SEO Agency In CBD, Denver, CO
Eclipse Marketing ranks businesses in Denver’s Central Business District in Google Search, the Google Maps 3-pack and the AI answers buyers now read in ChatGPT and Google. The founder runs your account from our office on Broadway, the street that forms the CBD’s eastern edge, and we take 1 client per industry.
- Top 3 on Google within 12 months, guaranteed in writing
- 1 client per industry in the CBD, so we never rank your competitor
- Built block by block, from the 17th Street towers to the Convention Center
- Reporting on calls, booked meetings and revenue
An Owner-Run SEO Agency For Denver’s CBD
Eclipse Marketing is a founder-led SEO agency at 1776 Broadway, on the Broadway edge of Denver’s Central Business District. For CBD businesses we build the pages, Google Business Profile, reviews and structured data that put you in the top 3 results when someone between Speer Boulevard and Broadway searches for what you sell, and we guarantee Top 3 within 12 months.
The CBD is Denver’s office core. It runs from Lawrence Street to Broadway and from Speer Boulevard and Colfax Avenue up to 20th Street, and it holds 5 separate search markets: the 17th Street office towers, the 16th Street retail spine, the Colorado Convention Center and Denver Performing Arts Complex, the hotels and towers along Broadway, and the federal blocks near 19th and Stout. Each one draws a different buyer at a different hour.
We run the CBD as part of our Denver SEO agency work, with the same founder, team and 12-month guarantee, and with research done tower by tower for this district.
CBD at a glanceLobby directory
- Boundaries
- Lawrence St, 20th St, Broadway, Colfax Ave and Speer Blvd
- ZIP codes
- 80202 and 80204, plus 80293 and 80294, building-level ZIPs with no households
- Main streets
- 16th Street for retail and foot traffic, 17th Street for offices
- Tallest tower
- Republic Plaza, 714 ft, at 370 17th St, the tallest building in Colorado since 1984
- Oldest icon
- Daniels & Fisher Tower, 325 ft, built in 1910 on 16th Street
- Anchors
- Colorado Convention Center, Denver Performing Arts Complex, Brown Palace Hotel
- Our office
- 1776 Broadway, on the CBD’s eastern edge
Downtown Runs On A Diagonal, And So Does Search
Downtown Denver’s streets sit on a diagonal to the rest of the city’s grid. CBD searchers rarely type a neighborhood name. They type a cross street, a tower or a landmark, and Google answers from a radius measured in blocks.
Schematic map, not to scale. Numbers match the 5 zones below. North points to the upper left because the downtown grid is turned on a diagonal.
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Searchers use landmarks, not lines
Buyers type “17th and Champa,” “near the Convention Center” or “by the Brown Palace.” We put the names your customers use into your pages, your Business Profile and the reviews you collect.
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Distance is measured in blocks
Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and how well known a business is, according to its local ranking guidance. In a district this dense, distance alone cannot carry you, so we build the relevance and prominence that can.
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Towers stack competitors
1 tower can hold competing law firms, CPAs and advisors on different floors, all at the same street address. Separating your listing from theirs is half the work downtown.
How We Map The CBD For Local Search
The CBD is small on a map and crowded in search. We split it into 5 zones, because the buyer walking 16th Street at noon and the buyer on the 40th floor of a 17th Street tower search for different things.
- 117th Street
Office Corridor
Republic Plaza at 370 17th St, 555 17th St and the towers between Lawrence Street and Broadway. Law, finance, energy and consulting firms that sell to other businesses.
B2B and professional services - 216th Street
Retail Spine
The pedestrian street fully reopened on October 4, 2025 after a rebuild of about $176 million. It runs past the Daniels & Fisher Tower clock at Arapahoe and Denver Pavilions near Glenarm.
Retail, food and walk-in services - 314th Street
Convention And Theatre District
The Colorado Convention Center at 700 14th St and the Denver Performing Arts Complex at 14th and Curtis bring visitors who search for dinner, drinks and hotels by the hour.
Hospitality and event demand - 4Broadway
Broadway And Tremont Edge
The Brown Palace Hotel, open since 1892 on 17th Street at Tremont, the Broadway office towers and our own office at 1776 Broadway. Uptown and Capitol Hill searchers sit across the street.
Hotels, offices and cross-Broadway traffic - 519th & Stout
Federal Blocks
The Byron G. Rogers Federal Building at 1961 Stout St and the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse at 901 19th St draw attorneys, legal support firms and government contractors.
Legal and government work
Your customers live outside the CBD? South along Broadway, Baker has its own page, and farther west, so does Barnum. We plan CBD campaigns so they never compete with the neighborhoods your buyers come from.
The CBD By The Numbers, And What They Mean For Search
Office vacancy, foot traffic and return-to-office rates decide who is downtown to search. These are the figures behind every CBD campaign we plan in late 2026.
- 40.1%Q3 2026
Downtown Denver office vacancy in Q3 2026, up 1.5 points in the quarter
Source: CBRE - 44%Q2 2026
CBD office vacancy in Q2 2026, against 19.5% in LoDo
Source: CBRE, via the Denver Gazette - 73M2025
Visits to downtown Denver in 2025, 90% of pre-pandemic levels
Source: Downtown Denver Partnership - 74%Mar 2026
Weekday return-to-office rate in March 2026, the highest since the pandemic
Source: Downtown Denver Partnership - 722025
New businesses opened downtown in 2025, for a net gain of 39
Source: Downtown Denver Partnership - $41.00Q3 2026
Average direct asking rent per square foot downtown in Q3 2026, down 2.2% in a year
Source: CBRE
Empty floors, same competition
Vacant space does not mean empty search results. The firms that stayed downtown fight for the same buyers, and they now sell to clients across the metro, not only to the tenants in their building.
Weekday traffic is climbing
A 74% return-to-office rate means more lunch-hour and after-work searches each month. Ranking now puts you in place as that traffic grows.
Visitors drive the evenings
Convention, theatre and event crowds arrive with no favorite yet. Reviews, photos and Maps visibility decide where they eat, drink and stay.
Sources: CBRE Denver Downtown Office Figures, Q3 2026; Denver Gazette reporting on CBRE’s Q2 2026 submarket figures; Downtown Denver Partnership, State of Downtown Denver 2025 and March 2026 High Frequency Update. The Downtown Denver Partnership measures office vacancy with a different method and reports about 29% for 2026. We quote CBRE because it breaks out the CBD.
1 street address
Illustration. When firms in 1 category share an address, Google often shows only 1 of them in the Maps 3-pack for a given search.
1 Tower, 1 Address, 1 Map Pin
A CBD business usually sits inside a tower, sharing its street address with every other tenant in the building. Google sees the address before it sees the suite, so we make your listing the one it trusts.
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Suite-level consistency
Your building name, street address and suite written the same way on your site, your Google Business Profile and every directory. 1 mismatched suite number splits your signals.
- 2
Categories that separate you
Primary and secondary categories, services and page copy that set you apart from the other firm 6 floors up.
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Pin, entrance and directions
A correctly placed pin, lobby and entrance photos, and directions that name the building, the cross streets and the nearest parking.
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Reviews that name the block
Review requests that prompt clients to mention 17th Street, the Convention Center or your building, which feeds relevance for the searches around you.
Who Searches The CBD, Hour By Hour
The CBD’s buyers change through the workday and again on weekends. We plan pages, posts and ads around the hours your buyer is downtown, and around what that buyer types.
CBD search scheduleWeekdays and weekends
| Time | Who | Typical searches | What we build |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7-9am | Commuters | coffee, parking, dry cleaning near 17th Street | Accurate hours, parking notes and fresh Maps photos |
| 9am-5pm | B2B buyers | business attorney, CPA, managed IT in downtown Denver | Service pages and answer-shaped content for AI tools |
| 11:30am-1:30pm | Office workers | lunch, barber, dentist near me | Fast menu, booking and appointment pages |
| 5-9pm | Convention and theatre visitors | dinner near the Convention Center, bars by the theatres, hotels | Review volume, photos and visitor-focused pages |
| Weekends | Residents and event crowds | 16th Street shops, brunch, things to do downtown | Google posts, events and seasonal pages |
Search patterns we plan around, not measured data. Your audit shows the real search volume for your category.
SEO Services For CBD Businesses
Every campaign starts with an audit of your website, your Google Business Profile and the firms you need to pass within your blocks. These are the services we run from there.
- Ste 01
Search engine optimization
Keyword research by zone, technical fixes, page structure and content aimed at the searches that bring calls and booked meetings.
See SEO in Denver - Ste 02
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Categories, suite-level address data, photos, posts and review requests built for tower-heavy blocks.
- Ste 03
AI search visibility (AEO and GEO)
Answer-shaped pages, schema markup and consistent listings for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
- Ste 04
Google Ads management
Paid search for downtown terms while organic rankings build, tracked to calls and booked meetings.
See Google Ads in Denver - Ste 05
Web design and conversion
Fast pages that turn a lunch-hour visit or a B2B search into a call, a booking or a form.
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Office move protection
Listing, citation and schema updates when you change floors or towers, so your rankings follow you to the new address.
Rank On Google, In Maps And In AI Answers
CBD buyers see 3 kinds of results. Which one shows up depends on how they phrase the search, so each needs its own work.
- Surface 1
Google Search
Service and location pages that rank for the words your buyers type, from “business attorney downtown Denver” to “CPA near 17th Street.”
- Surface 2
Maps 3-pack
The 3 businesses Google shows on the map. Categories, reviews, photos and suite-level address data decide who gets in.
- Surface 3
AI answers
ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. No agency controls them, so we build what they cite: direct answers, schema and consistent listings.
Changing Floors Or Towers Without Losing Your Rankings
With downtown office vacancy at 40.1% in Q3 2026, CBD firms are renewing, downsizing and relocating, often within downtown itself.
Every move leaves the old address on Google, Apple Maps, Yelp, legal and industry directories and old press coverage. Searchers who find the old suite call a dead line or walk into an empty floor, and Google sees 2 addresses for 1 business. We run the move as an SEO project, so your rankings arrive at the new building with you.
Q3 2026 downtown deals, per CBRE
- 293Ksq ft outTIAA vacated 293,000 sq ft at 1670 Broadway, 61% of the quarter’s negative absorption
- 75Ksq ft renewedGusto signed a 75,000 sq ft renewal and expansion at 1200 17th St
- 62Ksq ft newRSM US signed a 62,000 sq ft new lease at 1901 Lawrence St
- 1tower soldThe University of Colorado acquired 1050 17th St
- 60 days out
Audit every listing and citation, and write the new address exactly as the building writes it.
- Move week
Update your Google Business Profile, website, schema and top directories on the same day.
- First 30 days
Clean up the long tail of citations, fix the pin and add new entrance and lobby photos.
- First 90 days
Track rankings and calls by zone, and build reviews that mention the new building.
3 Phases From Audit To Top 3
Every phase has a job. Nothing in the plan exists to fill a report.
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Find the CBD terms that pay
We pull the searches that bring calls and booked meetings in your category, zone by zone, and cut the ones that only look good in a report.
- 02
Study who ranks today
We break down the firms holding the CBD map pack and page 1 right now: their categories, reviews, pages and links. Then we plan how to pass them.
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Build faster with AI, checked by people
AI handles drafts and audits, and a strategist reviews every page before it goes live. Work that used to take months now takes weeks.
You Work With The Owner, On Broadway
Eclipse Marketing is owner-operated, and the office sits on the CBD’s own edge. That has real upsides, and 3 trade-offs you should know about before you book.
- 7 years inside the lead generation industry, including time at Angi, before founding Eclipse
- Reviews every client strategy himself
- Leads a 9-person SEO and marketing team
- Meets CBD clients in person, a short walk from 17th Street
What you get
- Strategy calls with Mike, not an account manager reading a script
- A campaign that stays with senior people after you sign
- A plan built zone by zone, because 17th Street and the Convention Center rank differently
The trade-offs
- The fee is higher than a volume agency’s. You pay for the principal’s time.
- We say no to businesses that are not ready for SEO yet.
- With 1 client per industry, your category may already be taken in the CBD.
What 6+ Years Of Client Work Adds Up To
We report booked calls, lead quality and cost per lead. Rankings matter because of what they bring in.
- $20M+ generated for clients
- $2M+ ad spend managed last year
- 109+ keywords ranked #1 on Google
- 2.6 years average client stay
- 5.0 rating from 158 Google reviews
- Top 3 within 12 months, guaranteed
- RevenueOver 6+ yrs$20M+Generated for clients
- Ad spendLast year$2M+Managed in paid media
- RankingsTo date109+Keywords ranked #1 on Google
- RetentionAverage2.6 yrsClient stay, not months
CBD Industries We Rank
We’ve built search playbooks for the categories that fill CBD towers and storefronts. Each one starts from what already works across the Denver metro.
business attorney downtown denver
Law firms
Litigation, corporate and employment practices near the courts and the 17th Street towers.
cpa firm denver 80202
Accounting and tax
CPAs and bookkeepers selling to the businesses in the towers around them.
financial advisor 17th street denver
Wealth management
Advisors and planners in Denver’s financial corridor.
office space broker downtown denver
Commercial real estate
Brokers, landlords and property managers in a 40% vacancy market.
dentist near 16th street denver
Dental and medical
Practices on upper floors that live on lunch-hour bookings.
dinner near convention center denver
Restaurants, bars and hotels
Venues serving convention, theatre and event crowds.
shops on 16th street denver
Retail
Storefronts on the rebuilt 16th Street and the blocks beside it.
managed it services denver
IT and B2B services
Managed IT, staffing and consulting firms selling to downtown offices.
Built For CBD Companies Past $1M In Revenue
SEO compounds, so it pays off most for businesses that already work. We’d rather tell you no on the first call than sell you a plan that won’t pay back.
A strong match if
- Your company already produces revenue.
- You have a working way to win clients and want a second channel.
- You can take on more clients, patients or diners each month.
- You plan to grow downtown or across the Front Range.
Not a fit if
- You need leads this week and can’t wait 3-6 months.
- Search would be your only way to find customers.
- You’re shopping for the lowest monthly price.
- Your business is based outside the US.
CBD SEO Questions, Answered
The questions CBD owners and managing partners ask us most. Anything else, ask Mike directly.
01How much does SEO cost for a CBD business?
Price depends on your industry, how competitive your category is downtown and how much of the district you need to cover. A restaurant near the Convention Center usually needs less work than a law firm competing along 17th Street. We quote a fixed monthly figure after a free audit, once we’ve seen where you rank today.
02How long does it take to rank in the CBD?
Map pack movement usually starts in 60 to 90 days, because Google Business Profile work and reviews act faster than organic signals. Competitive organic terms take 6 to 12 months. Our guarantee is Top 3 within 12 months.
03My office is on a high floor. Does that hurt my Maps ranking?
No. Google does not rank by floor. What matters is that your suite, building name and address are identical everywhere, your pin sits on the right building and your categories set you apart from same-category tenants at the same address.
04Do I need a CBD address to show in the Google Maps 3-pack?
No, but it helps. Google weighs relevance, distance and prominence. A business in LoDo, Uptown or Capitol Hill can rank for CBD searches with pages, profile copy and reviews that name the CBD and its landmarks. A verified address inside the district is still the strongest proximity signal you can have.
05Will you work with my competitors in the CBD?
No. We take 1 client per industry. Once a CBD firm in your category signs, we turn away every other CBD firm in that category for as long as that client stays with us.
06Can you get my firm into ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews?
No agency controls AI answers. We build what those systems draw on: schema markup, identical business details everywhere, pages that answer real questions directly and mentions from Denver sources. Those signals raise the odds that your firm gets named.
07We’re moving offices. What happens to our rankings?
Rankings can dip while Google reconciles the old and new address. We start 60 days before the move: audit every listing, update your profile, site and schema on move day, then clean up old citations and add new photos in the first 30 days.
08Is your office in the CBD?
Our office is at 1776 Broadway, on the CBD’s Broadway edge, a short walk from 16th and 17th Streets. We’re open Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm MT, with Saturdays by appointment. Text (720) 410-9480 or email contact@eclipsemarketing.io.
Lock In The CBD For Your Industry
We take 1 firm per industry in the CBD. Book a free 30-minute call and we’ll pull up live results for your category from your own block, show you who holds the map pack and tell you if your spot is still open.
Serving The CBD From Lawrence Street To Broadway
- Eclipse Marketing, 1776 Broadway APT 1508, Denver, CO 80202
- Text (720) 410-9480
- contact@eclipsemarketing.io
- Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm MT. Saturday by appointment.