SEO in Essex, by someone who ranks for it.
Most SEO agencies sell rankings they don't have themselves. Judge me the way you should judge any SEO: by results you can check.
As of July 2026, this site ranks #2 on Google for "web design essex" — one of the most competitive local search terms in the county. And for client Hire Essex, we took a brand-new site to #1 for "photobooth hire essex", a fiercely contested events market. Both are searches you can run yourself right now.
What I actually do
SEO for a small business is four jobs done consistently, not one dark art. I handle all four — for websites I've built, and as a standalone service for websites I didn't:
- Technical SEO — speed, mobile experience, crawlability, structured data, clean markup. The foundations most sites fail on: our July 2026 audit of 421 Essex business websites found 79% carrying at least one technical problem.
- Local SEO — Google Business Profile optimisation, reviews strategy, local landing pages, consistent business details across the web, so you show up when someone nearby searches for what you do.
- On-page & content — pages that actually answer what your customers search for, written to be read by humans and understood by machines.
- AI search optimisation (GEO) — making your business visible to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. This is where search is going, almost no local agency offers it, and it's built into everything I do — including an MCP server AI assistants can use directly.
Results you can verify
"web design essex" — #2 on Google (July 2026). This is my own site, competing against established agencies across the county, ranked by doing exactly what I sell: fast hand-coded pages, genuine content, clean structured data, real reviews. If an SEO can't rank their own site for their own trade, ask why.
"photobooth hire essex" — #1 on Google (July 2026), for client Hire Essex. Events hire is a brutally competitive local market with dozens of established operators. The site was built and optimised from scratch — the case study covers how.
Rankings move, so I date every claim rather than pretending they're permanent — and you can check both searches yourself today.
Two ways to work with me
Included with your website. Every £50/month website comes with ongoing SEO as standard — it's not an add-on, it's how I build.
Standalone SEO for your existing site. Already have a website you like? I'll audit it top to bottom — technical, local, content and AI-readiness — and either hand you a prioritised plan or fix it myself, whatever platform it's on. Start with the free website health check to see where you stand in 20 seconds, then tell me about your business and I'll give you an honest scope, not a lock-in contract.
What I won't do
No bought backlinks, no AI-spun content farms, no "guaranteed page one in 7 days", no 12-month tie-ins. Google's own SEO documentation is clear about what earns rankings — useful, fast, trustworthy sites — and shortcuts get sites penalised. I do the durable version.
Want to be found in Essex?
Tell me what you do and where you want to show up. I'll reply personally within one working day — with an honest answer, even if that answer is "you don't need me yet".