SEO for York Letting Agents, Without the £1,500 Agency Bill
Built for letting-agents in York 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.
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York: Why Google Decides Who Gets the Calls
York is a particular kind of market. York Minster, medieval city walls, Shambles, railway museum, Viking and Roman heritage. The housing is mostly medieval city centre, georgian and victorian terraces, inter-war semis, and modern estates on the outskirts. We see calls coming from Bishopthorpe, Heworth, and the surrounding YO postcodes. If you cover those areas and you are not in the top of Google for them, that is the leak.
Looking at our existing letting-agents, the calls in York come overwhelmingly from Heworth, Clifton and the catchment around Easingwold. The letting-agent jobs in York are usually legal compliance or tenant finding, and the customer base is shaped by the property mix in those neighbourhoods.
How Local SEO Actually Works for You
Letting Agents in York 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. We handle the entire online side of your business so you do not have to. That means a website rebuild if your current one is broken or slow, your Google profile sorted out and run weekly, automatic review requests going out after each job, missed-call recovery so dropped calls turn into texts, real SEO work every week, and a monthly performance report you can actually read on a phone.
Most letting-agents in York we work with already have a website that is not ranking for letting-agent searches and a Google profile that is half-empty. We rebuild the letting-agent website on faster infrastructure and rebuild the letting-agent profile from scratch with proper categories, photos and weekly posts.
Most letting-agents get the same kinds of calls: void periods, tenant finding, and rent collection. Letting Agents 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 letting-agents working York, the picture looks like this. Most letting-agents in York are losing work to a handful of competitors with better-ranked Google listings. When you ask happy customers how they'd find someone like you, almost all of them say Google. So if Google isn't showing your business, the work goes to whoever it is showing. Doesn't matter how good you are at the actual job.
Real Clients We Already Run
Across the letting-agents we have spoken to in York, the same pattern keeps coming up. The letting-agents ranking in the top three of Google Maps for York get most of the calls. The Pontyclun plumber paid in two days. The Nottingham one paid in six. The bathroom fitter in Blackpool paid in four. The heating engineer in Liverpool paid in four. None of them were on a free trial. None of them got a discount. They all just looked at the work and said yes.
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
It is the cheapest way to get an immediate uplift in jobs because the customers were already calling you. They just gave up when nobody answered. The auto-text catches them mid-give-up and turns them back into a real conversation.
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
£199 setup. £199 a month. That covers the website, the Google profile, the reviews, the SEO, the missed-call texts, and a monthly report. Less than £6.70 a day.
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?
It is £199 a month plus a one-off £199 setup. Less than £6.70 a day. One job from Google pays for the month. Cancel anytime after the first three months.
What do you actually do every month?
Specifically: build and host your website, run your Google Business Profile weekly, set up review automation, set up missed-call text-back, write four blog posts a month, send a monthly report. That is the full list.
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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