Business Opt
Stourbridge, West Midlands

SEO in Stourbridge

For local businesses in Stourbridge, Brierley Hill and Hagley.

People near you search for: builders stourbridge, roofers stourbridge, plumbers stourbridge, locksmiths stourbridge.

When somebody in Stourbridge needs what you sell, they search, look at the first few results, and ring one. Most never scroll past the third.

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: your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your pages and your listings, all pointing the same way. Where a town searches for as many different jobs as this one does, that consistency is what stops you ranking for none of them.

The plan

What we would do in Stourbridge

It is rarely one big thing. It is several small ones, and they compound.

01
Decide the order you build pages inDemand in Stourbridge is spread across a lot of trades rather than concentrated in one. That makes the order you build in matter more than usual: a page each for the two or three you actually want the work from, before anything else, rather than one page that gestures at all of them.
02
Either route works, so pick on urgencyAds and the slower work are both reasonable starting points in Stourbridge, which is not true everywhere. Which one we pick comes down to how quickly you need the phone to ring against how long you can wait for something that keeps working after you stop paying.
03
Set your area across the boundary, not up to itStourbridge sits where more than one council meets. Hagley, under four kilometres away, is Bromsgrove, and Cradley Heath, under six kilometres away, is Sandwell. 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 pageNobody searches for "our services", and with this many trades searched separately here, a combined page loses every one of them. One page per thing you sell, each written as though it were the only thing you did. In Stourbridge that means a builder, a roofer, a plumber 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 localA supplier, a trade body, the local paper, the club you sponsor. A handful of links from things genuinely rooted in Stourbridge does more for a local business than a hundred from anywhere else.
The market

What Stourbridge is worth

The searches here are real and steady, and somebody is picking them up today. That is the market you are competing in.

Value and volume are not the same thing. An advertiser here pays under a pound for an electrical search and around £20 for a heating one, and across as many trades as this town searches for that spread is the map of where the money actually is. Nobody pays several times more for a visitor unless the job at the end is worth several times more.

Around 130 searches a month in Stourbridge come from businesses after this service. That is a steady trickle rather than a rush, so the field is moving, slowly, and there is still room near the front.

If you travel, the nearest markets are Brierley Hill at under three kilometres, Hagley at under four kilometres, Kingswinford at under five kilometres. Each is its own search: being found in Stourbridge 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 not one trade either. Across this many separate trades being searched by name, the habit here is clearly local rather than people defaulting to the nearest big town.

Timing

When Stourbridge is busiest

Demand here is not flat across the year. Four of the eleven trades we track in Stourbridge peak in September, which is when the searches are there to be won and also when everyone else is bidding for them.

The work takes weeks to show, so starting in September is starting too late. Build through the quiet months and you are already in position when it comes round.

Straight answers

Questions people ask

The arrangement

How it works

First, a free analysis of the Stourbridge 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 costs nothing, there is nothing to sign, and you keep it whether or not we end up working together.

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

Areas

Areas we cover around Stourbridge

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

Also covered from here: Hagley, Cradley Heath.

Find out where you rank in Stourbridge

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