Week one: foundations
Claim Google Search Console and your Google Business Profile. Fix your titles: every page should say what it is and where you are. One page per service you offer.
You can absolutely do your own SEO, and this page tells you how, properly. It also tells you the honest cost: about four focused hours a week, every week, indefinitely. Read the plan, then decide whether your hours are better spent on your trade.
Claim Google Search Console and your Google Business Profile. Fix your titles: every page should say what it is and where you are. One page per service you offer.
Publish one useful page or post aimed at a real search, and ask one happy customer for a review. Consistency beats bursts, every time.
Search Console shows what grew. Do more of what worked. Keep your name, address and phone identical on every directory.
Value your time at even £25 an hour and DIY SEO costs £400 or more a month in hours. Dhucha does the same jobs from £39 a month, with you approving rather than doing. That is the whole comparison.
Run the free Dhucha audit: your search visibility, your Google listing, your rivals and the searches worth money in your trade. One minute, no sign-up.
Run my free auditYes: the tools are free and this page is the plan. The cost is time, roughly four hours a week done properly, and the discipline to keep going after the novelty wears off.
With consistent weekly publishing and reviews, local businesses usually see movement in two to three months. The most common failure is not skill, it is stopping at week five.
When the hours cost more than the help. At £25 an hour, four weekly hours is over £400 a month against Dhucha’s £39 to £99 doing the same jobs with your approval.