Search work sized for owner-run firms
Small business SEO has to work on a small budget and fit around a busy owner. Our plans start at £189 a month, need about an hour of your time a month and come with no fixed term.
roughly how much of your time a month the Local plan needs
Paid ads charge for every click, and the cost rises whenever a bigger competitor turns up the budget. SEO works the other way: the pages, reviews and profile you build keep bringing in enquiries long after the work is done.
Small firms also have advantages in search. You know your customers, you can collect reviews in person, and you can write about your area in a way a national chain cannot.
The catch is time. Most owners already work evenings on quotes and admin. SEO done well needs steady monthly effort, and that is the part we take off your hands.
If your business is in Sheffield, our wider page on SEO in Sheffield explains how we work across the city, and our Google Business Profile management page covers the listing most small firms rely on.
Some jobs are quick wins for an owner. Others take skills and hours that are better spent elsewhere.
Most small firms start on Local. It covers your profile, one content piece a month, citations, ten tracked terms and a monthly report and call.
Online shops usually choose Ecommerce, which focuses on product and category pages. Firms selling across the UK pick National.
If money is tight, Kickstart gives you an expert audit, a keyword plan and the top fixes done for a one-off £245. Plenty of owners run with that for a few months before starting a monthly plan.
What a typical small business sees over the first six months.
Fixes, profile clean-up and the first new page. Little change in rankings yet.
Profile views and calls start to rise. Some terms reach page one.
Steadier positions, more terms on page one and enquiries you can trace.
If your report shows no measurable visibility gain by day 90, month four is free.
A balloon and event decor business grew its monthly profile contacts every month for seven months, from 61 to 247, and logged $17,596 in revenue from search.
A home staging company started from almost nothing: 1 contact in its first month and 111 in month eight, with 377 contacts and $35,217 logged over the period.
Both are small, owner-run firms in the US. The same methods apply to a Sheffield florist, cleaner or physio.
Monthly contacts tracked through each client's own call tracking.
Monthly profile contacts grew every month, from 61 to 247, and the business logged $17,596 in revenue from 47 conversions through its profile and organic search. Ads and social are excluded.
A new business that went from 1 contact in its first month to 111 in month eight, with 377 contacts and $35,217 in logged revenue from the profile and organic search.
Small firms rarely beat national brands on broad searches, and they do not need to. They win on searches with a place or a specific need attached: a florist near Kelham Island, a bookkeeper for landlords, a mobile mechanic in Stannington.
Those searches are less crowded and more likely to turn into a sale, because the person already knows what they want.
Reviews are the other big advantage. A small business that asks every customer collects reviews faster than a chain that relies on a head office process, and Google notices.
The plan we build for a small firm focuses on those strengths first, then widens once the core searches are won.
A small business SEO agency should make life easier, not add another thing to chase.
Straight answers to what Sheffield business owners ask before they start.
Send your website and see three quick wins first. The audit is free and comes back within one working day.
Get my free auditUsually, if you serve a clear area or niche. One or two extra customers a month often covers the cost.
About an hour a month for the call and a few minutes to send photos or news.
Yes. Start with Kickstart or Local and move up when it makes sense.
Rarely. We improve the site you have. If it truly cannot be fixed, we will tell you.
The Local package covers it, along with the basics around it that make it work.
No. 30 days notice, no fixed term.
Yes. Many of our clients are one-person businesses.
Yes, within one working day, with three quick wins.
Small business SEO starts with knowing where you stand. Send your website and get three quick wins within one working day.
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