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SEO and AI consulting for New York businesses.
New York has the most expensive marketing talent in the world and the most competitive search results to go with it. That combination is precisely why an offshore specialist can make sense here in a way it does not everywhere: the work is the same and the cost base is not.
hello@raamaimarketing.com · Melbourne based, working across New York
The New York market
What is actually different here.
Manhattan overheads are in every quote you receive. A New York agency is pricing rent, salaries and a business development function into your retainer. None of that improves your rankings, and it is a large share of what you pay.
The five boroughs behave as separate markets and most agencies ignore it. Brooklyn and Queens businesses compete in genuinely different local results from Manhattan ones, and the outer boroughs are far less contested. A business in Astoria or Park Slope is usually easier to rank than a Midtown equivalent by a wide margin.
Eastern Time is our hardest overlap and it works. It means early calls from Melbourne rather than mid-day availability, and we would rather state that plainly than have you discover it in week three.
Where we work in New York
The areas, and what each one needs.
Manhattan
Finance, legal and professional services. The most contested search market in the country and the highest value per client.
Brooklyn
Agencies, hospitality, trades and services. Dense, and far less contested than Manhattan for the same terms.
Queens and Long Island City
Services and light industrial. Genuinely open search results in a market most agencies skip.
Jersey City and Hoboken
Financial services and technology. Treated as New York by clients and as separate by Google.
Westchester and Long Island
Professional services and home services. Suburban search behaviour, weak competition.
Suburbs and centres we cover
- Manhattan
- Midtown
- Financial District
- SoHo
- Chelsea
- Brooklyn
- Williamsburg
- Park Slope
- DUMBO
- Queens
- Astoria
- Long Island City
- The Bronx
- Staten Island
- Jersey City
- Hoboken
- Westchester
- Long Island
- Newark
What is included
What you get, and what it costs.
Quoted in Australian dollars, roughly USD $1,700 to $3,400 a month at recent rates. New York agencies commonly quote USD $5,000 to $15,000 for comparable scope. The gap is overheads and salaries rather than effort, and you should ask any agency to itemise what the difference buys you.
No New York office and no intention of claiming one. What we bring is the system, proven at scale, including one build of 1,085 location pages that reached 31 page-one keywords in month one, and past US client work in Houston and with two US marketing companies.
Full details on AI SEO and AEO- Technical SEO and site architecture
- Structured data and schema across every page
- Answer Engine Optimisation so AI assistants name you
- Borough and neighbourhood pages at scale
- AI content systems trained on your voice
- Marketing, sales and operations automation
- Documentation, training and handover
New York questions, answered straight.
Including what it costs, whether we cover your area, and where being Melbourne based does and does not matter.
How much does an SEO consultant cost in New York?
New York agencies commonly quote USD $5,000 to $15,000 a month, and specialists charge more again. We quote in Australian dollars, roughly USD $1,700 to $3,400 at recent rates, for comparable scope. The difference is Manhattan overheads, not the work. Ask what deliverables you get per month and compare on that.
Eastern Time is a twelve hour difference. Does that actually work?
It is our hardest overlap and it does work, with one honest caveat: calls happen early in our morning, which is late afternoon for you. Day-to-day the build is asynchronous, so you send questions at the end of your day and have answers at the start of the next. If you need same-hour availability all day, hire locally.
Should we target Manhattan or the outer boroughs?
Both, with different expectations. Manhattan terms are among the most contested in the world and take longer. Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island City are materially less competitive for the same services, so we usually build there first to generate results and authority while the Manhattan terms mature.
Do you work with New York agencies as a white-label partner?
We have done white-label work before and it can work well, particularly for programmatic location pages and AI content systems where the capability is specialised. Say so on the first call and we will structure it accordingly.
Can you get us named by ChatGPT and Perplexity?
Yes, and it is included. In a market this contested, being named in a generated answer is frequently easier than reaching the top three organic results, because far fewer businesses are building for it. The signals are structured data and factual consistency rather than backlinks.
What about our data leaving the United States?
Your data typically stays in your own systems and cloud accounts, because that is where we build. Where a model processes it, we use business tiers where inputs are not used to train public models. If you have regulatory data residency requirements, raise them at the start.
Start here
Tell us what is actually slowing you down.
Thirty minutes. If this is not the right thing for your New York business to spend money on, we will say so and point you at what is.
Melbourne based · working across New York · hello@raamaimarketing.com
Tell us about your New York business.
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