SEO consulting services

SEO consulting that turns into a plan.

Work with senior SEO strategists who look at your site, your competitors and your data, tell you exactly what to do first, and help your team or ours do it, with every result in your own live Client Hub.

An SEO consulting team that gives you a clear plan.

Everything SEO consulting covers, from first audit to ongoing advice.

SEO briefs written for 1,100+ clients in the last three years: strategy, audits, competitor and keyword research, guidance for your team and AI search, prioritised by what will move your traffic and leads first.

SEO strategy & roadmap

A written plan built on your data, not a template: the searches worth winning, the pages to build or improve, the technical fixes and links that matter, in the order that moves traffic and leads first, with clear goals to measure against.

  • Oleg Korneitchouk
  • Sam Chadson Ng
  • Victoria Tan
  • Stephanie Cook
  • Jolene Lim
  • Irina Enache
  • John Toth
  • Luna Silva
  • Tony Vodicka
  • Brandy Hastings
  • Devin Riley
  • Bailey McClure
  • Ryan Whaley
  • Tiffany Reyes
  • Laura Noble
  • Anastasiia Leffingwell
  • Christen Bevis
  • Jadeverett Mayhorn
  • Tori Biagi
  • Diane Ynojosa
  • Jared Bell
  • Kayla Kearse
  • Javier Perdomo
  • Axelle Andrew
  • Garrett Smith
  • James Holmes
  • Charlie Myhran
  • Emily Noble
  • Mimi McGee
  • Deann Burris
  • Eric Nairac
  • Dylan Scheckwitz
  • Blair Henderson
  • Lindsey Kee
  • Alexander Morgan
  • Adam Springer
  • Joel Garcia
  • Elinor Cohen
  • Drew Brodien
  • Vaskar Nepal
  • Sergey Nechaev
  • Anita Kostadinov

Advice from the people who run SEO every day.

Good SEO advice comes from doing the work, not from reading about it. Our consultants are the same in-house strategists who run SEO campaigns for businesses of every size, so every recommendation is grounded in what is working right now on Google and in AI search. We start with your site, your Search Console and GA4 data and the competitors who outrank you, then give you a prioritised plan: what to fix, what to write, which links to earn and what to leave alone. Your team can carry it out with our guidance and reviews, or hand any part of it to us, from technical fixes to content and digital PR. Progress is tracked in your Client Hub against the goals we set together, and your strategist explains the why behind every number, so your team gets smarter about search as the results come in.

SEO advice that pays off.

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Every recommendation measured in your numbers.

Rankings, traffic, site health and leads from your own Google accounts, so you and your strategist always know what is working and what to do next.

  • Client Hub Google Search Console report: search conversions, impressions, average position, click-through rate and clicks
    Google Search ConsoleImpressions, clicks and positions for every page and search, with the conversions they bring.
  • Client Hub Website Performance report: GA4 conversions, conversion rate, engagement, sessions and users
    Website PerformanceConversions and traffic from GA4, with organic search next to every other channel.
  • Client Hub Site Crawl report: indexable pages, errors, warnings and notices, each issue with the URLs it affects
    Site CrawlBroken pages, redirects, slow responses and missing tags across the whole site, with what to fix first.
  • Client Hub Leads Overview report: every call, form and message in one list, leads per day, lead sources and time of day
    Leads OverviewEvery call, form and message in one list, with the source behind each lead.
  • Client Hub Phone Calls report: call volume, recordings and AI call summaries with outcomes such as qualified, booked and missed
    Phone CallsRecordings, AI call summaries and outcomes, so you know which calls became customers.
  • Client Hub Google Reviews report: average rating, total reviews, reply rate and a benchmark comparison
    Google ReviewsYour rating, review count and reply rate, compared with what customers expect.

SEO consulting questions, answered

SEO consulting can be bought on its own at $150 an hour, for strategy, audits and reviews of your team's work. If you would also like us to do the work, it can run inside an SEO plan instead, which starts at $2,600 a month: a minimum of 40 hours at $65 an hour, with free setup, and the hours can be used interchangeably between content, link building and web development. After a free consultation we send a written proposal with the scope and the price, so you know the cost before any work starts.

SEO consulting is expert advice on how to grow your organic search traffic: an audit of where you stand, a prioritized plan for what to do, and ongoing guidance as your team or ours carries it out.

A clear picture of where your site stands against the competitors who outrank you, the opportunities worth pursuing and a prioritized plan with goals to measure against, explained in plain language.

With consulting, your team does most of the work with our plan, reviews and guidance. With full-service SEO, our team does the work for you. Many clients mix the two, keeping content in-house and handing us technical fixes or link building. See Organic SEO.

Businesses with their own marketers, writers or developers who want expert direction, companies planning a redesign or migration, and teams that want a second opinion on an agency or an in-house strategy.

Yes. Your strategist reviews your team’s work, answers questions and explains the reasoning behind every recommendation, so your developers, writers and marketers build their own SEO skills as the work gets done.

Yes. If your own developers or another agency are building the new site, we give them the SEO plan to follow before launch: which pages to keep, the redirect map, the content and the technical setup. After launch we watch your rankings and traffic, so any problems are caught early. See Website Migration.