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.
Who SEO works hardest for in Greater Manchester.
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.
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.
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.
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How we do SEO for a Greater Manchester business.
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.
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.
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.
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 Retainer | SEO Growth Retainer | SEO Pro Retainer | SEO Premium Retainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per month | £249 | £399 | £699 | £999 |
| Keyword tracking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly report | Included | Included | Included | results-led |
| On-page optimisations | 2 per month | 2 per month | 2 per month | 2 per month |
| Technical fixes | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Articles per month | Not included | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Landing pages for new areas and services | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Search Console monitoring | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Link building | Not included | Not included | Included | real link acquisition |
| Competitor tracking | Not included | Not included | Included | named targets, reported by name |
| Conversion tracking | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Strategy session | Not included | Not included | Not included | quarterly |
| Portal tickets | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Not included | Not included | Included | Included | |
| Response time | 3 working days | 2 working days | next working day | same working day |
| Contract | Month to month | Month to month | Month to month | Month to month |
What local owners ask us.
SEO near Greater Manchester.
We cover the towns around Greater Manchester too.
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