Services
SEO for UK businesses
- Price
- from £350/mo
- Terms
- monthly, cancel whenever
- Turnaround
- first changes live in week one
The evidence
We can show you the market, not just describe it
This site is a UK business directory built from open data, holding 34,420 listings across 3 cities. That means the advice on these pages is grounded in a count rather than an assertion, and it differs by city, which is the useful part.
- 34,420businesses counted
- 24%publish their opening hours
- 3cities broken down
Counted from this directory, sourced from OpenStreetMap. A business whose website we have not recorded shows as having none, so treat these as a floor rather than an exact figure.
from £350/mo, monthly, cancel whenever
What you get
Ongoing work on the things that decide whether a local business appears when somebody nearby searches for what it does.
What is included
- Google Business Profile kept correct and active, not set once and abandoned
- The pages people actually search for, written and kept current
- Technical faults fixed as they appear rather than listed in a report
- Consistent name, address and phone across the places that matter in the UK
- A monthly note in plain English: what changed, what it did, what is next
What is not included
- No minimum term. A month at a time.
- No guaranteed positions, and be wary of anyone offering them.
- No link buying. It breaches Google guidelines and the risk lands on your domain.
We reply by email and read every enquiry ourselves. Nothing is charged from this page.
If the job is bigger than this
The prices above are where each service starts, and they cover what most small businesses need. Larger jobs get quoted properly rather than squeezed into a package: multiple locations, booking or payments, a shop, a rebuild that has to keep its existing rankings, ongoing work across more than one service, or anything where the answer depends on what you already have.
Tell us what you are trying to do and we will come back with a scope and a fixed price, or say plainly if we are not the right people for it.
The process
How it actually goes
- 1
Look before touching
Search Console, the Google profile, and what actually ranks today. A week, and if the answer is that you do not need a retainer we will tell you.
- 2
Fix the free things first
Categories, services, hours, obvious technical faults. These move fastest and cost least, so they go first rather than being held back to justify month three.
- 3
Then the slow work
Pages worth ranking, written properly. This is where the months go, and where being honest about the timeline matters.
- 4
Report what changed
Impressions and clicks from Search Console, not a rankings screenshot. Position three on a phrase nobody searches is not a result.
By city
SEO by city
Each city page carries the real figures for that market. Ordered by how many listings we hold, not by how much we would like to sell there.
Questions
Questions
How much does SEO cost in the UK?
Ours starts at £350 a month with no minimum term. Across the market you will see £300 to £600 for a small local business, £1,000 to £3,000 for national terms, and agencies who will not talk below £2,000. The number matters less than what is inside it: ask how many hours it buys and what gets done in them.
How long before it works?
Google Business Profile changes can move within days to a few weeks. Organic rankings on a competitive term take months, because they depend on Google recrawling and re-trusting the site, and that is not on your schedule. Anyone offering page one in thirty days is targeting phrases nobody searches, or is about to do something you would not want done to your domain.
Can you guarantee first place?
No, and treat a guarantee as disqualifying. Nobody outside Google controls the index. What can be committed to is the work, a plan you can read, and reporting that shows what changed.
Do you buy links?
No. Paid links breach Google's link spam policies and the penalty lands on your domain, not on the agency that sold them. If a proposal includes a monthly quantity of links, ask where they come from.
Should I be paying for SEO at all?
Often not. If your Google Business Profile is not set up properly, fix that first as a one-off. If you have no website, get one. Paying monthly while your profile has the wrong primary category is paying somebody to push a car with the handbrake on.
Also from us
The other things we do
- from £900Web designSites for businesses that have not got one yet.
- from £300/mo + spendGoogle AdsFor when you need the phone to ring this month.
- £149
Not sure any of it applies yet?
The cheapest useful thing for most local businesses is the £149 Google Business Profile fix, a one-off with no retainer. We would rather sell that first.
About us
Who you would be dealing with
The same people who built this directory. That is the portfolio at the moment: 55,000 UK business listings, the search behind them, and the data work that keeps them accurate. There is no client list on this page because there is not one yet, and inventing one is not something we are willing to do.
What that buys you is a low price and direct contact with whoever does the work. What it costs you is the reassurance of a case study. If that trade is wrong for you it is a reasonable thing to decide, and an established agency with a portfolio is a perfectly sensible alternative.
Being listed in this directory is free and buying anything from us changes nothing about where a business appears in it. The organic order is not for sale.