SEO Agency in Stockport

Get found on Google. Backed by a national team, delivered by your local studio.

Right now, people in Stockport and beyond are searching for exactly what you sell. The question is whether they find you — or your competitor.

That’s what SEO (search engine optimisation) is for. It’s the work that helps your website climb the Google rankings for the searches that matter to your business, so more of the right people land on your site and more of them get in touch.

We’re not a faceless national agency, and we’re not a one-person operation working from a spare room. We’re your local SEO team on Heaton Moor Road — part of the Nettl network, which means every campaign we run is backed by Nettl’s national team of SEO specialists and Google Partner expertise. You get strategy conversations over a coffee in the studio, with big-agency firepower behind the scenes.

Website Care Plan for Stockport Clients

How SEO Actually Works

No jargon. Just the three things Google and other search engines care about.

SEO changes constantly, but underneath it all, Google is asking three questions about your website. Get all three right, and your rankings improve over time.

Is your website relevant?

Does your content genuinely answer what people are searching for? Google compares every page on your site against the searches it could rank for. That means content written around the terms your customers actually use, pages that answer their real questions, and every service you offer given the space it deserves. This is the heart of “on-page SEO“, and it’s where every campaign starts.

Two overlapping circles; the shaded intersection has an arrow pointing to the word Relevance. What your website says what people search for Relevance

Is your website trusted?

Google ranks websites it trusts. Trust is earned when other credible websites link to yours, when your business details are consistent across the web, and when your online reputation stacks up. This is “off-page SEO“. Slower to build, but it’s what separates page one from page five.

Trust

Is your website visible?

Google can’t rank what it can’t read. A surprising number of websites hide their best content from search engines without realising — text baked into images, key information locked inside sliders and pop-ups, slow pages that visitors abandon, layouts that fall apart on a phone. A well-built website with clean structure and good user experience isn’t just nicer to use; it’s the foundation everything else stands on. As web designers first and foremost, this is the bit we’re especially fussy about.

Visibility

Everything in our SEO packages serves one of these three goals.

When we report to you each month, we’ll be looking at what we did to help one of these. And we’ll explain it in plain English.

From a first step to a full campaign.

SEO packages to suit every budget

Most SEO agencies have a minimum spend that puts them out of reach of smaller businesses. We’ve built our packages so there’s a sensible starting point whatever your budget, including an entry-level plan delivered entirely by our Stockport studio.

SEO Basic:
£180+VAT/month

Delivered in-house by our Stockport team. For businesses taking their first step into SEO.

2 hours per month of our team actively improving your site

We audit your website with professional SEO tools and fix what’s holding it back

We identify and monitor your top 5 most valuable search terms

We optimise your key pages around the searches your customers make

A short monthly summary of what we did and how your rankings moved

A real person at our Stockport studio you can call or visit

MOST POPULAR!

SEO Business: £300+VAT/month

Our most popular starting point for a full SEO campaign.

4 hours per month of our dedicated SEO team actively improving your site

20 keywords tracked across 2 target pages

A professionally written 600-word article every other month

Ongoing technical improvements so Google can crawl and rank your site

Your business listed accurately across directories and Google Business Profile

We set up Google Analytics and Google Search Console and provide a plain English report each month.

Your point of contact at the Stockport studio

Enterprise: £500+VAT/month

For businesses in competitive markets who want to move faster.

8 hours per month of our dedicated SEO team actively improving your site

30 keywords tracked across 3 target pages

A professionally written 800-word article every other month

Ongoing technical improvements so Google can crawl and rank your site

Your business listed accurately across directories and Google Business Profile

We set up Google Analytics and Google Search Console and provide a plain English report each month.

Your point of contact at the Stockport studio

AI SEO builds on everything in your plan, with extra optimisation that makes your content easier for AI systems to understand, cite and recommend. Same solid SEO foundations, plus a layer of future-proofing. Optional Addon for £425+VAT/month.

BEST VALUE!

SEO Enterprise+: £1000+VAT/month

A serious campaign with monthly content and room for paid ads

16 hours per month of our dedicated SEO team actively improving your site

30 keywords tracked across 3 target pages

A professionally written 800-word article every month

Ongoing technical improvements so Google can crawl and rank your site

Your business listed accurately across directories and Google Business Profile

We set up Google Analytics and Google Search Console and provide a plain English report each month.

We build your site’s authority and tidy up harmful links

For ad budgets up to £3,000/month (worth £400/month if purchased separately)

Your point of contact at the Stockport studio

AI SEO builds on everything in your plan, with extra optimisation that makes your content easier for AI systems to understand, cite and recommend. Same solid SEO foundations, plus a layer of future-proofing. Optional Addon for £250+VAT/month.

How We Work

1

Free SEO Audit

We start by auditing your website, how it’s performing now, what’s holding it back, and where the opportunities are. It’s free, and there’s no obligation.

2

A conversation, not a sales pitch

We’ll walk you through the findings in plain English — in the studio, on a call, or over email, whatever suits. Together we’ll work out which package fits your goals and budget.

3

Your Proposal

You’ll get a clear written proposal listing exactly what we’ll do each month and what it costs. No surprises, no lock-ins beyond the 3-month minimum.

4

The Work begins

Once you’re up and running, we get to work — and every month you’ll get a report showing what we did, what changed, and what’s next.

Request your free SEO Audit

SEO Audit Request

Related Services

PPC Management

Instant visibility at the top of Google while your SEO builds.

Social Media Marketing

Build your brand where your customers spend their time.

WordPress Care Plans

Keep your website secure, fast and up to date

Frequently Asked Questions

Honestly? Months, not weeks. You’ll typically see early movement within the first 2–3 months, with meaningful ranking and traffic improvements from around month 4–6. Anyone promising page one in a fortnight is either lying or doing something Google will eventually punish. That’s why our packages run on a 3-month minimum, but we recommend at least even 12 months. It’s the typical period in which SEO can start showing results.

No. And neither can anyone else, because nobody controls Google. What we can guarantee is transparent, best-practice work every month, honest reporting, and a strategy built on real search data rather than guesswork.

SEO earns your rankings organically. It takes longer, but the results compound and clicks are free. Pay-per-click ads get you to the top of Google today, but stop the moment you stop paying. Many of our clients run both: ads for immediate enquiries while SEO builds the long-term foundation. Read more about our PPC management services.

It’s a genuine starting point, not a token gesture. For a local business with modest competition, two focused hours a month of auditing, fixing and optimising can make a real difference. And because it’s delivered by our Stockport team, if your ambitions grow, upgrading is a conversation, not a contract renegotiation.

Almost certainly, yes. We work on WordPress sites daily and can audit any website regardless of who built it. If your site has technical problems that limit what SEO can achieve, we’ll tell you honestly — and as web designers, we’re well placed to fix them.