Full technical, on-page and local SEO for Manchester businesses — built on a free audit, explained in plain English, reported monthly in numbers you can check yourself.
Two decades in search. I have built my own systems and ranked my own businesses, not just other people's. That is exactly why I will tell you something most agencies will not: for a lot of businesses, SEO is learnable. If you can spare an hour or two a day, you can look after your own website and keep thousands of pounds a year that would otherwise be a retainer.
This is the part I would want if I were buying. Do the day, understand what good looks like, then hand the work to us. You will know whether the monthly reports mean anything, you will be able to ask the awkward questions, and you can leave whenever you like without losing the knowledge. Clients who understand the work are better clients, and an agency that is confident in what it does has no reason to fear an informed one.
These are our own Semrush figures for the Manchester search cluster. Every one is a click you pay for again the next time somebody wants it.
Right-hand column is 100 clicks a month at that rate. Source: Semrush keyword data, Manchester SEO/marketing cluster, Aug 2026.
Month one alone is £960. The training day is £499, or £999 with the work implemented on your site — about half a month of the same spend.
Straight multiplication of the CPC above, not a projection. Paid clicks do not compound: stop paying and the traffic stops that day.
Every claim on this page is something you can verify yourself, in your own Search Console and Analytics, without taking our word for any of it.
Our own SEO business, through every algorithm change that has mattered. The agency name is new; the experience behind it is not.
We look at your site, your competitors and your real search demand before recommending anything, not a generic package.
Monthly reports show rankings, traffic and what we actually did. No jargon dashboards you have to decode yourself.
Your Google Analytics, Search Console and tracking stay in accounts you control. Nothing is held hostage if you leave.
SEO takes months to show results and we say that upfront, but you are never tied into a contract you cannot leave.
Training companies teach and leave. Agencies do the work and keep the knowledge. Here you choose, and you can start with the training and decide afterwards.
Ranking in Google and being cited by ChatGPT are two different jobs. Almost nobody covers both, and doing only the first is half the work in 2026.
Every tool on this site runs against your real website with no signup, including the live test of whether AI crawlers can reach your server.
A growing share of questions never reach a search results page at all — they're answered directly by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's own AI Overviews. If an AI system can't read your site, it can't recommend you, no matter how good you are.
A block at CDN or firewall level does not appear in robots.txt, which is why this is tested by fetching rather than by reading a file.
Manchester-based, working across Greater Manchester, the North West and UK-wide. Pick the starting point that matches your problem — or take the free audit and let the data decide.
Full-service SEO for businesses across the UK: technical fixes, on-page optimisation, content and link earning, built around a plan we show you before we start.
Learn moreGet found by customers searching near you. Google Business Profile, local citations, reviews strategy and location pages that actually rank.
Learn moreSite speed, crawlability, indexing and schema. The foundation that content and links can't compensate for if it's broken.
Learn moreProduct and category pages that rank, a feed that doesn't fight your own SEO, and a site structure that scales past 50 products without breaking.
Learn moreChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews now answer questions directly, without a click. GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) and AIO (AI Optimisation) are how you get cited in that answer instead of skipped.
Learn moreSEO and paid search working from the same keyword and conversion data, instead of two agencies pulling in different directions.
Learn moreLearn to run your own SEO in a single day, in a class of three or four, in Manchester or live over Zoom. Hands on throughout. £499 taught on real example sites, £999 with every change implemented on your own website, plus 90 days of supervised follow-up.
Learn moreScheduled small-group courses: four weeks live online, a two-day masterclass in Manchester, or a private team day. Never more than four people, hands on throughout, and every one covers AI search as well as Google.
Learn moreFree guides on how SEO actually works, plus tools to check your own site — and a clear path to hand it to us when you'd rather not do it yourself.
SEO is the work of making a website easy for search engines to find, understand and trust, so it appears when people search for what you offer. This guide explains exactly how that works, with diagrams, a step-by-step tutorial and honest timelines.
SEO stands for search engine optimisation. This page gives the definition, the pronunciation, the terms that surround it, and the two other things "SEO" commonly means so you can tell which one you have found.
The exact checklist we run through on every audit: technical, on-page and off-page, so you can spot the obvious issues yourself before you ever talk to an agency.
The actual process. Not just "use a keyword tool", for finding search terms with real commercial value and a realistic chance of ranking.
All three are genuinely on offer. The free material is not a teaser with the useful parts removed — it is the same thinking, written down.
Every guide on this site is complete and ungated, and all 48 tools run against your real site. Plenty of businesses need nothing beyond this, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
The complete guide to SEO 48 free tools Free audit of your siteWhen you want to own this yourself but not spend a year working out the order to do it in. Both disciplines, SEO and AI search. £499 taught on real example sites, or £999 with everything implemented on your own site as we go.
Training in Manchester Online over Zoom, worldwideWhen the hours are worth more spent on your business than on your website. Technical, local, ecommerce and AI visibility, priced only after we have actually looked at your site.
All SEO services What a package includes Talk to usThe thread through all three is the same 20 years of doing this, since 2006. The free guides are written from it, the course teaches it directly, and the service applies it for you.
See exactly what's holding your rankings back. No obligation, no jargon.
Local search behaves differently town to town — here's where we work.
We scan your site for technical issues, review your current rankings, and map the keywords your customers search for.
A 30-minute call to walk through the audit findings and agree what to prioritise first. Quick wins vs. longer-term plays.
Technical fixes, on-page optimisation and content get built out against the plan, with you signing off anything that touches your live site.
Monthly reporting on rankings, organic traffic and conversions: in plain English, with the reasoning behind every recommendation.
SEO is never "done". We adjust the plan as Google's algorithm, your market and your results change.
Everything people ask before hiring an SEO agency in Manchester — answered plainly, no sales spin.
Technical fixes so Google can properly read your site, on-page work so it matches what people search for, and, increasingly. Making sure AI systems like ChatGPT can read and cite you too. A genuine agency starts with an audit, not a sales pitch.
Ask what their audit checks, whether you keep access to your own Analytics and Search Console, whether there's a minimum contract, and what happens to the work if you leave. Vague answers to any of those are the answer.
Because everything we claim is checkable. The free audit is the same live scanner running on this site, our stats are cited sources or our own keyword data, and the experience behind it is real: two decades in search, trading as SEO-Professional.co.uk, with brands of our own built entirely on organic search, and 45 Google reviews at a 5.0 average.
It depends entirely on your site's condition and how competitive your keywords are. We quote after the free audit, never before, since a generic day-rate ignores whether you need 3 fixes or 300.
Technical fixes can move within weeks. Competitive commercial keywords realistically take 4–9 months of consistent work, see our full breakdown in the keyword research guide.
No lock-in, ever. SEO takes months to show results and we say that upfront, but you're never tied into a contract you can't leave.
A live scan covering on-page SEO, technical health, performance and speed, design and visibility, accessibility, and whether AI crawlers can read your site. Enter your name, email and URL at /free-seo-audit and the results appear on screen and land in your inbox.
No — we cover Manchester & the North West, including Chester, Liverpool, Bolton, Stockport, Preston, Altrincham and Wigan, each with genuinely local detail instead of a templated page.
Generative Engine Optimisation and AI Optimisation. Making sure ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can read and cite your business, not just traditional Google search. See our full GEO/AIO service.
You should be able to check every claim yourself, that's the whole design of this site. Your Google Analytics and Search Console stay in accounts you control, and monthly reports show exactly what was done.
No, and any agency that does is not being straight with you, no one controls Google's algorithm. What we guarantee is a genuine audit, a clear plan, and honest reporting on what actually moved.
PPC rents visibility. The clicks stop the moment the budget does. SEO builds an asset that keeps compounding after the work is done. See the real cost-per-click data on this page for what that difference is worth.
Yes: see our ecommerce SEO service for product/category page structure, duplicate content and shopping feed issues specific to online stores.
Yes. Your accounts, your data, your rankings. Nothing is held hostage. That's the point of no lock-in contracts and you owning your own Analytics and Search Console from day one.
Run the free audit on your own site right now at /free-seo-audit, or book a strategy call directly if you'd rather talk it through first. Either way, nothing is quoted before we've looked at your site.
30 minutes to talk through your goals and whether SEO is the right channel right now.
Ask me anything about SEO, or about the tools, the training or what we do.
If your problem is one you can fix yourself with the free tools, I will say so.
Where I am not certain, I will say so rather than guess, and Imran will follow it up.
Answers are generated and can be wrong. For anything that matters, call 0161 315 1152.