Affordable SEO Pricing for UK Local Businesses

Depends where you're starting from, really. If your site's in rough shape, the early wins come fast. Tier 01 clients usually see indexing pick up and their Google Business Profile start performing within the first month or so. That's because most of that early work is technical, and Google's quick to reward it. Tier 02 and 03 take longer to show their hand. You'll notice the first proper movement around the two to three month mark, real change by month four or five, and the full effect of it all by the time you're nine or twelve months in. It's a bit like compound interest: you watch it doing nothing for a while, and then one day the phone's ringing more and you can't quite pin down when that shifted. If someone tells you they'll get you to page one in three weeks, just walk.

It depends on how many towns you want to cover, how competitive your trade is and how much work your current site needs. Our plans cost £99, £449 or £649 a month, plus a one-off setup fee of £499, £1,495 or £2,495. Over the first 12 months that comes to £1,687, £6,883 or £10,283 in total. Elsewhere in the UK, local SEO quotes run from under £100 a month to well over £1,000, so ask any agency exactly what's included before you compare prices.

Yes. Monthly plans have a 12-month minimum. The first month or two is almost entirely setup, and most of the movement shows from month four onwards, so a shorter term wouldn't give the work a fair test. After the first 12 months the plan runs month to month, and you can leave with 30 days' written notice. You'll have all of this in writing before you sign, not buried in a clause you find later.

You keep the website. You paid for it, so it's yours. That's never been up for debate. What stops is the ongoing side of things: the monitoring, the GBP work, the content, the social posts, the algorithm tracking. We'll help you shift the hosting over to wherever you want it, hand over the keys, and your site keeps running. It just stops actively improving from that day on. For what it's worth, most people who leave do so because they've outgrown us. Means we did the job properly.

Because we haven't padded it. At the higher end, a lot of agency pricing goes on account managers, sales teams and offices in cities you'll never set foot in. None of that helps your rankings. We've kept things lean so more of what you pay ends up in the work that moves the needle.

You can. For some businesses, that's the right move. The difference shows up in the quiet moments. Something breaks at 11pm on a Sunday. Google pushes an update and your rankings start to slide. Your freelancer goes off the grid for three weeks (holiday, illness, who knows). With us, there's a system behind the work: monitoring, processes and continuity. What you're paying for is that things don't go quiet when you need them most.

We hear this a lot, and it's fair. Most of the agencies that leave a bad taste do one of three things: tie you in without explaining what you're paying for, hide what they're doing each month, or promise rankings nobody can deliver. We do the opposite. The terms are in writing before you sign, including the 12-month minimum and why it's there. You get plain-English reports that show what we did and why. And if you ever ask us to guarantee page one, we'll tell you straight that nobody can, and the ones who claim they can are setting you up for disappointment. We'd rather earn the second chance than talk you into one.

Probably, but ask anyway. We do well with local service businesses: trades, clinics, consultancies, professional services, regional retailers. Anywhere local search decides who gets the next call. What we don't take on right now is the heavily regulated stuff (legal and financial advice, plus medical work with strict advertising rules, such as prescription medicines or cosmetic procedures). The compliance side is its own specialism, and we'd rather point you to someone who lives in that world than half-do it and create problems we can't fix.

WordPress isn't a bad platform. Plenty of brilliant sites run on it. It's just slow out of the box, leans heavily on plugins, and needs constant maintenance to stay secure. Astro-6 gives you a faster site that doesn't need patching every other week, doesn't break when an update drops, and doesn't get hacked because somebody forgot about a plugin three years ago. The trade-off is that it's less flexible if you want to log in and tinker daily, but that's what we're here for. You shouldn't be spending your evenings inside your own website.

Yes, whenever you're ready. Whichever tier you start on, monthly plans have a 12-month minimum term, then run month to month with 30 days' notice.

What you see is what you pay. The setup fee covers everything we list for that tier. There are no surprise invoices and no 'oh, and you'll also need…' three weeks in. The only two things sitting outside it are your domain (£10–£15 a year, paid to whoever you register it with, not us) and any premium stock or custom photography you specifically ask for. Both quoted upfront before anything gets spent.

Less than you'd think. Access to your existing Google Business Profile, your domain, and a proper sit-down about your business: who you serve, what makes you different, what you'd want more of if you could click your fingers. After the kick-off call, you're mostly off the hook. The first couple of weeks are us doing the heavy lifting. You'll hear from us with the odd question, but we're not the kind of agency that drowns you in admin and then charges you for the privilege.