SEO for Leeds Architects, Without the £1,500 Agency Bill
Built for architects in Leeds who've already tried Yell, Checkatrade, Bark, MyBuilder, and a relative's nephew who builds websites. Now they want it done properly by someone who answers the phone.
No twelve-month contracts · cancel after the third month · website yours forever
Leeds: Why Google Decides Who Gets the Calls
Leeds is a particular kind of market. Major financial and legal centre, largest city in West Yorkshire. The housing is mostly victorian back-to-backs and terraces, inter-war semis, and modern city centre apartments. We see calls coming from Chapel Allerton, Meanwood, and the surrounding LS postcodes. If you cover those areas and you are not in the top of Google for them, that is the leak.
In Leeds, the catchment for architects includes Morley, Roundhay, Meanwood, and the wider LS area. Calls for new build designs and planning permission applications make up the bulk of what comes through the door.
How Local SEO Actually Works for You
When we look at architects in Leeds who have gone quiet, the cause is almost always the same one. Their Google Business Profile is half-empty and they are not ranking for the architect keywords Leeds customers actually use. Not a DIY platform. Not a course. Not a coaching call. We do all of it for you. Website, Google profile, reviews, SEO, missed-call recovery, monthly report. Done.
Most architects in Leeds we work with already have a website that is not ranking for architect searches and a Google profile that is half-empty. We rebuild the architect website on faster infrastructure and rebuild the architect profile from scratch with proper categories, photos and weekly posts.
Most architects get the same kinds of calls: extension designs, planning permission applications, and new build designs. Architects who show up first when somebody types those phrases into Google get the lion's share of the calls in their area.
What Most Local Owners Get Wrong
For architects working Leeds, the picture looks like this. Most architects in Leeds are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. Most owners blame the economy when their phone goes quiet. The actual cause is almost always the same: a competitor with a better Google listing has taken your spot in the local 3-pack. That's it. That's the fix.
Real Clients We Already Run
Architects in Leeds are competing with 150-300 other listings for the same calls. Here is what separates the busy architects from the ones whose phones have gone quiet. Right now we run online presence for seven UK businesses: plumbers in Pontyclun, Nottingham and Cheshunt, a heating engineer in Liverpool, another near Battle, a paving company in Staines, and a bathroom fitter in Blackpool. Real businesses, real card payments every month.
Next Step: A Free Audit
Next step is dead simple: click the free audit button, give us your business name and town, and we send back a real one-page assessment within a day. If you like it, we can talk about taking it further. If not, no worries.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
SEO done properly: we research the search terms your customers actually use (not the ones an SEO tool says you should target), optimise your site and Google profile for those terms, and check rankings every week so we can adjust if something stops working.
Missed-Call Text-Back
Plain version: phone rings, you cannot pick up, system texts the caller back within 10 seconds with a short reply in your tone of voice, customer texts back the issue, you reply when you are off the job. About a third of those texts become paid jobs.
Review Automation
Reviews come in on autopilot. We set up a system that asks your customers right after the job, while they are still happy. About a third leave a review. Over a year that is the difference between 8 reviews and 60.
What It Costs
It is £199 a month plus a one-off £199 setup that covers your website. Less than £6.70 a day. One job from Google pays for the month. Three-month minimum, no contracts after that.
Setup
£199
One-off. Covers your website. Yours to keep forever.
Monthly
£199/mo
Less than £6.70 a day. One job from Google pays for the month.
What's included every month
- Website (included in setup fee)
- SEO management
- AEO management
- Google Business Profile management
- Website updates included
- Monthly performance report
- 4 blog posts per month
- Missed call text back
- Quote follow-up automation
- Review automation
Frequently Asked
What does it actually cost?
All in: £199 setup (one-off, covers the website, yours to keep) and £199 a month for everything else. We do not do tiered pricing or upsells. That is the price.
What do you actually do every month?
We sort your Google Business Profile so it actually appears when locals search. We build you a website that loads fast on a phone. We get reviews coming in automatically after every job. We text customers back when you miss a call. And we send you a monthly report that shows what changed.
Do I need to do anything technical?
Nothing technical, no. We do all the work. You give us the basic details, we handle the rest. If something needs your input we will text or email and ask in plain English.
What if I already have a website?
Most of our current clients had a website before us. We brought theirs across without losing any URLs or domain authority. Yours would work the same way.
How long until I see results?
Different things move at different speeds. The missed-call system catches calls from day one. Google profile changes show in days. Search rankings take months. We are upfront about all of this from the start.
Can I cancel?
Three months, then it is month-to-month. Cancel by text. The website stays online (you keep the domain and the site), we just stop running the SEO and Google profile side of it.
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