— Suffolk
SEO in Suffolk, without the waffle
I’m Mike, a freelance SEO consultant based in Mid Suffolk. I help local businesses get found on Google — with a strategy you can follow, reporting you can check, and none of the agency runaround.
Based in Mid Suffolk · working with businesses across the county, the UK and the US
01 The work
What actually gets done, in the order it gets done
Local SEO gets sold as a checklist. It is really a sequence — each step is wasted if the one before it has not happened.
- 01
Find out why you are not showing up
Most local sites have one or two specific problems doing most of the damage — a slow build, pages that were never indexed, a Google Business Profile that does not match the website, or simply no page for the thing people search. The audit finds which it is instead of guessing.
- 02
Fix the site itself
Crawl errors, redirect chains, page speed on real pages rather than the homepage, missing structured data, the mobile experience. Not a report telling you what is wrong — the fixes, implemented, then rechecked once Google has recrawled.
- 03
Win the searches that come with a postcode
Google Business Profile filled in properly, business details consistent everywhere they appear, and a review approach that does not rely on you remembering to ask. This is where most of the map-pack visibility comes from, and it is usually the most neglected part.
- 04
Build pages for what people actually type
Real search terms with real volume, turned into pages worth landing on — including the questions you will never charge for, because those are what make Google treat you as the answer rather than a candidate.
- 05
Report it honestly, every month
What I did, what moved, what is next. Clicks and enquiries, not impressions — impressions go up when you rank 47th instead of not at all, which is not a result and I will not report it as one.
02 Coverage
Where the clients are
Most of the work is remote wherever the client is, Suffolk included. The difference locally is that meeting in person is actually practical.
- Ipswich
- Bury St Edmunds
- Stowmarket
- Woodbridge
- Sudbury
- Haverhill
- Newmarket
- Lowestoft
- Framlingham
- Beccles
- Mildenhall
- Halesworth
- Southwold
- Felixstowe
03 Freelancer or agency
Why hire one person instead of an agency
There are good SEO agencies in Suffolk. There are also plenty that will lock you into twelve months, hand your account to a junior, and send a report you cannot make sense of. The trade-off is real either way, so here is mine.
You work with me
Not a project manager, not an account executive, not a junior learning on your budget. Same person does the strategy, the work and the call.
No long contracts
Rolling monthly. I would rather earn the next month than rely on a twelve-month agreement to keep you.
Your budget goes on the work
No office, no account management layer. Nothing in the invoice is subsidising overhead that has nothing to do with your rankings.
A small number of clients
Deliberately. If I do not think I can move the needle for you, I will say so and point you somewhere better.
Where an agency wins
If you need SEO, paid search, social and design running at once, at pace, with cover when someone is on holiday — that is a team, and I am not one. I am the better answer when the thing you want is depth on search, done by someone who will still be the one doing it in six months.
04 Cost
What it costs
One-off technical fix
£599
Find what is holding the site back, then fix it.
Monthly, from
£1,999/month
Steady progress, one area of the site at a time.
Everything scoped before you commit, no lock-in, and day rates available for ad-hoc work. Full pricing, scope and terms.
05 Questions
Common questions
Do you only work with Suffolk businesses?
No — roughly half my work is US-based and I work across the UK. But I am based in Mid Suffolk, I know the local market, and if you want to sit down in person that is genuinely possible here in a way it is not for most of my clients.
How much does SEO cost?
A one-off technical fix is £599, fixed price. Monthly plans start at £1,999 a month. Everything is scoped before you commit, and there are day rates for ad-hoc work — full detail on the pricing page.
How long before anything happens?
Technical fixes can move rankings within weeks. Content compounds more slowly — expect the curve to bend somewhere between month three and month six. Anyone promising page one next month is selling you something else.
Do I need a new website?
Usually not. Most sites can be fixed. I will tell you plainly if yours is the exception, and a rebuild is quoted as its own project rather than smuggled into a retainer.
What if SEO is not right for my business?
Then I will say so. For some local businesses the honest answer is paid ads, or the Google Business Profile alone, or fixing what happens after someone gets in touch. I would rather tell you that than take a retainer for work that will not pay for itself.
Send me your website
I’ll tell you what is holding it back and what I would fix first — specific to your site, not a template. Free, and there is no pitch attached if the answer is that you do not need me.
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