Costs & pricing · 6 min read
How much does local SEO cost in West Yorkshire?
Local SEO for a small West Yorkshire business realistically runs between £250 and £900 a month depending on how competitive your sector is and how much content is produced. Anything under about £200 a month is usually automated reporting with no real work behind it; anything above £1,000 should come with content production and technical development included.
By Raja Wahab, Co-founder, Fixby Studios · Updated
What you're actually paying for
- Google Business Profile management — posts, photos, services, Q&A, review responses.
- Content: new pages and articles that target searches you don't currently appear for.
- Technical work: speed, structured data, internal linking, fixing what's broken.
- Citations and listings kept consistent across directories.
- Reporting that shows enquiries and calls, not just rankings.
Rough tiers
£250-£400 a month suits a single-location business in a quiet sector — profile management, a page or article a month, and steady technical upkeep. £400-£700 suits competitive local sectors like trades, dental or legal, with more content and more link work. £700+ makes sense for multi-location businesses or anyone competing across Leeds and Bradford as well.
How to spot a bad deal
- Guaranteed number-one rankings. Nobody can guarantee that; it's the oldest tell there is.
- Reports full of keyword positions and empty of enquiries.
- No access to your own Search Console, analytics or Google Business Profile.
- Content written for search engines that you'd be embarrassed for a customer to read.
- A twelve-month lock-in with no deliverables specified.
How long before it works
Google Business Profile improvements can show up in weeks. Content and technical work usually take three to six months to move meaningfully, and keep compounding after that. Anyone promising faster is either lucky or lying.
When not to buy SEO at all
If your site is slow, unclear or has no way to enquire, fix that first. Sending more traffic to a page that doesn't convert is the most expensive mistake in local marketing.
What our monthly SEO work includes.
Raja Wahab is co-founder of Fixby Studios, a Huddersfield studio building websites, SEO, social media and business software for small, owner-managed businesses across West Yorkshire.
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