SEO services across Illinois

TLG Marketing puts Illinois businesses in front of Google searchers in Chicago, its suburbs and the downstate cities, from Rockford and Peoria to Springfield, Champaign and the Metro East, with map listings, local pages and reporting on calls and leads. Illinois clients reach our Long Beach, California team by video, and we’ve run search campaigns since 2006.

How Illinois searches differ

• Chicago searches go neighborhood by neighborhood. The city has 77 official community areas and many more neighborhood names, and people search for Lincoln Park, Pilsen or Logan Square by name. A single “Chicago” page can’t compete across the whole city.
• The collar counties are markets of their own. DuPage, Lake, Will, Kane and McHenry counties hold cities such as Naperville, Waukegan, Joliet and Elgin, each with its own competitors and search habits.
• Downstate is a different economy. Corn and soybean farms cover central Illinois, John Deere is based in Moline, State Farm in Bloomington, and the University of Illinois anchors Champaign-Urbana. Businesses there serve farmers, manufacturers and students, in markets with fewer competitors.
• The edges belong to other metros. Belleville and Edwardsville are part of the St. Louis area, and Moline and Rock Island share the Quad Cities with Iowa. Businesses there compete with firms across the river.

Winter matters statewide: the first heavy snow sends searches for plowing, furnace repair and frozen pipes climbing from Chicago to Carbondale.

Working with TLG from anywhere in Illinois

For Chicago-area businesses, we split the city and suburbs into the areas you really serve, such as the North Shore, the western suburbs or the South Side, and write a page for each. Downstate cities each get a dedicated page, and each Chicago storefront or downstate office is given a separate Google Business Profile.

Neighborhood chambers of commerce in Chicago are a useful source of local links and mentions. One report lays out rankings, calls and form leads by area, from the Loop to your farthest downstate branch.