Hertfordshire SEO Agency
for Trades & Local Businesses

£99, £449 or £649, plus a one-off setup fee of £499, £1,495 or £2,495. The right level depends on your patch. A Hitchin electrician who only wants Hitchin covered properly, with a better site, would start at £99. If the same electrician wanted a page for each job type across Hitchin, Letchworth and Baldock, with the profile managed for them, that's the £449 plan. The £649 plan is for firms covering five or more towns, or those who also want social content and a monthly look at competitors. Hosting and care are in the monthly fee, and every plan has a 12-month minimum term before it goes month to month on 30 days' notice.

Most of it is steady, practical work. We sort out your Google Business Profile: the right categories, photos from real local jobs, posts about the towns you cover and replies to every review. We add a page to your site for each town you want work from, written around the way people there search. Then we tidy the technical side, such as structured data and internal links, so Google can tell what you do and where you do it. Map and organic results usually start to move together once that's in place.

The first couple of months are mostly setup. A profile that's been neglected often shows movement somewhere between 6 and 10 weeks, while town pages take three to six months to find their position. In a crowded town such as St Albans or Watford, plan on the longer end of both.

If you're turning work away every week, it may not be the priority yet. It earns its keep when you want more of a certain kind of job in certain places: more rewires and consumer unit upgrades in Harpenden, say, and fewer small call-outs on the far side of the county. It also can't fix a business that isn't ready for more enquiries. Recent reviews, a site that answers the obvious questions and someone to pick up the phone need to be there first.

Ask to see, on screen, a trade business they've moved up the map pack for a named town, rather than a traffic graph. Ask who will look after your Google profile day to day, and how often. Ask what the minimum term is and what happens when it ends: ours is 12 months, then month to month on 30 days' notice. If the pitch is mostly about backlinks and domain authority, be wary. For a local trade, the profile, the town pages and the reviews do most of the work.

Not necessarily. Ads buy you a place at the top for as long as you keep paying per click. Local SEO earns a place in the map pack that keeps producing calls without a click charge. Ads are handy for testing a new area before you commit to it, such as pushing into Ware and Hertford for a season, or for covering a quiet month. We run both, and we'll tell you plainly if ads don't make sense for your trade.

Both. We design and build sites on Astro as static pages that load quickly on a phone, and each one goes live with pages for the Hertfordshire towns you cover, from Tring across to Royston if that's your patch. The price is agreed upfront, and most builds go live in 2–4 weeks.

On a monthly plan, it's built into the setup fee of the plan you choose. The Digital Launchpad (£499) gives you a fast, lean site with your profile kept accurate. The Growth Engine (£1,495) builds 20–30 pages around the searches you want to win. The Dominance Suite (£2,495) treats five towns or service areas as one connected site. After launch, the monthly fee pays for hosting and care for at least the first 12 months, which is the minimum term. Your domain and any premium photography sit outside the setup fee, and you'll have the figure in writing before we start. A website on its own, without SEO, is a separate fixed-price quote, paid half at the start and half before it goes live.

Any rebuild carries some risk, so we plan the move before touching anything. Each old URL is redirected with a 301 to the page replacing it, useful copy is carried over, and after launch we check Search Console for anything Google can no longer find. A page that already ranks for 'electrician St Albans' passes its history to the new page through that redirect.