Your customers are searching for what you do right now. Some type it into Google. More and more ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google’s AI answers instead. Our SEO and GEO agency for small businesses is built to help them find your business in both places, and to give them a clear reason to pick up the phone when they do.
SME.Marketing, a brand of HC Media Group, is a marketing agency for small businesses that gets the phone ringing. You see the price before you speak to us. SEO and GEO starts at £500 + VAT a month, and there are no contracts.
· 100+ five-star Google reviews · 8 years trading · No contracts · From £500 + VAT a month ·
SEO is the work that helps a company appear in Google or Bing when local customers search for its services, and turns those visits into enquiries. It covers your website’s content, its technical health, your Google Business Profile and the links that tell Google you are trustworthy.
GEO, or generative engine optimisation, is the newer half of the job. It is the work that helps AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews understand your business, trust it and mention it when someone asks for a recommendation. Good search engine optimisation is the foundation for GEO, so we do both together.
Most small business owners we speak to have been burned before. They paid an agency every month, got a report full of jargon and never saw the phone ring. So we keep SEO for small businesses simple. We tell you what we will do, what it costs, and what you can realistically expect.
SME.Marketing are a marketing agency for small businesses that get the phone ringing, who work with owners, directors and marketing managers across the UK, with most clients in Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk and London. Sole trader or 30-person firm, you get honest advice and a clear price.
You get a clear list of what we do each month, and it is written into your package. Here is what our SEO services for small businesses cover.
Every project starts with an SEO audit: speed, mobile experience, broken pages, indexing, structured data, and how Google and Bing see your site. We then fix the most important issues within your package's technical hours and keep monitoring the rest. Your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools are set up so nothing goes unnoticed.
We find the words your customers actually use, in their language, not yours. That includes the local searches that bring in work, such as "electrician in Chelmsford" or "family solicitor near me", and the longer questions people now ask AI tools.
We rewrite and optimise your key pages so they answer what customers want to know and give Google a clear reason to show them. Page titles, meta descriptions, headings and alt text are all covered. On most packages we also write blog posts each month that answer the questions your customers ask before they buy.
For most small businesses, local SEO is where the enquiries come from. We optimise your Google Business Profile, publish regular posts on it on our Growth package and above, and make sure your business details are consistent across the web. Our local SEO services help you show up in the map results when nearby customers search.
Google still treats links from trusted websites as a vote of confidence. We spend set hours every month earning relevant inbound links from local, industry and business sites. No link farms and no shortcuts that could get you penalised. For bigger news, see our PR for small businesses service.
We structure your content so AI tools can read and quote it: clear answers near the top of the page, FAQs, structured data and consistent facts about your business everywhere it is mentioned. On the Growth package and above, you get a written AI SEO strategy for improving your ChatGPT visibility and your presence on other AI-powered search platforms.
Every month you get a plain-English report showing your organic website traffic, the Google search rankings that matter to you, and the enquiries that came from search. We also tell you what we did, what we learned and what we are doing next.
Because we only work with small businesses, and we built the whole company around the things that go wrong with other agencies. You see the price first. Every package, and what is in it, is on this page. No “call us for a quote”.
You deal with people who know your world. Our co-founder Christopher left big agency marketing 8 years ago because of how small businesses were being treated.
We understand why people buy. SEO gets you seen. Psychology gets you chosen. We built our process around what behavioural science tells us about how people decide to buy, so the pages we write are built to be found and to persuade the people who read them.
We are a proper AI SEO agency, not a label. Plenty of firms have added “AI” to their website this year. As a GEO agency, we do the practical work: making your business easy for AI tools to understand, verify and recommend. We will also tell you honestly that nobody controls what AI tools say, and that anyone who guarantees you a mention is overselling.
Choosing any SEO agency? Look for four things: prices you can see, no long contract, a plain-English monthly report, and nobody promising you the top spot. Wherever you are, from Kent to Norfolk, that checklist will protect you.
Choose the package that fits the size of your website and your ambitions. All prices are + VAT. Not sure which? Book a free call and we will recommend one honestly, even if it is the smallest.
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Growth
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If you need something a bit more bespoke, we can do that. No contracts on any package. Give us three months to prove ourselves.
You always know where you are and what happens next. Most projects start within one to two weeks of our first conversation.
Step 1
We talk about your business, your customers and what you want more of. We look at how you currently show up in Google and in AI answers, and tell you honestly what we think is possible.
Step 2
We run a full technical SEO audit and keyword research, then agree a plan with you: which pages, which searches and which locations come first. You know exactly what we will work on in month one.
Step 3
We fix the technical issues, rewrite your key pages, set up your Google Business Profile, start earning links and publish content. Each job is logged.
Step 4
Every month you get a plain-English report and a clear view of what is working. We double down on what brings enquiries and change what does not.
You ask, we answer.
Our SEO and GEO packages start at £500 + VAT a month and go up to £1,200 + VAT a month, depending on how many pages you have and how competitive your market is. Every package and what it includes is shown on this page, so you can compare before you speak to us.
SEO builds over months rather than weeks, and how quickly depends on your market and your website’s starting point. Technical fixes and page improvements can sometimes show early movement within weeks, but rankings and enquiries grow over time. We will tell you honestly what to expect for your market before you start, and we will never promise a ranking or a date.
Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is the work that helps AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews understand, trust and recommend your business. It focuses on clear, quotable answers, structured data, consistent business details and being mentioned on trusted websites. Think of it as SEO for the answers AI gives, rather than the list of links Google shows.
They work together, and GEO depends on SEO. AI tools lean heavily on content that already ranks well and comes from sites they trust, so good traditional SEO is the foundation. We then shape your content and business information so AI tools can pick it out and quote it accurately.
You get a technical SEO audit, keyword and market research, page optimisation, content creation, link building, local SEO and monthly reporting, with AI search optimisation built in. The exact hours, pages and posts depend on your package, and they are all listed in the pricing section above. Growth and above add a written AI SEO strategy and Google Business Profile posts.
No. We do not use contracts. Give us three months to prove ourselves. By then you should see clear progress in the work done, your visibility and early enquiries, and we will be honest if it is slower in your market. After that, you stay because we are getting you results.
Because you can check us before you ever speak to us. We have 8 years of trading as HC Media Group Ltd, more than 100 five-star Google reviews, and our prices on this page. We never promise rankings, we explain everything in plain English, and you are free to leave at any time.
