A Chicago agency operating since 2007 with 22 named employees, SEO retainers typically ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 per month and an integrated digital PR practice.
Education agency comparison
Best education SEO companies in the US
Education SEO covers enrolment demand, programme architecture and multi-audience journeys. The partner must handle long decision cycles and frequent programme or campus changes.
A company appears here only when its public profile documents Education as a served industry. Ordering is the same published Hub Score used across the directory; no company can buy inclusion or position.
Reviewed 23 August 2026 · 81 eligible companies
Companies compared
81
US-based and evidence-filtered
Median retainer floor
$2k/mo
$579/mo–$8k/mo
Median tenure
0 yrs
Oldest founded 1986
Hub Score range
47–81
Median 65
Ranked companies
Ordered by the published Hub Score. Placement and inclusion cannot be bought.
A Traverse City agency operating since 1996 with a 26-person public roster and deep technical, local, enterprise and content-led SEO delivery.
An Austin-office organic-growth agency with 50-plus in-house marketers, specializing in search-led content, technical consulting, digital PR, design and off-site authority.
A Delaware-headquartered remote ecommerce SEO and content agency that publishes a 25-plus team, technical-search capability and recurring content-led plans beginning at $1,797 per month.
A Bozeman web and digital-marketing company operating since 1997, with 13 named human team members and ongoing SEO plans starting at $579 per month.
A New Orleans-headquartered creative digital agency launched in 2012, combining technical and local SEO, content, digital PR, paid media and web execution.
A Philadelphia digital consultancy founded in 2002, with a current 250-plus published workforce population spanning full-time staff, contractors, part-timers and interns.
A St. Paul digital-marketing agency with a 15-person public team, transparent retainer bands and current SEO cases tied to traffic, revenue and local visibility.
An Oshkosh marketing and digital consultancy founded in 2002, combining organic search, content, paid media, research, brand and web development.
A Colorado Springs-headquartered agency founded in 2003 with more than 200 team members, combining technical, content, local, ecommerce and AI-search work with paid media, Amazon, digital PR and web delivery.
A 21-person Milwaukee digital agency operating since 1998, combining SEO and paid acquisition with enterprise websites, ecommerce, maintenance and analytics.
A Bedford-headquartered digital experience consultancy founded in 1996 with a stated 150-person team across three U.S. offices and SEO-tagged enterprise transformation cases.
A Midlothian agency founded in 2004 with a current 20-plus-person named roster, specializing in measurable inbound programs for credit unions, manufacturers and service businesses.
An Atlanta human-centered agency founded in 2004 with a company-published 120-plus team integrating search, content, UX, engineering, media, analytics and brand work.
A Providence integrated agency founded in 1986 that currently reports nearly 70 employees across Providence and Boston, with a dedicated search and analytics practice spanning organic SEO and paid search.
A fully distributed search agency founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, pairing technical and off-page SEO with content, AEO and web support while publishing a $5,000 monthly starting-budget recommendation.
A Burlington studio founded in 2000 with ten named human team members, delivering custom websites, technical and content SEO, paid search, analytics, creative and AI consulting.
A 17-person Morgantown integrated agency founded in 2011, combining SEO and AI-search optimization with websites, content, video, advertising and media strategy.
A 12-person Casper agency founded in 2019, offering technical and content search optimization alongside brand strategy, web, paid media, social, automation and creative production.
A 25-person Seattle SEO and web agency with extensive first-party case studies spanning local services, healthcare, ecommerce and enterprise search.
A Webster Groves search-focused agency founded in 2010, with a large named team and current cases connecting organic visibility to leads, orders and pipeline.
A Billings women-owned agency founded in 2007 with a stated 25-person team and named SEO cases reporting six-month organic and technical gains.
A Chicago agency founded in 2003 with 31 named in-house employees spanning SEO and AEO, paid media, analytics, project management and software development.
A New Orleans search-led agency founded in 2006, with deep higher-education and healthcare work spanning organic and AI visibility, paid acquisition, content and analytics.
A Northeast Ohio-headquartered agency founded in Columbus in 2010, with current Westlake, Cleveland and Columbus offices and a 21-person public team spanning SEO, PPC, content, web and account delivery.
A Memphis full-service agency with a current eleven-person roster and published SEO plans covering technical, local, content, authority and AI-search work.
A Sioux Falls digital marketing agency founded in 2009, with a 17-person public roster and an offer spanning SEO and AEO, content, paid media, email, automation and reporting.
A Fargo digital agency founded in 2013 with 19 people identified on its current about page, offering technical, local and ecommerce SEO alongside paid media, web, email and conversion work.
A nine-person Morgantown agency established in 1986, integrating search-ready websites and content with research, brand strategy, advertising, public relations and events.
A Seattle agency founded in 2008, combining search strategy and demand generation with enterprise web platforms and interactive product experiences.
A West Virginia agency founded in 2011, combining SEO-aware development and content with research, creative, media, social, production and analytics.
A Wheeling-founded search agency operating since 2006, delivering technical, content, ecommerce and international SEO alongside paid media, analytics and conversion work.
A nine-person Oshkosh agency founded in 1998, delivering technical and content SEO within integrated advertising, social, email and website programs.
A Providence digital marketing and technology company whose first-party material traces work to 1999, with 12 current core team members and four separately labeled partners.
A Portland-rooted, fully remote B Corp agency founded in 2012, with fourteen people on its current team page and about half of the team based in Portland.
A Westlake Village and Los Angeles agency founded in 2010, with a published in-house roster and a recurring SEO practice focused on technical, content, authority and local work, including sensitive behavioral-health markets.
A Carmel marketing and web agency founded in 2004 with 11 named strategists and specialists, offering content-centered SEO, paid campaigns, analytics and custom website delivery.
A Birmingham digital agency with a 35-plus-person in-house team and dedicated technical, local and content SEO leadership, alongside paid media, web and analytics delivery.
A Madison web and search agency established in 2001, delivering technical and local SEO, custom websites, ecommerce, maintenance and conversion work.
A Baton Rouge digital agency with dozens of professionals delivering technical and local SEO, content, AI optimization, paid media, websites and analytics.
A Chattanooga firm founded in 2001, with a three-person core team coordinating SEO, content, web, ecommerce, paid media and specialist partners.
A seven-person Tupelo agency founded in 2019, offering local, content and technical SEO alongside in-house design, development and broader marketing.
A Milwaukee digital agency founded in 2000, uniting SEO and content strategy with UX, application development, enterprise CMS work and analytics.
A Cheyenne web and marketing firm operating since 2012, providing local and on-page SEO, audits, paid advertising, lead generation and conversion-oriented websites.
A Janesville agency with a published 20-year operating history, in-house SEO specialists and broad custom web, ecommerce, advertising and conversion capabilities.
A Menomonee Falls digital agency delivering SEO-aware web and ecommerce builds, content, paid acquisition, analytics and ongoing digital strategy.
A New Gloucester internet-marketing agency founded in 2006 with organic and local SEO, content, paid search, web development and marketing automation.
A Burlington owner-led search and digital advertising practice operating since 2019, serving New England businesses with SEO, paid media, ecommerce, web and analytics work.
A Los Angeles-area search consultancy operating since January 1996, offering technical and content SEO, AI-search visibility, paid media, tools and formal training with a current Moorpark correspondence base.
A Baltimore digital marketing agency founded as Dragonfly SEO in 2007, offering organic, local, ecommerce and SaaS SEO alongside content, paid media, social, email and analytics.
A Westbrook employee-owned multiplatform agency founded in 1999 and fully integrated with digital-performance specialist VONT, which Ethos launched in 2007.
A Boston-area performance agency founded in 2007 and headquartered at a Newton address, combining SEO and AI-search work with content, web, paid media and conversion programs.
A Charlottesville consultancy founded in 2005, pairing technical and on-page SEO management with advertising, conversion testing, automation and data-first measurement.
A Phoenix-headquartered digital agency operating since 2013, with organic and local SEO delivery at multi-location scale, a named leadership team and first-party cases across healthcare, legal and home services.
A Seattle agency founded in 2010, specializing in privacy-first search, analytics, conversion and media programs for healthcare and medical-device organizations.
A New Mexico digital agency operating since 1994, now part of Consumer51, with current Santa Fe and Albuquerque offices and an ongoing technical, content, local-search and analytics offer.
A Huntsville agency founded in 2012 with documented local, technical and authority-building SEO work, Google Business Profile optimisation, web development and paid media.
A Milwaukee-area digital agency pairing recurring SEO and content with paid media, analytics and custom web development, particularly for industrial organizations.
A Webster Groves-area web and digital agency founded in 2012, offering technical, local and national SEO with content, paid media, CRM and application development.
A Baton Rouge inbound agency founded in 2012 that combines SEO, content, analytics, lead generation, websites and paid media around measurable customer acquisition.
A West Des Moines full-service agency operating since 2014 with SEO, paid advertising, email automation, websites, branding, video and marketing technology.
A Manhattan-headquartered data-led growth agency with seven U.S. locations, combining SEO and performance content with media, direct marketing, creative, web technology and audience intelligence.
A six-person Washougal-headquartered growth agency serving coaches and consultants through SEO, websites, B2B outreach, thought leadership, advertising and strategic marketing.
A multi-office agency with a current Raleigh office, combining technical and content SEO with generative search, digital PR, conversion work, paid media and proprietary Barracuda analysis.
A Columbia digital studio providing SEO, GEO and AEO with strategy, UX, web and app development, maintenance and conversion-oriented implementation.
A Boise agency established in 2010 that combines relevance-first manual link acquisition with keyword content, technical SEO and digital PR for competitive national campaigns.
A Kaimuki-based Honolulu SEO practice where one senior strategist handles audits, implementation and reporting across local, technical, content, ecommerce and AI-search work.
A Leesburg performance agency with 18 years of published search, media, creative and measurement experience, focused on mid-market B2C growth.
A Lehi-headquartered small-business and white-label SEO provider founded in 2009, combining in-house fulfillment with proprietary campaign workflow and reporting technology.
A Bismarck full-service agency offering search and web SEO, content, paid media, email, analytics and strategy through flexible flat-fee monthly partnerships.
An Oklahoma City full-service digital marketing and communications agency founded in 2005, with a current multidisciplinary team spanning SEO, web, content, advertising and public relations.
A Minneapolis brand, web and digital-marketing agency offering technical SEO, content, links, analytics and implementation.
A Newton advertising agency operating since 1990 and providing SEO, web presence, paid search, media buying and creative production.
A Charlottesville and Harrisonburg agency combining AIO and SEO with content, web development, hosting, paid digital marketing and visual production.
A Portland strategy, advertising and analytics agency combining technical, local and AI-search optimization with content, paid media and measurement.
A Bristol-based independent marketing-operations and technology consultant working since 2019 across SEO, websites, paid media, automation, analytics and campaign systems.
An Edmond-based full-service agency helping small businesses and nonprofits combine local SEO, search-ready websites, content, video, brand strategy and marketing automation.
A Portsmouth B Corp media and SEO agency open since 2014, combining onsite optimization and content planning with paid media and analytics.
A Memphis-registered web and marketing firm offering SEO, paid search, web and mobile development, ecommerce and broader digital-marketing support.
An Oklahoma City content-strategy practice combining SEO, website writing and development, content creation, paid messaging, conversion optimization and digital analytics.
A Cuyahoga Falls full-service agency combining search and AI visibility, content, websites, media activation, creative strategy and measurement for regional organizations.
Side-by-side comparison
The 15 highest-scoring eligible companies compared on location, tenure, team size, entry price and pricing model.
| Company | Based in | Founded | Team | Retainer from | Pricing | Website visits | Hub Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Third Coast | Chicago, IL | 2007 | 20-50 | $5k/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 81 |
| Oneupweb | Traverse City, MI | 1996 | 20-50 | $800/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 81 |
| Siege Media | Austin, TX | Not published | 50-150 | $8k/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 81 |
| Eastmoor Digital | Smyrna, DE | Not published | 20-50 | $1.8k/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 78 |
| JTech Communications | Bozeman, MT | 1997 | 10-20 | $579/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 78 |
| Online Optimism | New Orleans, LA | 2012 | 10-20 | $2k/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 78 |
| Seer Interactive | Philadelphia, PA | 2002 | 250-500 | Not published | Not published | No public estimate | 77 |
| Augurian | St. Paul, MN | Not published | 10-20 | $5k/mo | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 75 |
| Blue Door Consulting | Oshkosh, WI | 2002 | 20-50 | Not published | Retainer or project | No public estimate | 75 |
| Intero Digital | Colorado Springs, CO | 2003 | 150-250 | Not published | Not published | No public estimate | 75 |
| Lightburn | Milwaukee, WI | 1998 | 20-50 | Not published | Retainer or project | No public estimate | 75 |
| SilverTech | Bedford, NH | 1996 | 150-250 | Not published | Not published | No public estimate | 75 |
| WebStrategies | Midlothian, VA | 2004 | 20-50 | Not published | Monthly retainer | No public estimate | 75 |
| Nebo Agency | Atlanta, GA | 2004 | 50-150 | Not published | Not published | No public estimate | 73 |
| RDW Group | Providence, RI | 1986 | 50-150 | Not published | Not published | No public estimate | 73 |
What retainers actually start at in education SEO companies
Median entry retainer is $2k/mo, with the range running $579/mo to $8k/mo. These are floors, not averages of what clients spend — scope, competitiveness and content volume move the real number well above them.
Floors shown in USD, as published or disclosed by each company.
Fast shortlist for education SEO companies
Picked mechanically from the data on this page, so you can start a shortlist without reading every profile.
Longest-running
RDW Group · 73Trading since 1986.
Lowest entry retainer
JTech Communications · 78Starts at $579/mo.
Boutique team
Digital Third Coast · 8120-50 people — senior time on the account.
Largest bench
Seer Interactive · 77250-500 people across disciplines.
In-house service coverage
How often each discipline appears across the eligible shortlist.
- Analytics81 · 100%
- Technical SEO81 · 100%
- Content Marketing79 · 98%
- Paid Media73 · 90%
- Conversion Optimization70 · 86%
- Web Development69 · 85%
- Local SEO64 · 79%
- Link Building29 · 36%
Related industry depth
Other documented verticals across the same companies, useful when your market crosses categories.
- Education81 · 100%
- Healthcare60 · 74%
- Manufacturing & B2B50 · 62%
- Ecommerce43 · 53%
- Nonprofit35 · 43%
- Home Services34 · 42%
- Financial Services29 · 36%
- SaaS & Technology29 · 36%
What should decide the shortlist
- Programme and campus architecture
- Enquiry-to-enrolment measurement
- Editorial governance across faculties
Questions to ask before signing
Which published Education work can we inspect?
Named, scoped evidence is more useful than an industry logo wall.
Who will do the work after the sales call?
Team composition and senior access determine delivery quality.
Which business outcome will reporting use?
A useful agency connects search work to qualified demand, not rankings alone.
How the Hub Score on this page is calculated
100 points across five factors, each computed from a fact you can check yourself. Nothing here is bought, voted on or averaged from review sites.
- 15 ptsOperating resilience — 3 points under 3 years; 6 at 3-5; 9 at 6-10; 11 at 11-15; 13 at 16-20; 15 at 21+ years.
- 25 ptsDelivery capability — A monotonic diminishing-return curve: 1 service = 6, 2 = 10, 3 = 14, 4 = 17, 5 = 20, 6 = 22, 7+ = 25.
- 25 ptsSector evidence — Industry coverage contributes 10, 14, 16 or 18 points; 1, 2 or 3+ source-linked case studies add 3, 5 or 7 points.
- 20 ptsCommercial clarity — 4 for a live site + 6 for a disclosed entry floor + 5 for a stated pricing model + 5 for a specific best-fit client statement.
- 15 ptsDelivery capacity — Team bands map monotonically: 10-20 = 5, 20-50 = 8, 50-150 = 11, 150-250 = 13, 250-500 or 500+ = 15.
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Questions buyers ask
- How are these education SEO companies ranked?
- Hub Score v2 measures operating resilience, documented delivery capability, sector evidence, commercial clarity and capacity. Evidence Confidence is shown separately. Payment, awards and anonymous review averages are excluded.
- Does every company here specialise only in Education?
- No. Inclusion means the company documents Education experience. Use the profiles and comparison table to separate a focused specialist from a broader agency with relevant work.
- Are the listed retainer floors quotes?
- No. They are published or disclosed entry points. Final pricing depends on scope, competition, content volume, locations and implementation support.