Local SEO for Recruitment Agencies in Edinburgh That Actually Ranks
Being good at the work isn't enough in Edinburgh anymore. You also need to show up when someone in Leith or Marchmont types your trade into their phone. That's the bit we do.
7 paying UK clients · all in the trades · all on monthly plans
Edinburgh: Why Google Decides Who Gets the Calls
If you cover Edinburgh and the surrounding postcodes (EH), the catchment is plenty big enough to keep you busy year-round. The constraint is visibility, not demand. Sort the visibility and the calls come in.
Across the EH postcode area in Edinburgh, recruitment-agencies mostly handle finding skilled candidates and high staff turnover. The neighbourhoods we see most recruitment-agency calls from in Edinburgh are Marchmont, Portobello and Stockbridge.
How Local SEO Actually Works for You
Here is what we tell recruitment-agencies working Edinburgh and the surrounding areas when they ask the obvious question. The Google ranking for recruitment-agency searches in Edinburgh is decided by the things most recruitment-agencies never touch. We don't sell you a thing and run. We run the entire online side of your business: Google listing, website, reviews, the lot. You get a monthly report and a phone number to text if anything is broken.
Most recruitment-agencies in Edinburgh we work with already have a website that is not ranking for recruitment-agency searches and a Google profile that is half-empty. We rebuild the recruitment-agency website on faster infrastructure and rebuild the recruitment-agency profile from scratch with proper categories, photos and weekly posts.
Most recruitment-agencies get the same kinds of calls: industry-specific recruitment, finding skilled candidates, and temp to perm transitions. Recruitment Agencies 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 recruitment-agencies working Edinburgh (especially around Leith and Marchmont), this is the unflattering bit nobody warns recruitment-agency owners about. Most recruitment-agencies in Edinburgh are invisible for the urgent searches that bring jobs. The brutal version: if you Googled your own business name plus your town right now, and you're not on page one with a full Google profile, photos, and reviews, you're losing work every week. Maybe every day.
Real Clients We Already Run
In Edinburgh, the recruitment-agencies who keep their diary full are not the cheapest or the best. They are the ones whose Google listing turns up first when somebody searches for recruitment-agency services in Edinburgh. We get your recruitment-agency listing into that group. Honest signal-to-noise: we charge real money to seven real UK businesses. We do not have free trials, partner programmes, affiliate links, or fake testimonials. Everything we do is paid for by people running their own trades businesses.
Next Step: A Free Audit
Click the audit button below and we will have a proper look at your business online. Site speed, Google listing health, where you rank versus competitors, what's missing. We send the audit back the same day. No follow-up sales calls unless you want one.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
The SEO work includes weekly Google Business Profile posts, a monthly fresh photo upload, citation consistency checks across the 30 directories Google watches, on-page optimisation tweaks based on what is ranking, and weekly position tracking. No copy-paste reports.
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
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
Two numbers. £199 once for the site itself, £199 every month for the management. The website is yours to keep even if you cancel. Three months minimum then rolling.
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?
Two numbers, no surprises. £199 for the website itself (built and hosted by us, yours to keep). £199 a month after that for the management. Three months minimum.
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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