SEO services
with the price on the page.
We get local and national businesses onto page one and keep them there. Campaigns start at £497 a month plus VAT. You get a named consultant with a direct line, not an account manager with a script, and the monthly report lands whether the month went well or not.
Where we work, and what search looks like there
Sheffield is home. Most clients are across Yorkshire, with a few long-standing ones further south. Each page below covers who you are up against in that market and what it takes to get past them.
SEO by sector, because a dentist and a roofer are not found the same way
Eleven sector pages, each built around how customers search for that trade and what makes them pick up the phone. Find yours and you will see the plan before you see a price.
Pick the work you need, or let us tell you which
Most campaigns use all of these. They have separate pages because they are separate jobs, and because you might only need one of them fixed.
Running a shop? The platform changes the job
A WooCommerce store and a Shopify store fail in completely different ways. One is usually drowning in plugins and its own filter URLs; the other is fast until you count the apps and find the collection pages have nothing on them. Start with the one you are actually on.
The work that happens either side of a campaign
Content and PR earn the authority a campaign needs. Conversion work makes sure the traffic it wins turns into enquiries. Both are sold separately because you might only need one, and both are quoted per project rather than as a monthly quota.
What professional SEO services actually include
"SEO services" covers so much ground that the phrase has nearly stopped meaning anything. Two agencies can both sell it and be doing completely different work at completely different depths, for the same money. So here is what is in ours, in the order we usually do it.
- 01
An audit, and the corrections that follow it
Every campaign starts here, because there is no point writing content for a site that cannot be crawled properly. Most sites we take on have two or three technical problems that take a day to fix and have been quietly costing traffic for years.
- 02
Keyword and competitor research
Not a list of terms sorted by volume, but a judgement on which terms carry buying intent, which are winnable inside a year, and which your competitors already defend properly. That judgement is what stops the budget going on terms you will never hold.
- 03
On-page work
Page titles and meta descriptions written for search rather than for you, heading structure, internal linking, image handling, and structured data so machines get handed the facts instead of guessing them. Cheap to do, and often the first thing that moves.
- 04
Content
New landing pages and articles aimed at the terms that convert. One page per thing you sell and per place you sell it, never a batch of near-identical pages with the town swapped, because that pattern gets whole domains demoted.
- 05
Local signals
Google Business Profile management, citation consistency across dozens of directories, and the review flow that drives map pack prominence. That is where most local enquiries start, so it is where a lot of the value sits.
- 06
Reporting
A monthly roadmap and action report showing what was done and what it moved. You get it whether the month was good or not, which is rather the point. You should never have to ask what you are paying for.
How to choose an SEO agency
There is no barrier to entry in this market, and results are slow enough that a poor agency can look fine for six months while your budget drains. Four questions sort it out faster than any portfolio will.
- 01
"How many hours a month, and who is doing them?"
Two agencies quoting £800 can be doing twelve hours at £65 or four at £200. Both are honest answers; only one suits you, and you cannot tell which without asking.
- 02
"Is the person on this call the person doing the work?"
In most agencies it is not. That is not automatically a problem, but you should know before you sign rather than find out in month two when the account manager changes.
- 03
"What would make you tell me not to buy this?"
Anyone who cannot name a scenario has either not thought about it or does not plan to tell you. Ours are here, in writing.
- 04
"What do I keep if I leave?"
The pages, the content, the Google Business Profile access, the analytics, all in your accounts and in your name. A vague answer means the retainer is a lease, and leaving means starting from zero.
Local, national or e-commerce: which do you need?
Local if your customers come from a defined area and you compete on "service plus town" searches. That is most trades, clinics, salons and independent retailers, and it is where the map pack does most of the work. Five target keywords is usually enough for one town, so this is the cheapest way in.
National if you sell a specialist service to buyers spread across the country, or you compete across a county rather than a town. Ten keywords, and the strategy shifts from map pack prominence to content depth and authority, which takes more hours to build.
E-commerce if you sell products online. The mechanics really are different: category pages carry the commercial volume rather than product pages, faceted navigation needs handling, and the page count is an order of magnitude larger. Buy a smaller package here and the catalogue never gets covered.
If you are between two of these, tell us on the first call. Upselling you to the larger package when the smaller one would do is the easiest money in this industry and the quickest way to lose a client in month seven.
Why we publish our prices
Three of the four agencies we benchmarked when rebuilding this site publish no pricing at all, and one states opacity as company policy. We think that wastes everyone’s time. Roughly nine in ten enquiries come down to whether the budget fits, and a number on a page settles that in seconds where a discovery call takes an hour.
Campaigns start at £497 a month plus VAT after a £1,000 deposit. If your budget is honestly below that, we will tell you what to do yourself instead, starting with the Google Business Profile checklist. It is free, ungated, and the highest-return hour any local business can spend.
Need a budget before you talk to anyone?
Three guides that settle the money question before you get on a call with us or anyone else.
- Our published pricesAll three packages, with what each one buys
- What SEO costs per month in the UKEvery band from £150 to £2,500+, and what each pays for
- What a website costs in the UKBand by band, plus the running costs most quotes leave out
Ready when you are
Tell us what you are trying to rank for and we will look at the site and the search results before we reply. You get a straight answer, including if SEO is not the right spend for you yet.