Services
SEO in Newcastle
- 1,952businesses listed
- 61%no website
- 21%publish hours
- Price
- from £350/mo
- Terms
- monthly, cancel whenever
- Turnaround
- first changes live in week one
What the numbers say
Newcastle businesses are online but incomplete, which is the cheapest gap to close
21% of the 1,952 businesses we list in Newcastle publish opening hours, and 60% 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.
By trade
Which trades in Newcastle leave the most unanswered
Completeness is not spread evenly across Newcastle. Car repair & MOT are the worst for it: only 5% of the 110 we list publish opening hours, and 29% have no phone number recorded either. Restaurants do best at 31%.
That matters because the searches are different. Somebody looking for car repair & mot is usually deciding now, and an unanswered "are they open" is where they leave. Somebody researching restaurants will often read for a while before contacting anybody.
The cheapest work in Newcastle is therefore not more pages. It is completing what is already published: hours that are current, a phone number that is present, and a primary category that matches what you actually do. 79% of businesses here have not done the first of those.
- Takeaways455 listed21%publish hours
- Hairdressers & beauty313 listed10%publish hours
- Pubs & bars299 listed25%publish hours
- Restaurants298 listed31%publish hours
- Cafes252 listed30%publish hours
- Car repair & MOT110 listed5%publish hours
By area
Where in Newcastle the gap is widest
Newcastle is not one market. Across the 6 areas where we hold enough listings to compare, South Jesmond has the most businesses with no website at 78% of 41, and Monument the fewest at 40% of 530. Where you trade inside the city changes who you are actually competing with.
| Area | Listed | No website | Publish hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Jesmond | 41 | 78% | 17% |
| Byker | 97 | 62% | 31% |
| Heaton | 64 | 48% | 39% |
| Gosforth | 59 | 46% | 39% |
| Whickham North | 47 | 45% | 21% |
| Monument | 530 | 40% | 30% |
Areas are ONS ward names, which is how the underlying data records them rather than how anybody says them out loud. Only wards with at least 40 listings are shown, because below that a single business moves the percentage several points.
What we hold for Newcastle
1,952 businesses, of which 401 (21%) publish opening hours and 778 have a phone number recorded. The trades break down like this:
- Takeaways455
- Hairdressers & beauty313
- Pubs & bars299
- Restaurants298
- Cafes252
- Car repair & MOT110
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.
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.
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.
Questions
Questions
How many businesses in Newcastle have a website?
Of the 1,952 we list in Newcastle, 758 have a website recorded and 1,194 do not, so 61% have none. Counted from this directory, sourced from OpenStreetMap, so treat it as a floor.
What does seo agency cost in Newcastle?
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.
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