Being the one they find when they search for what you do, nearby.
Someone in your town is searching for exactly what you do, right now. SEO is the work of making sure the business they find is yours rather than the one three streets over.
For most local businesses the prize is the map — the handful of results with the pins that appear above everything else. Getting there is about being demonstrably real, local and well reviewed, not about stuffing keywords into a page.
The rest is unglamorous and it works: a page for each service, a page for each area you cover, a Google Business Profile that is actually filled in, and a site quick enough that Google is happy to send people to it.
It compounds. The work you do this month is still earning next year, which is the opposite of paid ads — those stop the day you stop paying.
What you rank for now, what your competitors rank for, and which of those searches are worth having.
Speed, structure and the pages that are missing. Most sites are held back by things that take days rather than months to put right.
Google Business Profile, reviews, directory listings and the area pages that tell Google exactly where you work.
A specialist mortgage and finance broker's site, rebuilt around the searches real customers type so the right enquiries find it first — then land straight in the adviser's diary.
A consumer platform that matches families, the self-employed and businesses with the right regulated adviser — a guided, jargon-free journey from first click to matched enquiry.
Local map results often move within four to eight weeks. Competitive search terms take three to six months. Anyone promising page one in a fortnight is either lucky or lying.
No, and nor can anyone else — Google does not sell that. What we can do is the work that reliably moves businesses up, and show you the ranking report each month so you can see whether it is working.
No. Ads put you at the top for as long as you keep paying. SEO earns the position and keeps it after you stop. Most businesses eventually want both, but if you only do one, this is the one that compounds.
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