SEO services for small businesses
The people who never found you do not fill in a form to tell you. They searched, somebody on the first page answered, and none of it reaches your reports. SEO is the work that gets your website found in Google when somebody searches for what you do. It starts with research: the exact phrases people type, and how many search them each month. The site is then built around those phrases, one page for each thing people look for, and you get a report every month showing what moved.
Have you done this before?
Fixr Systems builds and runs sites that live or die on search, so the methods we sell are the ones we use ourselves.
What the work is made of
SEO is a set of concrete jobs, most of them dull and all of them checkable. Find the exact phrases people search and how often, fix what is stopping Google reading the site, give each question its own page, keep the Business Profile accurate, and report on it monthly. We mapped 16,326 keywords before writing a page on one project, and the same method runs at a smaller scale on a local business site.
The words people actually type
Real search volumes for your work and your area, including the searches your competitors have never bothered with, which are usually the ones you can win first.
This becomes the map for everything else.
A site Google can read quickly
Speed comes first, because a slow site holds back everything else you do.
Then the structure and the code Google reads, so the pages you write land on a site that is ready for them.
One page for each question
Every real question gets one page that answers it properly and in full.
That is how a page earns its place in results, and it is also how AI assistants decide what to quote.
Your Google Business Profile, kept right
For anything local this is most of the battle.
Categories, hours, services and reviews kept accurate and complete will move you further than another blog post.
The map, if your customers are nearby
If your customers are nearby, most of your search results come from the map rather than the page.
That means the Business Profile and a page for each town you cover, and it is a big enough job to have its own page here.
Content written for your customers
Pages and posts in the words your customers use, answering the questions they actually ask.
Over time the site becomes the place people in your area find first.
A report you can read
Each month: what changed, which pages brought enquiries, and what we are doing next, in plain English.
You always know what the money bought.
What being invisible in search costs
Somebody in your area searched for what you sell this morning and found a competitor instead.
Nothing tells you it happened, so it never gets fixed. It is the most expensive thing that happens to a small business.
You cannot see what you are missing
Advertising shows you what you spent. Being absent from search shows you nothing, so it never makes it onto the list of problems.
The gap gets wider
Whoever ranks above you gets the clicks, and those clicks are part of why they stay above you. Every month you wait, the climb gets longer.
Ads stop the day you stop paying
Paid advertising rents the position. The work that earns it keeps bringing people in after you stop spending.
What six months of SEO looks like
People who have never heard of you find you in search.
Each thing you sell has its own page, written around what people actually type, and your Google Business Profile is complete and accurate. Ranking higher means more people find you, and that is where the work comes from.
You can see which pages bring the work.
The people already looking for you find you.
What the work is
The work starts with finding the words your customers really type, with real search volumes behind them, then giving each of those questions a page of its own so nothing on your site competes with itself.
Titles and descriptions are written to be clicked rather than stuffed, and the technical layer is sorted underneath: speed, structure, schema and whether Google can crawl the thing at all. Your Google Business Profile is looked after, because for a local business that is most of search.
On top of that goes content answering the questions people are already asking, and internal links so your strongest pages pull the rest up with them. Every month you get a report saying what changed and what it means.
Know what you need already? Tell us in a couple of lines and we respond within two working days.
One we built
Woodwork UK
Directory, UK wideA directory covering every woodworking course, men's shed and furniture restorer in the country, built to prove the method works at scale.
What we did
- Over 2,000 pages built, and 95% indexed by Google within five weeks
- One page per question, so nothing on the site competes with itself
- Structure, speed and schema handled before a word of content went up
- Added to continuously rather than finished and abandoned
Over 2,000 pages built, 95% of them indexed by Google within five weeks, using the same methods we sell.
See the Woodwork UK case studyWhat I sell is the research that shows where the demand is, the work that reliably moves a site up, and a report each month you can read. You will always know exactly what you are getting for the money.
Ben Criddle, owner of Fixr Systems
Seen enough? Tell us what you do and where you work, and we respond within two working days.
What makes the best SEO agency for a small business
The best SEO agency for a small business is the one that shows you the demand before it asks you for anything. We come back with the exact phrases people in your area type and how many type them each month, so you can see how many people are searching before you spend a pound.
You deal with Ben the whole way through. The person who does the keyword research is the person who builds the pages and the person who answers when you message, so you always know who is doing the work and who to ask.
We have built a directory of over 2,000 pages for Woodwork UK, and Google indexed 95% of them within about five weeks of launch, and the same method runs at a smaller scale on a local business site. That means we can show you how it is done rather than just describe it.
Every month you get a report in plain English saying what moved, which pages brought enquiries and what we are doing next. It is rolling monthly, so we earn the next month on the work rather than on a contract.
Getting started with SEO
You tell us what you do and where, and we come back with what people there are actually searching for, with real volumes rather than guesses. We show you the demand before you spend anything. From then it is rolling monthly with no contract, and a report each month in plain English saying what changed and what we are doing next.
SEO is ongoing rather than a project. The first month is research and the fixes that matter most, then it is month by month with no contract.
Google sets out its own requirements for what it will rank, and none of them involve paying an agency more. Google Search Essentials
What SEO costs
SEO starts from £500 a month, rolling monthly, with no contract.
You get a fixed monthly figure before anything starts, and it does not change unless you ask for more. There is no notice period.
What if it does not work?
- SEO with Fixr Systems is month to month with no contract, because the work should earn its place every month.
- We will not promise you a position, and we will show you every month what moved.
- If your website is the real problem, we will tell you before you spend a month on SEO.
See how your website scores
Put in your website address and we check everything that can be seen from outside your site, from how fast your pages load on a phone to whether Google can even read what you do. The full report lands in your inbox in a couple of minutes, written in plain English.
Questions about SEO
How much does SEO cost?
SEO services for small business start from £500 a month, rolling monthly, with no contract. That one plan covers Google and AI search together. You get a fixed monthly figure for your site before anything starts.
Do you offer small business SEO as a package?
Yes. Small business SEO with Fixr Systems is one monthly plan from £500 that covers the research, the pages, the technical work and the report. It works as an SEO package with no contract, sized to your site before anything starts.
How long before I see anything?
Three to six months before the numbers mean much, and longer in a competitive patch. Anyone promising faster is either lucky or lying. What you will see sooner is the technical fixes landing and the right pages starting to appear at all.
Can you guarantee I will be number one?
No. What we can do is the work that reliably moves sites up, and show you every month exactly what changed and which pages brought enquiries.
Do I have to sign a contract?
No. It is month to month. We would rather earn the next month than trap you in the last one.
Is this the same as paying Google for ads?
No. Ads stop the day you stop paying, while SEO builds an asset you keep. Ads have their place when you need enquiries this week, and we will tell you when that is the better spend.
What if my website is the problem?
Then SEO on top of it is money down the drain and we will say so before you spend it. Sometimes the answer is to fix the site first.
How do I pick the best SEO agency for my business?
Ask whether they will show you real search volumes for your trade and your area before you pay, whether you will deal with the person doing the work, and whether you get a monthly report you can read. Fixr Systems answers yes to all three. The SEO services for small business owners we sell are rolling monthly, so we have to keep earning it.
Ready when you are.
Written and kept up to date by Ben Criddle, owner of Fixr Systems.