Local SEO for UK Businesses, Built for How Google Works Now

Getting found on Google is not the same job it was two years ago. We handle on-page SEO, your Google Business Profile and the local signals that put you in front of customers, built around Google’s own May 2026 guidance for AI-powered search, not guesswork.

200+

Websites and SEO projects since 2022

83%

Of AI Overview citations do not come from page-one results

Monthly

Reporting you can actually read

No contracts

Leave whenever you want, no penalty

Why SEO changed in 2026

Google Told Everyone the Rules. Most Agencies Have Not Read Them.

In May 2026, Google published its first official guide to optimising for AI features in Search, and confirmed that AI Overviews and answers run on the same core ranking and quality systems as normal search. So-called AEO and GEO are not a separate discipline, Google names them directly and treats them as SEO under a different label. There is no secret trick, no llms.txt file, no need to chop your content into fragments for a bot to read. What changed is where the traffic goes: independent research found that roughly 83% of AI Overview citations come from pages that do not rank in the top ten organic results, and pages that add direct quotes, real statistics and cited sources see up to 40% more visibility in AI-generated answers. We build every page around that, plus a Google Business Profile that actually feeds the local answers Google gives people searching near you. SEO works best paired with a fast, well-built site, see our website design and WordPress development services.

Every SEO project includes this as standard.

What is included every month

There are no tiers where the important things are held back. Google Business Profile management and honest reporting are the baseline, not an upgrade you pay extra for.

Google Business Profile, managed properly

Set up or tidied, kept current with hours, photos and posts, and monitored for reviews. This is what puts you in the map pack for near me searches.

On-page SEO across your site

Page titles, headings, image names and internal links, all matched to what your customers actually type into Google.

Content that targets real questions

New pages and updates written around the questions your customers ask, answered in the first sentence the way Google and AI Overviews both prefer.

Local citations and listings

Your business listed correctly and consistently across the directories Google checks to confirm you are real and trade where you say you do.

Technical health checks

Site speed, mobile usability and crawl errors checked monthly. A slow or broken site undoes everything else on this list.

Structured data and schema

The markup that helps Google and AI systems understand your pages properly, without paying for a special package called GEO.

A monthly report you can read

Rankings, traffic and enquiries, in plain English. No jargon, no vanity metrics dressed up as progress.

No lock-in contract

Work month to month. If it is not working, you tell us and we fix it or you leave, no penalty either way.

Direct access to who does the work

You deal with the person doing the SEO, not an account manager relaying updates from someone else.
Where we rank businesses

Local SEO Across the North East, and Anywhere Else in the UK

Most of our local SEO clients sit within reach of the A1(M) corridor. Wherever your business is, the approach is the same: your Google Business Profile done properly, and pages built around what your customers actually search.
SEO pricing.

How much does local SEO cost in the UK?

Local SEO retainers start at £500 a month plus VAT. Anything beyond a single location and one main service is quoted on scope, because the work involved changes a great deal. The figure is agreed in writing before we start. No setup fee sprung on you later, and no add-ons appearing halfway through the month.

Starter

One location, one main service
From £500

Per month, plus VAT

Growth

2 to 3 locations or services
Quote

Per month, plus VAT

Established

Multiple locations or a competitive trade
Quote

Per month, plus VAT

How that compares

UK SEO retainers typically run from a few hundred pounds a month at the low end to well over a thousand for a competitive trade or several locations. We ask for a minimum of three to five months, depending on how competitive your trade is. Search work does not show its hand inside a few weeks, and a shorter term would be selling you something that cannot work.

We price the scope in front of us, not a generic package. Two businesses in the same trade can need very different work depending on how strong the competition is in their town.

What this does not include

Paid ad spend, that is Google Ads and a separate service, a full site rebuild, or a guaranteed page-one ranking. Nobody can honestly promise that last one, and we will tell you if another agency does.
SEO process.

How the monthly SEO cycle works

Four steps, on repeat, every month. You get a report after each cycle so you can see exactly what moved.
1

Audit and Google Business Profile setup

We check your current rankings, your site structure and your Google Business Profile, then fix or set up whatever is missing before any new work starts.
2

On-page fixes and local citations

Page titles, headings and content adjusted to match real searches, and your business listed correctly across the directories Google checks.
3

Content added and rankings tracked

New pages or updates written around real customer questions, while we track how your existing pages move in the search results.
4

Report, then we do it again

A plain-English report on rankings, traffic and enquiries. Whatever worked gets more attention next month, whatever did not gets changed.
Choosing an SEO company.

How to tell a good SEO agency from a bad one

You do not need to take our word for any of this. Every one of these is something you can check yourself, about us or about anyone else quoting you.

Run from anyone who guarantees rankings

Nobody controls Google’s algorithm, and Google’s own guidance says so. A guaranteed number one spot is a promise nobody can keep, and it is one of the oldest tricks in this industry.

Ask to see a real report, not a screenshot

A genuine SEO report shows rankings, traffic and enquiries over time, not a single cherry-picked keyword that happens to be doing well.

Ask if you can leave whenever you want

Long lock-in contracts are how agencies keep clients who are not seeing results. If leaving is hard, that alone tells you something about the results.

Ask who actually owns your Google Business Profile

It should be verified in your name, not the agency’s. If they hold the login, you do not control your own local listing.
SEO questions.

Questions we are asked before every project

A website on its own will not bring you work. A website that ranks for what your customers search for will. SEO is what closes that gap, so most sites need both.

Three to six months for steady movement in rankings and enquiries, longer in competitive cities or trades. Anyone promising results in weeks is either overselling or targeting searches nobody makes.

No, and any agency that does is not being straight with you. Nobody controls Google’s algorithm. What we guarantee is the work: the audit, the fixes, the content and the report, every month.

Yes. We map every old page to its new address before launch so links and rankings carry across, rather than resetting to zero.

Less than most agencies claim. Google’s own May 2026 guidance confirms AI features run on the same core ranking systems as normal search, so the fundamentals still apply. We build pages that answer real questions clearly, which is what both systems reward.

No. Work runs month to month. If it is not delivering, you tell us and we fix it, or you leave with no penalty.

Yes. Everything is registered and verified in your name from day one, not the agency’s.

Get a fixed quote for your SEO, wherever you are in the UK

A twenty minute call, no charge and no obligation. You will have a written scope and a fixed monthly figure within one working day.