Questions answered
The questions people ask before they hire an SEO company
Six questions, each on its own page, each answered in the first two sentences and then explained in four hundred to seven hundred words. They are the questions that arrive on our quote form and in the first phone call, and the answers are the ones we give on the phone, written down so you can read them before you speak to us or to anyone else.
01
What does an SEO company actually do?
The five parts of an SEO company's work, what each looks like month to month, and how to tell whether yours is doing them.
4 min read
02
How much does SEO cost in the UK?
The four ways UK SEO is priced, what a monthly fee buys in hours, what moves the cost and what should not, and how to decide your own budget.
4 min read
03
Is SEO worth it for a small business?
When SEO pays for a small business, when it does not, the one check to make before spending, and what a small account looks like in practice.
4 min read
04
How do I check if an SEO company is any good?
Five checks, an hour in total, that separate an SEO company doing the work from one selling it: its site, a real report, ownership, caveats, refusals.
4 min read
05
What is a good SEO contract length?
Why three months is the honest minimum for SEO, why twelve is not, what the contract should say about ownership and notice, and how to judge at month six.
4 min read
06
Can I do SEO myself?
Which parts of SEO an owner can do with a free account and an afternoon, which are worth paying for, and the split that works for small businesses.
4 min read
These pages differ from the guides in length and in shape. A guide is a thousand words or more with a table, a point of view and a set of follow-ups; a question page is one question, one direct answer, and the reasoning behind it. Both link to the service page the topic belongs to, so that the reader who wants the answer for their own site can get it.
Prices are not on these pages, on purpose. They are on the pricing page, the same for every business, and a page about whether SEO is worth it should not end in a sales pitch. The longer reads are in the guides.
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