The team showed a deep grasp of our goals and delivered a flawless final product that exceeded our expectations."
"Great team to work with, very happy with the consultancy and final documents. They translated complex SEO strategy into something our whole team could act on."
"Indexed turned SEO from a cost centre into our highest-ROI acquisition channel. The pipeline numbers speak for themselves — $1.5m in 10 months."
"The level of technical depth was unlike anything I'd seen from an SEO agency. They found issues our in-house team had missed for years and fixed them within weeks."
"We went from page 3 to position 1 for our core terms in under 5 months. The revenue attribution reporting made it easy to justify the investment to our board."
"Indexed didn't just improve our rankings — they rebuilt how we think about search. The GEO work alone has opened up a channel we didn't even know existed."
