SEO Agency in Manchester
FlyRank is a Manchester SEO agency. We fix the technical foundations, map what your customers search for and build pages that Google and AI assistants understand quickly.
- Manchester-based, UK-wide
- Led by the founders
- Reports in plain English
SEO services for Manchester businesses
Our SEO services aim at one result: qualified enquiries from people already searching for what you sell. We scope only the jobs your site needs and leave out the rest.
Every engagement starts with a free audit, so you see our thinking before you commit to anything.
SEO is also the foundation for AI visibility. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews lean on pages that are crawlable, fast and clearly structured, so the work here supports our AEO & GEO services.
- Technical health: crawling, indexing, speed and mobile use.
- On-page review of your key service pages.
- Keyword and intent gaps against named competitors.
- A prioritised list of fixes, with no obligation to hire us.
SEO services included in every engagement
An SEO programme is a set of connected jobs. These are the services we draw from.
- Technical SEO
- Crawling, indexing, site speed, Core Web Vitals, canonical tags, redirects, XML sitemaps and structured data. We remove the barriers that stop good pages being found.
- On-page SEO
- Titles, headings, body copy, images and internal anchors written for the service each page sells. One clear topic per page.
- Keyword and intent research
- What your customers type, what they mean and where they are in the buying process. Commercial terms shape service pages; informational terms shape supporting content.
- Content strategy
- A topical map of every service and subject in your market, deciding what becomes a page, a section or a link, so nothing is duplicated or missed.
- Site architecture and internal linking
- A flat, logical URL structure with descriptive anchor text, so search engines see which pages matter most.
- Local SEO
- Google Business Profile set-up, category and service alignment and consistent citations, supporting the map pack and local searches.
- Digital PR and link building
- Mentions and links from relevant publications, directories and partners. Relevance counts for more than raw domain metrics.
- SEO reporting
- Monthly reports on visibility, enquiries and work completed, tied to Search Console and analytics so results link back to the business.
Our SEO process, from audit to ongoing growth
We work in stages, so you always know what is being done and why.
Audit
We crawl your site, review Search Console data and benchmark competitors. You get a written audit ranked by likely impact and effort.
Strategy
We agree target services, locations and audiences, then build the topical map and decide which pages to improve, merge or create.
Foundations
We fix technical issues, correct structure and update titles, headings and links, one group of changes at a time so results can be traced.
Content and authority
We publish new and improved pages, then build the local and sector mentions that support them.
Measure and refine
We review monthly, keep what works and change what does not.
How our SEO team structures your website
Structure is where most SEO gains and losses are decided. We apply the same rules to every Manchester project.
- One page, one idea
- Each service gets its own page and no two pages chase the same term. Overlapping pages are merged or given distinct jobs.
- Flat, readable URLs
- Service pages sit close to the root, with no empty parent sections.
- Descriptive anchors
- Menus and links name the service or topic they lead to, never “read more”.
- Supporting content that feeds service pages
- Guides answer the wider questions in your market and link up to the pages that sell.
SEO deliverables and realistic timescales
What you receive depends on scope. Typical outputs are a written audit, a keyword and intent map tied to URLs, a topical map, rewritten priority pages, an internal linking plan, structured data and a monthly report.
SEO is gradual and anyone promising a number-one ranking is guessing. Technical and on-page changes can move within weeks; content and links build over months. Plan for three to six months before judging a programme, longer in competitive markets. We do not guarantee rankings, traffic or enquiry numbers.
- Written audit with prioritised actions.
- Rewritten titles, headings and copy for priority pages.
- Monthly report with next steps.
Free SEO and AI visibility audit
A clear review of your site: the top fixes, and where you stand in Google and in AI answers.
- Written up, so you can share it with your team.
- Top fixes in priority order.
- No obligation to hire us.
SEO and web design across Greater Manchester
FlyRank provides SEO services to businesses in Manchester city centre, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Oldham, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Tameside and Wigan, the Cheshire East edge, and to clients elsewhere in the UK.
Local SEO means more than a postcode on a contact page. We align your Google Business Profile, service pages and citations around the places you actually serve, including the M1 to M4 districts and neighbourhoods such as Spinningfields, the Northern Quarter and Ancoats. For media and technology firms we also cover MediaCityUK.
Where a business serves several towns, we build separate pages only when searchers treat the services as genuinely different, so pages never compete with each other. We confirm the right structure during the audit.
Request a free SEO audit
Share your website and the services you most want to sell. You get a prioritised audit you can act on, whether or not you work with us.