The search data for New York City
- 2,200 searches a month in New York City 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 New York City.
- 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 New York City.
What we do in New York City. Indexed is an SEO agency working with businesses in New York City 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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New York City drives the nation's financial services, media, and technology sectors, with Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and Silicon Alley creating intense digital competition for market share. The city's 200,000+ small businesses compete alongside Fortune 500 headquarters for search visibility, making sophisticated SEO strategies essential for capturing local and national audiences.
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Major employers like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Google anchor distinct business districts from Midtown to Brooklyn Tech Triangle. The city's five boroughs host everything from NASDAQ and NYSE trading floors to emerging fintech corridors in Brooklyn and Queens. Recent growth in e-commerce fulfillment, biotech research facilities, and SaaS companies has intensified organic search competition across traditional and digital-native sectors.
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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."
