UK SEO Consultant – Affordable Freelance UK SEO Specialist.
I’m a UK SEO consultant – a freelance SEO specialist, I no longer work as part of an SEO company / agency.
But what does this mean to you, and what’s the difference between working with a freelance search engine optimisation consultant, and a firm / agency.
The first thing I’ll say – is that although I class myself as a UK SEO consultant, as I’m based in the UK (Cheshire, close to Manchester, Chester, Macclesfield, Knutsford & Stockport) but I do have clients outside of the UK.
I can work with you regardless of where you’re based – UK, US, Australia, France, Belgium, Cyprus, Spain, Newzlealand – in fact I do work with clients in quite a number of other countries as well as UK.
The major difference between working with a freelance self employed SEO consultant & an agency / company, is that usually you’ll find the services of a freelancer are more flexible, and more affordable – and more well suited to small business.
Medium, large & enterprise level companies wouldn’t usually use a freelance SEO, larger companies tend to prefer working with companies rather than freelancers.
But if you’re a small business, a start up business or a home based business – then you’ll more than likely find that you have a better experience, and a more flexible service from a freelance SEO consultant than from an SEO firm.
For example – I don’t require contracts, whereas SEO companies will want you to sign up for a 12 month contract, this means with me there’s no risk of being stuck with an outgoing if you don’t feel you’re getting a decent return on investment, you have the flexibility to stop at any time.
The reason freelance SEO consultants usually offer a more affordable service, is that we don’t have admin staff, sales teams, large offices, company cars, christmas parties, bonuses, etc., taking a chunk of the money we charge for our services – we usually have little overheads other than the norm, office space and so on.
It’s a budget thing also – if you have a budget of a few hundred pounds a month to initially put into SEO – many SEO companies won’t even entertain this level of budget, in fact there are SEO companies out there who have quite large minimums, in the region of a few thousand pounds per month, not a few hundred… if you’re a small business you more than likely just can’t risk that kind of investment initially – and it may be completely over the top for your market anyway – it may be that actually given the competitiveness of your market, you only need to spend in the region of £100 – £200 per month to rank on page one for your important search terms – in which cased spending hundreds or thousands per month would be complete overkill.
So, if you think your business would be a good fit for working with a UK SEO consultant, (even if you’re not in the UK) then drop me an email – or visit my main SEO website.
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When I have spoken to other SEO companies, they have all given me monthly figures, and want me to do it for a minimum of 12 months.
Do you do the same, why does it have to be monthly & why doe it have to be a minimum term of a year?
Hi Roy
If your website requires offpage work – backlinking – then this is done over a period of time, you can’t just do a chunk of offpage work in one go & then do nothing – well you can, but it wouldn’t do much good, in fact it can do more harm than good to do offpage work for a short period of time and then stop.
I assess each project differently – it depends what results are required – and how far away the site is currently from being able to acheive these results.
For example – sometimes I will look at a site, and say that I feel no offpage work is actually required – and that all that is needed is a block of onpage work (which can be done in one block of work).
Most sites do need offpage work however.
With ref the minimum one year term – no I don’t require this, in fact I don’t have contracts, so with me you can walk away at any time.
Hope this helps.
Hi Roy
Yes, most SEO companies / SEO agencies will start you off on a monthly contract, usually on a one year term.
This isn’t the way I work however.
I treat each project differently – as each project is different – but usually I start off with a block of one off on-page work & research & analysis work, this is work that is quoted for & done as a one off.
From this initial research – and from seeing what effect the onpage work has had – I will then be able to re-assess & tell you how much monthly offpage work is required – if any.
Not all websites actually need monthly SEO. The only work which really needs to be done monthky is offpage SEO, backlinking, and offpage SEO is not always required. It is usually required at least to some degree, and sometimes to a large degree (depends on the competitivess of the terms) – but not always, it just depends on who else is currently on page one for the important search terms, and whether or not offpage work is required to get your link popularity up to their level in order to get you onto page one. If you’re in a very small niche without a lot of competitors, you may require little or no offpage work.
If I find you do need offpage SEO work, then I’ll recommend how much I think is required – but there’s no contract or minimum term with me, you do it for as long as you want to, and you can stop at any time.
I hope this helps,
Thanks