SEO · Durham and County Durham · Based in Bishop Auckland
SEO Agency Durham Local SEO that gets you found.
We are an SEO agency based in Bishop Auckland, so County Durham is not a page on our website, it is where we live. Local SEO for Durham businesses: your Google Business Profile done properly, rankings across the towns you actually serve, and traffic that turns into enquiries rather than a report. It starts with a free written audit you keep either way.
- 1Your business
- 2Competitor
- 3Directory
Every ten miles the pack changes. We rank you town by town, from our base in Bishop Auckland.
01Local SEO
Why local SEO matters for Durham businesses
County Durham is not one place. It is a cathedral city, a dozen market towns and a lot of villages between them, and the Google map pack moves every ten miles. A roofer in Chester-le-Street competes with Gateshead firms from the north. A solicitor in Durham City competes with the pull of the university. A garage in Newton Aycliffe is in a different market from one in Peterlee. City SEO is about winning one dense area. Durham SEO is about deciding which towns deserve a page of their own and which are better served by one strong regional page, then earning both.
Proximity is part of how Google decides local results, and it is part of how customers decide too. A national SEO firm with a “Durham” page has never stood on Silver Street or driven the A688 to Barnard Castle. We are in Bishop Auckland. We know which towns people mean when they say “up the county” and which searches actually lead to a phone call here.
That knowledge goes into the work: proper service pages, honest town pages only where the demand justifies them, a Google Business Profile that is actually maintained, and content that answers the questions people in County Durham type into Google at ten o’clock at night.
- Durham City
- Bishop Auckland
- Chester-le-Street
- Consett
- Stanley
- Spennymoor
- Newton Aycliffe
- Seaham
- Peterlee
- Crook
- Shildon
- Barnard Castle
What the audit shows you
One business, six towns, six different results.
A ranking is not a number, it is a number per town. The audit maps where you sit in Durham City, Bishop Auckland, Consett and the rest, so the plan starts from what is true rather than from a county-wide average that hides where you are losing.
Get your own map, freeSame business, six towns, six different results. The audit shows you this for your own site before any work starts.
02How we work
Our approach
Audit first, plan second, work third. You can stop at any step and keep everything produced so far.
- Week 1–2
Audit everything
Rankings by town, your profile, your competitors, your site. Where money is leaking and where the quick wins are.
You getA written audit, yours to keep - Week 3
The plan
One page. Which towns, which pages, which fixes, in what order, and what each should produce.
You getA one-page plan with costs - Month 1–3
Ship the work
Fixes weekly, content and pages monthly, profile maintained throughout. A short note every week in plain English.
You getA weekly note, no login needed - Month 3+
Cut and double down
Each month we drop what did not move and push what did. Deliberate decisions, not lucky breaks.
You getA monthly call and a revised plan
03The plan
What's included
The SEO + Fixes + Growth plan is £500 a month with no long contract, the same plan as on our pricing page. This is what a Durham client receives every month.
- Google Business Profile, maintainedCategory, service areas, photos, posts and a review request process. The map pack is where local money is.
- Four blogs a monthWritten for the questions people in County Durham search: costs, comparisons, how long it takes, whether it is worth it.
- Two new pages a monthService pages, town pages where demand is real, landing pages for offers. Structured to rank, written to be useful.
- On-page fixes, shipped weeklyTitles, internal links, schema, speed, indexing. Boring, and usually where the quickest wins are.
- Rankings tracked by townDurham City, Bishop Auckland, Consett and the rest reported separately, because they are separate results.
- A weekly note in plain EnglishWhat changed and what it did. No dashboard you need a login to decode. A monthly call with the revised plan.
04Proof
Durham client results
We do not publish numbers we cannot stand behind, and we do not attach a client’s name to a figure without asking them first. What we can show you now is how results are measured, and the trades builds already on the site.
- 01Every enquiry is tracked to its source, so a result means calls and forms, not a ranking screenshot
- 02Rankings are reported by town, not as one county-wide average that hides where you are losing
- 03Gutters.co.uk and Smart Plus Heating are on the site: trades that live or die by local search, built to rank for the job, not just the company name
- 04Ask on the call and we will walk you through a live client account, with their permission, rather than a case study written for a website
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05Start here
Get a free audit
Tell us your website and where in County Durham you work. You get a written audit in plain English within a working day: where you rank by town, what is holding you back, and what we would do first. It is yours whether or not you hire us.
Next step
Based in Bishop Auckland, working across County Durham.
Start with the audit. Written, honest, and yours to keep. Or call and we will talk through where you are ranking right now.