Service 02 · SEO services · Freelance consultant, Ipswich, UK

SEO services, done by the person you spoke to.

SEO services for UK small businesses, from £500 a month: the pages your buyers search for, the links that get them noticed, the technical upkeep, and the layer that gets you cited in Google's AI answers and ChatGPT. One freelance SEO consultant does the whole job and sends you a one-page report. Rolling, cancel any month. Book the 30-minute call and I will tell you what your site actually needs.

Gareth Wray, the freelance SEO consultant behind 1 Week Sites
Gareth Wray · Ipswich · the person who does the work
From £500 a monthScoped to the site and the market, and written down before it starts.
No contractRolling. Cancel at the end of any month by email.
One personThe consultant you speak to writes the pages and does the fixes.
One page of reportClicks, impressions, position, what shipped, what is next. Monthly.

What a month includes.

  • Content pages, properlyResearched pages that answer questions your buyers actually ask, written to be read by people and quoted by machines. How many a month depends on the site and the market: a local trade needs fewer than a firm in a crowded one. Not 500-word blog posts. Not AI-generated filler.
  • Links, earned and boughtThe pages are written to earn links on their own. Where a paid placement on a relevant, real site is worth it, I buy it out of the month's fee and show you where it landed. No farms, no networks.
  • The technical sweepCore Web Vitals, crawl errors, broken links, redirects, structured data, sitemap, robots, llms.txt. Fixed, not listed in a report for you to fix.
  • The AI-visibility layerAnswer-first structure, FAQ and article schema, named authorship, sources and figures that are easy to cite, an llms.txt kept current. The things that decide whether ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews name you.
  • Existing pages sharpenedThe pages already ranking on page two get a rewrite of their titles, openings and internal links before I write anything new.
  • Search Console watchedIndexing, coverage and query movement checked weekly. If Google stops indexing something, you hear about it from me, not from a dip in enquiries.
  • One page of reportClicks, impressions, position, what changed, what shipped, which links landed, what is next. Plain English, once a month.
  • Not includedPaid ads, social media, and promises of rankings. Anyone selling the last one is guessing.

One scope. One number. Written down first.

There is no starter, growth and enterprise tier. There is what your site needs this month, priced once on the call. The table is what the same work costs elsewhere, from the rate cards and pricing pages the AI answers currently quote.

Do it yourself
Agency
1 Week Sites
A month costs
Your evenings, plus tools
£1,500 and up
From £500
Who does the work
You
An account manager, then a team
Gareth
Contract
None
Six to twelve months, usually
None. Rolling.
Links
Whatever you can ask for
Often a separate line
Earned and bought, in the fee
AI answers
Not measured
Sometimes an add-on
Included, and measured
Reporting
Search Console, if you look
A dashboard
One page, plain English

Agency and freelancer ranges from published UK pricing pages, September 2026. Your figure is scoped on the call.

SEO services, monthly
from £500a month
Everything the site needs to be found and cited. A bigger site or a crowded market costs more, and the figure is fixed before it starts.
  • Content pages, researched and writtenIncluded
  • Links, earned and boughtIncluded
  • Technical sweep and fixesIncluded
  • Structured data, llms.txt, AI-answer layerIncluded
  • Search Console watched weeklyIncluded
  • One-page report, monthlyIncluded
  • ContractNone

Why a few pages, done properly, beat ten.

Ten thin pages a month is what got the internet into its current state, and it is what Google has spent three years learning to ignore. A page that answers a real question with real figures, named and dated, is the unit of work that still moves. It ranks, it earns links, and it is what an AI answer engine reaches for when it needs a source. The links, earned and bought, are what get it noticed sooner.

The same discipline applies to this site. The essays in Writing are the method applied to my own business, and the Search Console data behind them is what I will show you on the call.

Proof, with the dates on it

Cited by ChatGPT inside thirty days.

ChatGPT's sources panel listing 1weeksites.com's guide, How much does a website cost in the UK? 2026 price guide, dated 23 April 2026, between sorttheclicks.com and johnhitchens.co.uk
ChatGPT, sources panel, 15 May 2026. The guide it lists was published on 23 April 2026.

On 23 April 2026 I published the website-cost guide on this site: dated, sourced, answer-first, with the estimator in it. By 15 May ChatGPT was listing it as a source for "how much does a website cost in the UK", between two sites that had been publishing on the subject for years. One page, three weeks, no agency.

It is not cited today, and I would rather tell you that than crop the date off the screenshot. I stopped working on that page over the summer to build client sites, and the citation went with it. That is the whole argument for a rolling month rather than a one-off project: in AI answers the visibility is the work, and it stops when the work stops.

The method that got it there is the one every month runs on: a page that answers the exact question, with the facts an answer engine can lift, kept current. What it looks like across a whole county is below.

Questions people ask before they start.

How much do SEO services cost in the UK?From me, £500 a month for a small site in an ordinary market, rolling, with the number fixed before the first month. Across the UK, a freelance consultant typically charges £300 to £1,200 a month for a small local business and agencies start around £1,500 a month; the difference is mostly who does the work and how many people sit between you and them.
How much does a freelance SEO consultant charge?Hourly, £120 to £250 for senior freelancers; monthly, £300 to £1,200 for a small business. I do not bill by the hour. One scoped monthly figure, from £500, that covers the pages, the links, the technical work and the report, so you know the cost before anything starts.
What is GEO?Generative engine optimisation: making a site the source that ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot cite when someone asks a question you should be the answer to. In practice it is clear, answer-first pages, structured data, an llms.txt file, named authorship and facts that are easy to quote. Much of it overlaps with good SEO, which is why I sell them together.
What does "from £500 a month" mean?£500 buys the full programme for a small site in an ordinary market: the content pages it needs, a modest link budget, the technical upkeep, the AI-visibility layer and the report. A bigger site, or a crowded market such as law or lettings, needs more pages and more links each month, and the month is priced to that. I scope it on the call and write the number down before it starts. Nothing is bolted on afterwards.
Do you buy links?Yes, where they are worth buying, and I say which. Placements on relevant, real sites with an audience, paid for out of the month's fee, alongside the links a good page earns on its own. No link farms, no networks, no anything I would not be happy showing you in the report.
Is there a contract?No. It is rolling, billed at the start of each month, and you can stop at the end of any month by email. If a month's report does not justify the next month, cancel.
Do I have to have a site built by you?No, but the site has to be one I can edit and deploy. If it is on WordPress, Squarespace or Webflow I will say on the first call whether the technical work is possible or whether a rebuild comes first.
What do you report?Clicks, impressions and average position from Search Console for the pages we have worked on, which queries moved, what was published, which links landed, what was fixed, and what is planned next. One page, once a month, in plain English. No vanity dashboards.
How long before it works?New pages typically take six to twelve weeks to settle in Google and longer to be cited by AI answers. Links shorten that. Anyone promising page one in a month is either lying or targeting queries nobody types. I would rather tell you that now.
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About 60 seconds. The whole report, fixes included, renders on the page.
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From £500 a month. Cancel any month.

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