SEO consulting services

Hire an SEO consultant who can turn search problems into practical work.

SEO Rank Genius helps teams diagnose technical SEO issues, prioritise organic growth opportunities, and build search strategies that work for both Google and AI-assisted discovery.

By SEO Rank Genius Team | Updated 25 June 2026 | Technical SEO, content strategy and organic growth
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What hiring an SEO should actually solve

Hiring an SEO is not just buying rankings. A good SEO consultant helps your team understand why search engines do or do not trust, crawl, render, index, and rank your website.

The right support should turn vague issues like "traffic is down" or "Google is not indexing our pages" into a clear set of actions for content, design, development, and leadership teams.

Technical clarity
Find crawl, rendering, canonical, indexation, speed, and architecture issues that limit search performance.
Search strategy
Identify the topics, entities, pages, and content formats most likely to grow qualified organic visibility.
Implementation support
Translate SEO recommendations into prioritised tickets, plain-English briefs, and measurable outcomes.

When should you hire an SEO?

You should consider SEO support when your website has organic potential but needs expert direction. This is especially important before a major redesign, CMS migration, domain move, JavaScript rebuild, ecommerce launch, or international expansion.

SEO is also valuable when Google Search Console shows persistent indexing issues, rankings have dropped after a technical change, or content is being published without a clear search demand model.

What SEO Rank Genius can help with

  • Technical SEO audits and crawl diagnostics.
  • Indexation, canonical, sitemap, robots.txt, and URL structure reviews.
  • JavaScript SEO, rendering checks, Core Web Vitals, and page speed recommendations.
  • Content strategy, topical authority planning, entity optimisation, and internal linking.
  • Website migration planning, launch checks, redirect mapping, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Structured data, FAQ schema, article schema, ecommerce schema, and AI-ready content formatting.

SEO service costs and pricing guide

SEO pricing depends on website size, technical complexity, content volume, development resource, migration risk, analytics setup, and how much hands-on support your team needs.

SEO Health Check

£650-£1,200

A focused technical and content audit for small sites, new projects, or teams that need clear priorities before investing in ongoing SEO.

  • Technical crawl review
  • Indexing and canonical checks
  • Priority action list
  • Search visibility quick wins
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Growth SEO Retainer

£1,500-£3,500/month

Ongoing SEO support for growing businesses that need technical fixes, content direction, reporting, and search strategy every month.

  • Monthly technical SEO support
  • Content and keyword strategy
  • Internal linking improvements
  • Performance reporting
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Technical SEO Partner

£4,000+/month

Senior SEO support for larger websites, ecommerce stores, migrations, JavaScript SEO, complex indexing issues, and cross-team delivery.

  • Enterprise technical SEO
  • Migration and launch support
  • Log file and crawl analysis
  • Developer-ready recommendations
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Important: these are guide prices, not fixed quotes. A 50-page brochure site and a 500,000 URL ecommerce platform need very different levels of SEO investigation, implementation, and monitoring.

How the SEO consulting process works

The first step is understanding your website, business model, existing organic visibility, and the constraints your team is working with. From there, the work is prioritised around impact and feasibility.

  1. Discovery: review your website, analytics access, Search Console data, commercial goals, and known issues.
  2. Diagnosis: identify technical blockers, content gaps, crawl waste, cannibalisation, and ranking opportunities.
  3. Prioritisation: separate urgent fixes from lower-value SEO tasks so your team knows what to do first.
  4. Delivery: provide recommendations, implementation notes, content direction, monitoring, and reporting.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to hire an SEO consultant?

SEO consulting commonly ranges from a focused audit at around £650 to ongoing technical SEO retainers from £1,500 per month. Larger websites, ecommerce platforms, migrations, and JavaScript-heavy sites usually need a larger budget because there is more analysis, coordination, and implementation support involved.

What does an SEO consultant do?

An SEO consultant audits how search engines crawl, render, understand, and rank a website. They identify technical blockers, content gaps, internal linking opportunities, indexation issues, structured data improvements, and strategic priorities that can improve organic visibility.

When should I hire an SEO?

Hire an SEO when organic traffic is flat, rankings have dropped, a site migration is planned, Google Search Console shows indexing issues, a new website is being launched, or internal teams need expert SEO direction before development work begins.

Do you offer one-off SEO audits?

Yes. A one-off SEO health check is useful when you need a clear diagnosis, prioritised fixes, and a practical roadmap without committing to a monthly retainer.

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Tell us about your website and what you need help with. The more context you provide, the easier it is to recommend the right level of support.