I'm Saad Tanvir, an independent SEO consultant working remotely with New York businesses. You get senior SEO consulting, from audits to AI search visibility, without paying for a Manhattan agency's overheads.
I do not have a New York office, a Manhattan phone number or a local team. Calls for New York clients are scheduled in US Eastern time. The work happens in your Search Console, your CMS and your analytics, not in an office you are paying for.
New York results are dominated by large agencies and national brands, so generic terms are expensive to win. The practical route is specificity: borough and neighborhood relevance for local services, deep category pages for ecommerce brands, and being cited in AI answers for the niche questions your buyers ask.
Brooklyn, Queens and a Manhattan neighborhood are different searches. A clinic, a law firm or a restaurant should not target "New York" as if it were one place. An ecommerce brand selling across the US should not spend the engagement chasing a city term that does not match how people buy.
I have worked with US brands remotely. For local service proof on this site, a Dublin phone repair shop went from 4 to 84 organic clicks a month after a Wix to Next.js migration and local SEO rebuild. It is not a New York client, and I will not dress it up as one.
When I checked the results for "SEO consultant New York" in October 2026, every result on page one was an agency or a directory: Clutch, Built In, LinkedIn and agency city pages. That's typical for New York. In most categories, a new site isn't competing with the business down the street. It's competing with platforms that have thousands of links.
So the work in New York is about finding the searches those platforms don't cover well: neighborhood and service combinations for local businesses (such as "physical therapist Astoria" rather than "physical therapy NYC"); category and comparison pages for DTC brands; and AI answers, where ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews often name specific businesses for niche New York questions.
Calls are booked in US Eastern time. The first one is 30 minutes. If the site sells nationwide and the brief is "rank for New York SEO", I will say so and point the work at the categories that actually make money. A city page does not fix a catalog.
For a local business, the first month separates Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the neighborhoods you can defend with reviews and a real service area. For an ecommerce or SaaS brand based in the city, the first month is crawl, indexation and the category pages that already get impressions. New content waits until those pages are not fighting each other.
By day 90 you should be able to see which queries moved, which pages were consolidated, and what the next quarter is for. Rankings are not promised. The work and the Search Console view are.
Often a junior after the pitch
Account management and office overhead
Usually higher central-city retainers
Large multi-channel programs
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A brand-new domain, one month after launch. Google showed it in 43 countries and for 58 different searches. 129 pages are indexed. 358 impressions in the last 28 days, about 74% from the US. Average position 14.7.
Also: Dublin phone repair, 4 → 84 clicks a month (same remote model).
You describe the business and the city or service area. I say whether SEO is the right lever.
A ranked list of what to fix first, tied to your market, not a generic checklist.
I do the work, or I hand your team ticket-ready recommendations. Reporting stays plain-language.
Calls in US Eastern time. A 30-60 minute call for $75.
