Small Business SEO

Small Business SEO Services: Specific Beats Broad

Small business SEO services built on the one advantage a small business has, which is being able to be more specific than any large competitor is willing to be.

Specificity Is the Whole Strategy

A small business cannot outspend a large one on broad terms, and competing there means competing where the disadvantage is largest.

It can be more specific than any large competitor is willing to be. A page about the exact service in the exact area, written by someone who does it, is genuinely a better answer than a national brand category page.

The arithmetic supports it. A narrow query with thirty searches a month where you rank first delivers thirty people who asked for exactly what you sell, which beats a broad term where you sit fortieth.

Where We Start

OUR METHODOLOGY

The Small Business Sequence

01

The Free Work First

Profile accuracy, reading your own Search Console, one page answering your most asked question, and linking existing pages. Four things that cost nothing.

02

Find the Narrow Wins

Queries where you could plausibly be the best answer on the internet. If you could not, it is a contest you will lose quietly.

03

Write What Nobody Else Will

Real prices, the awkward questions, the cases where you are the wrong choice. The cheapest competitive advantage available.

04

Fix Before Adding

An inaccurate profile or an unreadable page caps everything downstream, and both are cheap relative to content.

05

Buy Bounded Work

An audit and its fixes is frequently the whole job. We would rather say that than convert it into a monthly fee.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much should a small business spend on SEO?
Nothing until the free work is done, then enough to buy a bounded piece of work rather than a thin retainer. Our focused band starts at £1,200 a month, and below roughly £500 the hours do not exist for anything custom.
Do I need a blog?
You need pages that answer questions people search, which is sometimes a blog and often just better service pages. A blog maintained to a quota is worse than none, because it fills the site with pages that dilute rather than add.
Can I compete with national brands?
Not on their terms, and you do not need to. Specificity is where the winnable queries live, and a large competitor is structurally unwilling to go that narrow.
When is SEO the wrong spend for us?
When customers find you by referral and always have, or when you already receive impressions and convert none of them. The second case is common, and more visibility makes an unconverted visit problem larger.

Done the free work and hit a wall?

Tell us what the wall is and we will quote the bounded work that clears it. If you have not done the free four yet, we will point you at those instead.

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