How Portsmouth Letting Agents Are Filling Their Diary from Google
Portsmouth's letting-agents are some of the best in the country. The problem is the customers searching on Google can't find them. That's the only thing this fixes.
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Working Portsmouth as a letting-agent
Portsmouth is interesting because the housing is dense victorian and edwardian terraces, inter-war suburbs on the mainland, and modern waterfront developments and that drives the kind of jobs that come up. The customers are mostly searching by area name (think 'letting-agent in Fratton' or 'letting-agent near Southsea') so the local SEO needs to be tuned for those exact phrases.
If you cover Eastney, Fratton, Copnor and the surrounding PO postcodes as a letting-agent in Portsmouth, your customers are mostly searching for tenant finding or property maintenance management. The letting-agent work in Portsmouth tends to come in waves once your Google listing starts ranking for the right neighbourhood searches.
What We Do
Letting Agents in Portsmouth are competing with 25-50 other listings for the same calls. Here is what separates the busy letting-agents from the ones whose phones have gone quiet. It is a one-stop replacement for: a freelance web developer, an SEO agency, a review-collection tool, and a missed-call answering service. All four jobs done by one person, for less than what most agencies charge for half of one of them.
Specifically for letting-agents in Portsmouth, we monitor about 25 local search terms that bring buying intent for letting-agent services. We update your Google profile weekly with fresh photos and posts, and we run automatic review requests after every letting-agent job. The whole letting-agent package costs £199/month.
Most calls letting-agents get are for void periods, rent collection, or legal compliance. The work is governed by ARLA Propertymark, Client Money Protection, The Property Ombudsman and the typical letting-agent customer is landlords with rental properties, property investors, accidental landlords. Most letting-agents we work with see those exact problems make up four out of five jobs.
Why Letting Agents Lose Calls Around Here
Letting Agents in Portsmouth are competing with 25-50 other listings for the same calls. Here is what separates the busy letting-agents from the ones whose phones have gone quiet. You can spot a business that has not done the Google work because the owner is always 'a bit slow this month'. The trades with sorted listings are not slow, ever. They might be picky about which jobs they take, but slow is not a thing.
Real Clients We Already Run
For letting-agents working Portsmouth, the picture looks like this. Most letting-agents in Portsmouth are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. What we have instead of fancy case studies: seven real businesses paying us monthly. Plumbers in three different towns. Heating engineers in two more. A paving firm. A bathroom fitter. All English-speaking owners we text directly.
Next Step: A Free Audit
Click the audit button. Spend 20 seconds telling us your business name. Get a real audit back the same day, often within an hour. Decide whether to hire us afterwards. That is the entire process.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
We track every keyword you should be ranking for and check positions weekly. When something drops, we fix it that week, not next month. The monthly report shows every keyword and the change versus last month, in plain English.
Missed-Call Text-Back
When you are on a job and the phone rings, you cannot always answer. The system fires off a text within seconds: 'Hi, can't pick up right now, I'll be back to you shortly. What's the issue?'. Roughly a third of those calls turn into jobs you would otherwise have lost completely.
Review Automation
Customers who would have left a review forget to within 24 hours. The automation catches them in the window when they remember, while the job is still fresh. That window is the entire game with online reviews.
What It Costs
Compare it to the alternatives: an SEO agency would charge you £600-1,500 a month and lock you into a year. A web designer would charge you £2,000-5,000 for the site alone and walk away. We charge £199 for the site and £199 a month for the management, all in.
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?
Standard price is £199 once and £199 every month after. The website is included in the setup fee and you own it forever. Three months minimum, then rolling.
What do you actually do every month?
Plain English: we make your business show up first when people Google for what you do nearby, we make sure no calls get lost when you cannot answer, and we show you exactly what changed every month.
Do I need to do anything technical?
We handle every technical step. Website build, hosting, domain setup, DNS, Google Business Profile verification, schema markup, analytics. None of that is your job. You just answer the phone when calls come in.
What if I already have a website?
Easy. We migrate the existing site across and keep everything that is working. The domain stays yours. We just rebuild it on faster infrastructure and fix the things that are losing you calls.
How long until I see results?
We do not guarantee a number of leads or a ranking position because nobody can do that legitimately. We guarantee the work is done, the report is honest, and the system stays running. The results follow if you let it run for the three-month minimum.
Can I cancel?
Three-month minimum, then rolling. Cancel whenever, no fuss. The website stays yours, the domain stays yours, and we send you a clean handover so nothing breaks.
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