Creative & digital studio · Stamford
SEO
Local and organic search for businesses that need the phone to ring — technical groundwork, pages that answer, and reporting you can actually read.
Getting found by the people nearby
For most of the businesses we work with, search is not a national game. It is being the obvious choice within twenty miles — the plumber, the clinic, the venue, the consultancy that turns up first and looks like it knows what it is doing.
That is a specific job. It means a Google Business Profile that is actually filled in, pages built around the things people search for rather than the things you call them internally, reviews that keep arriving, and a site quick enough that nobody gives up waiting.
None of it is fast, and anyone promising page one in thirty days is selling something. It is, however, extremely durable — the work you do this quarter is still paying two years later.
Be the first credible answer to the question your customer just typed — that is the whole job.
What we actually do
The order it happens in
01
Audit, properly
Crawl the site, look at what is indexed, what is broken, what is slow, what is duplicated and what is invisible. Then compare it to whoever is currently beating you, and work out why.
02
Fix the technical floor
Speed, structure, internal links, indexing and mobile. Unglamorous, and it lifts everything else you do afterwards.
03
Build pages that rank
One clear page per thing you sell, per place you sell it. Written to answer the question, not to hit a keyword count.
04
Earn the trust signals
Local citations, reviews, links from places that make sense. Slow, steady, and the part that separates the first result from the fifth.
Local search
Google Business Profile, map pack visibility, service-area pages and reviews. For most local businesses this is where the enquiries come from.
Technical SEO
Core Web Vitals, crawl and index health, structured data, redirects done properly when a site changes.
Content that answers
The pages people search for and nobody has written. Usually the cheapest ranking you will ever buy.
Reported honestly
Rankings matter, but calls, forms and directions requests matter more. We report the ones that pay you.
No lock-in
Month to month. If three months in it is not moving, we will tell you before you have to ask.
Built into the site
We would rather fix the site than sell you a retainer to work around it. Sometimes the SEO job is a rebuild, and we will say so.
Search is not an advertising spend that stops the day you stop paying. It is a compounding asset.
What people say
A few words from clients
★★★★★
“James took the time to understand the business and built us something that actually brings in enquiries. Easy to deal with.”
★★★★★
“James is professional, quick to respond and genuinely helpful. Our website looks the part and does its job.”
★★★★★
“Exactly what we needed — a clean, credible presence that reflects how we work. Highly recommend.”
How long it takes
On a site with decent foundations, movement in six to eight weeks and something worth celebrating around month four. On a site that needs rebuilding first, add the build.
We will tell you which of those you are before you commit to anything, and if the honest answer is that your money is better spent on advertising for the next six months, we will say that instead.
Want to know why you are not ranking?
Send the address and the postcode you want to be found in. We will come back with the three things we would fix first.