SEO Services UK Built Around Real Rankings, Not Reports

UK SEO pricing spans a huge range, from white-label retainers of a few hundred pounds a month, which don't buy real work, up to boutique London agencies charging several thousand, much of it going on account management rather than delivery. We don't price against that band. Our retainer is all-inclusive and scoped to your site: technical SEO, content (4+ new pieces a month), on-page optimisation, internal linking, local SEO, schema, Search Console management, and monthly reporting. No setup fee, no percentage of revenue, no contract lock-in. We start with a free audit, agree the scope from what it finds, and quote a single monthly fee for that work before you commit to anything.

No, and we'd rather be honest about that than sell you something we don't believe in. The agencies offering £300/month link packages are reselling cheap PBNs that get penalised in the next core update. Genuine link-building costs more than the retainer on its own. What we do instead is earn links through publishable content, fixable technical issues, and digital PR moments your business naturally generates. If you specifically want a paid-link operation, you'll be happier with a specialist outreach agency.

Technical wins land within the first 30 days, fixing indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals, internal linking. Content gains compound from month three onwards as new pieces age, internal links accumulate, and Search Console builds up enough click-through data for Google to reassess relevance. By month six most retainers are showing meaningful traffic and ranking lifts. SEO is genuinely slower than paid, anyone promising page-one results in week two is selling you something else.

If your business has a website, a clear service offering, and a reasonable margin on what you sell, yes, almost always. The honest answer is that SEO compounds. Run the retainer for a year and you've got a body of content, a healthy technical base, and rising organic traffic that doesn't switch off when you stop paying. Spend the same £18,000 on Google Ads and you've got a year of clicks and nothing left over. The real question is whether your business has the patience for the first six months, if you need leads next week, paid ads is the right channel.

Long-form articles, typically 1,500–2,500 words, briefed against keywords surfaced from your Search Console data and competitor gap analysis. Each piece gets internal linking, on-page optimisation, schema markup, and a featured image. We don't bulk-generate or off-shore content, every brief is built specifically for the topic, the audience, and the search intent.

Every month we run a Search Console sweep on your existing pages, identify the ones that have slipped or never broke through, and rewrite them. That includes refreshing facts, expanding thin sections, restructuring internal links, fixing schema, and re-pitching the page against the search intent. Most retainers in this price band do not do this, they only ship new content. Refreshing what you've got is where the cheapest wins live.

Both. There's no minimum revenue cut-off, you're the best judge of whether the retainer is the right investment for your stage and your margins. Some of our retainers are with lean ecommerce stores, others with multi-site service businesses. If you're not sure, book the free audit and we'll be straight about whether SEO is the right next move for you, or whether a smaller scoped project or a different channel would serve you better right now.

An audit tells you what's wrong. A retainer fixes it, monitors it, builds on it, and adjusts when Google's algorithm changes. Audits have their place, we sell them too, but the value of SEO compounds when someone is actively shipping work every week. Most one-off audits sit in a Drive folder six months later, half-implemented.

Yes. Monthly reports cover organic traffic, keyword movement, click-through rate, technical health (indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema validation), the content shipped that month, and the existing content updated. Plus a one-page commentary explaining what we did, why, and what's next. Quarterly we layer in a strategic review, what's earning revenue, what's not, where we deploy effort next.

No. 30-day notice and we go separate ways. Everything we've built, content, schema, technical fixes, internal-link structure, stays on your site. No clawbacks, no "agency-owned" assets, no migration fees. We don't believe in retention through contracts; if the work isn't worth what you're paying, you should leave.

Yes. We crawl and archive the existing site first, so there is a record of every indexable URL, its rankings and its internal links while the old site is still live, then map old URLs to new ones and flag the pages with no genuine equivalent. After launch we test the full redirect list rather than a sample, confirm the sitemap contains only live URLs, and re-crawl at day seven and day thirty against the pre-launch baseline. It is included in the retainer for clients we already work with, and scoped as a standalone project if the migration is all you need. The best time to involve us is while the new site is still a wireframe, because URL structure and page templates are the two decisions that cost the most to reverse.

Usually, yes, though it is slower than doing it properly beforehand and the diagnosis takes longer without a pre-launch baseline. The first job is separating the causes: broken or chained redirects, URLs dropped without a mapping, pages that lost their internal links, a staging site that stayed indexable, or a real change in what the page says. It is normally two or three of those at once rather than one big mistake. We reconstruct what the old site had from the Wayback Machine and your Search Console history, then rebuild the mapping from that. Expect recovery over weeks rather than days, because Google has to re-crawl and re-evaluate everything before it gives the rankings back.