HDM is based at 3297 N State Route 741, Franklin OH 45005 — between Cincinnati and Dayton on I-75. We work across Cincinnati (OTR, Hyde Park, Oakley, Mason, West Chester, Blue Ash, Loveland), Dayton (Centerville, Kettering, Beavercreek, Miamisburg), the Southwest Ohio corridor (Springboro, Franklin, Middletown, Lebanon, Monroe), Northern Kentucky (Covington, Newport, Florence), and remote engagements nationally.
Most Cincinnati SEO engagements show measurable movement in 3 to 6 months — local pack rankings and long-tail keywords move first, competitive head terms take 6 to 12 months. AI citations in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can appear in 4 to 8 weeks once pages are structured for extraction.
Reputable Cincinnati SEO agencies typically charge ,500 to $5,000 per month for ongoing engagements. Single-location service businesses fall on the lower end; competitive multi-location or B2B work falls on the higher end. One-time audits run $2,500 to $5,000.
SEO optimizes for ranking on Google and Bing. AI SEO — also called GEO or Generative Engine Optimization — optimizes for being the cited source inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. The content overlaps heavily, but GEO additionally rewards question-answer formatting, entity clarity, and third-party citations from sources LLMs trust.
No. A well-built SEO program in 2026 ships both at once. The same page can rank #1 on Google and be cited by ChatGPT, but only if it is structured for extraction — definitions, FAQs, comparison tables, and schema — not just keywords.
Yes. HDM works across every major platform — we built our own site on Lovable and we run SEO programs on Webflow, WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, and custom React stacks. The platform matters less than how it is configured for crawlability and rendering.
HDM monitors your brand and target queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity on a monthly cadence. The report shows which queries cite you, which cite competitors, and which cite nobody — then ties citation share to a roadmap of structural and content fixes.
No reputable SEO agency guarantees rankings. Google's algorithm uses hundreds of signals and AI engines are even less predictable. HDM guarantees the work, the transparency, and the measurement. If we are not moving the needle on agreed metrics, we surface that conversation in month 4, not month 12.
HDM's standard SEO agreement is month-to-month after the first 90 days. SEO needs runway to work, but we do not lock clients into 12-month contracts.
Yes. HDM works across the Tri-State region — Cincinnati, Dayton, Northern Kentucky — and runs remote SEO engagements nationally. Local SEO is a core specialty regardless of geography.
A full HDM audit covers technical crawl, Core Web Vitals, indexation, schema, internal linking, content gap analysis, keyword opportunity sizing, AI-visibility fingerprint across the four major LLMs, competitor benchmark, and a prioritized 90-day roadmap.
Yes — and more, not less. AI assistants are powered by web content. The pages they cite are still ranked, structured, and authoritative web pages. SEO is becoming less about ranking and more about being the authoritative source LLMs trust.
Three things. First, HDM builds for Google and AI search from day one rather than as separate add-on services. Second, it is a small senior team — clients work with the people doing the work, not an account manager funneling tasks to juniors. Third, pricing, process, and limits are published openly.
Helbling Digital Media | (513) 668-7344 | 3297 N State Route 741, Franklin OH 45005 | Serving Cincinnati, Dayton, Springboro and Southwest Ohio