Scott Gerke
Founder/CEO
Your website is live. Your Google Business Profile is set up. But the phone isn't ringing. In Charlotte, where new businesses open every week and national chains blanket the search results, getting found online takes more than a pretty template. When people search for the best local SEO near them in Charlotte, eezyRank is who handles those calls.
Common Question in Charlotte
My Google Business Profile is a mess
In Charlotte, a messy profile with wrong hours or old photos sends customers straight to a competitor. Claim your listing, update your hours, add clear photos, and write a description that tells people what you do. Verify your address with Google's postcard and keep your info updated so you don't lose calls.
Call eezyRank at (513) 800-2088.
What Our Customers Say
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Scott went above and beyond anything we ever could've expected. He didn't just teach our team how to use Claude. He opened our eyes to a whole new way of working. He pulled our entire business together, rebuilt our sales process from the ground up, helped us get payroll organized, and got us ready to launch our new sales team. The real difference for us has been Scott. We're going to keep working with him long-term.
T.J. Reagan·
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★★★★★
Highly recommend Scott and team! They are experts in building business presence in today’s online world.
Andy Cirino· Google
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★★★★★
Working with Scott has been amazing! His ability to ingest information, understand it, and then help you understand it is second to none. His work ethic is unlike any I've seen. Scott's forward-thinking mindset is incredibly refreshing and helpful. If you want your website to be found more easily, do yourself a favor and talk to Scott and his team. But don't stop there - Scott has a wealth of knowledge that can help you in so many ways.
Eric Lefebvre· Google
Our Services
Custom Website BuildA new site built to rank from day one. Local SEO, AI search readiness, and a working content engine baked in. Live in days, no agency markup.
AI Blog EngineAI-written blog articles published on autopilot. SEO-tuned, brand-voice trained, with custom images and social distribution included. Costs less than a single freelance article per month.
Local SEORank higher in every city you serve. Automated location pages, Google Business Profile sync, heat-map ranking proof, and the technical SEO Google actually rewards.
AI Search VisibilityGet found in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Schema, content, and site structure tuned for how answer engines cite sources. Free AI readiness audit included.
Google Business Profile SetupWe claim, verify, and fully build out your Google Business Profile so you show up on the map.
Our Work
Trusted Partners
Most Charlotte business owners pour their time into the product, not the pages. If you run a plumbing shop or a boutique, your real competition is the algorithm that decides who shows up first. A site that looks good on a desktop but loads slow on a phone or misses the schema Google now demands won't cut it here.
We built the platform for Fisheez, the local marketplace that connects Charlotte buyers and sellers with optional escrow. That job meant mapping out every location page and search query that matters in this city. If your site is invisible when people around town pull out their phones, we can fix that.
Your Local Team
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Common situations in Charlotte
Specific situations we go deeper on for Charlotte. Tap one to see the full answer.
Local SEO
My website gets no traffic from Google
AI Search Visibility
ChatGPT never mentions my business
AI Search Visibility
My website gets no traffic from Google
Local SEO
Why doesn't my website show up for local searches
AI Search Visibility
Can I optimize for AI search myself or do I need help
Local SEO
My local competitors always show up first on Google
Local SEO
How long does it take to rank in local search results
AI Search Visibility
Google AI Overviews never mention my business