SEO Manchester
SEO should do more than push a few keywords up a report. We help businesses improve the parts of their website that affect visibility, bring in the right organic traffic and turn more of that traffic into enquiries and sales.
SEO that has a job to do.
Getting more traffic is easy to put on a proposal. Getting more of the right traffic is where the real work starts.
We look at how people find your business, what they are searching for and what is getting in the way when they reach your website. Sometimes that means fixing technical problems. Sometimes the site needs better landing pages, stronger content or more authority. Usually, it is a combination.
Our team works across technical SEO, content, digital PR, local search and on-page optimisation. We do not start with a pre-written monthly checklist. We start by finding out where organic search can make the biggest difference to your business.
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What is it actually like working with us?
Good SEO relies on communication as much as technical work. Our clients know what we are working on, why we are doing it and what the results actually mean for their business.
If you would like us to take a look at your website, tell us where you are now and what you are trying to achieve.
Speak To Our SEO TeamPeople who actually do the work.
Our SEO specialists work directly on client campaigns. We crawl websites, investigate indexing problems, plan content, analyse search data and measure what happens after changes go live. It is hands-on work, not something passed down a chain of account managers.
Established in 2016
Fly High Media started in Manchester in 2016 and has grown into a specialist digital team working with businesses across the UK.
Industry Speakers
Members of our technical team have spoken at BrightonSEO, sharing real-world approaches to technical auditing, automation and SEO workflows.
Measured Results
Our case studies show what was changed and what happened afterwards, from stronger rankings and traffic to increased enquiries and revenue.
Local Team
You can find us at 3 Piccadilly Place, a few minutes from Piccadilly station. Clients can meet the people working on their campaigns rather than dealing with a remote fulfilment team.
What do we actually work on?
There is no single SEO tactic that fixes every website. We bring together the areas that are most likely to improve your organic performance.
Technical SEO
We crawl and investigate websites to find problems that can affect indexing, rendering and organic performance. That includes everything from internal linking and site architecture to JavaScript, structured data, Core Web Vitals and complex migrations.
Technical SEO servicesLocal SEO
If your customers search locally, we make sure your website and wider search presence give Google the right signals. That can include local landing pages, Google Business Profile optimisation, citations, reviews, internal linking and locally relevant content.
Local SEO servicesContent Strategy
We use search data and customer behaviour to work out what people actually need from your website. That might mean improving an existing service page rather than producing another blog post nobody needed.
Content marketingAuthority & Link Building
Some searches are simply too competitive to win through on-page changes alone. We work on relevant links, mentions and digital PR that strengthen the authority behind the pages you need to rank.
Link buildingOn-Page SEO
We improve the pages that matter commercially. That includes search intent, page structure, headings, copy, internal links, metadata and calls to action, without turning the page into a wall of keywords.
On-page SEODigital PR
Our digital PR team develops campaigns, commentary and stories that give journalists a genuine reason to mention your brand and link back to your website.
Digital PRHelping a local art gallery grow through organic search.
Contemporary Six is an independent art gallery in the city centre. They wanted to reach more people searching for artists and artwork online and, importantly, turn that visibility into genuine enquiries.
What we found
- Artist content spread across competing and overlapping URLs.
- Commercial category pages with room for stronger optimisation.
- Limited flexibility within the website's underlying platform.
- Opportunities to improve internal linking and local authority signals.
What we worked on
- Consolidated and improved artist-led content.
- Strengthened important commercial and category pages.
- Improved on-page optimisation and internal linking.
- Published useful supporting search content.
- Earned relevant backlinks and local citations.
Results below compare performance during the first 12 months of the SEO campaign against the relevant preceding period. Full methodology and campaign context are available in the case study.
Read The Full Case Studyincrease in keywords ranking in positions 1–3 during the first 12 months.
increase in enquiries for art for sale during the first 12 months.
increase in organic clicks to the website during the first 12 months.
See what happened after the work went live.
Anyone can put impressive claims on an agency website. Our case studies show the starting point, what we changed and the results that followed.
Search growth
See how our work with Contemporary Six improved valuable keyword visibility, organic traffic and customer enquiries.
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Explore campaigns across different industries, business models and competitive search markets.
Explore SEO Case StudiesFind out what is holding you back
We can look at the technical, content and authority signals behind your current performance and identify where the strongest opportunities sit.
Request An SEO AuditYou should be able to speak to the people doing your SEO.
We do not hide the delivery team behind layers of account management. The specialists crawling your site, reviewing your content and making recommendations are part of the conversation.
That also means we will tell you when something is not worth doing. There is no benefit in filling a monthly report with tasks simply because they were on a checklist.
Manchester office
Our team has a base at 3 Piccadilly Place, so if you would rather talk through your campaign face to face, you can.
Specialist expertise
Technical SEO, content and strategy are handled by specialists who work in those areas every day.
Commercial reporting
We track rankings and traffic, but we also want to know whether organic search is producing enquiries, customers and revenue.
Straight answers
SEO comes with uncertainty. We will explain what we know, what we are testing and where we think your best opportunities are.
Meet the SEO team.
These are some of the people who will be looking at your website, working through the data and deciding what should happen next.
Lucy Clowes
Head of Agency Operations & Search
Leads SEO strategy and agency search operations, working across campaign planning, client growth and organic search performance.
Jonathon Roberts
Technical Lead
Specialises in crawling, indexation, JavaScript SEO, structured data, analytics and automation. Jonathon has also spoken at BrightonSEO about practical technical SEO workflows.
Charlie Fletcher
Technical SEO Executive
Works across technical auditing, crawl analysis, on-page optimisation and implementation of organic search improvements.
Jess Simpson
SEO Executive
Works across keyword research, content optimisation, competitor analysis and ongoing organic performance.
Jess McMillan
Key Account Manager
Works closely with clients to connect campaign activity with commercial objectives, priorities and wider marketing plans.
David Grice
Content Writer
Creates search-led content around real questions, search intent and the information customers need before making a decision.
“I started Fly High Media while studying at Manchester Metropolitan University. The agency has changed a lot since then, but the principle hasn't: understand what a client is trying to achieve, be open about the work and make marketing accountable to growth.”
Matt Pyke
Founder & Managing Director, Fly High Media
What happens when we start working together?
We do not assume we know what your website needs before we have looked at it. The first job is understanding the business and finding the things that are genuinely holding organic performance back.
Understand
We learn how your business makes money, which customers matter most and what you want organic search to achieve.
Diagnose
We look at technical health, rankings, content, competitors, backlinks, site structure and the journeys users take through the site.
Prioritise
The biggest opportunities come first. We prioritise work by likely impact rather than how easy it is to tick off a task.
Improve
Changes go live, we measure what happens and the strategy develops as we learn more about your website, customers and search market.
We look further than the copy on the page.
Publishing another 1,000 words is not always the answer. A page can be perfectly well written and still struggle because Google is choosing another URL, the website lacks authority, the intent is wrong or search engines cannot properly crawl and understand it.
Request An SEO AuditSearch intent
What is Google actually rewarding for the query: service pages, products, guides, comparison pages, directories or something else?
Technical barriers
Can Google crawl, render and index the page properly, and can it discover the page through the rest of the website?
Page authority
Does the URL have enough internal and external authority to compete with the pages already ranking?
Cannibalisation
Are several pages competing for the same topic and making it unclear which URL should rank?
Come and meet us in Piccadilly.
Fly High Media11th Floor
3 Piccadilly Place
Manchester
M1 3BN
Telephone: 0161 818 4645
We are around four minutes on foot from Piccadilly station. If you would rather talk through your website in person than over another video call, arrange a time to come in.
Arrange A Meeting Book A 30-Minute Call
Here's what to expect:
- An open conversation about your business
- A look at what you want to achieve over the next 12+ months
- Initial thoughts on where the opportunities might be
- A straight answer on whether SEO looks like the right channel
SEO for businesses at different stages of growth.
There is no minimum size a business has to reach before SEO starts to make sense. What matters is whether there is enough search demand, commercial value and opportunity to justify the investment.
- Local businesses that want more enquiries from Manchester and Greater Manchester.
- Growing SMEs competing with larger national brands.
- Ecommerce businesses looking to grow non-brand organic traffic and revenue.
- Established organisations that need technical SEO support across large or complex websites.
- In-house marketing teams looking for specialist SEO resource, consultancy or a second pair of eyes.
How much does SEO cost?
There is no useful answer that starts with one fixed monthly price. A small local website and an ecommerce store with thousands of products can both need SEO, but the amount and type of work involved are completely different.
We scope campaigns around what needs doing, the level of competition and the size of the opportunity. That way, the budget is connected to an actual strategy rather than a package of arbitrary monthly deliverables.
Want an idea of what to budget?
Our guide explains the factors that affect SEO pricing, typical UK budgets and what you should expect an agency to provide for the money.
Read Our SEO Pricing GuideA digital marketing agency that started here.
Fly High Media was founded in Manchester in 2016. We now work with businesses around the UK across SEO, content marketing, digital PR, paid media, CRO and wider digital strategy.
We have grown, but the way we want to work has stayed fairly simple: good specialists, clear communication and marketing that can be tied back to something commercially useful.
Learn More About Fly High MediaFrequently Asked Questions.
If you have a question that is specific to your website, speak to us. We would rather give you a useful answer than a generic one.
Not sure what is holding your organic growth back?
Send us your website and tell us what you are trying to achieve. We can talk through where things stand now, where we see opportunities and whether we are the right team to help.