Based in Manchester, working in person across Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire, remotely with businesses anywhere in the UK, and internationally where the market is worth the time zone. Every list below is labelled for what it actually is — local search behaves differently town to town, and each of these is written for that town rather than a template with the name swapped.
Where we're based, and where we can be in your office by lunchtime if that's useful.
Manchester is home to our head office and the most competitive SEO market we work in: city-centre agencies, national brands and local independents all fighting for the same searches.
View Manchester pageBolton has less agency saturation than central Manchester, which means well-executed local SEO can move a business up the map pack faster than in more contested towns.
View Bolton pageStockport sits close enough to Manchester to compete with city-centre searches while still having genuine local-intent demand worth targeting on its own terms.
View Stockport pageAltrincham's affluent, service-heavy business base rewards SEO that's built around trust signals and local reputation, not just keyword density.
View Altrincham pageWigan has real local search volume with comparatively low competition. Often the fastest place on our patch to see a new SEO campaign move the needle.
View Wigan pageRochdale sits inside Greater Manchester but competes in its own local search market, where a trades or services business with a properly built Google Business Profile can still reach the map pack quickly.
View Rochdale pageSalford has the highest concentration of media and digital businesses outside London around MediaCity, sitting next to a long-established base of trades and manufacturing. Two very different search markets inside one postcode area, and they need completely different keyword strategies.
View Salford pageTameside covers Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Denton and Stalybridge, and the search demand here is overwhelmingly local-service: trades, care, motor and independent retail. Almost nobody is competing properly for these terms, which makes it one of the easier parts of Greater Manchester to win.
View Tameside pageBury is a market town with an unusually strong independent retail identity and a large surrounding commuter belt. Businesses here compete for both the town-centre searches and the wider north Manchester radius, and the two are worth separating.
View Bury pageOldham has a manufacturing and trades base going through steady regeneration, and a business community where word of mouth still does much of the work. Search is where that reputation gets checked before anyone picks up the phone.
View Oldham pageTrafford spans one of the largest industrial estates in Europe and some of the most affluent residential areas in the North West. B2B logistics and premium consumer services in the same borough, which is why a single Trafford-wide keyword list rarely works.
View Trafford pageBurnley has an aerospace and advanced-manufacturing cluster alongside a compact local services market. For the manufacturers, national and international search matters more than local; for everyone else the map pack is the whole game.
View Burnley pageNo offices in these cities and we will not pretend otherwise. The work, the reporting and the results are identical; the meetings happen on a call.
We work with businesses abroad, and deliberately do not have a page pretending to be local in forty foreign cities. Twenty near-identical location pages is a doorway pattern Google acts on, and it would be dishonest here in a way it is not for a town half an hour up the road.
What international work actually involves is a different job from local SEO, not the same job in another country: deciding between country domains, subdirectories or subdomains; getting hreflang right so the correct version ranks in the correct market; researching each market's own keywords rather than translating yours; and knowing where Google is not the dominant engine. Our international SEO page covers the whole decision.
Everything runs over video call, and time zones get scheduled around your working day rather than ours. The online training is delivered the same way and has no geographic limit at all.
If English is not the primary language of your market, say so early. Machine-translated content published without a native reviewer performs badly and it is a cost worth planning for rather than discovering later.
Those are the areas we have specific local detail for, but service-area SEO isn't limited by a strict boundary. Get in touch if your business sits just outside them.
Yes, meaningfully. Competition level, search volume and the kind of businesses searching all vary. A Manchester city-centre campaign and a Wigan one face different market conditions.
Based on our own keyword research, Altrincham and Wigan currently show lower keyword difficulty than Manchester or Stockport, though the right answer depends on your specific keywords, not the town alone.
No. Most local SEO work (Google Business Profile, citations, location pages) is done remotely, with in-person meetings where useful instead of required.
Yes. Multi-location or wide-service-area businesses typically need a location page per town plus one consistent Business Profile and citation strategy across all of them.
Real search volume and genuine client demand in that area. We'd rather cover fewer towns with real local detail than pad the list with templated pages.
No. The technical scan itself is identical everywhere. What differs is the local-market context (competition, search volume) we bring to interpreting the results.
All six. SEO Services, Local SEO, Technical SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI Search (GEO/AIO) and SEO + PPC are available regardless of location, since most of the underlying work is location-independent.
We work with businesses in both without conflict. SEO campaigns are specific to a business's own keywords and market position, not exclusive territory.
Get in touch anyway. The list reflects where we currently have detailed local research, not a hard boundary on where we'll work.
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