A Google Ads and SEO Agency for Chicago Businesses
SEO et Ads runs Google Ads, SEO, and Google Business Profile for businesses across Chicago and its suburbs. You own your ad account, your budget goes directly to Google, and every month you get a report with real numbers: calls, form fills, cost per lead. It starts with a free visibility audit, delivered within 48 hours.
At a glance
SEO et Ads is a Google Ads and SEO agency working with businesses in Chicago, Illinois. The agency manages Google Ads campaigns, handles SEO including visibility in AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and maintains Google Business Profile listings. The team is based in Quimper, France, and works remotely for North American clients, with calls booked in the client's morning. Clients own their Google Ads account and pay their ad budget directly to Google. A free visibility audit is delivered within 48 hours, with no obligation.
What we run for Chicago businesses
SEO and AI visibility
Google Business Profile
One city, many markets: from the Loop to Naperville
Chicago is not one market. It is a city of neighborhoods, from Lincoln Park and Logan Square to Hyde Park and Beverly, ringed by suburbs with their own search habits: Evanston, Oak Park, Schaumburg, Naperville, Joliet. A roofer based in the western suburbs has no reason to pay for clicks from the Loop. We build campaigns around the areas you actually serve, with location targeting, ad copy per area, and negative locations for everywhere else. For SEO and your Google Business Profile, we match your pages and service areas to the towns and neighborhoods your customers actually type when they search.
Search competition at Chicago scale
Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States, and its ad auctions behave that way. In fields like law, dentistry, HVAC, and real estate, many advertisers compete for the same handful of queries, and a loose campaign wastes budget quickly. Our answer is structure, not bigger bids: tight match types, weekly search-term reviews, negative keyword lists that keep growing, and landing pages built for the query. The goal is plain. Pay only for clicks that can become a call or a form fill in your part of the metro, and stop paying for the rest.
A calendar set by Lake Michigan
Demand in Chicago follows the weather coming off Lake Michigan. Furnace repair, frozen pipes, and snow removal spike in winter. Air conditioning, roofing after spring storms, and landscaping fill the short warm season. A flat monthly ad budget ignores all of that. We plan Google Ads spend around your real calendar: heavier in the months when your phone should ring, lighter in the months when it will not, with ad copy rewritten for what customers need right now. On the SEO side, we prepare seasonal service pages months in advance, so Google has time to take notice before the first cold snap, not after it.
Spanish-speaking Chicago, and tourist clicks you do not need
Large parts of Chicago search in more than one language. Pilsen, Little Village, and Cicero are home to strong Spanish-speaking communities, and the city has long held one of the largest Polish populations in the country. If your customers search in Spanish, an English-only campaign never reaches them. We build separate Spanish ad groups, with keywords and ad copy written for those searches rather than run through automatic translation. Downtown adds another filter: queries around the Loop, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier mix visitors with residents. We separate tourist intent from local intent, so a neighborhood business stops paying for clicks from people who fly home on Sunday.
A French team, on your clock
The ocean between us works for you
SEO et Ads is run from Quimper, on the western tip of France. That is not a detail we hide, it is how the service works: your campaigns are watched while your market sleeps.
Your account is tended before you wake up
France is 6 hours ahead of the East Coast and 9 ahead of the Pacific. Search term cleanups, bid adjustments and budget checks happen during our workday, which is your night. Problems are fixed before your morning coffee, not discovered after lunch.
Calls in your morning, every time
Your 8 to 11 am is our mid afternoon. Booking a call is easy, in English, and you get a written summary afterwards. No middle-of-the-night compromises on either side.
Everything measurable, nothing hidden
You own your Google Ads account and pay Google directly. We work inside it as a manager. Every dollar, every search term, every call is visible to you in real time, and summarized in plain English once a month.
Trained and certified by Google
The certifications, actually earned
The team completed the Google Skillshop training programs and passed the certifications. That guarantees no results. It guarantees something else: the people running your budget know exactly how the tool works, according to Google itself.
- Google Ads Searchsearch campaigns
- Google Ads Displaydisplay network campaigns
- Google Ads VideoYouTube campaigns
- Google Ads Measurementconversion tracking
- Google AnalyticsGA4 analytics
Individual certifications issued by Google through its Skillshop training platform, verifiable on request. We are not Google: we are certified by Google on Google's own tools.
Pricing
Flat monthly fees, in US dollars
No long-term contract. Cancel anytime from your client area, 30 days notice. Your ad budget is NEVER included: you pay Google directly, on your own account, with your own card.
Google Business Profile management
Your profile decides whether you appear in the map pack. We keep it alive every week instead of letting it sleep.
$149USD / month
Google Ads management
Most requestedThe fastest way to make the phone ring: an ad is live the day it is approved. Ad budget paid directly to Google, never through us.
$449USD / month
SEO + AI visibility
The long game: being found on Google and cited by AI answers. Scoped after the free audit, priced to your market.
custom quote
Free visibility audit, delivered within 48 hours, no obligation. We commit to the work delivered each month. No ranking, call volume or revenue can be guaranteed, by us or by anyone. Dedicated landing page available at $690 USD, one time. Start with the free audit.
Questions from Chicago business owners
How do calls and time zones work with a team based in France?+
France is seven hours ahead of Chicago. We treat that as a feature. Your campaigns are checked and cleaned before your workday starts, and anything found overnight is handled by the time you open your laptop. Calls are held in English and booked in your morning, which is our afternoon. You will not be asked to take a meeting at odd hours.
Who owns the Google Ads account?+
You do. The account is in your name and stays yours, whether we work together for three months or three years. Your ad budget is paid by you directly to Google, never through us. If you leave, you keep the account, the history, and the data.
Can you guarantee a first-page ranking or a set number of leads?+
No, and we would be cautious of anyone who does. Google does not sell guaranteed positions, in Chicago or anywhere else. What we commit to is the work and the reporting: a monthly report with real numbers, calls, form fills, and cost per lead, so you can judge for yourself whether it is paying off.
What if you already work with one of my competitors in Chicago?+
Then we cannot take you on. We work with one client per trade per area, and that exclusivity is written into the contract. If we already manage Google Ads for a plumber in your part of the metro, we will not sign a second one.
What does getting started look like?+
It starts with a free visibility audit of your current situation: your ads if you run any, your rankings, your Google Business Profile. You receive it within 48 hours, with no obligation. If you decide to work with us, there is no long-term contract. You can cancel at any time with 30 days notice.
Also working with businesses in the United States
We start by looking at where you stand in Chicago
The audit is free and carries no obligation. You get it within 48 hours: your profile, your site, your three best-placed competitors, and what AI assistants answer about your trade in Chicago.