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MANUFACTURING SEO

Manufacturing SEO Consultant

Most SEO consultants have never set foot near a CNC machine. I started my career machining steel billets before I ever wrote a line of SEO copy, which means I understand your products, your buyers, and the language your engineers actually use, not just how to write about them from the outside.

8+ years of SEO experience, no obligation.

We rank for the wrong keywords. Most manufacturers chase terms decision-makers never actually type. I find the long-tail, high-intent searches your buyers use when they’re ready to request a quote.

We rely too much on trade shows and referrals. Referrals are great until they slow down. SEO gives you a system that brings in leads without waiting for someone to mention your name in a meeting.

We’re getting traffic but not RFQs. Traffic is easy. Turning it into quote requests is the actual job, and it’s where I spend most of my time.

I’ve worked with copper pipe suppliers, CNC machine manufacturers, and aluminium extrusion suppliers, from multinational operations to local shops. The same playbook holds every time: understand what you actually make, find the buyers searching for it, and build content that speaks their language because I’ve worked the factory floor myself.

Related reading: Manufacturing SEO agency comparison · International manufacturing SEO · SEO for manufacturers · Lawton Tubes case study


What's included

What you get

Website audit

A full technical and content audit of your site, ranked by what’s actually costing you rankings and RFQs, not a generic 40-point checklist.

Keyword research built for buyers, not browsers

Most manufacturers chase keywords decision-makers never type. I find the long-tail, high-intent terms your actual buyers search when they’re ready to request a quote.

Content built from your team's expertise

I interview your engineers, sales reps, and technical leads, then turn their knowledge into content that builds trust with prospects, not generic filler.

Technical SEO for industrial sites

Product catalogues, spec sheets, and legacy CMS quirks that most generalist SEO misses entirely.

Conversion tracking that ties to revenue

Quote requests, phone calls, and RFQ form fills tracked properly, so you know exactly what content is pulling its weight.
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8+ years of SEO experience, no obligation.


How it works

How this engagement starts

Step 1

Website audit

A full audit of your current site, rankings, and content against the searches that actually bring in RFQs.

Step 2

Consultation

A call to understand your markets, your buyers, and what a good enquiry actually looks like for your business.

Step 3

Personalised SEO proposal

A proposal covering deliverables, timelines, and pricing, built around your business rather than a generic industrial SEO package.


Proof, not promises

Lawton Tubes: 739 to 8,150 organic visitors per month

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FAQ

Questions people ask before we start

Will you actually understand what we make?

It’s my job to. Whether you make aerospace-grade fasteners or precision-milled hydraulic components, I’ll dig in until I can explain it in plain English. Your expertise fuels the content, I just translate it for the web.

What makes you different from a manufacturing SEO agency?

I don’t pass your project down the line, you work directly with me from audit through to implementation. No account managers, no juniors, no hand-offs. See more on how this compares to a manufacturing SEO agency.

How much does SEO cost for a manufacturing business?

Expect to invest at least £1,000 a month for work that actually moves rankings, covering technical fixes, content, and keyword research built around your actual buyers. I’ll walk you through what’s realistic before we start.

We rely on referrals and trade shows. Is SEO worth it?

Referrals are great until they slow down. SEO gives you a system that brings in leads without waiting for someone to mention your name at a trade show, and it keeps working while you’re not in the room.

How long before we see results?

Most clients start seeing movement in 4 to 6 weeks, with significant growth around the three-month mark, sometimes faster in a very niche sector. Industrial buying cycles are longer than most, so building content that captures the earlier research stage matters more here than most industries.

Guides

Ecommerce SEO guides

Why your Search Console 'indexed pages' number is probably lying to you

Why Search Console's indexed-page count doesn't mean what most ecommerce store owners assume, the noindex-versus-crawled distinction that explains most of the confusion, and how to read the report properly.

SEO for discontinued products: don't just delete the page

What to actually do with a discontinued ecommerce product page. The redirect decision tree, when to keep a page live, and why deleting outright throws away accumulated SEO value.

The ecommerce Black Friday SEO checklist (start now, not in November)

A practical Black Friday and peak-season SEO checklist for ecommerce stores. What to prepare months in advance, what changes on the day, and the mistake that costs stores the most traffic every year.

Reclaiming lost backlinks after a redesign or migration (before someone else does)

How to find and recover the backlinks an ecommerce site loses during a redesign or migration, and why an unclaimed broken backlink is a genuine competitive opportunity, not just lost equity.

Measuring ecommerce SEO ROI in GA4 (without lying to yourself)

How to measure ecommerce SEO ROI properly in GA4. Fixing the direct-traffic inflation problem, setting up revenue-based attribution, and reporting numbers a founder can actually trust.

JavaScript SEO for ecommerce: what Googlebot actually sees on your site

How client-side rendering can quietly hide ecommerce content from Google, why prerendering fixes it, and how to check what Googlebot actually sees on your own product and category pages.


Other ways I can help

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8+ years of SEO experience, no obligation.