Leeds SEO Agency
SEO Agency in Leeds, Worked by Senior Specialists
A good SEO agency in Leeds should get you found in three places: Google's results, the local map pack and the answers AI assistants give. With Essheo, a senior specialist works your account from the first audit onwards, never a junior.
- Search platforms optimised, from Google to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Reddit and YouTube
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Some of the brands we have worked with
Who this is for
Who we work with in Leeds
Essheo is based in West Yorkshire. We work with businesses across Leeds and the wider county, from the city centre to the towns around it, and we meet Leeds and Yorkshire clients in person; training sessions can run on site at your premises too. On Google, a search for an agency here opens with a map pack of Leeds firms, above the agency pages and directory listings.
Trades and home improvement firms
Plumbers, heating engineers and installers covering the city and surrounding towns compete for a place in the map pack when people search for their trade. We set up the Google Business Profile, a steady review routine and the service pages behind a strong listing.
Professional services firms
Solicitors, accountants and financial advisers, including firms in the financial quarter, often find national comparison sites holding their results. We write pages under a named expert and complete the local profile.
Online shops and Shopify brands
In e-commerce the top results often belong to retailers with seven-figure budgets. Through E-commerce SEO and Shopify SEO, we structure collection and product pages to appear in Google and AI product recommendations, as we did for Hay Day, a Yorkshire Shopify brand.
In-house teams and site rebuilds
A redesign or platform move can cost years of rankings. If you have your own marketers or developers, we write tickets and briefs they can act on, run the migration as a project and train your team.
What we do
How people in Leeds choose a local business now
Whether it is "solicitor near me" in the financial quarter or a shop owner on the Headrow looking for a plumber, a local search starts the same way. For searches like these the map pack sits above the ordinary results, so your Google Business Profile, with its reviews, opening hours and photos, is often judged before anyone opens your website.
What to expect from an SEO agency in Leeds
Our SEO Services retainer covers five areas, weighted to your needs at each stage.
Technical foundations
Crawling, indexation, speed and structured data, fixed first so the site stops holding good content back. Our Technical SEO work covers migrations and redesigns too.
Content for local searches
Service pages and guides built around the questions your buyers ask, including "near me" phrasing, and laid out so AI answers can quote them.
Google Business Profile, citations and reviews
Categories, services, photos and posts, one consistent name, address and phone number on every listing, and a review strategy. Google leans heavily on the profile for the map pack, and our Local SEO service covers it all.
Authority and regional PR
Links earned through Digital PR, never bought. Coverage in local and regional press also supports your map pack visibility.
Reporting you can read
Rankings by Leeds postcode, map pack and AI visibility, enquiries by area, leads and revenue, with commentary on what changed.
Pages for each area you serve
Say you work in the city centre but also take jobs in towns around Leeds such as Horsforth and Wetherby. Before writing a page for either town, we check three things: the work you want there, how local people phrase their searches, and which competitors already hold that town's map pack. The answers shape each page's opening and the services it features. Work in Bradford or Wakefield is checked the same way before any page is written.
Named in AI answers as well as on Google
A financial adviser in the financial quarter now has a second list to get onto: the few firms an AI assistant names when someone asks who to use. Getting onto that list depends on things you can influence: a complete Google Business Profile, reviews that keep arriving, talk on local forums and community groups, and details that match everywhere. We have run Generative Engine Optimisation since launch and track prompts like these monthly.
How it works
Your first three months, then every month after
Insights
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The Business Case for Investing in Local SEO
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How Google Maps Rankings Impact Revenue
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no set price. The work is scoped to the size of your site and how competitive your market is, and we quote after looking at your site on a call. After an initial three-month term, it runs month to month.
It depends on the cover you need. A good freelance SEO expert gives you one experienced person. With us, senior people cover technical work, content, links and AI search, and we keep our client list short so every account gets their time.
Technical and on-page fixes usually bring the first gains in four to eight weeks. The most competitive terms typically need six to twelve months to move properly. By day ninety you should see which way things are heading.
Only if it pays for itself, and we aim for that in the first few months through pages already close to ranking. We do not guarantee rankings, since nobody controls Google. You can count on 8+ years' experience from everyone involved, and on seeing what was done each month.
No one can promise it: assistants do not give the same answer every time, and the platforms change often. We can make it more likely and track whether it is working. The fastest lever is fixing conflicting business details, which can change citations within weeks. Being talked about elsewhere builds more slowly, over three to six months.
Yes. The sessions are practical, half a day or a full day, and cover SEO basics, GEO and AI visibility, Google Ads, writing content for search, and measurement. We deliver them remotely or at your offices.
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