SEO in London
London businesses are online but incomplete, which is the cheapest gap to close
24% of the 31,768 businesses we list in London publish opening hours, and 70% have no phone number on record. Most are present somewhere online; a lot are missing the specific facts people search for.
That distinction matters for what you should buy. This is not a market that needs more content — it needs the existing presence completed. Categories, services, hours, contact details, consistently across the profile and the site.
It is also why we would rather sell a one-off profile fix than start a retainer for many businesses here. The gap is real but it is not a monthly-sized problem.
What we hold for London
31,768 businesses, of which 7,607 (24%) publish opening hours and 9,566 have a phone number recorded. The trades break down like this:
Businesses here with no website on record
Real listings from this directory. A number is easier to dismiss than a name. If one of these is yours and we have it wrong, the listing has a link to correct it and correcting it is free.
What you get
from £350/momonthly, cancel whenever · first changes live in week oneOngoing work on the things that decide whether a local business appears when somebody nearby searches for what it does.
We reply by email and read every enquiry ourselves. Nothing is charged from this page.
Before you buy anything: if your Google Business Profile has never been set up properly, that is almost always the bigger change for the smaller invoice. We fix those for £149, one off. What that covers.
Questions
- How many businesses in London have a website?
- Of the 31,768 we list in London, 12,798 have a website recorded and 18,970 do not — 60% with none. Counted from this directory, sourced from OpenStreetMap, so treat it as a floor.
- What does seo agency cost in London?
- from £350/mo, monthly, cancel whenever. Ongoing work on the things that decide whether a local business appears when somebody nearby searches for what it does.
- 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.