SEO for Wigan businesses.
Wigan has held a market charter since 1246, and the way people find a business here has simply moved from the Market Place to a phone screen. When someone in Standish, Ince or Ashton-in-Makerfield searches for what you do, Google shows a handful of names and most people ring the first one that looks right. If yours is missing, the job goes to a competitor on Robin Park or a firm in Bolton. SEO is the steady work of making sure it goes to you instead.
First report by Monday 16 November then one every month, saying what we did and what moved. Every price published, no lock-in, 30 days notice.
Who SEO works hardest for in Wigan.
A boiler fails in Ince or a roof leaks in Abram and the search happens within minutes, usually on a phone. Winning that moment means ranking in the map results for the jobs you want, with reviews showing and your covered areas named on the page. For a trade, one steady position there outperforms any amount of leafleting.
Nobody picks a solicitor or an accountant from a paper ad any more. They search and compare three or four firms serving the WN catchment, then shortlist the ones whose pages answer their actual question. Ranking for the specific work you take on brings enquiries that are already half decided before anyone calls.
Families choosing a care home or a home-care provider in the borough do their research online first, often late at night and under pressure. Search results shape the shortlist before any visit is booked. Appearing for those searches with a page that states your CQC status and answers the hard questions plainly is how placements start.
What the search data says about Wigan.
Nearly everything Wigan sells starts with a Google search. About 1,300 people a month here look for skip hire, the same number again want an estate agent, and about 1,000 are after a hotel room; we measured all of it. The pattern runs right through the local economy, gyms and dentists included, up to recruitment agencies and office space. Whoever ranks first when those searches happen takes the enquiry. Everyone else waits for the phone to ring.
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How we do SEO for a Wigan business.
The free audit is the place to start: it checks one page of your site in about 30 seconds and lists what needs fixing. The SEO Audit goes through your site page by page and looks at who actually ranks in Wigan for your trade, then gives you a plain list of what is broken and what your competitors are doing better. Keep it and fix things yourself if you like.
Rankings rest on the site underneath. We sort speed and page structure, then the words on each page, so Google can read what you do and customers can act on it. No point building links to a site that loses visitors before it finishes loading.
Google decides who appears in the map results partly on trust signals: a well-kept Google Business Profile, consistent details across directories, reviews that keep arriving, and pages for the places you serve. We build that proof steadily so searches in Pemberton and Standish start returning your name.
Each month you get a report you can actually read: what changed, and what it did to your enquiries. No forty-page PDF of graphs. If a piece of work is not earning its place we say so and stop doing it. Thirty days notice ends the whole arrangement.
What we do for Wigan businesses.
We get Wigan businesses found by the people already searching for them. That means the site fixed properly, then local proof built, then pages that answer what people actually type, reported monthly in plain English. The prices below are the same ones every client gets, published before anyone picks up the phone.
Every price, published.
The same published price list applies in every town we serve.
| 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 |
Work we can show you.
The nearest sites we have built to Wigan, with how far away each one is. Every site is live, and every client owns theirs outright.
“We've generated significant organic business through Google Search and ChatGPT thanks to Alex's expertise in website optimisation and online visibility. We continue to work with him on new optimisation strategies as our business grows.”
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Let's sort your website.
Start with the free audit: about 30 seconds for a first read on where your site stands.