Business Opt
Maesteg, Wales

SEO in Maesteg

For local businesses in Maesteg, Cwmavon and Sarn.

People near you search for: plumbers maesteg, roofers maesteg, builders maesteg.

When somebody in Maesteg needs what you sell, they search once, look at what comes back, and ring somebody. There is not a long list to get onto here, which cuts both ways.

If you are not in those few you never find out it happened. You cannot see the customers you did not get.

We get you found in search results: profile, reviews, pages and listings, all saying the same thing. Only a few things get searched by name here, which means the margin for being slightly wrong about them is thin.

The plan

What we would do in Maesteg

Almost never one big thing. Several small ones, and in a market this size fixing even two of them usually changes the order.

01
Cover the few trades that carry this marketA handful of trades carry most of what gets searched in Maesteg, with plumbing at the front of them on about 70 searches a month. That is a short enough list to cover properly, which is not true of every place, and it means the whole job here is finite.
02
Ads are cheap here, so run them alongsideClicks in Maesteg sit in the cheaper quarter of everywhere we cover, so ads are an inexpensive way to have something working while the slower job matures. The auction is not empty, so treat them as a supplement rather than the whole plan.
03
Set your area across the boundary, not up to itMaesteg sits where more than one council meets. Cwmavon, under eight kilometres away, is Neath Port Talbot, and Treherbert, under eleven kilometres away, is Rhondda Cynon Taf. Very little else nearby puts that many authorities within reach of one business, which means the area you can realistically serve is wider than your postcode suggests. We set your service area to match where you actually go, not where the boundary happens to fall.
04
Give every service its own pageFew trades are searched here by name, which makes the ones that are matter more rather than less. Give each of them a page of its own instead of a line on a shared one. In Maesteg that means a plumber, a roofer, a builder before anything else.
05
Fix what the site is quietly doing wrongPages that take four seconds to load, headings that describe nothing, three URLs serving the same content. None of it is visible to you and all of it is visible to Google, and it caps how far the writing can carry you.
06
Earn links from places that are actually localThere are only so many of these in a place the size of Maesteg, which makes them worth having and quick to exhaust, so we start with the ones that will actually answer. A supplier, a trade body, the local paper, whatever you sponsor.
The market

What Maesteg is worth

The searches here are real but there are not many of them, which changes what winning means: a high share of a small number rather than a slice of a big one. That is the shape of the market you are in.

The few trades searched here are not worth the same. A building search costs an advertiser under three pounds and a plumbing one under seven pounds, which tells you plainly which of them carries the money. Nobody pays that gap for a visitor unless the job behind it is worth it.

If you travel, the nearest markets are Cwmavon at under eight kilometres, Sarn at under nine kilometres, Pyle at under ten kilometres. Each is its own search: being found in Maesteg does not put you in front of anybody there, which is why they have their own pages rather than a line on this one.

It is a narrow set of trades rather than a broad one, which means the few that are searched here are searched deliberately, by people who want somebody local.

Straight answers

Questions people ask

The arrangement

How it works

First, a free analysis of the Maesteg search results for what you sell: what you rank for now, what you could rank for, and how much of the gap is work on your own site rather than anything outside it. It is a short one, because this is not a complicated market: you will know inside a page or two where you stand and what is in the way. You keep it whatever you decide to do next.

Nothing to pay until the work is bringing you enquiries and has covered its own cost. One business per trade in Maesteg, and that covers both sides of the boundary from here, because it is one market to you even though it is two councils. Rolling, cancel whenever.

Areas

Areas we cover around Maesteg

Every area, and every service we run in it. Maesteg is where you are now.

Also covered from here: Cwmavon, Sarn, Pyle, Treherbert, Treorchy.

Find out where you rank in Maesteg

Free, honest, and we will tell you if we do not think we can get you there.