WordPress SEO Agency
WordPress SEO that gets implemented, not left in a report.
neometa fixes the technical problems, weak service pages, internal linking and content gaps holding WordPress websites back. You deal directly with Simon, and the agreed work is implemented rather than handed back as a list of recommendations.
I’ll identify the three SEO issues I would address first.
Fit Check
Is this agency right for you?
Best fit for:
- Established service businesses already on WordPress getting weak organic enquiries
- Teams wanting technical and on-page fixes directly implemented on their site
- Founders who value direct access to Simon rather than layered account handlers
Not a fit if:
- You are on Shopify, Wix or Squarespace (we work exclusively on WordPress)
- You want automated link blasts, ranking tricks or a cheap £150 one-off fix
- You only want an advice PDF and don't want anyone touching the website
- Local plan
- £495/month
- Growth plan
- From £895/month
- Implementation
- Direct, by Simon
- Scope
- Technical, content, service pages
- Reply time
- One working day
- Client result
- 22 → 51 clicks/mo, Silverstone
01 / 09
The usual problem
A good-looking WordPress site can still be almost invisible on Google.
Key services are buried, internal linking is weak, templates are inconsistent, and pages are not aligned to the way people actually search. Good WordPress SEO fixes those gaps. It strengthens the page architecture, improves crawlability and relevance, and makes it easier for the right pages to rank for high-intent terms.
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Search performance
What our direct implementation produces
A sample of client performance across local clinics, service businesses and content-led search campaigns.
Lind Street Osteopathy
Osteopathy clinic
Top 3
Page 1
for the searches that book appointments
Top three for its main service searches, taking more than half the clicks on one of them.
Silverstone Osteopaths
Osteopathy clinic
2.3× Clicks
22 → 51
organic clicks per month
More than doubled between January and July 2026 from a standing start, on a site that had no search visibility worth the name when the work began.
C J Appliances
Appliance repairs
62 → 17
3.6% → 13.7%
click-through rate
Nearly four times the share of searchers clicking, between August 2025 and August 2026. The rankings turned into clicks rather than impressions.
Bodyfunction Clinic
Osteopathy and physio clinic
DR 9
163
keywords in Google's top three
From a Domain Rating of 9, ahead of national health publishers. 29,446 clicks between December 2025 and June 2026, and cited in Google's AI Overviews across 159 searches.
Figures cover the periods stated. SEO performance is compound and continuous. Past results do not guarantee identical future timelines.
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The difference
The difference between advice and implementation
Most SEO retainers fail because recommendations get trapped in PDF documents. Here is how our model solves that.
| Typical AgencyRecommendations & Hand-offs | The neometa ModelDirect Partnership & Build | |
|---|---|---|
| Deliverable | Long PDF reports with recommendation lists you have to implement yourself | Direct code, technical fixes, and content implementation on your site |
| Website and setup | Charge £3,000–£10,000+ upfront before any SEO begins | Website design, development and hosting inside the plan where you need them, with nothing upfront |
| Communication | Layered account managers who relay messages to junior contractors | Direct access to Simon, who does the work |
| Commercial focus | Vanity impressions and ranking for irrelevant low-intent keywords | High-intent service keywords that generate qualified enquiries and revenue |
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What we work on
We work on the pages as well as the technical SEO
That matters because WordPress SEO is rarely solved by isolated changes. Better rankings usually come from a cleaner overall system, not a single plugin setting or a handful of rewritten headings.
What is included
- 01Keyword and page targetingResearch-backed keyword mapping aligned to commercial intent
- 02On-page optimisationHeading structure, copy quality, metadata, and internal relevance
- 03Internal linking improvementsImproving page authority distribution and crawl efficiency
- 04Technical SEO cleanupIndexation, speed, crawlability, and structural issues
- 05Service page structure and content guidanceStronger commercial pages that support enquiries
- 06Support for rebuilds, migrations, and retainersImplementation alongside wider development work where needed
05 / 09
The first 30 days
What happens in the first month
The opening month is diagnostic and corrective. Nothing here waits on a content calendar or a link campaign, because the changes that move a WordPress site first are almost always things already on it that are working against you.
- Week 1Crawl, Search Console and the honest readA full crawl of the site alongside Search Console and Ahrefs, to establish what is indexed, what is competing with itself, and which pages are already close enough to move.
- Week 1–2Technical blockers clearedIndexation problems, redirect chains, canonical conflicts, broken internal links and anything slowing the templates. These are finite, and once cleared they stay cleared.
- Week 2–3Page targeting fixedDeciding which page owns which search, then rewriting titles, headings and metadata to match. This is where most sites are losing clicks they already have the rankings for.
- Week 3–4The first service page rebuiltOne commercial page taken apart and rebuilt around what a buyer needs to understand, with internal links pointed at it. The template for the ones that follow.
Direct Implementation Guarantee
Every fix is coded, configured and verified directly in your WordPress dashboard or staging site. No PDF hand-offs or client homework.
- Search Console
- Core Web Vitals
- Live in 30 Days
06 / 09
Ways to work together
WordPress SEO consultancy, or someone to do the work
Most businesses searching for a WordPress SEO agency are really deciding between three things: hire a consultant for direction, hire a freelancer for a specific job, or put a retainer in place so the work actually gets done every month. They suit different situations, and the honest answer is not always the retainer.
- ConsultancyYou have a developer or marketer who can implementStrategy, keyword and page targeting, technical direction and review. neometa works out what should change and your team makes the changes. Cheaper per month, but it depends entirely on having someone with the time to act on it.
- RetainerNobody in-house has the time or the specialismneometa implements the work directly in WordPress, including technical fixes, page restructuring, content and internal linking. This is what most service businesses need, because the usual failure mode is not a lack of ideas but a lack of anyone to execute them.
- Freelancer or projectOne defined problem with a clear end pointA migration, a recovery after a traffic drop, or a single round of technical fixes. Worth being straight about: if that is genuinely all you need, a good freelancer may serve you better than any agency retainer, and neometa will say so.
07 / 09
Ongoing work
What a WordPress SEO package covers after the first three months
The opening phase of any WordPress SEO retainer is largely corrective. Indexation problems, slow templates, weak page targeting and thin service pages are finite problems, and once they are cleared they stay cleared.
That is the point at which a lot of SEO relationships quietly lose momentum. The obvious fixes are done, the early improvement is visible, and the monthly invoice starts to look like it is buying reporting rather than progress.
Ongoing WordPress SEO maintenance should move towards widening the range of terms the site can realistically compete for. This work is slower and less dramatic, but it is where most of the compounding actually happens.
Where the effort goes
Month 1–3
Technical debt, indexation, page targeting, service page rewrites
Month 3–6
Content depth on commercial pages, internal linking, supporting articles
Month 6+
Expanding into adjacent terms, refreshing pages that have slipped, earning links
Throughout
Search Console monitoring, so drops get caught in weeks rather than quarters
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Where we work
A UK WordPress SEO agency, working wherever the client is
neometa works with businesses across the UK rather than from a single catchment. Current clients run from a London clinic to an osteopathy practice on the Isle of Wight, and the working pattern is the same in both cases.
Where local visibility is the goal, that is a specific piece of work involving Google Business Profile, location pages, local citations and review signals. It has little to do with how near the agency happens to be. Being down the road is pleasant. It is not a ranking factor.
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Tooling
SEO backed by Ahrefs, Semrush and Google Search Console. Not guesswork.
Pricing
Two plans, priced by scope rather than by whether you own a website. Local, £495/month covers one location and the searches around it. Growth, £895/month on the site you already have, or £995 where we build and host it too. That covers more services, locations or harder terms. Both are scoped before any work begins.
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Common questions
Questions people usually ask us
On the WordPress site you already have, Local is £495 a month and Growth £895 a month, both on a six-month minimum term that then rolls monthly on 30 days' notice. Which one fits depends on the size of the site, how many services or locations it sells, and how much implementation work is needed. Scope is agreed before anything begins, so the monthly figure does not move around unexpectedly.
Consultancy suits teams who already have a developer or marketer able to make changes and mainly need direction. A retainer suits businesses with nobody in place to do the work. The difference is who implements, not how good the thinking is.
A freelancer is often cheaper and can be an excellent fit for a narrow, well-defined problem. The risk is capacity and continuity. neometa sits deliberately between the two: specialist enough to work directly in WordPress, small enough that you deal with the person doing the work.
Technical fixes, keyword and page targeting, on-page optimisation, internal linking, and content implementation. Reporting is included but is not the product. The point of the retainer is that changes get made, not that a document gets sent.
Technical fixes can show within weeks. Ranking movement on commercial terms more commonly takes three to six months, and competitive terms take longer. Any agency promising faster than that on a competitive term is guessing.
Yes. neometa works with clients across the UK, currently including Northamptonshire, London and the Isle of Wight. WordPress SEO does not require anyone to be in the room, and the work is the same wherever the business is based.
Yes, for implementation work. An administrator account, or an editor account plus access to the SEO plugin, covers most of it. Where a client prefers, changes can be staged for their own developer to review and push instead.
The early work clears technical debt and fixes page targeting, which is finite. After that the retainer shifts towards content, internal linking and expanding the range of terms the site can compete for. Sites that stop at month three usually hold their gains for a while and then drift.
No. neometa can work on existing WordPress sites as well as new builds and rebuilds.
Yes, if the site is structured properly and the SEO work is implemented with care. WordPress gives a strong base, but the quality of the site setup still matters.
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Whether you have an existing WordPress site or you’re planning a new build. Tell me what is not working or what you are launching. I’ll review it and reply within one working day with the three SEO priorities I would address first, and what it will cost.
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