How to choose an SEO agency: questions to ask before you sign
The questions that separate a useful SEO partner from an expensive monthly report, plus the red flags worth walking away from.
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If your website doesn't show up when customers search for what you sell, those customers go to your competitors. We find out why, fix what is holding your site back, and build the content and authority it needs to rank for searches that turn into business.
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The problem
Poor organic performance usually has more than one cause. These are the most common patterns behind weak organic performance.
Traffic comes in, but from people who were never going to buy. The pages that should attract buyers are not targeting the searches buyers actually use.
A site change, a migration, a Google update or a competitor's improvement can all cause a drop. Without a proper diagnosis, teams often fix the wrong thing.
Search engines don't know which business is better. They see which pages answer the search more completely, load faster and are referenced by other sites.
Slow pages, broken links, duplicate URLs, blocked resources or JavaScript-heavy pages can stop important content from being crawled and indexed.
A page written around a keyword, rather than the question behind it, rarely ranks well and rarely converts.
Links and mentions from relevant, trusted sites are still one of the strongest signals of authority, and many good businesses have very few.
Not sure which of these applies to you? An audit will tell you.
Request an SEO AuditSEO (search engine optimization) is the work of making your website easy for search engines to understand, and genuinely useful to the people searching. When both are true, your pages appear for more of the searches your customers make.
It has three parts that depend on each other:
Neglect any one of them and the other two work less well. That is why we look at all three before recommending anything.
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What we do
Every engagement is planned around your site and market, so the mix changes. These are the areas we work on and what each involves in practice.
We crawl your site the way a search engine does and check indexing, site speed and Core Web Vitals, mobile usability, redirects, duplicate content, canonical tags, structured data, XML sitemaps and robots rules. You get a prioritized list of fixes, and we can implement them or brief your developers.
We find the searches your customers use at each stage, from "what is" questions to "best provider near me", and work out what kind of page each search expects. That tells us which pages to improve, which to create and which searches to ignore.
Titles, meta descriptions, headings, page copy, images and structured data, improved so each page clearly answers the search it targets and gives visitors an obvious next step.
A plan for the service pages, guides and articles your site needs to cover its topics properly, with briefs your writers (or ours) can follow. Content is chosen for its link to your business, not only for search volume.
Links between your own pages help search engines understand which pages matter most and help visitors find related information. We fix orphaned pages and build a structure that supports your key pages.
Digital PR, linkable resources, partnerships, and consistent business listings and citations. We earn links from relevant sites and never buy them.
For businesses that serve specific areas: Google Business Profile optimization, location pages with genuinely local content, consistent name, address and phone details across the web, and a process for collecting reviews.
For businesses in more than one country or language: the right URL structure, hreflang tags (which tell search engines which version to show to which audience), localized keyword research and content that reads naturally in each market.
For large sites with thousands of pages: crawl budget, faceted navigation, templates, governance and SEO requirements built into your development process, so improvements scale across the whole site.
Monthly reports connecting SEO work to organic traffic, inquiries and revenue, plus the leading indicators we use to judge progress. Written in plain language, with what happens next.
Why it matters
Search traffic comes from people actively looking for an answer, a product or a provider. That intent makes it one of the most valuable sources of visitors.
Unlike ads, a page that ranks keeps bringing in visitors without paying for every click. It still needs maintaining, but the value grows over time.
A fast, well-structured site with useful content improves ad landing pages, gives social media something worth sharing and makes your brand easier for AI search tools to understand.
Appearing for the questions your customers ask, with clear and helpful answers, builds trust before they ever speak to you.
Who it's for
Building the right foundations from the start, and targeting searches you can realistically win while your site gains authority.
Turning a website that is "just there" into a steady source of qualified inquiries.
Category and product page optimization, faceted navigation, structured data and site speed for large catalogs.
Content and pages for every stage of a considered purchase, from problem awareness to comparison.
Map pack visibility, Google Business Profile and location pages for each area you serve.
Multi-country and multi-language SEO, and large sites where small template fixes have a big effect.
How we work
Your business, customers, best-margin services or products, markets and what has been tried before.
A technical, content and backlink audit of your site, plus a review of your search competitors.
A prioritized roadmap: the fixes and content with the biggest expected impact for the effort, in order.
We work through the roadmap, implementing changes directly or briefing your team, and producing content.
We track organic inquiries and sales, visibility for target topics, indexing health and technical issues.
Each month we review what moved, double down on what works and adjust what doesn't.
What you can expect
You will always know what we are working on, why, and what it is achieving. We don't hide behind jargon or reports full of numbers that don't matter.
Request an SEO Audit| # | Finding | Impact | Effort |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Product pages share one title tagSearch engines can't tell the pages apart | High | Low |
| 02 | Old URLs redirect through three hopsSlows crawling and weakens links | Medium | Low |
| 03 | Blog hero images are 2–3 MB eachSlow loading on mobile | High | Low |
| 04 | Service pages get no links from the blogKey pages look unimportant | Medium | Medium |
Most SEO problems I see aren't mysterious. They are a handful of technical issues nobody fixed, and pages written for the business instead of the searcher. I would rather fix those properly than sell you a long list of monthly "activities".
Questions
Still have a question?
Ask us directly. You will get a straight answer, even if it is that you don't need us.
Ask Your QuestionTechnical fixes can show an effect within weeks, once search engines recrawl the affected pages. Ranking for competitive, commercial searches usually takes several months of consistent work, and longer in crowded markets or for new websites. We show you the early signals we track, such as pages indexed, impressions and rankings for target topics, so you can see progress before the leads arrive.
No, and you should be cautious of anyone who does. Nobody outside Google controls its rankings, and results also depend on your competitors and your market. What we can commit to is the quality of the work, a clear plan, and honest reporting on what is and isn't moving.
Access to Google Search Console and Google Analytics (or help setting them up), access to your website or CMS, a list of the products or services that matter most to your business, and one person who can answer questions and approve changes. If you have past SEO reports or know about previous site changes, those help too.
Usually an hour or two a month for a check-in call and approvals. If you want us to implement changes directly on your website, the time needed from your side is minimal. If your own developers implement our recommendations, we write clear tickets they can act on.
You get a prioritized list of issues and opportunities, explained in plain language, with the expected impact and effort for each. We walk you through it on a call. You can then implement it yourselves, ask us to implement it, or move to an ongoing SEO engagement. The audit is useful on its own, whichever you choose.
We build authority through methods that hold up over time: content worth referencing, digital PR, partnerships, and claiming mentions and citations your business has earned. We don't buy links or use private blog networks, because they put your site at risk of a penalty.
By what reaches your business: organic inquiries, sales or sign-ups, and traffic to the pages that drive them. Along the way we also track visibility for target topics, indexing health and technical issues. Rankings for a handful of vanity keywords are not a good measure on their own.
Yes. Migrations and redesigns are where many sites lose traffic. We map old URLs to new ones, check redirects, metadata and internal links before launch, and monitor indexing and traffic closely afterwards. Ideally, involve us before the new site is built.
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