Everything here is free to read and act on yourself — no email wall. If you'd rather we just did it, the free audit is the fastest way to hand it over.
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.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews now answer questions directly. Here's what Generative Engine Optimisation and AI Optimisation mean, and why blocking the wrong bot in robots.txt can shut you out entirely.
What drives SEO pricing, why "how much for SEO" has no single answer, and the questions worth asking before you sign anything.
Both can do good work. Here's the honest trade-off between hiring a freelance SEO consultant and hiring an agency, so you pick based on your actual situation, not a sales pitch.
Not every business needs to hire this out. If you'd rather learn to do your own SEO, here's a realistic starting path, and where the line sits between DIY and "now you need help".
The technical fundamentals that quietly cap your rankings if they're broken. Explained without needing a developer background to follow.
A real, live scan of your site. On-page SEO, technical health, and whether AI systems like ChatGPT and Perplexity can even read you. Results in seconds, on this page, right now.
Run the auditThe exact list we run manually, so you can check the basics yourself before you ever talk to us.
Read the checklistGenuinely free, no email wall, no gated PDF. The business model is that some readers will want the work done for them after reading. Not that the guides themselves are bait.
No. They're written in plain English deliberately, starting from "What Is SEO?" for complete beginners through to more technical topics for those with some experience.
Whenever the underlying facts change. A Google algorithm shift, a new AI-crawler standard, updated pricing data. Evergreen content that goes stale is exactly the kind of thing the audit checklist would flag on someone else's site.
Yes. The tool and the guides are independent. Some people want to understand the "why" first; others just want the scan results.
Yes. See What Is GEO/AIO? alongside the traditional SEO guides, since both disciplines increasingly overlap.
Yes — How Much Should SEO Cost in Manchester? covers what drives pricing and the questions worth asking any agency.
Depends on your situation, see Freelance vs. Agency and Want to Learn SEO Yourself? for the honest trade-offs either way.
Part of it. Guides & Tools covers both educational reading and the live audit tool, since we see them as the same job: giving you what you need to judge SEO work properly, whether you do it yourself or hire it out.
Yes. New guides get added as genuinely distinct topics come up, rather than padding the list with near-duplicate content on the same subject.
Yes — get in touch with what you'd find useful and we'll consider it for a future guide.
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.
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.
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