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SEO Consultant - 7 Years Experience

SEO that moves
the bottom line.

If your business relies on people finding you online, you need SEO that actually moves the needle. I work with local businesses, national brands and ecommerce operators across the UK to turn organic search into a consistent, measurable source of revenue.

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YoY organic revenue uplift
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Increase in form submissions
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Non-brand organic traffic growth
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Growth in qualified organic leads
What I do

SEO built around
business outcomes

Every engagement starts with understanding what success looks like for your business - then building an SEO strategy to get there.

Local SEO
Single location or multi-site, I help businesses dominate local search results and Google Business Profile - turning nearby searches into real enquiries.
Technical SEO
Site migrations, crawl efficiency, Core Web Vitals, schema markup and architecture - fixing the foundations that hold your rankings back.
On-Page SEO
Keyword research, content optimisation and metadata that aligns with search intent - making every page work harder for the right audience.
Content Strategy
Data-led content planning that targets high-intent queries, fills gaps competitors are missing, and builds topical authority at scale.
AI Search (GEO)
Nobody is a GEO expert yet - the field is too new and changing too fast. What I offer is informed, tested practice applied since AI search first emerged.
SEO Consultancy
Strategy, audits and ongoing advice for businesses that have a team or agency but need direction - not just another set of hands. Available beyond standard retainers.
Scope of work

Local roots.
National reach.

Whether you have one location or a hundred, I have the experience to build and scale an SEO strategy that fits.

Local
Single-location businesses
Restaurants, clinics, salons, tradespeople - businesses that need to rank in their town or city and convert local searchers into customers.
Multi-location
Any business with more than one site
From small clinic groups and independent retailers to franchises and national networks - any business with multiple locations that needs consistent local visibility across each of them.
National, Ecommerce & International
Businesses without a fixed location
Ecommerce brands, national service businesses and digitally-native companies - as well as businesses expanding into international markets with market-specific content and architecture.
Industries I've worked in
Automotive Hospitality Ecommerce Telecoms Legal Healthcare Beauty & Cosmetics Fashion Trades & Construction Aesthetics Engineering
Case studies

Results that
speak for themselves

Every number here is tied to a real business outcome - not traffic for traffic's sake.

Home Heating Appliances Ecommerce
+£170K
YoY increase in organic revenue
+50%
YoY organic revenue growth
How we got there
  • Identified high-potential new product collections
  • Optimised product pages with better content and on-page improvements
  • Migrated blog posts from subdomain to root to consolidate authority
  • Built backlinks to strengthen domain authority and rankings
Private Healthcare Clinic
+325%
Increase in contact form submissions
+859%
Increase in non-brand organic traffic
How we got there
  • Audited and optimised the staging site ahead of migration
  • Optimised Google Business Profile for local search
  • Mapped high-intent non-brand keywords to new service pages
  • Grew the site from 17 to 52 targeted pages
Hospitality - national pub group
+156%
Increase in organic form submissions
+210%
Increase in non-brand organic traffic
How we got there
  • Built a county and city/town location page hierarchy from scratch
  • Optimised core search page for high-intent commercial terms
  • Improved crawl efficiency through revised URL structure and sitemap
  • Scaled from a handful of pages to a nationwide location framework
SEARCH
2026
The landscape is shifting

Search has changed.
It will change more.

AI Overviews, zero-click results, entities, brand mentions, generative answers - the way people find businesses is being rewritten. These aren't future trends. They are happening now, and the pace is only going to accelerate. The businesses that adapt their SEO strategy now will build a compounding advantage. The ones that don't will feel it later.

58.5%
of Google searches now end without anyone clicking a single result
SparkToro / Datos, 2024
48%
of all Google searches now trigger an AI Overview - up 58% year on year
BrightEdge, 2026
The bottom line

How to judge whether
your SEO is working

Too many businesses are sold on metrics that don't matter. Here's the difference between SEO that looks good and SEO that actually is.

What actually matters
  • Revenue and leads from organic searchThe only metrics your business actually cares about
  • Non-brand visibility growthPeople who don't know you yet, finding you first
  • Conversion rate from organic trafficTraffic that enquires, buys, or books
  • Cost per acquisition vs paid channelsSEO's compounding return over time
Vanity metrics to ignore
  • Overall traffic volumeMeaningless without conversion context
  • Keyword rankings in isolationRanking for the wrong terms drives the wrong people
  • Domain Authority scoreA third-party metric, not a Google ranking factor
  • Number of backlinks builtQuality and relevance matter far more than volume
How I work

Simple, transparent,
results-first

No fluff, no jargon - just a clear process built around making things happen and proving the return.

01
Discovery
We start with a straight conversation about your business, goals, and what success looks like. No pitch, no jargon.
02
Audit & strategy
A full diagnostic of where you are, where the opportunity is, and a prioritised plan - ranked by commercial impact.
03
Implementation
I can implement directly or work alongside your team. Either way, things actually get done - not just recommended.
04
Measure & grow
Custom GA4, Looker Studio and tag management setups so reporting is built around your business, not a generic template. As results come in, we double down on what's working.
Right fit

I work best with
clients who are ready

SEO only works when recommendations are acted on. I'm selective about who I take on - because your results matter as much to me as they do to you.

You're a great fit if...
  • You're serious about organic growth as a long-term revenue channel
  • You have the capacity to implement changes - or are happy for me to
  • You want transparency about what's being done and why
  • You judge success by leads and revenue, not just rankings
  • You're willing to invest properly in content and technical improvements
We might not be right for each other if...
  • You need overnight results - SEO is a compounding, long-term investment
  • Recommendations sit in a backlog and never get implemented
  • You're looking for the cheapest option available
  • You want vanity metrics over genuine business impact
  • You're not willing to share access to the tools and data needed to do the job

I take on a limited number of clients at a time - so every business I work with gets hands-on attention, not a junior and a monthly report. It's the only way I can guarantee the work actually gets done.

About

Ben Duffy

7 years in SEOAgency-side experience across enterprise and SME clients
Enterprise & SMEAutomotive, hospitality, ecommerce, telecoms, legal, healthcare
Local to internationalSingle locations through to multi-market campaigns

I'm a UK-based freelance SEO consultant with 7 years of experience working agency-side on everything from single-location local businesses to national brands across automotive, hospitality, ecommerce, telecoms, legal, healthcare and more.

My background is in technical, on-page and local SEO - built on a foundation of data, clear thinking and an obsession with commercial outcomes. I've managed complex site migrations, built location page strategies from scratch and delivered content programmes that move the needle on leads and revenue.

I went independent because I wanted to work more directly with businesses who are ready to act - where the work I do translates quickly into results you can see, measure and build on.

If that sounds like you, let's find out if we're a good fit.

FAQ

Common questions,
straight answers

It depends on your starting point, your market, and how quickly changes get implemented. Local SEO tends to move faster than national campaigns - by focusing on the highest-impact actions first, most clients start to see meaningful movement sooner than they might expect. For broader national or international campaigns, allow longer. Either way, the businesses that see results fastest are the ones that act on recommendations quickly - which is why implementation capacity is the first thing I ask about.

It varies by client, but typically: ongoing technical monitoring, on-page optimisation, content strategy and production support, reporting tied to commercial KPIs, and regular strategy reviews. I don't do copy-paste reports - everything is tailored to what's actually moving the needle for your business.

Both. Alongside ongoing retainers, I offer consultancy for businesses that already have a team or agency but need strategic direction - a one-off audit, a growth strategy, or ongoing advisory. If you have the resource but lack the steer, that's exactly where I add value.

I can handle a significant amount of implementation directly - especially on WordPress-based sites. For more complex development work, I'll either work alongside your team or flag exactly what needs doing so nothing sits in a backlog. The goal is always to make sure things actually get done.

Yes. I work with UK-based businesses targeting international markets, as well as international clients looking to build UK or European visibility. International SEO - hreflang, market-specific content and architecture - is part of my core offering.

GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimisation - optimising your content to appear in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Be wary of anyone calling themselves a GEO expert. The discipline barely existed two years ago and it is still evolving rapidly. What I offer is informed, tested practice - not buzzwords - built on applying these principles since AI search first emerged and tracking what actually works. As more searches get answered directly by AI without a click, being the source those tools pull from is a real and growing competitive advantage.

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