SEO strategy: a step-by-step guide
SEO compounds like interest. The right work done early pays back far more over time, but the order matters: rankings first, then traffic, then leads.
Is your search pulling its weight?
Get your free search auditPaid and organic search is all we do, and we’ve spent 14 years in it. One senior team runs your SEO and PPC together, so each informs the other, and you get one report for both.
We have a soft spot for long relationships, the kind where the results show up in revenue. Once growth needs to come faster, most of those clients have us run SEO and PPC together.
Six ways they help each other, none of them theoretical – and most of them get lost when the two sit with different agencies. Plus what the engagement covers.
Get your free search auditWinning a competitive term organically takes months. Paid search shows you within weeks which terms bring in enquiries, at what cost and with which wording, so the content plan is built on purchase data rather than search volume. It only works if the same people read both sets of numbers.
Ad rank depends on more than your bid. Relevance and landing page experience count too, and the page work that earns organic positions is largely the same work that improves both. We won’t put a number on it here: the effect is real, but its size depends on your account.
Paid search buys the terms you haven’t earned yet. Once organic is holding a term properly, the sensible move is often to scale back paid on it and move that budget to the next terms you don’t own. That’s a call you can only make when one team sees the whole picture.
Both channels report into the same tracking setup, with the same definition of a qualified enquiry and the same value per outcome. You get one figure for what search brought in and what it cost, broken down by channel, instead of two reports that add up to more conversions than you had customers.
Paid search can settle a test of a headline, an offer or a page layout in a fortnight, because it can send controlled traffic to it. Whatever wins goes into the organic pages, where the traffic is free but the feedback is slow.
The negative keywords that keep job-seekers, students and competitors out of your paid account also keep them out of your organic keyword set. Same search patterns, same wrong intent, same fix – done once.
Organic: technical foundations, keyword sets grouped by the search results they share, the pages closest to ranking rewritten first, digital PR, international structure and AI search visibility. Paid: search campaigns built around intent, Shopping, Performance Max run with the controls Google still gives you, remarketing with frequency caps, and Microsoft Ads (Bing) where your category supports it. Across both: the measurement setup, shared filters for the wrong searches, one list of priorities and one monthly report.
Before we talk, we look at your search – organic results, ads and AI answers – to find what's holding your growth back. Our founder, who has spent 14 years in search, then takes you through what we find in 30 minutes. Nothing to prepare, no obligation.
You'll come away with:
“Quick, easy to work with, and they often sort things out before I’ve even had time to worry.”Suad Dimiraca, HyrBox
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We run SEO and PPC as one engagement: one team, one list of priorities and one figure for everything search brings in.
Both sides at once: where you rank, what your ads are costing you, which searches are bringing in enquiries, what your competitors are winning organically and in the ad auction, and whether AI answers mention you at all. What we find is yours to use, whether or not you hire us.
SEO and PPC go on one list, ranked by what moves revenue first. Sometimes that means fixing the paid account before we write a word of content. We'll also flag the parts you could handle in-house.
Tracking comes first, because if the measurement is broken, both channels are guessing. Then the work, in order of priority, with a named specialist across both channels and one report that starts with your enquiries and sales.
Senior specialists across SEO and paid search, backed by 30 systems we’ve built in-house that run around the clock. Everything the systems produce is checked by a person before it reaches your site.


Named senior specialists run your SEO and PPC and are your contacts – the same people over time, with no account managers in between. Backed by analysts, technical specialists and the team that builds our 30 in-house systems.
Four promises we make to every client.
You should be able to trust the numbers and justify them – to yourselves, your management team and your board. No black box.
Growth should be something you notice day to day and see in your revenue – not in clicks and impressions.
A relationship that gathers pace over the years. We understand you better every day, and the results build rather than tail off.
Because we can't help it, and because we only win when you do. Our job is to stay ahead, so you never have to wonder whether your agency is keeping up.
SEO compounds like interest. The right work done early pays back far more over time, but the order matters: rankings first, then traffic, then leads.
Most Google searches already end without a click. Pages cited in AI Overviews get more clicks than those left out, and that calls for a different approach.
In one study, pages ranking first on Google appeared in AI answers 25% of the time. GEO is about becoming the source AI quotes in its answers.