SEO Agency Manchester

Cubo, 1 Spinningfields, 1 Hardman St, Manchester M3 3EB
Specialist SEO & Content Marketing Agency Helping Manchester Brands Grow

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The latest SEO techniques change all the time but the fundamentals never have, and the Manchester brands that win are the ones that get both right.

Why Circulate

Why work with Circulate on your SEO

Content SEO Specialists

To reach high-intent search traffic, you need SEO strategies designed for your market and customers. At Circulate, we build search plans that put your business in front of ready-to-buy customers. We use targeted local keywords, on-page updates for conversions and technical improvements to upgrade your on and off-page signals.

Manchester’s SEO Agency

We’re an SEO agency that knows Manchester. We know there’s a lot of competition here, but we think we stand out by focusing on core SEO. We drive high-quality traffic to improve your rankings and help you stand out in local search packs. Everything we do is to drive new business and deliver strong ROI.

Technical SEO specialists

Our SEO team includes dedicated technical SEO experts who can help with anything technical on your site. Planning a migration or expanding internationally? We’ve got you covered with our technical SEO offering and can factor it into our bespoke strategies.

Supporting local businesses

We believe in supporting local businesses. Any local SEO should be done to foster community as much as to build up customers. This helps you become part of a local network that supports each other, representing the best of Manchester.

AI Visibility Report

Free. Eight questions. About two minutes.

64%

Your AI visibility score

AI answersDoes ChatGPT name you when buyers ask?
Google AI OverviewsAre you cited, or is a competitor?
Competitor shareWho AI recommends instead of you.
Your fix listThe three things worth fixing first.

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Does AI recommend your business?

Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI before they ever reach your site. If you’re not in those answers, the enquiry goes to a competitor. Our free check shows you where you stand.

An instant score: answer eight quick questions and see where you stand straight away.
Five AI tools: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.
A personal report: our team sends your findings within one working day.
No hard sell: free, with no obligation.

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Free AI visibility check

How visible is your business in AI search?

Answer eight quick questions to get an instant score and the three things worth fixing first. It takes about two minutes.

Covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews
Instant score as soon as you finish
Optional free report from our team within one working day

Trusted by leading brands

The Manchester SEO agency trusted by global brands

Across Manchester and beyond

Whether you’re in the city centre, Salford, Stockport or further out, we’ll build a strategy that fits your goals and your market.

Not another Manchester agency

Manchester is overrun with an abundance of SEO marketing agencies . They all promising to deliver the same results. Herein lies the problem….

A different approach

The same old strategies, the same old vision, and the same advice you’ve heard a thousand times. When an agency is encouraging you to replicate what your competitors are doing, rather than carving your own pathway to success, you’re right back where you started. Failing to identify how your brand can be a leader in your market, not a follower.

Standing out in Manchester’s crowded agency market

Manchester has one of the busiest agency scenes outside London. Search for an SEO agency here and you’ll find page after page of them, from one-person consultancies to large teams in Spinningfields and the Northern Quarter. Most promise the same things, which makes it hard to tell them apart.

We’ll be straight about who we are. Circulate is based in Sheffield, at Cubo on Carver Street, about an hour from Manchester. We work with Manchester businesses, meet clients in the city for planning sessions, and run the day-to-day work over calls and shared reporting. If you need an agency within walking distance of your office, we’re not it. If you want a team that turns up when it matters and reports against enquiries, here’s how we try to stand out.

We report on enquiries and revenue. Rankings are useful, but on their own they don’t pay anyone’s wages. Every plan we write ties back to the leads and sales your site produces.

We do the work in one plan. Technical SEO, content, digital PR and AI search sit together rather than being sold as separate packages, so nothing gets fixed in one place and broken in another.

We take AI search seriously. Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews for recommendations before they click a link. We build content those tools can quote and track how often you’re named in their answers.

We show our results. Our case studies include a 250% increase in lead volume for Vortexa, a 267% increase in organic traffic for Octopus and a 256% increase in organic lead volume for the NHS. You can read each one in full rather than taking our word for it.

Manchester’s search market is as crowded as its agency market. Whether you’re a professional services firm competing for city-centre searches or an ecommerce brand selling nationally, the businesses that win have the clearest content and the strongest signals of trust.

If you’d like to see where you stand, book a free strategy session. We’ll show you what you rank for, where competitors are ahead and what we’d fix first.

Case studyPRYA

PRYA. 45% increase in organic product revenue.

PRYA saw a 45% increase in organic product revenue after we optimised their social search presence. Here's how we uplifted their social strategy.

45%Product revenue
37%Conversion rate
27.55%Sitewide revenue

Case studyKoibird

Koibird. 294% increase in keywords, 41% more revenue.

A London fashion brand known for curated edits and bold seasonal collections, selling online and in-store. We combined technical fixes and landing page optimisation into one search strategy, refining content as the data came in. Site speed and mobile usability improved. Conversion tracking became far more accurate.

294%New keywords
41%Organic revenue

Case studyCorndel

Corndel. A full CMS migration with zero authority lost.

We audited first, then mapped every page, link and ranking that carried Corndel’s authority and redirected them before launch.

0%Authority lost
50Domain Authority
540+Keywords held

Reporting

We show you what’s working, and what isn’t

Our own industry-leading reporting suite tracks the whole strategy across Google and every major AI platform. You see where you’re moving, what’s driving it, and what we’re changing.

Scroll to move through the report. Demo data.

AI searchAI referral traffic

Visits sent by AI platforms, month by month · from Google Analytics

1,284visits from AI platforms in October213% year on year

ChatGPT61%

Perplexity18%

Gemini12%

Copilot6%

Claude3%

Nov410Dec455Jan520Feb498Mar610Apr690May742Jun815Jul930Aug1,010Sep1,150Oct1,284 visits

1,284 visits

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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ConversionsOctober conversions1–31 Oct, compared with October 2025

Conversion rate12.4%+1.6 pts

October 2025912conversions

1,43557% year on year

Where they came from

Form submissions612

Phone clicks391

Strategy calls booked248

Demo requests184

October 2025 · 912Growth this year · +523

Across every assistant trackedVisibility

Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on monthImprovedDeclined

Brand mentionsAI search

214

18%from 181 in September

Answers naming youAI search

31%

9 ptsfrom 22% in September

Times your site was citedAI search

118

24%from 95 in September

Prompts trackedAI search

240

40 addedfrom 200 in September

Competitors trackedAI search

2 addedfrom 4 in September

Answers analysedAI search

640

7%from 600 in September

Average position in answersAI search

3.4

Holdingfrom 3.3 in September

AI Overview citationsGoogle

3from 15 in September

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Assistants and competitorsWho named you

Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on monthYouOthers

Assistants

Gemini96

36% of 266 answers

ChatGPT71

27% of 263 answers

Perplexity47

18% of 261 answers

Share of answers across competitors

Competitor A268

37% of mentions

Your brand (you)214

29% of mentions

Competitor B112

15% of mentions

Competitor C58

8% of mentions

Competitor D44

6% of mentions

Competitor E38

5% of mentions

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Visibility by assistantPrompts you appeared in

Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on month

PromptVisible onSentimentCheckedChange

Best [your service] provider in the UKGPTGEMPPXPositive6New

[Your brand] vs [competitor]GPTGEMPPXPositive6+1 answer

Top alternatives to [competitor]GPTGEMPPXNeutral6+2 answers

Is [your brand] worth it?GPTGEMPPXPositive6No change

Which [your service] provider is best for [use case]?GPTGEMPPXNot named6−1 answer

What does [your service] cost in the UK?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6No prior scan

[Your service] agency near meGPTGEMPPXPositive6+1 answer

Who are the leading [your service] companies?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6New

Is [competitor] better than [your brand]?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6No change

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AudienceWhere your audience is

1–31 Oct · from Google AnalyticsMost visitsSome visitsNo visits

41%of visits came from the United Kingdom, out of 32 countries sending traffic.

Sessions by country

United Kingdom41%

United States18%

Ireland7%

Germany6%

Netherlands5%

Australia4%

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Site healthTechnical SEO

PageSpeed and crawl data · compared with last monthGoodNeeds workPoor

Mobile PageSpeedPageSpeed

82/100Needs work+11 month on month

Desktop PageSpeedPageSpeed

97/100Good+4 month on month

Crawl healthSite audit

94/100Good+6 month on month

Largest contentful paintMobile

2.9sNeeds work−0.8s month on month

Interaction to next paintMobile

140msGood

Cumulative layout shiftMobile

0.02Good

Pages with errorsSite audit

3GoodDown from 41

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Demo data. Your report uses your prompts, your competitors and your numbers.

SEO in Manchester: your questions answered

What does an SEO agency in Manchester do for a business like mine?

We cover technical SEO, content, digital PR and AI search in a single plan built around what drives enquiries for you, not a fixed package. For Manchester businesses that usually means competing in a crowded market where well funded agencies and in house teams are already active. We start with an audit to find where you are losing ground, fix the technical foundations, then build content and authority against the terms your buyers use. You deal directly with the people doing the work.

How much does SEO in Manchester cost?

We scope every retainer to your site, so there’s no price list. Manchester is competitive, so what sits above that depends on who you are up against, how much needs rebuilding first, and how much content and PR the plan carries. We audit before quoting and then hold a fixed monthly figure rather than billing by the hour for every extra question. If we think a budget is too low to win the terms you want, we will say so before you commit.

How long does Manchester SEO take to work?

Technical work shows early, often inside four to six weeks. Competitive Manchester terms typically take three to six months before rankings settle, and longer in categories like legal, property and ecommerce where incumbents have a decade of authority behind them. We set expectations against the actual search results rather than a generic timeline, and report on leads as well as positions.

Do you have a Manchester office?

We are based in Sheffield, an hour up the road, and we are in Manchester regularly for client meetings. Most Manchester clients do quarterly planning with us in person and work over calls and shared reporting in between. If getting the team in the room matters to you, that is straightforward to arrange.

Can we meet you in person?

Yes. Our team is based at Cubo, 38 Carver Street in Sheffield, about an hour from Manchester, and we’re happy to come to your office for the kickoff and planning sessions. You’re also welcome to visit us at Cubo. Day-to-day work runs over calls and shared reporting.

Start with a free strategy session

We’ll look at what you rank for, where competitors are winning instead, and what is worth fixing first. No charge, and the findings are yours either way.

Book a free strategy session

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