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Against a traditional SEO agency

Both give you a person to talk to. The difference is who does the legwork, how fast a problem becomes a fix, and what you pay for the hours in between.

7 questions below. We win 5 of them and a traditional SEO agency wins 1. A comparison that gives the other side nothing is read as marketing and discarded, so the losses are on the same table as the wins.

The questionA traditional SEO agencyThymesnow
Who you talk toAn account manager, often looking after a dozen clients.Your specialist, who knows your business, with an AI team doing the legwork behind them.
Who does the technical fixesA developer, scheduled into a sprint, usually weeks after the audit that found the problem.Written by the AI team the same day, checked by your specialist, and put live through your website platform once you say yes.
What the monthly report isA deck, built by hand, with the metrics that moved chosen after the month ended.The same measures every week in your dashboard, the unmeasured ones labelled as unmeasured, and your specialist walking you through it.
Deep industry experienceA senior strategist who may have worked in your sector for years.Your specialist learns your business on the calls. The AI reads your site and your competitors, not a decade of your industry.
Cost for the same scope£1,800 to £4,000 a month at 20 to 40 hours, usually on a twelve-month minimum.A fixed monthly fee agreed on your call, month to month, never a percentage of spend. The groundwork is done by AI.
What happens when you leaveAccess is revoked, the reporting stops, and the documentation is whatever you remembered to ask for.The fixes are already in your website, so they stay. Your accounts and your data are yours.
Consistency month to monthVaries with who is staffed on the account. The good months are the months the best person was on it.The same checks and the same standards every week, whoever is looking.

The shaded cell is the honest answer to that row, not the one we would prefer.

When a traditional SEO agency is the right answer.

Three cases where we would tell you to hire them. If one of these is you, the rest of this site is not going to change that and pretending otherwise wastes your quarter.

  • You need a senior strategist in the room with your executive team every week, arguing for the budget.
  • The work you need is mostly commercial: partnerships, sponsorships and relationships, rather than your website.
  • You are a large company with an in-house team, and you want an agency to slot into their processes.

What our seo service actually is

Your specialist and our AI team find what's holding your site back, fix it, and show you what changed. You just say yes.

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Ask us the hard questions.

A free call with a specialist. If a traditional agency suits you better, we'll say so.

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