Business Opt
Grays, East of England

SEO in Grays

For local businesses in Grays, Chadwell St Mary and Tilbury.

People near you search for: plumbers grays, locksmiths grays, electricians grays, cleaners grays.

When somebody in Grays 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, and here that is most businesses most of the time.

We get you found in search results: your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your pages and your listings, all pointing the same way so you are what people nearby see.

The plan

What we would do in Grays

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

01
Cover the few trades that carry this marketA handful of trades carry most of what gets searched in Grays, with plumbing at the front of them on about 260 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
Do not start with ads hereWe would not start you on ads here. Clicks in Grays are dear and the auction is busy, so paying your way in means paying a premium to sit next to people who are already established. The map and the pages come first, and ads go on top later.
03
Set your area across the boundary, not up to itGrays sits where more than one council meets. Swanscombe, under five kilometres away, is Dartford, and Northfleet, under six kilometres away, is Gravesham. 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 pageOne page per thing you sell, because nobody searches for "our services". A page that tries to cover everything ranks for nothing in particular. In Grays that means a plumber, a locksmith, an electrician before anything else.
05
Fix what the site is quietly doing wrongIn a market as fought as Grays this is usually the difference between fourth and first, because everyone above you has already dealt with theirs. Pages that take four seconds to load, headings that describe nothing, three URLs serving the same content: invisible to you and perfectly visible to Google.
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 Grays does more for a local business than a hundred from anywhere else.
The market

What Grays 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 is not the same as volume. A cleaning search here costs an advertiser over three pounds. A locksmith search costs around £25. Nobody pays several times more for a visitor unless the job at the end is worth several times more, so the size of a market and the value of it are two different questions.

Barely 20 searches a month here are businesses seeking this out. Most of the firms you compete with are not thinking about it at all, which makes the top of the results cheaper to reach than it will be later.

If you travel, the nearest markets are Chadwell St Mary at under three kilometres, Tilbury at under four kilometres, Chafford Hundred and West Thurrock at under four kilometres. Each is its own search: being found in Grays 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, which tells you the habit here is local rather than people defaulting to the nearest big town for everything.

Timing

When the work comes in around Grays

Search for electrical in Grays peaks in October and bottoms out in June, with four times as much volume at the top of the year as at the bottom. Every trade has its own shape here, and that one is the sharpest.

Which means being in position before October rather than starting in it. Rankings take weeks to move and the competition here is heaviest exactly when the demand is, so arriving in the busy month means arriving behind everyone who was already there.

Straight answers

Questions people ask

The arrangement

How it works

First, a free analysis of the Grays 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. Grays is contested enough that this is the part that matters most, because it is where we work out whether the businesses above you can be passed at all. You keep it, and if the answer is that they cannot, you get told that in plain terms.

You pay us nothing until the work has covered its own cost, which in a market this contested is the only honest way to sell it. One business per trade in Grays, 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 Grays

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

Also covered from here: Chadwell St Mary, Tilbury, Chafford Hundred and West Thurrock, Swanscombe, Northfleet.

Find out where you rank in Grays

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