SEO for London Handymans, Without the £1,500 Agency Bill
Honest price, real work, no contract. Specifically for handymans covering London and the surrounding area. You'd be the eighth client we manage and we'd know your business by name.
No agency overhead · no account managers · no upsells
London: Why Google Decides Who Gets the Calls
London is a particular kind of market. The UK's capital and largest city, home to 9 million people. The housing is mostly mix of georgian terraces, victorian conversions, post-war council estates, and modern developments. We see calls coming from Camden, Fulham, and the surrounding EC, WC, E, N postcodes. If you cover those areas and you are not in the top of Google for them, that is the leak.
London customers searching for a handyman usually live in Hackney, Islington, Fulham or one of the satellite areas like Watford or Croydon. The local property mix in London drives a steady demand for door hanging and flat-pack assembly from handymans.
How Local SEO Actually Works for You
For handymans working London, the picture looks like this. Most handymans in London are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. 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 handymans in London we work with already have a website that is not ranking for handyman searches and a Google profile that is half-empty. We rebuild the handyman website on faster infrastructure and rebuild the handyman profile from scratch with proper categories, photos and weekly posts.
Most handymans get the same kinds of calls: general repairs, flat-pack assembly, and door hanging. Handymans 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 handymans covering London, the part of this most owners miss is the local search angle. The handyman customers in London Google your trade plus a neighbourhood name, and only the top three results get the call. Word of mouth still works, but it's slower than it used to be. The fastest-growing local businesses are the ones combining word of mouth with showing up on Google. Owners who rely on referrals alone are going backwards.
Real Clients We Already Run
For handymans working London, the picture looks like this. Most handymans in London are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. We are small on purpose. Seven paying clients right now: a mix of plumbers, heating engineers, paving and bathroom fitters across England and Wales. Every one of them we know by first name. Every one of them got a real result inside the first 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
We do not pretend SEO is mysterious. It is mostly: clear keyword research, then doing the obvious work consistently, then measuring it. The agencies that overcomplicate it do so to justify the price. We just do the work and bill £199/month.
Missed-Call Text-Back
Every missed call gets an automatic text within seconds. The script is plain and human (we wrote it ourselves, it does not say 'this is an automated message'). Most callers reply within minutes and book a callback.
Review Automation
The reviews bit is fully automated: a text goes out after each job with a direct link to your Google review page. Customers tap once and they are typing the review. About one in three actually leaves one, which is roughly five times the industry average.
What It Costs
Flat fee: £199 once + £199/month. Less than £6.70 a day. After three months you can cancel any time and the website stays yours. No exit fees, no transfer admin charges, no nonsense.
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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