SEO · COLUMBUS, OHIO
SEO for Columbus, Ohio businesses that want to be found.
Technical SEO, local search, and AI search optimization from the team that builds websites for a living.
Overview
Columbus is a crowded search market. National brands, well-funded startups, and dozens of local agencies compete for the same searches, and Google's AI Overviews now answer many questions before anyone clicks. Ranking here takes more than a monthly report. Canned Spinach is a Cincinnati design and marketing agency, and because we design and build websites for a living, our SEO starts in the architecture, code, and content: keyword strategy before a word is written, technical foundations done right, and steady content that answers what Columbus buyers actually ask. We structure all of it so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews can understand and cite you, not just rank you.
SEO · COLUMBUS, OHIO
SEO and AI search services for Columbus businesses
We map the searches your customers actually make, size up who currently ranks for them, and turn that into a plan with priorities, before a word of copy is written.
Clean architecture, fast load times, crawlable templates, and structured data. The foundations that decide whether your content ever gets a fair hearing.
Google Business Profile, local landing pages, citations, and reviews, tuned so the people searching in your service area find you and not the competition.
Titles, headings, internal links, and page copy rewritten to match search intent, without turning your website into keyword soup.
A steady cadence of genuinely useful pages and articles, written by people who understand your business and built to earn links and answers.
Plain-English monthly reporting tied to leads, not vanity metrics, plus the ongoing tuning that turns early gains into compounding ones.
A full audit of the site as it stands (technical, content, and backlink) with a prioritized fix list. Most of the sites we optimize were built somewhere else.
Search now happens inside ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews too. We structure your content so the answers those tools give include you.
What it takes to rank in Columbus
Featured Work
Cintrifuse
Driving the growth and vibrancy of the Cincinnati region.
Darius Garland
Foundation: Building a Legacy Beyond the Game.
Taste of Cincinnati
A Digital Taste of the City We Call Home
Asian Food Fest
A Digital Experience Full of Flavor, Culture, and Community
Oktoberfest
Bringing the World’s Biggest Party to the Digital Stage
ADEX International
Bringing Brands to Life Through Immersive Experiences
Engert
Powering Projects From the Ground Up.
Iracore
Engineered for Performance. Built to Last.
Enerpipe
Built for the Challenge. Designed for What’s Next.
First Financial Bank
Banking Made Clearer. Business Made Better.
By working with Canned Spinach, we get access to NYC / LA level talent, conveniently located in our own backyard. The fact that they are based in Cincinnati helped create a more efficient, trustworthy, and relevant working relationship.
Maurice Coffey
Senior Marketing Director Corporate Marketing, Procter & Gamble
Why Columbus businesses choose Canned Spinach for SEO
01
SEO from the people who build the site.
Rankings start with architecture, speed, and clean code. We control all three, so nothing gets lost between an SEO vendor and a web developer.
02
Plain-English reporting tied to leads.
Monthly reports show rankings, traffic, and the inquiries they produce, with next month's plan attached.
03
Honest about what's winnable.
After the audit, we'll show you which Columbus searches are realistic early wins and which take sustained effort, before you commit to a retainer.
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SEO · COLUMBUS, OHIO
Frequently Asked Questions
Canned Spinach SEO and AI search retainers start at $2,000 per month. Where you land above that depends on how competitive your searches are, how much content you need, and how many locations you serve. Columbus is a competitive market, so most businesses benefit from steady monthly content and optimization rather than a one-time fix. Every engagement starts with a free discovery call and a fixed, written scope.
Most businesses see early movement in three to six months, with meaningful lead growth in six to twelve. Specific, lower-competition searches, like one service in one suburb, can move faster, while broad citywide searches take sustained effort because national companies compete for them too. After the initial audit, we'll show you which searches are realistic early wins.
It can, if the fundamentals are in place. The map pack is driven by your Google Business Profile, how close you are to the person searching, the number and quality of your reviews, and consistent business listings across the web. We optimize your profile, build a review strategy, clean up your citations, and create pages for the parts of Central Ohio you serve, like Dublin, Westerville, or Grove City.
Yes. Multi-location businesses need a page for each location with genuinely unique content, a Google Business Profile for each physical site, and a structure that keeps locations from competing with each other in search. We plan that architecture, build or fix the pages, and report performance by location so you can see which markets are growing.
We build websites for a living, so we fix SEO problems at the source, in the site's architecture, code, and content, instead of working around them. You get one team for strategy, technical work, content, and design, plain-English reporting tied to leads, and AI search optimization built in, with everything tracked on a shared project board you can check anytime.
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