How long before anything happens?
Your Google Ads campaign goes live in week one, so enquiries are possible from the first month. They will be paid ones. Organic search takes three to nine months to judge fairly, and where in that range you land is decided by how competitive your market is, not by how hard we work. Anyone quoting you a date is guessing.
Why does an SEO plan run Google Ads?
Because organic results take months and your business does not get to pause while they arrive. Ads run from week one of every plan, competitive market or not, so there is a route to enquiries while the slower work compounds. Both are built off the same keyword research, which is why it is one plan and not two.
Can you get me to number one?
No, and nobody can promise it. An agency that puts a ranking in writing is selling you a sentence rather than a service. What we can do is show you what moved each month and what we changed to move it: a written plan with a target in it, and Search Console read in short windows, because a long window hides a decline rather than showing you one.
If I pay monthly, what do I get monthly?
A written plan with a target in it, the work itself, and a statement of what moved. The work is a mix of the six families above: technical fixes, pages written to a brief, local presence, links earned, and the measurement that reads Search Console in short windows. Your Google Ads campaign is managed inside the same month. Read the month; if it does not make sense, the reporting has failed rather than you.
Will you actually learn my business?
Yes, and it is the cheapest part of the work. A brief written without it produces pages that rank for terms nobody buying from you would ever type. Search work for a dentist and search work for a plumber run the same process pointed at different words, and the words are the part that has to be learned.
Does it matter how far away you are?
Not strictly. The work happens inside your Search Console rather than in a room, and a good remote arrangement beats a poor local one. If an SEO company near me is what you searched for, what being close actually buys you is somebody who knows the London market you are competing in, and a studio in Walthamstow you can sit in when a month needs talking through.
Am I tied into a contract?
No. Plans renew monthly, across this whole business. There is no minimum term, no notice period and nothing to sign: a month you have paid for is delivered in full, and a month you have not is simply never started. Tell us and there is no further invoice. The written audit comes before any of that and costs nothing, so you can read what we would do before you buy a month of it.
Is a one-off cheaper than a retainer?
Over six months, sometimes. A one-off fixes what is broken today and nothing keeps pace afterwards, so the arithmetic depends on whether anyone else in your market is still working. Organic results take three to nine months to judge fairly, and the compounding starts from about month three, which a one-off never reaches. A monthly plan is not a commitment either way: it renews one month at a time and stops when you say so.