SEO services in Ireland that get small businesses found on Google

Google takes time to trust a new page: it has to find it, read it and see that people stay on it. That clock only starts once the page is live, and money can't speed it up.

Meanwhile, whoever is at the top for your town keeps collecting the visits, the jobs and the reviews. To see where you stand today, ask for the free SEO audit.

Irish searches are often made at town or county level (“plumber Navan”, “solicitor County Clare”), and a lot of businesses cover a whole county from one base. We plan area pages around the towns people actually type, and only where there's something real to say about each one.

Every Irish address has its own Eircode (eircode.ie), and rural addresses that share a townland name are where Google and customers get lost most. We make sure your Eircode is on your site and your Google profile, written the same way, alongside your name and phone. And because the Data Protection Commission expects consent before analytics cookies (its guidance note), we track progress mainly with Search Console, which doesn't rely on cookies.

Google crawls your site, stores the pages it finds useful and, when someone searches, ranks the ones that answer best. Search engine optimisation means helping it at each of those three moments, and it comes down to four things, often called the pillars of SEO. It's common for a site to get one or two right and forget the rest: great copy on a site that takes forever to load, or a lightning-fast site with three pages that answer nothing. If you suspect something's off under the hood, an SEO audit finds it and ranks it by what it costs you.

The riskiest moment is changing websites. If old addresses disappear without pointing anywhere, Google loses what it learned from them. That's why every redesign we do includes a website migration that keeps what already brings you visits: we keep the domain and every old address points to its new page.

Irish businesses usually choose between a freelance consultant, a small agency and one of the bigger Dublin agencies with account managers. A consultant may hand you a list for someone else to carry out; an agency usually makes the changes as well. Ask how they work rather than going by the label.

With a freelancer you deal with the person doing the work, within the limits of one diary. We're two SEO specialists, Òscar Bordetas and Carles Encinas, and we cover the searches, the writing, the website, the Google profile and the tracking between us, at a fee you can read on this page.

Before you pay anyone, ask what they'd change first on your site (that's what our free audit sends you), be careful with guarantees of first place and make sure the domain and Google accounts are in your name. Google's own guide to hiring an SEO lists good questions to ask.

A physio practice in Ennis or a roofer in Wexford doesn't need the SEO of a national retailer. You have a handful of services, a clear area and competitors you could name. A few well-built pages and a complete Google profile go a long way in most Irish towns.

For the searches that matter to you, Google shows a map with three businesses first, so website SEO and local SEO go together. If you sell online to the whole country, that's ecommerce SEO, a different job.

A monthly fee we put in your quote after the free audit, since it depends on how many services and towns need work and how crowded your searches are. It covers the first round of work (keyword research, the pages you're missing, your Google profile and the fixes to your site) and then each month's work: new pages, reviews, local mentions and enquiry tracking. No set-up charge, no minimum term, 30 days' notice to stop.

You get the first invoice once that first round is live and you've checked it. A new website, if you need one, is priced separately and paid when it's finished. To compare, read how much SEO costs in Ireland; all our prices are on the pricing page.