A baseline you can argue with
Where you stand at the start, measured from defined points across your area so later comparisons mean something. Written down before any work begins.
Rankings alone don't explain business impact. We keep visibility, completed work, page performance and enquiry signals in one view you can read in five minutes.
Start with a free check01A visible monthly work record
02Priorities tied to evidence
03Less time decoding vanity reports
The standard SEO report is forty pages of charts answering no question you asked. It arrives, you skim it, you cannot tell whether the month was good, and you file it. Most owners we speak to have received these for years and couldn't say what was done in any given month.
The reason it looks like that is uncomfortable. A report full of charts is easier to produce than a report stating plainly what was done and what happened, because the second kind is checkable.
In the order it gets done, because the order matters more than the list.
Where you stand at the start, measured from defined points across your area so later comparisons mean something. Written down before any work begins.
Which pages changed, when, and why. If a month was light, the report says so. This is the part most reporting quietly omits.
Indexing, then impressions, then position, then clicks, then enquiries. Early progress shows in the first two long before the phone changes, and knowing that stops you cancelling in month three.
Calls and form completions tied to the pages that produced them, so you can see which work is paying rather than guessing.
Three things, with reasons. Not a list of everything that could theoretically be done.
If something hasn't been measured it says so. It never appears as a zero, or as an estimate dressed up as a fact.
Reporting one ranking figure for a whole area. For a service-area business position varies street by street, so a single number is either meaningless or was chosen because it looks good.
Only reporting what went well. A month where something was tried and didn't work is useful information, and hiding it means the same thing gets tried again.
If any of these describe you, we would rather say so now than take a month’s money finding out.
Short. What was done, what moved, what is next. If you want the underlying detail it is there, but you shouldn't need it to understand the month.
Search Console is the essential one and it is free. Analytics helps on the enquiry side. If neither is set up properly we sort that out first, because measuring nothing is a poor starting point.
The report says so and explains what we think caused it. Search moves, competitors act, and seasons exist. A provider whose numbers only ever rise is showing you the wrong numbers.
Book twenty minutes and we'll show you what a month's reporting actually looks like. If it is not clearer than what you get now, do not buy it.