Getting started with AffordSEO

The short version

1. 1

   Send an enquiry

2. 2

   Give us limited access

3. 3

   Baseline audit

4. 4

   Monthly work

5. 5

   Leave when you like

• You stay in control and own everything
• You can remove our access whenever you like
• Separate user accounts, never shared passwords
• Data handled in line with our privacy policy

Read the full getting started guide

1. Send an enquiry

Use the enquiry form or email us with your website address and a line or two about your business. We’ll look at your site for free before we reply: whether Google can index your main pages, how your titles and headings read, and anything that’s obviously broken.

If we both want to go ahead, we agree what to focus on first. That might be a handful of service pages, your Google Business Profile, or a technical problem that’s holding the rest of the site back. Nothing is charged at this stage.

2. Access, kept to a minimum

We ask for the least access that lets us do the work, and always through a separate user account in our name. You add us from your own account, so you can see exactly what we have and take it away at any time.

• Google Search Console: add us as a user under Settings, then Users and permissions. We start as a Restricted user, which can view most data. If we later need to submit a sitemap or request indexing for you, we’ll ask you to change us to a Full user. We never need to be an owner.
• Google Analytics (GA4): the Viewer role on your property, added under Admin, then Property access management. That lets us read reports without changing any settings.
• Your website: to make changes, a separate user with limited editing rights. On WordPress that’s usually the Editor role, or a user with access to your SEO plugin. Shopify, Wix and Squarespace all let you invite a staff member, collaborator or contributor with only the permissions you choose. If someone else looks after your site, they can make the changes for us instead.
• Google Business Profile: only if you want local SEO. Add us as a Manager under People and access. Managers can update information and posts but can’t add or remove users or delete the profile.

What we never ask for

We never ask for your main admin password, your domain or registrar logins, your hosting account or your payment details. If anyone claiming to be us asks for any of those, don’t send them, and email hello@affordseo.com to check.

3. A baseline audit and your first report

Before we change anything, we crawl your site the way a search engine does and record where it stands: pages indexed, technical problems, how your key pages are titled and structured, and the searches you already appear for in Search Console.

That baseline goes into your first report, with a short list of what we plan to do first and why. It also gives us something honest to measure against later, so you can see what changed and what didn’t.

4. Ongoing monthly work

From then on, software checks your site every day and flags problems as they appear. Each month we improve a batch of pages, suggest content and draft it for you, and keep an eye on the searches that matter to your business.

Every content change comes to you for approval before it goes live. Technical fixes we’ve agreed in advance, such as a broken link or a missing title, we just fix and list in your report. Each month you get an easy to understand, in-depth report covering what we did, what changed in Google and what’s next.

5. Leaving

You can cancel any month with a single email. There’s no notice period beyond the month you’ve already paid for, and no exit fee. The terms set this out in full.

Removing our access takes a few clicks: remove us under Users and permissions in Search Console, Property access management in GA4, People and access in your Business Profile, and delete our user on your website. Everything we did stays on your site, and the pages, content and reports are yours to keep.

Your data

While we work on your site, we can see the reports and data your access allows, such as Search Console and Analytics figures. We use it only to deliver the service and handle it in line with our privacy policy. When you leave and remove our access, we can no longer see it.

Ready to start?

Send an enquiry with your website address. If you’d like to read more first, see how it works, pricing and our FAQ.