Service

SEO and Conversion Rate Optimization for Existing Websites

Traditional search still matters, and it still sends qualified people to your site. It just stopped being sufficient on its own. We treat SEO and AI visibility as complementary rather than interchangeable: the technical health, topical authority and E-E-A-T signals that help you rank are the same signals that help a retrieval system trust you, but ranking well is no longer a guarantee of being cited.

The problem

The foundation the other two are built on.

Traffic arrives and leaves. The site reads well to a person who already knows what the firm does, but it is thin where search needs depth, slow where it needs speed, and vague at exactly the point a visitor decides whether to get in touch.

What does seo & cro work actually involve?

Technical SEO

The foundation that makes everything else work.

  • Full technical audit and remediation covering crawlability, indexation and site structure
  • Core Web Vitals: LCP, CLS and INP brought inside threshold
  • Canonical hygiene, redirect chains, broken links and orphaned pages
  • XML sitemap, Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools setup, including IndexNow

Content and authority

Depth on the topics you want to be known for.

  • Keyword research mapped by intent rather than volume
  • Topical authority mapping using a pillar and cluster structure
  • On-page optimization: titles, descriptions, heading hierarchy, internal linking
  • E-E-A-T signals, which matter disproportionately for advisory and regulated firms

Conversion

The half of the funnel most SEO engagements leave alone.

  • Messaging clarity and page structure review
  • Trust signals, calls to action and above-the-fold decisions
  • Form friction and lead capture optimization
  • Funnel mapping from traffic source to converted enquiry

Does SEO still matter now that AI answers the question?

Yes, and the relationship between the two is the thing worth understanding. Traditional results still send a large share of qualified visits. More importantly, the signals that earn rankings, technical health, topical depth, and demonstrable expertise, are largely the same signals a retrieval system uses to decide what to trust.

What has changed is that SEO no longer finishes the job. Ahrefs found in February 2026 that only 38% of pages cited in Google AI Overviews rank in the top ten organically. Strong SEO makes AI visibility easier. It does not produce it on its own, which is why we treat them as two disciplines rather than one with a feature attached.

Do you build websites?

No. We work on existing sites only, and we say so early because it removes rebuild scope from every conversation and sets a realistic timeline.

A rebuild also resets whatever search equity the current site has earned, which is a real cost that rarely appears in the pitch for one. If a site genuinely cannot be optimized we will tell you, but that is rarer than the agencies selling rebuilds suggest.

The process

How the engagement runs

01

Competitor and gap analysis

We identify the pages outranking you for each target term and map the gaps: content depth, structure, trust signals, internal linking. Guesswork is expensive and this removes most of it.

02

Technical audit and quick wins

A full crawl covering indexation, Core Web Vitals, redirect chains, broken links and missing metadata. Issues get fixed rather than listed, which is the difference between an audit and an engagement.

03

On-page and conversion work

Existing pages rewritten and restructured against the benchmark, with the conversion side handled at the same time: calls to action, trust signals, form friction, and what sits above the fold.

04

Monthly execution and reporting

A rolling page list worked through each month, with a plain-English report covering what moved and what we did. No vague deliverables.

What you get each month

Organic search visibility that compounds, pointed at pages built to convert the people it brings.

Proof

83% more form submissions in 3 months, organic only

A risk management consultancy went from 2.4 website leads a month to 4.3, with 83% more conversions in 3 months of organic website optimization and no paid ads.

This engagement was SEO and conversion optimization.

Read the full case study

Is this right for your firm?

This tends to be worth doing when most of the following are true.

FAQ

Questions about this service

Does SEO still matter with AI search?

Yes, for two reasons. Traditional results still drive a large share of qualified visits, and the technical health, topical depth and E-E-A-T signals that earn rankings are largely the same signals retrieval systems use to decide what to trust. SEO is now a foundation rather than a finished job.

What is the difference between SEO and CRO?

SEO gets the right people to the page. CRO gets them to act once they are there. Most engagements only fund the first, which is why firms end up with more traffic and the same number of enquiries. We treat them as one piece of work because traffic that does not convert is a cost rather than a result.

Do you build websites?

No. We optimize, maintain and extend the site you already have. That keeps the work focused and the timeline short. If a site is genuinely beyond optimizing we will say so, but that is rarer than most agencies suggest, and a rebuild resets whatever search equity the current site has earned.

How long does SEO take to show results?

Technical fixes can show up within a few weeks. Meaningful ranking movement generally takes three to six months, and depends on how competitive your terms are and how much authority the site already has. You get a realistic timeline for your specific site in the first conversation rather than a generic one.

Start with a conversation

We will tell you honestly whether this is worth doing for your firm, and turn it down if it is not.