2025 is the year I celebrate 17 years in UK business and 21 years of International eCommerce experience. Book your complimentary SEO quick chat online now.
Local SEO with my packages starts at £280/month, with bolt-on hours available depending on how fast you’d like Google improvement. I always offer White Label SEO Services for Digital Agencies.
UK Small Business SEO Freelancer Prices - Monthly Cost Calculator
SEO Freelancers are usually sole traders with low overheads and high experience levels. This attractive combination is a huge draw when a British small business is looking for immediately impactful SEO benefits.
I’ve found that most developers who build their own company website already have a base knowledge of Digital Marketing. Super easy clients to work with – I can even chuck jargon at them in a midnight email, and often get a 1am reply.
These unicorns must be encouraged to thrive wherever possible, and SEO Training is an alternative to paying a monthly fee. Freelancers like myself are often hired on an ad-hoc basis by these unicorn-led Digital Agencies. Their teams can invoice from £150 to £300+ per hour.
Avoid the overheads of a Digital Agency team and enjoy 2/3rds of cost savings per hour for on-page SEO and Video Marketing. View the long list of SEO services I provide to small businesses.
SEO Cost Calculator
How Much is Monthly SEO in the UK? How Much Should I Pay?
This is a great question. Monthly SEO costs depend on a myriad of scenarios, every website in the world should be unique, therefore they have different business models and marketing budgets.
Match your money with your expectations; cheap SEO is not effective SEO. How do you guarantee a mid-range monthly SEO package is effective SEO? Vrify yoursefl by searching Google’s Search Central Guidelines or the Ahref’s article.
It is not recommended to hire a cheap linkbuilder either, it’s easy to achieve a suspicious backlink profile for as cheap as £45. It’s pretty poor to have EMPTY ANCHOR as the largest tag cloud entry.
Why You Need To Know and What SEO Questions To Ask - Holistic White Hat vs Black Hat Horror Stories
One final word of SEO warning from Search Engine Land on April 28th, 2025:
Remember, no agency has a special relationship with Google, and there is no secret trick to get to the top of Google (for long, at least). Don’t play the SEO outsourcing trap, this is where you constantly seek the agency that knows the secret to SEO and will be able to succeed where many others have failed before them.
SEO is not the same as PPC. You can’t just pay to play with SEO, and Google just wants to show the best sites at the top of the search engine for free. The smartest SEO performance occurs at the intersection of your business knowledge and the agency’s SEO expertise.
Working together, you can achieve results far beyond what either could accomplish alone.
Do you have 60 minutes? Learn DIY SEO Basics in a Day
In about an hour, you can absorb enough SEO fundamentals – understand what valuable SEO services your site needs – without the link building. Here how to research multiple SEO aspects if you don’t know what questions to ask.
1. Start With Google’s Own SEO Starter Guide (15–20 min) Updated since 2008, it’s concise, no fluff, and easy to follow – even if you’re non technical.
2. Watch a Beginner-Friendly SEO Video (10–15 min) Where to find it: YouTube has a ton of short, clear explainer videos from credible sources. Grab a content writing free trial SEO tool, or learn free keyword research techniques with Google Trends.
3. Speed-Read About Common Black-Hat Tactics (10 min)
4. Holistic, recommended white hat approach to SEO:
Answer real questions people are typing into Google Search, or in LLM conversations; use headings, a conversational tone, and logical structure flow. I don’t know why I’m giving you that good advice when I struggle with writing less than two thousand words per article.
5. Skim a Quick Tutorial on Keyword Research (5–10 min) Why this matters: Keywords form the backbone of SEO because they represent what people type into Google.
Where to learn: Almost every SEO tool company (Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz) has a simple guide or video on basic keyword research.
- SEO agencies are like restaurants: Quick, cheap fast food, à la carte, or Michelin star dining packages.
- Pick the one matching your budget and needs, don’t pay for every dish on the menu if you only need the main course.
- A freelancing Digital Project Manager charges less quids per hour, plus they work outside of the 9-to-5 scope.
- Single Month Contracts. Hate commitment? Steer clear of year-long handcuffs. One-off and 6 month SEO packages let you adapt if results aren’t rolling in by next Wednesday. Again, match your expectations with your budget.
The hourly rate advice and calculation should be commensurate with the skill level of on-page SEO content writing for Search Engines.
AI models like ChatGPT will only improve the delivery time of lengthy articles and poses zero threat to Google copywriters. We love new technology.
My clients love me as I offer a Fixed Fee SEO services package, ideal for domains of 12 months old (or less). Should you have an established brand with an aged domain, this will be less hours and less cost as there will be a history of previous Digital Marketing that a Freelancer can pick up and run.
How Much Marketing Budget Does an eCommerce Website Need?
Over the years I have written dozens of SEO Case Studies, the two most popular include proof of revenue earnings and Google rankings, both are eCommerce:
WORDPRESS ECOMMERCE SEO CASE STUDY: This is for a British Interior Designer Lorna Syson
SHOPIFY ECOMMERCE SEO CASE STUDY: Ecommerce and Google ranking proof on Shopify for a family handmade chocolate company in Windsor, UK
Digital Marketing and eCommerce Google Ranking - Selling online FAQ's - When do I hire an SEO individual? Before or after launch?
For each 10 new business enquiries for SEO that I engage with, all 10 of them are live websites with no previous SEO.
It’s common for a new website owner to search online for their brand name, and it’s not in SERPs – Search Engine Results Pages. Who do they ask? Their website developer.
In this Venn Diagram, the grey middle area represents the shared knowledge and skills that both professions require. They both have different skill sets and responsibilities.
Video SEO with YouTube and Channel Optimisation
Learn easy, DIY white hat linkbuilding SEO using VSEO – Video SEO with your free YouTube account. it’s quite manual, and you get quicker the more time you spend on your channel and playlists.
In 2025, Google merges YouTube videos in Search results. YouTube is a trusted source for video content, and by including videos in search results, Google can improve the user experience and provide users with a variety of content types to choose from.
Additionally, 88% of YouTube Shorts are viewed on mobile devices, making them an effective way to deliver content to users who are searching on their smartphones or tablets. By serving YouTube videos in Google SERPs, Alphabet Inc. showcases similar algorithms at play.
Freelance Video SEO - Dual Google and YouTube ranking
As long as you correctly upload your MP4’s you are able to rank for your brand name with AI generated videos using stock movie clips.
Google serves YouTube videos in search engine results pages (SERPs) for several reasons: YouTube’s high-quality, engaging content aligns well with user queries; YouTube is owned by Alphabet Inc., giving it inherent authority and trust; video algorithms adore dwell time, so clips that keep viewers watching rank higher; and metadata embedding with VideoObject Schema and srt transcriptions bolster long-term SEO prospects – right into 2026.
