How long does SEO take to show results?

Most clients see movement inside 3-6 months, with quick wins earlier where technical debt is holding pages back. Sustainable top positions typically take 6-12 months — anyone promising faster is describing luck or risk.

How much does SEO cost?

Engagements scale with competition and scope — a single-location service business and a national e-commerce site are different projects. Current packages are on the pricing page, and every quote is itemised before we start.

What's the difference between SEO and Google Ads?

SEO earns positions that keep paying after the work stops; Google Ads buys visibility that stops when the budget does. They share data — search terms you pay for inform pages we rank — so most engagements run both.

Do you guarantee first-page rankings?

No — nobody controls Google's algorithm, and guarantees are how bad agencies lock in bad clients. We guarantee the work ships, the numbers are real, and you'll see exactly what moved each month.

How do you measure SEO success?

Keyword positions, organic traffic, and — the one that matters — leads and revenue attributed to organic. All three live in your reporting, wired to your GA4, which you own.

▸ SEO · Acquisition · Runs weekly

SEO, run like software.

More leads from the searches your buyers already make. Fixes, content and authority ship weekly — so rankings compound instead of stalling in a report.

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✓ audit scope · full crawl + GSC + logs

✓ cadence · ships weekly · not quarterly

✓ tracking · GA4 + conversions · wired in week one

✓ reporting · plain numbers · rankings, traffic, leads

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[ How this service runs in the studio · plain numbers, no decks ]

01 / THE SEO PROBLEM

Most SEO retainers produce documents, not deployments. Rankings move when code and content ship. Ours ship every week.

THE OLD WAY

A $5k audit PDF in three weeks that tells you what you already knew. Recommendations thrown over the fence to a dev queue. Rankings checked quarterly, if at all.

THE AGENT WAY

The audit is a crawl the agent runs on day one. Fixes deploy the same week they're found. Content lands on a schedule, and every position moved is in the monthly numbers.

SEO has always been three problems wearing one name: can search engines read your site, does your site answer what people search, and does anyone else vouch for it. Agencies sell those as separate line items. We run them as one loop.

Because the operator is also the engineer, nothing waits in a ticket queue. A broken canonical found on Tuesday is fixed on Tuesday. A content gap found this week has a page ranking next month.

02 / WHAT SHIPS

Everything search demands, nothing it doesn't.

Six workstreams, one compounding system.

Technical SEO

Crawl health, speed, schema, sitemaps, canonicals — the plumbing search engines grade you on, fixed at the code level.

Keyword strategy

Demand mapped from real search data, then matched to pages with honest intent — no keyword stuffing, no doorway pages.

On-page optimisation

Titles, structure, internal links and content tuned page by page, against what currently ranks.

Content production

Pages and posts written to answer the query and earn the click — published on a cadence, not when someone remembers.

Authority building

Links earned through work worth citing — digital PR, citations, and assets other sites want to reference.

Measurement

GA4, Search Console and rank tracking wired together, so every report ties rankings to traffic to leads.

03 / HOW IT RUNS

▸ Same loop every week

S/01CRAWL

Read the whole site like a search engine.

Full technical crawl, Search Console history, server logs where they exist. Every issue gets a severity and a fix path — most are deployed inside the first fortnight.

S/02MAP

Match real demand to real pages.

Search data for your market, mapped against your site. Gaps become a content plan ordered by commercial value, not by what's easy to write.

S/03SHIP

Deploy fixes and content weekly.

Technical fixes, new pages, internal links — shipped in small batches every week, each one logged. No big-bang relaunches.

S/04COMPOUND

Measure, learn, repeat.

Positions, traffic and conversions reviewed against the plan. What works gets more of the budget. What doesn't gets killed in the open.

04 / THE WORK

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