Good At Marketing offers SEO services in Delray Beach, Florida, from Boynton Beach, the city that borders Delray Beach on the north. My SEO work began in 2008, and the agency opened in July 2017. Our baseline is $1,000 to $1,600 a month (see SEO pricing), and the free AI-visibility audit comes first.
What SEO in Delray Beach involves
SEO services are the monthly work of getting your business found by people who search for what you sell. That means technical fixes and new pages, plus links and local listings. Delray Beach businesses face different search competitors depending on where they operate and what they sell. For scale, the U.S. Census Bureau counted 66,846 residents in the 2020 Census (Census QuickFacts).
Atlantic Avenue is State Road 806, the main east-west route between A1A and US 441 and the central commercial street downtown, according to Wikipedia’s Delray Beach entry (read October 2026). The Pineapple Grove Arts District sits north of Atlantic Avenue, and Discover The Palm Beaches lists its galleries, restaurants, a hotel and the Arts Garage venue. The same page names the Dancing Pineapple mural and the Ray Hotel, so a few blocks hold hotels and venues that search differently from restaurants and shops. Searches such as “restaurant Delray Beach” and “gallery Delray Beach” show who a business on that strip is up against.
Wikipedia calls Atlantic Avenue a regular site for art fairs and street festivals, and it describes Old School Square as a cultural center that includes the Crest Theatre, the 1925 Gymnasium, the Cornell Art Museum and The Pavilion. Visitors to those places often look for somewhere to eat or park nearby, so pages that state hours, address and directions plainly are worth the effort for businesses within walking distance.
The downtown Delray Beach website (read October 2026) calls Historic Old School Square “Downtown Delray’s cultural heartbeat” and says the Delray Beach beach is one of only three Blue Flag beaches in the continental U.S. A restaurant, hotel or shop that draws visitors from those places competes in Google Maps on hours and photos, plus reviews. Businesses west of downtown face different searches, for individual services and for neighborhood names. Wikipedia places the High Point and Kings Point areas west of the city, and it places the Delray Beach Playhouse, which opened in 1947, in Lake Ida East Park. A search that names a park or a neighborhood usually comes from someone who already lives nearby, which is a different audience from a downtown visitor.
The free AI-visibility audit comes first, then a 15-minute call, and we scope the plan from there.
How Delray Beach differs from Boynton Beach and Boca Raton
Delray Beach sits between two cities we also work in, in the middle of Florida’s Gold Coast region and about 52 miles (83 km) north of Miami, according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia lists Boynton Beach as the city’s northern neighbor and Boca Raton as its southern one. A search for “SEO Delray Beach” and a search for “SEO Boynton Beach” draw different competitors. Wikipedia also places Gulf Stream to the north and northeast of Delray Beach and Highland Beach to the south on the same barrier island, so a Delray Beach business sits close to several small towns that have their own names in search.
The Census Bureau’s QuickFacts show how different the three cities are for a business that sells to residents:
| Measure | Delray Beach | Boynton Beach | Boca Raton |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population, 2020 Census | 66,846 | 80,380 | 97,422 |
| Residents aged 65 and over (QuickFacts estimate) | 28.0% | 22.5% | 24.6% |
| Median household income (2020 to 2024, 2024 dollars) | $82,041 | $70,074 | $106,273 |
| Median home value, owner-occupied (2020 to 2024) | $420,300 | $351,100 | $722,700 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts for Delray Beach, Boynton Beach and Boca Raton, read October 2026.
Delray Beach lands between its neighbors on income and home value, and it has the largest share of residents aged 65 and over of the three. The figures show that a page written for one of these cities may need changes for another. Our pages for Boynton Beach, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach cover the neighboring markets.
Who does the work
Our founder leads SEO strategy and sets the priorities. Roni Strompf writes content and runs paid media, and websites are designed and built in-house. You can meet the group on the team page.
You approve every page before it goes live.
What a month includes
The table lists the work areas in a monthly SEO plan. Before you pay, we scope how much of each area your plan covers, because a one-location restaurant and a contractor with a service area of six cities need different amounts of each.
| Work area | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Technical | Crawling, indexing, page speed and schema checks, and fixes for what turns up. |
| Content | Pages written or updated for the searches your buyers use, including Delray Beach neighborhood pages when the searches and your services justify them. |
| Authority | Links and citations on relevant sites. |
| Local | Google Business Profile and reviews. Business Profile management is a separate service at $450 to $650 a month. |
| AI search | AEO, the work of getting your business named in AI answers, is an add-on at $950 to $2,000 a month. |
| Reporting | A monthly report. |
Local work also feeds AI answers, and those answers move. eMarketer reported on April 2, 2026 that between 40% and 60% of cited sources change month to month across Google AI Mode and ChatGPT, which is why we never promise a permanent citation. In BrightLocal’s August 26, 2026 study of local AI citations, Google Business Profile made up about 28.6% of the citations collected, and ChatGPT cited Yelp more than any other source. For a Delray Beach restaurant or shop, a complete Business Profile and current reviews on Yelp therefore matter for ChatGPT as well as for Google.
Highly competitive markets can run up to about $3,500 a month. For context, the Ahrefs SEO pricing survey, first published December 17, 2023, reports an average retainer of $2,917 a month, with 20.4% of providers charging $501 to $1,000. The baseline we quote is lower than that average, and our ceiling is higher. The pricing page lists every service in one table. For Google Ads, Local Services Ads, Business Profile and the rest of what we do in Delray Beach, see our digital marketing agency in Delray Beach page.
For paid search and the map pack in Delray Beach, see Google Ads management in Delray Beach and Business Profile management in Delray Beach.
For a plain-language breakdown of what drives the monthly fee, read how much SEO costs for a small business.
Results
I can show you two kinds of proof, and both come with dates.
MBMI Metal Buildings is based in Delray Beach. It was my first national number one. Ranking it for “Steel Buildings” and “Metal Buildings” took 12 to 16 months. ChatGPT and Perplexity both named MBMI first for buying a pre-engineered metal building in Florida, on October 15, 2026. MBMI sells steel buildings nationally. That was a national campaign, and it tells you nothing about the local map pack in Delray Beach. Treat it as evidence of how long hard keywords take.
The second proof is how we measure AI search across the agency: we read AI referral traffic in GA4 each month and test buyer-style prompts in the main AI engines, saving every answer. The free AI-visibility audit shows where your business appears in AI answers today.
We do not have a Delray Beach map-pack case study to show you yet, and we will not invent one. If a local result matters to your decision, ask us for the specifics. You can use these as a test for any provider you talk to. Ask for a dated result, the keyword it covers and where it was measured. We list ours with their dates so you can check them against that standard.
Where to find us
We are based in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, the city directly north of Delray Beach. We meet clients by Google Meet or Zoom.
Book a 15-minute call to talk through your market. Businesses that sell to other businesses can read about our B2B marketing work.
Neighborhoods we cover
These are the parts of Delray Beach and nearby that we write pages for, and a page can cover one district or several. The place facts come from Wikipedia’s Delray Beach entry, read October 2026:
- Downtown Delray Beach and the Atlantic Avenue corridor.
- The Pineapple Grove Arts District, north of Atlantic Avenue.
- Old School Square, the former Delray Elementary and Delray High School campus that includes the Crest Theatre and the Cornell Art Museum.
- The Lake Ida area, including Lake Ida East Park and the Delray Beach Playhouse that opened in 1947.
- Western neighborhoods such as High Point and Kings Point.
- Highland Beach, south of Delray Beach on the barrier island.
The Pineapple Grove page from Discover The Palm Beaches also describes live music and exhibitions at the Arts Garage, dining within the district and year-round events, with the Ray Hotel inside it and a Hyatt Place within walking distance. Wikipedia notes that an 1841 U.S. military map shows a Seminole camp in the area now known as Lake Ida, which gives the lake area a longer history than most of the city. Each of these areas has its own mix of visitors and residents, and a page for one rarely serves another. If your address sits outside this list, ask. Tell us the street or district your customers search from, and we scope the pages around it.
Businesses near Delray Beach can also see our SEO pages for Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Jupiter. The Palm Beach County page lists the cities we serve in the county.
Questions about SEO in Delray Beach
Are you located in Delray Beach?
Our base is Boynton Beach, the next city north, where Donnie Strompf leads SEO strategy, and the agency dates from July 2017. Delray Beach clients meet us on Google Meet or Zoom. The contact page is the place to book a time.
How much does SEO cost in Delray Beach?
SEO starts at $1,000 to $1,600 a month and reaches about $3,500 where competition is heavy. Competition and the amount of technical and content work set where you land. Ad spend and website builds are priced separately. The pricing page lists every service.
How long until I see results in Delray Beach?
We cannot give a date, and a provider who names one is guessing. Competitors, site condition and the keyword decide the pace. Our slowest example is a pair of national keywords that took 12 to 16 months, and a local search is a different job with different competitors.
How is Delray Beach SEO different from Boynton Beach or Boca Raton?
Census QuickFacts shows the three cities differ in median household income, home values and the share of residents aged 65 and over, and the table above has the figures. Wikipedia places Boynton Beach to the north and Boca Raton to the south. The competitors for a Delray Beach search also differ from those for a Boynton Beach search.
Do you work with businesses on Atlantic Avenue or in Pineapple Grove?
We take on downtown clients. Downtown businesses compete for the same short searches, so the Business Profile, review volume and a clear page for each service decide the result. Firms that serve the western neighborhoods are welcome too. A downtown Delray Beach case study is not available yet.
Can I see proof of past results?
Two items carry dates: the MBMI Metal Buildings ranking and our agency-wide reading of AI traffic in Google Analytics. Neither is a Delray Beach map-pack result, and we have no such result to show yet. Ask for specifics and we will say what we can and cannot show for your market.
Which Delray Beach neighborhoods do you cover?
We group coverage into the downtown core (Atlantic Avenue, Pineapple Grove, Old School Square) and the residential areas (Lake Ida and the west side), with Highland Beach just south. If your customers search from somewhere else, tell us where and we scope the pages around that location.
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