Maryland is a small state with five different markets: Baltimore and its county, the Howard County corridor between the two cities, the Washington suburbs of Montgomery and Prince George’s, Annapolis and the Bay, and Frederick and the west. We run SEO for Maryland businesses from our office two hours up I-95: the map pack in each market, the pages for the towns, and the reviews that bring the call.
Baltimore and the county around it; Howard County and the corridor; Montgomery and Prince George’s on the Washington side; Annapolis and Anne Arundel; Frederick, Hagerstown and the west; the Eastern Shore. The audit maps where your customers search from and which market your competitors hold.
Categories, service areas and reviews built for the metro the business is in, so the profile shows in the three-pack for Baltimore searches, Washington-suburb searches or both, depending on where the trucks go.
Every keyword is checked weekly in SEOApp, the rank tracker we built, and the monthly report shows rankings, calls and forms together from your own analytics.
Service pages and posts that name the county, the town and the neighborhood. A contractor in Glen Burnie, a firm in Bethesda and a practice in Frederick need different pages, and each gets them.
Maryland is two hours down I-95 from our office, and we already serve it from Baltimore, Howard County and Dundalk. The state’s search competition runs from thin, in Frederick and on the Shore, to as hard as anywhere in the country, in Bethesda and downtown Baltimore, and the process we run in Philadelphia is built for the hard end. A Maryland business gets the same strategist, the same writers and the same tracker, with the pages and the profile built for the metro it is in.
Maryland’s businesses live downtown and in the neighborhoods of Baltimore, in Towson, Catonsville and the county around it, in Columbia’s village centers and Ellicott City, along Rockville Pike and in Silver Spring and Bethesda, in Annapolis and the Anne Arundel suburbs, in Frederick’s downtown and the growing county around it, and across the bridge on the Shore. Each is its own search, and the campaign builds a page for the ones you serve, a profile whose service areas name them, and reviews that mention them.
A Maryland customer may live in Columbia, work in Bethesda and see a dentist in Ellicott City, and they search from all three. The Baltimore market and the Washington market overlap along I-95 and Route 29 in a way no other state has, and a business in the middle competes with firms from both cities. The campaign has to decide which metro, which county and which town the business is really selling to before it writes a page.
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Yes. Baltimore is two hours down I-95 from our office in Montgomeryville and Bethesda an hour past it, so a kickoff at your office is an option, and the rest runs the way it does for every client: a shared dashboard, weekly rank checks in SEOApp, a monthly review with your strategist and a phone number that gets answered.
Whichever your customers actually come from, and the audit tells us. A business in Columbia or Laurel often draws from both and gets pages for both; a business in Towson is Baltimore and should not pay to rank in Rockville. The home page names the town; the pages for the rest cover what the trucks actually reach.
Less than for a practice, but not zero. A firm near Fort Meade or in Bethesda still wants to own its name, its address and the searches from the organizations around it. The main program for a government contractor is national SEO, and the two run together.
It depends on the metro. Frederick, the Shore and the Baltimore suburbs move within two to three months from the profile work. Bethesda, Columbia and downtown Baltimore are contested and the organic rankings take six to twelve months. The audit gives a timeline for your market rather than a generic one.
Every keyword is checked weekly in SEOApp, the rank tracker we built, and you get a login. The monthly report shows rankings, traffic, calls and forms from your own analytics, and the strategist walks you through it. Nothing is a screenshot.
No. Every agreement is month to month. The plan is explained before you pay for it, and you can stop when the work stops being worth it.
The people who would run your Maryland campaign, in their own words — how we win the map pack and the searches behind it for clients across the Mid-Atlantic.
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The Baltimore market searches as Baltimore and by neighborhood and suburb: Towson, Dundalk, Catonsville, Glen Burnie, Owings Mills. The Washington side searches by town and never by Washington: Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, Bowie, Laurel. The corridor between them, Columbia, Ellicott City and Laurel, is searched from both directions. Annapolis is its own market with the Bay and the Naval Academy behind it, and Frederick is a city of its own with a county growing around it. Local SEO and Google Business Profile SEO are built for the metro the business is in, then extended with town pages and service areas for the counties it actually drives to.
In Bethesda, Columbia and downtown Baltimore the map packs are contested by businesses that have done the work, and the campaign has to be complete to pass them. In Frederick, Hagerstown and the Shore they are held by old profiles, and completeness alone moves a business into the three-pack within months.
The free audit, reviewed by a person, comes first. It covers where you sit in the map pack and the organic results for the searches that bring calls in your metro, who sits above you, what their profiles and sites carry that yours does not, and the technical faults on your site. The profile and citations are fixed in the first month. The service pages are rewritten next. Town and county pages follow, and the review process is set up to run from your own software.
Maryland has more businesses that sell to the federal government than almost any state, around Fort Meade, Aberdeen, Bethesda and the agencies in the Washington suburbs. For them the local program protects the name and the office, and a National SEO program carries the searches that come from the agencies and the primes. Paid Advertising covers the searches worth buying while the rankings build.
Annapolis and the Shore run on a season: boating, the Bay, the summer towns and the visitors who search for them from Washington and Baltimore. A business there gets pages written for the visitor, strong by spring, and a profile with hours that are true in July. The rest of the state runs on the calendars of its industries: the school year for the practices in the suburbs, the storms for the contractors, the fiscal year for the firms that sell to the government.
Maryland businesses that grow usually grow into the other metro, and the SEO follows: a second office in Columbia or Bethesda gives the map pack a second center, and without one, town pages and service areas carry the business as far as the trucks go. The Washington, DC page covers the District; this one covers the state around it. SEO starts at $500 a month and there is no contract.
A Maryland business is found on a map before it is found on a page, so Local SEO and Google Business Profile SEO come first. For the searches worth buying now, Paid Advertising runs alongside, and for the contractors and firms that sell to the agencies and beyond, National SEO.
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