SEO Consultant and Consultancy Services Direction Your Team Can Act On.

Your team can do the work. We tell them which work matters, in what order, and why. Audits written as developer tickets, a plan you can defend, and a check before costly mistakes.

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SEO from £299 a month

An SEO consultant earns their fee when you have people to do the work but no one to set direction. Your marketers are busy, your developers ship changes every week, and nobody’s sure the SEO plan is right or just the one you started with. Our SEO consultancy gives your team a plan and priorities, without paying an agency to do it all.

Consultant, agency or freelancer: which do you need?

The answer depends less on budget than on who’ll do the work.

Which sounds most like you?

You need an SEO consultant

Paying an agency for work your team could do means paying twice. We give your marketer and developer the plan and priorities, and they get on with it.

You need an agency, not a consultant

Advice nobody acts on is wasted money. A managed service, where we do the work, will get you further.

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You need a consultant on a fixed project

A migration, a redesign or an unexplained traffic drop needs expertise for weeks, not a retainer for a year. We scope it, do it and hand it back.

You need an independent review

We look at what your agency delivers and whether it moves enquiries and revenue. A review costs less than another year of the wrong work.

If nobody has time for SEO, our full SEO services suit you better, and we’ll tell you so.

What an audit from us looks like

Most SEO audits are a crawler’s export: 140 pages listing every “issue” the tool found, each marked with a severity the tool made up. A missing description on page 47 of a blog archive gets the same red warning as a broken tag on your best-selling category.

Ours is written for the person who’ll fix it. Every item reads like this:

Example audit item

Filtered category pages are being indexed

What's wrong: Every colour and size filter creates a new page that Google can index, so it spends its time on near-copies of your categories.
Where: Category template. Any URL containing ?colour= or ?size=.
Evidence: Search Console shows thousands of these pages indexed, and almost none of them get clicks.
The fix: Point each filtered page to its main category page, and stop Google crawling the filter links.
Effort / impact: Small developer task. High impact on a large catalogue.

An illustrative entry. Every item in our audits follows this format.

We say just as plainly what to ignore. A tool flags dozens of things on most sites, and a handful matter. Knowing which handful is what you pay an SEO expert for.

Migrations: where consultancy pays back fastest

A new website is when most sites lose search traffic, and nearly always for the same few reasons. The setting that hid the test site from Google goes live with it. Old pages redirect to the homepage, not their nearest match. Pages that other sites linked to get deleted as clutter. Addresses, content and templates all change on one day, so when traffic falls, nobody can tell which change did it.

Each is cheap to prevent and costly to undo. We map a redirect for every page with traffic or links, check the test site before launch, and watch the numbers closely for the weeks after.

Planning a new site? Bring us in before launch, not after the traffic drops.

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What our SEO consultancy services cover

Audits
Technical and content reviews, written as a fix list in the format above, in order of payback.
SEO strategy
Which pages and topics come first, what to stop doing, and how you'll know it's working.
In-house team support
Regular calls and reviews, so your team can test plans and changes on us before they go live.
Migration support
Redirect plans, pre-launch checks and monitoring after launch.
Agency reviews
An independent look at what your SEO agency does, and whether it moves enquiries and revenue.
Training
Practical sessions for marketers, writers or developers on the parts of SEO they touch every day.

Four questions to ask any SEO consultant

Whoever you hire, us or anyone else, these questions sort the good from the generic.

What would you do first on our site, and why? A good answer is specific to your business. A weak one is a list of “best practices”.
What would you tell us to ignore? If everything is a priority, nothing is.
How would we know in three months if it’s working? Look for numbers tied to revenue or enquiries, not just rankings.
Who does the analysis? The person on the call should be the person who studied your site.

If everything in an audit is urgent, nothing in it is.

Who our consultancy suits, and who it doesn’t

A good fit if

You have an in-house marketer or team
You have a developer you can call on
Wrong priorities would cost you real money
You’re planning a migration or redesign

Not a good fit if

Nobody on your side has time to act on advice
You want someone to do the work, not direct it
You want a ranking guarantee

Common questions

What does an SEO consultant do?

Finds what's holding your site back, decides what to fix and in what order, and advises your team while they do it. An agency, by contrast, usually does the work itself.

How much does an SEO consultant cost?

It depends on the format. A one-off audit costs differently to ongoing support for an in-house team. We look at your site and talk through what you need, then quote a fixed scope. Ongoing monthly SEO work starts from £299 a month.

What's the difference between an SEO consultant and an SEO agency?

Who does the work. A consultant advises and your team acts. An agency acts for you. If your people can follow clear instructions, consultancy usually costs less for the same result. If they can't, hire an agency.

Can you work alongside our existing agency or in-house team?

Yes. Much of our consultancy is exactly that: checking plans before they go live, reviewing what an agency delivers, or giving an in-house marketer someone to test decisions on.

Can you help with a site migration or redesign?

Yes, and it's the best time to bring us in. Redirect plans, pre-launch checks and close monitoring after launch cost far less than winning back lost traffic.

Do you guarantee rankings?

No. Nobody controls Google's results, and anyone promising a set position by a set date is guessing. We promise a clear account of what we'd do, why, and how you'll know it's working.

Talk to an SEO consultant

Tell us a little about your business. We look at your site before we reply, and tell you plainly what we’d do first and whether it’s worth doing.

What happens next

Tell us what's prompting it: a traffic drop, a migration, a plan you want checked or a team that needs direction.
We study your site before the first call, so we start with your problems, not a pitch.
We suggest the format that fits, whether that's a one-off audit, a set number of days or ongoing support, and quote a fixed scope. If you need someone to do the work, we'll say so.