SEO Agency Leeds

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Your Local SEO Agency in Leeds. Helping Brands Dominate Search

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Be at the heart of the searches that move the needle for your brand, with SEO built around what Leeds customers actually type and ask.

Why Circulate

Why you should work with Circulate

Content is Key

Don’t waste time on boring copy that’s built to be skipped. Work with an agency who know what pulls in attention and keeps it. We craft every piece of content for your site with authority and conversion in mind.

SEO for Leeds

As an SEO agency that’s got Leeds at its heart, we’ll work to build your local traffic. We sort your business profile, so you’ll be at the top of Local Packs in no time. We drive high-quality traffic and improve your rankings, helping you stand out in local search results. Whatever you need to improve your SEO, we’ll do it.

Technical SEO Expertise

We can maximise your website’s reach in organic search. With improved crawling and indexing, we build out your schema to send the right signals to the right bots, helping you get noticed and climb the SERPs. We’ll do a deep audit to remove filler pages and improve load speeds.

Strategies Specifically for You

Scalable organic growth starts with custom SEO strategies. To grow your business organically, you need SEO strategies that help you stand out from competitors. Circulate creates detailed plans that grow with your business. We combine keyword research, technical checks and content optimisation to turn search visibility into continual revenue.

Trusted by leading brands

The Leeds SEO agency trusted by global brands

At Circulate, we help ambitious Leeds-based brands scale with purpose through performance-focused SEO. Every campaign is built to help you dominate local and national search. You generate more leads, increase revenue and strengthen your digital presence.

Whether you’re a growing business in the Leeds Dock tech scene or a well-established brand in the city post, we provide SEO strategies that turn organic visibility into sustainable, bottom-line growth.

How we work with Leeds businesses

Our team is based in Sheffield, at Cubo on Carver Street, about 40 minutes from Leeds by train. We work with Leeds businesses the way we work with clients across the UK: remotely day to day, and in person when it helps. Leeds is close enough that a kickoff at your office or a strategy review over coffee is an easy trip.

The result we point to first is Bathrooms By Design. It’s a well-known name in bathroom retail, but its organic footprint lacked precise targeting. We rebuilt the site’s information architecture into tightly themed hubs by service type, user intent and keyword, and built content around the terms customers were actually searching. Leads rose 71% and keywords grew 31%.

Leeds is a competitive place to rank. Financial, legal, professional services, digital and retail firms all chase the same high-value searches, and many of them are up against national brands too. Winning usually comes down to a site Google can crawl and understand, content that matches what your buyers type, and enough credible mentions from other sites to be trusted.

AI search adds another layer. Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews for a recommendation before they visit a website. Those tools quote brands that answer questions clearly and that other sites talk about. We build content AI platforms can quote and track how often you’re named in their answers, so you know whether you’re on the shortlist.

If you’re a Leeds business and want 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 studyBathrooms By Design

Bathrooms By Design. 71% increase in leads.

We took an established name in direct-to-consumer retail and built around the search terms their customers were actually using, lifting engagement leads by 71%.

71%Leads
31%Keywords

Case studyPeter Tyson

Peter Tyson. 149% revenue growth from technical SEO.

We cleared crawl waste and index bloat, then improved on-page content, structured data, internal linking and speed.

149%Revenue
17%High-intent keywords
1,300+Top 10 keywords

Case studyAYM

AYM. 251% above its previous daily sales record.

SEO-led landing pages to capture pre-sale sign-ups, gated VIP access and sitewide fixes that lifted rankings before the sale.

251%Above sales record
382New VIP subscribers
1,000+Users in two minutes

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 Leeds: your questions answered

What does your Leeds SEO agency cover?

Technical SEO, content, digital PR and AI search visibility, run as one plan rather than separate workstreams. For Leeds businesses that usually means competing regionally for service terms while also picking up national demand. We audit first, fix what is stopping pages from ranking, then build the content and authority that move competitive terms. Everything is reported against enquiries, not just positions.

How much does SEO in Leeds cost?

We scope every retainer to your site, so there’s no price list. What sits above that depends on how contested your terms are, the state of the site when we start, and how much content and digital PR the plan needs to carry. We scope after an audit so the number reflects the actual work. Leeds service businesses competing regionally usually sit near the starting point, while national ecommerce and finance briefs run higher.

How quickly will Leeds SEO show results?

Indexation and speed fixes can move things within weeks. Competitive Leeds terms generally take three to six months of steady work, and categories with entrenched incumbents take longer again. The compounding effect matters more than the first month, so we plan in quarters and report monthly on pipeline as well as position.

Can you work with us if we are outside Leeds?

Yes. Plenty of our clients are nowhere near Leeds. We work across the UK and internationally and the team is the same wherever you are. If you want sessions in person we are a short train ride away in Sheffield.

Can we meet you in person?

Yes. Our team is based at Cubo, 38 Carver Street in Sheffield, about 40 minutes from Leeds by train. We’re happy to come to your office in Leeds for the kickoff and strategy reviews, or you can visit us at Cubo. Day-to-day work runs remotely with regular 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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