SEO that gets you found by people ready to buy.

Rankings on their own do not pay anyone. We work on the searches that end in a call, a quote or a checkout — then show you exactly which ones did.

Why SEO Stalls

Most SEO reports look great and change nothing.

If you have paid for SEO before, you probably recognise the pattern. A monthly PDF full of green arrows, a keyword list nobody searches, and a phone that rings exactly as often as it did last year.

The work below is what we actually do instead. It is not clever. It is just done properly, in the right order, and tied to revenue rather than to a dashboard.

What usually goes wrong

  • Keywords chosen because they are easy, not because they convert
  • Technical problems that were never fixed at the source
  • Thin pages written for a crawler instead of a customer
  • Links bought from directories that Google discounted years ago
  • Reports that show traffic but never revenue
  • No local presence, so the map pack goes to a competitor
What Is Included

Eight pieces of work, not one vague retainer.

Every campaign draws on these. Which ones lead depends on what your audit turns up.

Technical SEO

Crawl budget, index bloat, redirect chains, broken schema, Core Web Vitals. The unglamorous work that decides whether anything else you do can rank.

Keyword & Intent Research

We separate the people researching from the people buying, and build the map around the second group. Volume matters far less than intent.

On-Page & Content

Titles, headings, internal links and copy that answers the question the searcher actually typed — written for a reader who has to decide something.

Local SEO

Google Business Profile, service-area and neighbourhood pages, citations and review flow. For anyone who sells within driving distance, this is the whole game.

eCommerce SEO

Category architecture, faceted navigation that does not spawn thousands of junk URLs, product schema, and collection pages that can rank on their own.

Digital PR & Links

Earned placements on sites with real editorial standards. No private blog networks, no directory dumps, nothing that needs disavowing in a year.

Restricted-Category SEO

Research supply, age-gated and compliance-heavy catalogues. We know which claims sink a page and how to structure documentation so it helps rather than hurts.

Tracking & Reporting

GA4 and Search Console configured properly, conversions defined before we start, and a monthly note in plain English about what moved and why.

Migration & Recovery

Replatforming without losing rankings, and diagnosis when traffic has already dropped after a redesign or an algorithm update.

How It Runs

What the first six months actually look like.

No two campaigns are identical, but the order rarely changes. Fix the foundations, earn the rankings, then compound them.

Start With the Audit
01

Audit and baseline

Two weeks of digging before we touch anything. Crawl, index, speed, content, links, competitors, and whatever analytics you already have.

  • Full technical crawl and index review
  • Keyword and competitor gap analysis
  • Baseline numbers recorded so progress is provable
02

Fix the foundations

Technical problems get fixed at the source, in the theme or the platform, not patched with a plugin that breaks at the next update.

  • Crawl and indexation errors cleared
  • Core Web Vitals brought into range
  • Schema, redirects and canonicals corrected
03

Build the map

Every page gets one job and one primary query. Where a page is missing, we plan it. Where two pages fight each other, we merge them.

  • Intent-mapped keyword architecture
  • Cannibalisation resolved
  • Content gaps turned into a build queue
04

Write and optimise

On-page work and new content, written by someone who understands the business well enough to be specific about it.

  • Titles, headings and internal links reworked
  • Service and collection pages rewritten
  • New pages published against the plan
05

Earn authority

Digital PR and outreach to publications that have editors. Slower than buying links, and it still works in two years.

  • Editorial placements and mentions
  • Digital PR angles built from your own data
  • Toxic historic links audited and disavowed
06

Measure and compound

Monthly reporting in plain English, quarterly strategy review, and the next quarter planned around what the numbers actually said.

  • Conversions tracked, not just sessions
  • Monthly written summary, no jargon
  • Quarterly replan based on results
What You Get

What changes when this is done properly.

Not promises about position one. These are the outcomes the work is aimed at.

Visible on buying searches

You appear on the terms people use when they have a budget and a deadline, not just when they are reading around a topic.

Ownership of your local area

The map pack, the neighbourhood terms and the service-area pages that competitors have not bothered to build.

A site that holds its rankings

Foundations fixed in the build itself, so an algorithm update or a replatform does not undo a year of work.

Pages worth landing on

Content that answers the question and then asks for the enquiry, rather than padding out a word count.

Authority you can keep

Links from places with editorial standards. Nothing that has to be disavowed when the next spam update lands.

Reporting you can act on

Which queries brought enquiries, what we changed, what we are doing next. One page, no dashboard tour required.

The Difference

A typical SEO retainer vs. working with us

Most business owners have already paid for SEO once and got very little. Here is what we do differently.

The retainer you have had before

  • A keyword list handed over in month one and never revisited
  • Technical issues flagged in a report, never actually fixed
  • Blog posts written to a word count by someone who has not seen your product
  • Links from directories and private networks
  • A dashboard login instead of an explanation
  • Ranking screenshots that never mention revenue
  • A three-month lock-in before you can see whether it works

Working with SketchVolt

  • The plan is rebuilt every quarter around what the data showed
  • We fix the technical problems ourselves, in the code
  • Content written by people who asked how you actually sell
  • Editorial placements only, and historic toxic links cleaned up
  • A written monthly summary in plain English
  • Conversions and enquiries reported, not just sessions
  • Month-to-month after the first ninety days
How We Work Together

Three ways to start, depending on where you are.

Every engagement begins with the audit. What follows depends on what it finds and how fast you need to move.

One-off

SEO Audit

A full technical, content and link review with a prioritised fix list. Yours to keep, whether or not you carry on with us.

  • Technical crawl and index audit
  • Keyword and competitor gap analysis
  • Content and internal-link review
  • Backlink profile and toxicity check
  • Prioritised action list with effort estimates
Project

Fix and Launch

We implement the audit rather than hand it to you. A defined block of work with a start and an end date.

  • Every technical fix implemented
  • Site architecture and internal links rebuilt
  • Core pages rewritten and optimised
  • Schema, redirects and tracking set up
  • Handover documentation included
Monthly

Ongoing Campaign

Content, digital PR and continuous optimisation. Month to month once the first ninety days are done.

  • Monthly content against the plan
  • Digital PR and link acquisition
  • Ongoing technical maintenance
  • Written monthly reporting
  • Quarterly strategy review
Straight Answers

What people ask before signing anything

If your question is not here, ask it on the call. We would rather talk you out of the wrong scope than sell you it.

Ask Us Directly

Technical fixes can show up within weeks. Meaningful ranking movement usually takes three to six months, and the compounding happens after that. Anyone promising faster is either sitting on an easy niche or not being straight with you.

No, and neither can anyone else. Google does not sell placement and does not take instructions. What we can commit to is the work, the reporting, and being honest when something is not moving.

They do different jobs. Ads buy traffic today and stop the moment you stop paying. SEO compounds but takes months to start. Most businesses that can afford both should run both, with ads funding the wait.

Ninety days minimum on an ongoing campaign, because less than that cannot show anything honest. After that it is month to month. The audit and project work are one-off with no ongoing commitment at all.

That is most of our SEO work. We audit what is there and fix it in place where we can. If the platform itself is the problem we will tell you plainly rather than bill you monthly to work around it.

Yes. Research supply, age-gated and compliance-heavy catalogues are a large part of what we do. We know which claims cause problems and how to structure documentation so it supports the page instead of sinking it.

People, after a briefing call about how you actually sell. If we do not understand the product well enough to be specific about it, the copy will read like everyone else and rank like everyone else.

You keep all of it. The fixes are in your site, the content is on your domain, the links point at you, and the audit document is yours. There is nothing to switch off.

A written summary each month: what moved, what we changed, what is next. You get GA4 and Search Console access too, but you should not need to log in to understand how it is going.

Usually. Post-migration drops are almost always redirects, changed URLs or lost content rather than a penalty. That is a diagnosis job and it is one of the faster wins in SEO.

Find out where your SEO actually stands.

Book a free call. We will look at your site properly and tell you what we would fix first — no pitch deck.