Managed SEO Services That Drive Measurable Growth
Our managed SEO services take care of your ongoing SEO, from strategy and technical improvements to content creation and link building. We start by understanding your business, your ideal customers and the search terms they use. Then we prioritise the work that can improve your visibility, attract relevant visitors and generate more enquiries. Every month, you'll receive a clear report explaining what we've done, what the results show and what we're focusing on next.
Our monthly SEO services are designed for owner-managed businesses and marketing teams that want consistent progress without having to manage SEO themselves. We handle the planning, implementation and ongoing optimisation, keeping you informed with straightforward reporting and regular conversations about performance. Based in Lancashire? We're happy to meet in person. Elsewhere in the UK? We can work with you remotely just as effectively.
We follow established SEO best practices and focus on sustainable improvements rather than shortcuts. You can learn more about how search engines discover, understand and rank content in Google's SEO Starter Guide.
Search is not a project with an end date. It is a compounding asset that needs someone competent looking after it every month.Talk about a campaign
What a managed SEO campaign includes every month
One fee, one team, everything below. The monthly plan sets the volume of each.
- Strategy and quarterly roadmap
- Technical monitoring, fixes and re-audits
- Keyword research and page mapping
- Service page and supporting content writing
- On-page optimisation, titles, meta and schema
- Editorial link acquisition
- Google Business Profile management where relevant
- Monthly report and a call to walk through it
What a managed campaign looks like over a year
Managed SEO is a programme, not a project. The work changes as the site matures.
- Months 1 to 3
Foundations and mapping
Audit, technical fixes, keyword map and the first round of page rebuilds. Reporting starts in month one so you see the work from the beginning.
- Months 4 to 6
Content and authority
Supporting content, location pages where justified, link acquisition under way. Early ranking movement on lower competition terms.
- Months 7 to 12
Compounding
Rankings on the primary terms firm up, enquiries follow, effort shifts toward the pages and terms producing the most value.
- Year 2 onwards
Defend and expand
New service lines, new areas, new content types. Competitors are now chasing you, which is a better position to defend from.
What a month looks like
Plan
At the start of the month you receive the list of work scheduled: which pages, which fixes, which link targets, which content. No surprises.
Deliver
Work is completed and logged. Technical changes go to your developer as specifications or are implemented by us. Content is sent for approval before publishing.
Report
A written report covering work done, ranking movement, organic traffic and enquiries, plus a plain-language summary of what it means and what happens next.
Review
A call to walk through the report. Every quarter, a deeper strategy review to redirect effort where the data points.
What full service SEO means here
The phrase gets used loosely. At Digital Mountain it means one plan covering all of the following, sequenced so that each piece of work makes the next more effective.
Strategy
Keyword mapping, competitor analysis, and a quarterly roadmap that says what we are doing, why, and what we expect it to move.
Technical
Initial audit and remediation, then ongoing monitoring so that plugin updates, template changes and new content do not quietly break what we fixed.
On-page and content
Service pages rewritten to convert and rank, supporting content targeting the questions your buyers ask, all mapped to specific keywords with no internal competition.
Authority
Editorial and local link acquisition at a sustainable pace, reported placement by placement.
Local
Google Business Profile, citations and reviews for businesses with a local market, run alongside the organic work.
Measurement
Rank tracking, Search Console, analytics and conversion tracking configured properly, so the report shows enquiries and revenue, not just positions.
Why a monthly SEO retainer rather than a one-off project?
Because search is not a project. Competitors keep publishing, Google keeps changing, your site keeps evolving. Monthly SEO services compound: the technical work makes the content perform better, the content earns links more easily, the links lift everything. Stopping after three months is the most expensive way to buy SEO, because you pay for the setup and leave before the return.
We ask for a six-month initial commitment for that reason. After that, month to month. We would rather keep you by results than by contract.
Who this suits
- Owner-managed businesses in Lancashire and beyond that want enquiries from search without managing an agency line by line
- Marketing managers who need a specialist partner rather than another generalist agency
- Ecommerce stores on Shopify or WooCommerce that need technical, content and authority work coordinated
- Businesses that have been burned before and want to see the work, not just the invoice
If you have an in-house team and need direction rather than delivery, SEO consultancy may be the better fit. If you are trying to understand budgets, read our SEO costs guide first.
Why monthly SEO retainers disappoint
The reasons businesses leave agencies, and what we do differently.
Busy reports, no outcomes
Pages of metrics with no line saying what was done and what it produced. Our report leads with the work and the enquiries.
Stopping too soon
Three months in, before the compounding starts. We ask for six and explain why.
The same plan for every client
A package with fixed deliverables regardless of what the site needs. Every campaign here is scoped from the audit.
Junior delivery, senior sales
Sold by the director, delivered by whoever is free. Here the person you speak to does the strategy.
No technical eye
Content and links piled onto a site with unresolved technical problems. Foundations first, always.
Silence when it is not working
You should hear it from us first, with a change of plan. Honest reporting of what did not work is part of the service.
A retainer that works versus one that drifts
Most SEO retainers fail by month four because nobody can say what the fee bought. Ours are built to answer that question every month.
| Typical agency | Digital Mountain | |
|---|---|---|
| Start of the month | No plan shared, work happens somewhere | The scheduled work list, sent before the month starts |
| The report | Pages of metrics, no line on what was done | Work done first, then rankings, traffic and enquiries |
| The conversation | Only when renewal is due | A monthly call to walk through the report |
| When it is not working | Silence until you ask | Flagged in the report, with the change of plan |
| Content | Published without your sign-off | Sent for approval before anything goes live |
| Contract | Twelve months minimum, auto-renewing | Six months initial, then month to month |
The monthly report should read like an engineering changelog, not a marketing brochure. Ours does.See what a report contains
Frequently asked questions
How is SEO campaign management priced?
By the amount of work the site needs each month to compete, which depends on your market and starting position. We scope after the free analysis and quote a fixed monthly fee.
What if it is not working?
You will hear it from us in the report before you spot it yourself, with a proposed change of approach. SEO involves testing; honest reporting of what did not work is part of the service.
Do you need access to my website?
Ideally yes, for implementation. If you prefer, we can work entirely through your developer with written specifications.
Start with a free analysis
We review your site and your market before we speak. If a managed campaign is the right fit, you get a scoped proposal. If it is not, we tell you what is.