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SEO for Greater Manchester businesses.

Greater Manchester is ten boroughs of owner-managed graft, and search works differently in each of them. A production company at MediaCityUK, a solicitor in Spinningfields, a roofer covering Wigan and Leigh, and a salon on Altrincham's market side are all judged on a phone screen before anyone rings. SEO here means turning up when someone in your patch types the job into Google, then handing them a page that answers the question quickly. We start by looking at what ranks in your part of the county today.

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Who SEO works hardest for in Greater Manchester.

Trades working the motorway ring

A roofer in Leigh and an electrician in Wigan both cover far more ground than one postcode, and their customers put a place name in the search box every time. Winning that means a proper page for each area you genuinely serve, photographs of jobs you actually did, and a number that dials on the first tap. Skip hire in Bolton alone takes 1,300 searches a month.

City centre professional services

Referrals still open the door for solicitors and accountants around Spinningfields, but the person handed your name looks you up within minutes. First they search the firm, then they search the problem. Recruitment agencies in Manchester pull 3,600 searches a month on their own. Winning means the page they land on names the work you do and the sectors you know well.

The southern suburb high streets

Clinics, salons and small restaurants around Altrincham and Hazel Grove live on the search somebody makes while they are already out and deciding. Dentists in Manchester take 2,900 searches a month, and the same pattern runs down the whole suburb belt. Winning it means opening hours, prices and a booking link one tap from the result, with a Google Business Profile that matches the site exactly.

What the search data says about Greater Manchester.

The region's demand is the sum of its towns. Every month brings 27,100 searches for things to do in Manchester, 22,200 for hotels in Manchester and 9,900 for an Airbnb stay there. Under the visitor traffic sit the everyday jobs: 3,600 searches for recruitment agencies in Manchester, 2,900 for a dentist, and 1,300 for skip hire in Bolton. Those last ones are customers with a job in mind.

27,100

searches a month for things to do in Manchester

22,200

searches a month for hotels in Manchester

9,900

searches a month for an Airbnb stay in Manchester

3,600

searches a month for recruitment agencies in Manchester

2,900

searches a month for a dentist in Manchester

1,300

searches a month for skip hire in Bolton

1,300

searches a month for gyms in Bolton

1,300

searches a month for estate agents in Wigan

1,600

searches a month for hotels in Stockport

How we do SEO for a Greater Manchester business.

01
Free audit first

We look at what already ranks across your boroughs for the searches that bring you work, then check your own site against it: speed, structure, the words on the page. You get the findings in plain English, with the jobs listed in the order they are worth doing. No charge for that.

02
Fix the site

Slow pages and muddled structure lose people before Google is even the problem. So we sort loading speed, page titles, the two lines under your name in a Google result, and the copy itself, so each page is clearly about one job in one place rather than everything at once.

03
Build local proof

Google needs to believe you really operate where you say. That means your Google Business Profile filled in properly, your name, address and phone number identical everywhere they appear, and pages for the boroughs you genuinely cover, Bolton or Stockport or Sale, not a list of thirty towns.

04
Content and reporting

Then we write for questions people in the county actually type, the ones your customers ask you on the phone every week. Every month you get a short report: what moved, what you got out of it, what happens next. No jargon, and no charts nobody reads.

What we do for Greater Manchester businesses.

Whitfield IT builds and ranks websites for Greater Manchester businesses: the site fixed first, then the local proof, then content that answers what people in your boroughs actually search for. Everything is reported monthly in plain English. The prices below are the ones everybody gets.

Every price, published.

The same published price list applies in every town we serve. No quote theatre, no local premium.

SEO Starter RetainerSEO Growth RetainerSEO Pro RetainerSEO Premium Retainer
Per month£249£399£699£999
Keyword trackingIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Monthly reportIncludedIncludedIncludedresults-led
On-page optimisations2 per month2 per month2 per month2 per month
Technical fixesNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Articles per monthNot included224
Landing pages for new areas and servicesNot includedNot includedNot includedIncluded
Search Console monitoringNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Link buildingNot includedNot includedIncludedreal link acquisition
Competitor trackingNot includedNot includedIncludednamed targets, reported by name
Conversion trackingNot includedNot includedNot includedIncluded
Strategy sessionNot includedNot includedNot includedquarterly
Portal ticketsIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
WhatsAppNot includedNot includedIncludedIncluded
Response time3 working days2 working daysnext working daysame working day
ContractMonth to monthMonth to monthMonth to monthMonth to month

What local owners ask us.

Yes, and honestly: we are based between Chester and Wrexham, roughly an hour down the motorway, and we work across North Wales and the North West. The prices are published on this site before you ring, and they are the same wherever your firm sits. The free audit is the same one everybody gets too. Meet in person if you want to, or run the whole thing over email and video calls.
Technical fixes and a tidied Google Business Profile can shift things within weeks. Ranking for a competitive search like a trade in a busy borough usually takes months, not days, because Google wants to see the site holding up over time. You will see movement in the monthly report long before the phone changes. Anyone promising page one by a fixed deadline is guessing.
For the places you genuinely work in, yes. Somebody in Oldham searching for your trade wants to see Oldham on the page, not a county name. What does not work is thirty near-identical pages with the town swapped out, because Google treats that as padding and it reads badly to a human. We build pages for the areas you really serve and write each one properly.
Nothing long. You own the website, the hosting account, the domain and anything we write for you, and it stays yours if you leave. Thirty days notice, no exit fee, no clause that holds your site hostage. The monthly price is published on this page and does not move because you have been with us a while. We would rather keep clients by being useful.

SEO near Greater Manchester.

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