SEO for York Landscapers, Without the £1,500 Agency Bill
Built specifically for landscapers working York and the surrounding postcodes (YO). Local listings, local search terms, local calls.
No agency overhead · no account managers · no upsells
York: Why Google Decides Who Gets the Calls
We see clear patterns in York: most calls for landscapers come from people in Fulford, Acomb, and customers who searched for 'landscaper near Harrogate' or 'landscaper in Fulford'. The trades that target those exact searches get most of the work.
In York, the catchment for landscapers includes Haxby, The Groves, Acomb, and the wider YO area. Calls for drainage issues and fencing make up the bulk of what comes through the door.
How Local SEO Actually Works for You
For landscapers working York, the picture looks like this. Most landscapers in York are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. Specifically: a real website hosted on Vercel (loads in under two seconds anywhere in the UK), a Google Business Profile run weekly with new posts and photos, automatic review request texts after every job, and a monthly report that shows ranking changes in plain English. That's the system.
Landscapers working York get a slightly different setup than other trades. We focus the keyword targeting on the urgent landscaper searches (the ones with words like "drainage issues" and "garden redesigns"). We structure the landscaper website so the phone number is always visible.
Bread-and-butter jobs for landscapers: garden redesigns, drainage issues, lawn maintenance. The customers searching for a landscaper are usually homeowners wanting garden makeovers, new patios, fencing, or ongoing maintenance, and they Google before they call.
What Most Local Owners Get Wrong
Landscapers in York are competing with 40-90 other listings for the same calls. Here is what separates the busy landscapers from the ones whose phones have gone quiet. Your competitors with worse work and fewer years of experience are getting more calls than you. It is not because they are better. It is because Google shows them first.
Real Clients We Already Run
For landscapers working York, the picture looks like this. Most landscapers in York are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. The honest version: we have seven paying clients. That is why we can give every one of them a phone number and answer it. When we have seventy, we will still give you a phone number, but a different one.
Next Step: A Free Audit
If you want to know whether any of this would actually work for your business, the fastest answer is a free audit. We pull your Google listing, look at your site, check who's ranking above you locally, and tell you what we'd fix. No sales pitch attached. No commitment.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Our SEO work is opinionated. We do not chase every algorithm update. We focus on the things that have moved local rankings for the last decade: relevance to the search term, prominence (reviews and citations), and proximity to the searcher. Everything else is noise.
Missed-Call Text-Back
The maths on missed-call text-back is simple: most callers do not leave a voicemail, but most do read text messages. So the auto-text catches the calls voicemail loses. For an average UK trade that is 10-15 saved calls a week.
Review Automation
We integrate the reviews automation with whatever system you use to track jobs. Could be a job sheet, could be Google Calendar, could be a quick text from you. The trigger is flexible. The reply text is the same.
What It Costs
Pricing in two lines: £199 once, then £199 every month. The website is yours to keep. The minimum is three months. After that, leave whenever, no notice period.
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?
One job from Google pays for the month. The price is £199 setup and £199 a month. Less than £6.70 a day. Cancel after the third month if it isn't working out.
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?
No tech skills needed. We built this for trades and small business owners who do not want to mess with WordPress or Wix or Google Search Console. We do all of that. You run your business.
What if I already have a website?
No problem. We can keep your existing site and improve it, or rebuild it from scratch, your call. Your domain stays the same. Your old URLs keep working. Nothing breaks for your existing customers.
How long until I see results?
We cannot promise specific numbers because nobody honest can. What we can promise is that the work gets done every week, you get a real monthly report, and most clients see their first new enquiry from Google within four to six weeks.
Can I cancel?
Three months in, then cancel any time. The website is yours forever. We hand over the domain and the codebase if you want them, or we leave the site running and just stop the management work.
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