SEO consultant FAQs
Everything you might want to know before we talk: costs, timelines, what’s included, and how I work. If your question isn’t here, just ask on a free call.
The basics
An SEO consultant audits your website, works out why it isn’t ranking, and builds a prioritised plan to fix it, across technical health, content, keywords, and links. I do both the strategy and the hands-on work, then report on the numbers so you always know what’s changing and why.
The freelance SEO consultant page goes through the work in detail, including when you should hire somebody else instead.
You work directly with the consultant doing the work, not a junior you never meet. That means faster decisions, clearer communication, and no account-management layer between you and your results.
The full comparison, with the cases where an agency is genuinely the better choice, is on the freelance SEO consultant page.
Yes. Small and medium businesses are exactly who I built this practice for: local service businesses, eCommerce stores, and growing brands. Every plan is tailored to your budget and goals.
WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento, among others. If your setup is unusual, tell me on the call and I’ll be straight about whether I’m the right fit.
Platform-specific work has its own pages: Shopify SEO and the broader eCommerce SEO service.
My focus is SEO, but that includes the on-page and technical work that touches your site: structure, speed, internal linking, and content. If a bigger rebuild is needed, I’ll tell you and help you scope it.
Services
Yes, local SEO is one of my strongest areas: Google Business Profile optimisation, local citations, reviews, and location pages that get you into the map pack for searches that bring in calls.
Full detail on the local SEO page.
Absolutely. eCommerce SEO means product and category pages built to rank and convert. I’ve ranked a new store inside 90 days, and the approach works across Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento.
See eCommerce SEO, or Shopify SEO if that is your platform.
Technical SEO is the health of your site’s foundations: crawlability, indexing, speed, and Core Web Vitals. If Google can’t crawl and understand your pages, no amount of content will rank. Most sites have issues quietly holding them back.
The technical SEO page covers what that involves in practice.
An SEO audit is a deep, prioritised review of everything affecting your rankings, with a clear fix-it order. It’s the right first step if you’re unsure why your site isn’t performing, or you’re about to invest and want a baseline.
What an audit covers and what you receive is set out on the SEO technical audit page.
AEO (answer engine optimisation) and GEO (generative engine optimisation) are about getting your business cited inside AI answers, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. As search shifts to AI, being the source those tools quote is the new front page.
More on the AEO and GEO page.
Working together
My projects run on a monthly retainer between £1,500 and £5,000, depending on scope and how competitive your market is. I don’t bill hourly, you get a clear, fixed monthly investment and a plan to match, and I’ll tell you honestly what it will and won’t achieve before you commit. What that buys and where a freelance SEO consultant is the wrong choice is set out in full on that page.
Most businesses see early movement in 3-6 months and meaningful traffic gains in 6-12 months. SEO compounds. Anyone promising page-one rankings in two weeks is selling magic, not SEO.
Yes, regular, jargon-free reports showing what changed, what it means, and where your investment went. Transparency is the whole point; you should always be able to hold me to the numbers.
No, and be wary of anyone who does. Rankings depend on factors outside any consultant’s control. What I guarantee is honest effort, sound strategy, and clear reporting so you always know where you stand.
I favour partnerships that continue because they’re working, not because you’re locked in. We’ll agree a sensible initial period to let the work take effect, then keep going on results.
Book a free, no-obligation strategy call. We’ll look at your site together, I’ll share where the quickest wins are, and you decide if we’re a fit.
Still have a question?
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