SEO Donegal
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STEP 1:
SEO Assessment
In the SEO Assessment, we talk to you about what you want from your website, followed by our initial research to evaluate what you have now. Start here.
Book your complimentary consultation.
STEP 2:
Monthly Ongoing SEO
We can work with you on a choice of levels – no contract required. Swop level any time. You dictate the pace. “A website is only as effective as it is used.”
Book your complimentary consultation.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN DONEGAL
Focused on Construction, Financial, Legal sectors in Donegal, Ireland
SEO Donegal | Search Engine Optimisation Donegal
You are here because your business website is not ranking in search results as well as you want it to. As a result, you are losing out on valuable leads and sales.
If you landed on this SEO page, you most likely did a Google search for SEO Donegal or Donegal SEO or SEO or Donegal SEO Services or SEO Agency in Donegal. You found us at MEANit Web Design Agency in Letterkenny, County Donegal because we practice what we preach and understand the most important ranking factors on Google.
With our custom approach to SEO or Search Engine Optimisation, Google ranks us Number 1 or top of the page on Page 1 for SEO Donegal and Web Design Donegal and similar terms. We offer you the same SEO services for your own Donegal-based business.
As an SEO Agency since 2000, we do not look for any long-term commitment or financial risk on your part.
We can do an initial ‘SEO Assessment‘ for you, to start, as in writing up a full technical report on your current website, along with a recommended plan of action for you to follow yourself. Or our Irish ‘SEO specialists’ can execute that very SEO Assessment for you. And we can work with you on an ongoing monthly basis. If that is what you want, see our SEO Donegal Monthly Ongoing Services below. All this, at a pace or budget that suits you best. Tell us what you want to achieve. Then we can tell you if we are a good fit for each other.

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CEO Financial Advisor at Advice First Financial Services in Letterkenny, Donegal talks about their experience working with MEANit Web Design Agency and SEO.
Simple SEO. No Technical Jargon. No False Promises. No Excuses – Just Results
SEO DONEGAL PROCESS & STEPS
Having trouble deciding on an SEO package?
Give us a call at 01 969 6060 or 086 2510117 and Michael MacGinty our own SEO consultant in our Letterkenny office at Ballyraine can guide you through our SEO options to find out which is right for you.
You can also email [email protected] or use our quick enquiry form and have Michael contact you directly.
We offer you an SEO Donegal Assessment of where you stand now – a great start. No big commitment whatsoever. Then the option if required, of an SEO Monthly Ongoing Service to get your website well optimised and promote your business online for you. Limited to 20 Clients.
Step 1: DONEGAL SEO ASSESSMENT €750
In the SEO Donegal Assessment, we talk to you about what you want from your website, followed by our initial research to evaluate what you have now. Then we put together a roadmap for you to use, in any way you like. Imagine a doctor giving you a prescription, before making a diagnosis, based on a consultation – that is malpractice.
You can use whichever elements of the ‘SEO Assessment’ report you like. You can give it to someone else to use on your behalf.
Or you may decide to work with us to make it a reality for you, by signing up to our SEO Monthly Ongoing Services to get your website in shape for. But let’s just go one small step at a time, start with the Assessment.
No big commitment or contract is required. – 1. Book a Call 2. Create a Plan 3. Grow Your Business
An SEO Donegal Assessment is not an ‘Audit’
Maybe you’ve heard of SEO Audits – they normally generate pages and pages of ‘data’ in a report highlighting every single thing that is wrong with your site. Even a site with 20-30 pages of content can create a report that is twice that size. These are generally not human-generated reports, and it is an automated software that creates the audits with all the ‘data’. And the cheap automated ones add little or no value at all.
Our manual SEO Assessment isn’t anything like an audit. Instead, it’s a review from 1,000 feet up. We look at the most critical dynamics and give you an overview of some opportunities that will help you improve SEO and gain traction online.
An SEO Assessment does not have to take forever or cost thousands
If you’ve ever hired an SEO agency in Donegal or offshore to do an audit, you’ve likely spent thousands for huge reports containing computer-generated lists — with almost no useful or actionable SEO recommendations. That’s not what we offer.
Our SEO Assessment provides ‘jargon free’ actionable recommendations from our SEO specialists and for much less than the cost of other audits. Sure, we do give you some related data to back up our opinions, but mainly the highlights and we translate what this means for your business in Ireland.
As a team we spend half a day or more, physically doing the work and compiling your individual report. If you’re ready to get started making adjustments to your site, weeks of waiting can be frustrating – we deliver within 10 working days.
An SEO Donegal Assessment isn’t the Conclusion, It’s the Start
When you purchase one of the typical SEO audits out there, it’s already the final product. You get a report and they either wish you well or offer to take you on as a client (with crazy monthly costs) to start repairing everything they’ve found. That’s not how we run our business.
Our SEO Assessment is clear, focused, and includes specific valuable recommendations. You can take it from there to work on your own website. No strings attached whatsoever.
However, it does not have to mean goodbye, if you decide you want more help. We offer two further Monthly Ongoing SEO options or paths after your initial SEO Assessment, should you choose to do so. You decide after reading through the Assessment and its recommendations :
SEO Assessment Typical Questions – FAQs
Can SEO Donegal Assessments be completed for any and all websites?
Yes, if it is built on a WordPress platform for a Professional Services business, we can evaluate it.
We do not work with eCommerce websites at all, which includes Magento, Big Commerce etc.
We do not profess to understand platforms like Wix, Weebly, Yola, Shopify or other such proprietary platforms. We can work with Squarespace.
How long does an SEO Donegal Assessment take?
We deliver an SEO Assessment within 10 working or business days from receipt of payment. We have to book the time to spend half a day or more as a team, researching your website and writing up your Custom Report.
Do I need to start with an SEO Donegal Assessment? Can I jump into hands-on SEO instead?
You don’t have to start your SEO journey with an Assessment, you could start with an Ongoing Monthly SEO plan instead for an action-oriented approach, IF your website is already in good shape. The SEO Assessment is very helpful if you want to map your priorities before hitting the ground running, which makes sense if you want to be targeting the right things.
And lets face it, if you do not know us, you do not want to start with any big commitment. This is a risk free first option for you.
My website is really big. Does the price of the Assessment change?
There are no website size restrictions for SEO Donegal Assessments. This is a 1,000-foot view, so we can review any site — from small to large — and create a roadmap for growth. We do avoid eCommerce, Hospitality, or Enterprise websites, as they are just not our jam. If your market is National rather than Local then yes we need more time and the fee is €1250. Delivery is still within 10 working days.
There are cheaper SEO audits
Yes, There are cheaper SEO audits, much cheaper, but they are not like our SEO Assessments. The main difference is that for a small amount of money you can get a huge amount of data. And maybe a nice big templated report. But can you make head or tails of it? Will you be able to do anything as a result of getting this automated SEO audit? And crucially, the people who offer these low cost audits never get to know anything much about you or your business, or more importantly your customers. They cannot afford to invest the time in your business for the small fee that they charge you. Usually they are not in Donegal or Ireland at all.
Step 2: ONGOING MONTHLY DONEGAL SEO SERVICES
We can work with you on a choice of levels – no contract is required. Swap level any time. You dictate the pace. “A website is only as effective as it is used.”
Platinum – Concierge – €5000. This is where we become part of your team working on your website to accelerate your SEO and aggressively gain traffic by working on your agreed strategy.
Gold – Regain – €2000. This is two full days or four half days of our time to work on your website to accelerate your SEO and aggressively gain traffic by working on your agreed strategy.
Silver – Sustain – €1000. This is a full day or two half days of our time to work on your website to sustain your SEO by enhancing it gradually, and by working on your agreed strategy.
Bronze – Maintain – €500. This is a half day of our time to work on your website to maintain your SEO or work on your strategy with you – your call.
Effectively, we do for you, what we do for ourselves. We use the tools that we understand to get the results you want. We work at whichever pace you want to 1. Maintain 2. Sustain 3. Regain or 4. Concierge
We are not the right fit for every business, however, as we are based in Ireland mainly in Donegal and Dublinnwe work well with Professional Services Businesses in Ireland. Our focus is on Construction firms, and Financial Advisory services as we have a lot of experience here.
We focus solely on the WordPress platform and use a variety of associated tools for SEO purposes. All these tools are ‘White Hat’, all attaching license fees paid by us, all in positive support of your valuable online reputation to enhance it every month. Try us out for 3 to 6 months and decide for yourself based on the results.
How we do SEO in Donegal
*Whichever Donegal SEO agency you choose will be a gamble, so try one for 3 to 6 months with no contract and see how well it works – no need for any big gamble on your part. Do make sure you get someone based in Donegal or Ireland to do the SEO to rank well in Donegal or North West area.
Some of the common tasks we do include:

- Do Keyword Research
- Install and configure Google Analytics
- Create XML Sitemap
- Add ALT Tags to images
- Create Page Title and Descriptions
- Add Location to Google Maps
- Submission to Search Engines
- Add Your Business to Local Directories
- 301 & 303 Re-Directs
- Install YOAST SEO Plugin
- Rename Page URL’s
- Add Social Share Buttons
SEO DONEGAL PRICING GUIDANCE
*The packages below are indicative of what we do on an ongoing basis every month, to further optimise your website and improve rankings and conversions. Every client is different, so we customise our SEO service to suit your own business. You may want us to simply Maintain your SEO. Or Sustain your SEO to grow visitor numbers. Or Regain to get competitive with your opposition. Or Concierge for growth focused firms.
PLATINUM – CONCIERGE
€5,000 per month
This is where we become part of your team working on your website to accelerate your SEO and aggressively gain traffic by working on your agreed strategy.
INCLUDES.
- Everything in Gold
- We work as part of your team
- Anything we can do in-house
- Management of Third Parties
- Full SEO Management Report
- Monthly Statistics Report
- Monthly Actionable Insights Strategy
- One call per Week
- Weekly Roundup Report
- Content Creation
- On-Site SEO
- Off-Site SEO includes Strategy, Local Search and Backlinks
- Technical SEO
€5,000 per month
Limited to 5 Clients.
*Currently no availability
GOLD – REGAIN
€2,000 per month
This is two full days or four half days of our time to work on your website to accelerate your SEO and aggressively gain traffic by working on your agreed strategy.
INCLUDES.
- Up to 100 Key words / Key phrases
- 5+ New Landing Page/ blog post
- Full SEO Management Report
- Monthly Statistics Report
- Monthly Actionable Insights Strategy
- Two calls per Month
- On-Site SEO
- Off-Site SEO includes Strategy, Local Search and Backlinks
- Technical SEO
€2,000 per month
Limited to 10 Clients.
*Ask about availability
SILVER – SUSTAIN
€1,000 per month
This is a full day or two half days of our time to work on your website to sustain your SEO by enhancing it gradually by working on your agreed strategy.
- Up to 50 Keywords/key terms
- 2+ New Landing Page/ blog post
- Full SEO Management Report
- Monthly Statistics Report
- Monthly Actionable Insights Strategy
- One call per Month
- On-Site SEO
- Off-Site SEO includes Strategy and Local Search
- Technical SEO
€1,000 per month
Limited to 20 Clients.
*Ask about availability
BRONZE – MAINTAIN
€500 per month
This is a half day of our time to work on your website to maintain your SEO or work on your strategy with you – your call.
INCLUDES.
- Up to 25 Keywords/key terms
- 1+ New Landing Page/ blog post
- Full SEO Management Report
- Monthly Statistics Report
- Monthly Actionable Insights Strategy
- One 1 hour call per Quarter
- On-Site SEO
- Off-Site SEO and Strategy
- Technical SEO
€500 per month
Successful people want to be as professional online as they are off-line.
With so many experts and platforms and apps, it’s difficult to know where to begin, right?

Meet Michael from the MEANit Web Design & SEO Team
With over 20 years of experience in the web, we can help you develop an overall web presence to give you the opportunity to engage with your chosen audience. This helps ensure that you get to do what you want to do, with the people you really, really want. If that sounds interesting to you, get in touch now for a complimentary chat. Let’s see if we are a good fit for you!’
WHAT OUR HAPPY SEO DONEGAL CLIENTS SAY
SEO DONEGAL FAQS
How long does it take to get on Page 1 in Donegal?
This is a very common question. The truth is that this varies depending on the competitiveness of your key terms or key words for your industry. And how well your competitors in Donegal do their own SEO Search Engine Optimisation . Nobody can honestly guarantee you a Page 1 ranking for Donegal. However a good SEO might give you an indication after the first month or two. As any golfer in Portsalon, Letterkenny , Ballyliffin or Murvagh would tell you, it is all about playing the course in front of you on any given day
Can you guarantee Page 1 listing?
No. However, a good SEO specialist should know how they can do it. This is still a wild guess until the first month or two have been done. It is just a form of advertising, instead or on top of using the Donegal Democrat or Donegal News, Ocean FM Radio, and Highland Radio. Or even Donegal Daily. In the long run, it will be a lot less expensive than using PPC Pay Per Click Google Ads.
By all means show some patience with getting results, but show some impatience with the activity of your SEO agency. Ask for regular reports, look at the figures and provide any content they ask for or want approval for to publish.Work together rather than simply hand off the work entirely. Over time as the agency gets to know your business you will need to be less and less involved. But initially you know your business better than the agency.
Can you offer a lower price? I see other people asking for less.

Fanad Lighthouse, Donegal
You will see people offering to do SEO in Donegal for less money. Some will even guarantee more traffic or higher ranking for some words. Or higher CTR click-through rate. Usually, these guys want your money and it is a numbers game for them. They are forever selling and getting more short-term clients. That is how they work. Check, in an Incognito window, for private browsing, if they even rank for the services they offer. Look at their Google Reviews and see if businesses like yours recommend people like them.
What you invest in is up to you. The more you invest the better the results in leads or sales. However, the first few months are a gamble, to find out if we can do what we say and deliver results. Commit to someone for 3 or 6 months. If you get the wrong people move on to someone else. The more you invest the better the results in leads or sales should be. If you could invest €500 and get back €1500 or invest €5000 and get back €15,000 – which do you want? You decide where you want to start and commit to one SEO Donegal provider. Why pay less when you can spend more and get better returns?
When you invest in SEO services including local SEO or GBP management, you’re not just paying for the time spent on your project.
You are also investing in:
– Expertise – gathered from doing this professionally and studying SEO for years
– Experience – gained form years on the tools
– Research – the SEO team spend countless hours studying tactics and the effects of algorithms
– Tools and software – SEO requires quite a few complex paid tools
– Professional writers – not some AI tool
– Skilled link builders – engaging with other website owners to get backlinks
– Strategic planning – we need to always start with a plan
– Time management – we could end up spending days on a project, with endless possible rabbit holes
– Reliability – every day, every week, every month, repeatedly doing the work required
– Accountability – without results we know you will find someone else
– Precision – without due care an SEO team could do more damage than good
– Compliance with best practices – whether it is GDPR or WCAG we need to know the rules and work within the guidelines
– Keep updated with industry – spending time with other agencies and developers to sharpen our skills
– Security measures and Monitoring – more tools to protect your web presence
Criticizing the ‘cost’ of SEO services without understanding the depth of work involved is not really fair. And you should get back more than you are investing anyway. So many people want to be paid ‘well’ for their professional service, but struggle when it comes to paying well for a professional service provided to them. When you work with the right fit agency you will have no problem paying well. How your treat people who deliver a service like for you is exactly how your new customers will turn up looking for your service. It is just the way it works. Put out what you want to get back, treat people as you want to be treated.
Can you guarantee more sales? Will we definitely make more money?

Donegal Castle, Donegal Town, Co Donegal, Ireland
We may be able to generate more traffic, better traffic, and more enquiries, however, it is still down to you to make the sale. If we get 100 more people a month to your door in Donegal or Online, how many can you convert to a sale?
How many months are needed? How long does this SEO take?
SEO is never ending. And if you do get more traffic and more sales, why would you stop doing it? It is just a form of advertising, instead or on top of using Donegal News or Donegal Democrat or Donegal Daily and Highland Radio. In the long run it is less expensive than using PPC Pay Per Click Google Ads.
Only after a few months will you be able to tell you how long it should take to rank for a key word or term.
Once you get it right, SEO becomes a big part of your ongoing advertising. My friend Sue Ginsburg likes to quote Henry Ford “The man who stops advertising to save money, is like the man who stops a clock to save time”.
Things change in search and the way people use search and in Google algorithms. Add to that the fact that your competitors will be chasing you online, so it is important to stay fit and in good shape online.
The good news is that SEO is the lowest cost, most effective way to get enquiries, leads or sales. And done well you can stop running around looking for ways to get leads and just concentrate on managing your business, your production or growing your team. So many people get busy looking at all the shiny new tools and offers that crop up. Once you get your SEO right, stick with it, push it as hard as you need to do, to fill your pipeline.
SEO is NOT a cost, it is an investment. One that done right will give you the best return on your spend.
How many keywords are included?
We get an idea of keywords from you and then we research your competitors and add them to the list. Then we can start with one or two or however many you want. But lets see what the list looks like after a month or two of grunt work by us. Only after a few months will be be able to tell you how long it should take to rank for a word or term. Some words or terms may take longer than others for your industry.
Do you offer the audit free?
No. This is work for a day or half a day and we charge for it. Ignore the FREE online options that are generic, just to hook you. Pay for the Audit and then decide if you want to proceed with the SEO that does it.
What is SEO? Not sure? Start here
What is SEO or Search Engine Optimisation – if you have time to learn a bit more or even how to do it yourself, read our FREE SEO Guide to optimising your website for Dublin or Donegal, Sligo or Derry wherever you are based in – know all the details in the Guide on ‘What Is SEO’.
Note: This is a big FREE DIY Guide that covers everything from initial Keyword Research, Technical SEO, Content SEO, On-Site SEO, and Off-Site SEO. Everything you need to do the optimisation yourself. Or to help you engage with an SEO Dublin Agency that can do it for you.
What sort of SEO tasks do you do?
In no particular order here are some of the tasks we do for SEO clients, depending on what is urgent at any given time.
Technical SEO
Fix technical SEO issues
Fix any canonical or cannibalisation issues
Ensure domain variations all point to the root, as in http://www.meanit.ie and https:// www.meanit.ie to https://meanit.ie
Clean up existing links
Clean up code
No Index paginated results
Test mobile friendly version rendering and speed
You can address mobile-first indexing
Improve site delivery for core web vitals
Check HREF LANG configuration
Ensure hosting environment is adequate, secure, fast with no IP neighbour issues
Check that robots txt file is correct
Test and improve accessibility301 redirects
404 error check and repair
Content SEO
Write up a content strategy
Write new, high quality, topical content
Work on domain overall authority in your industry
Expand on topics covered in page content relative to your industry
Edit pages to respond better with end user intent
Create content around Brand promotions elsewhere
Cull or curate old content or reduce number of pages
Ensure all content is original or paid for
Check all images are correctly sized for web
Check all images are correctly named with proper naming convention
Clean out any old images from Media library
On Site SEO
Work on internal linking
Improve ‘Brand’ trust
Add to or improve Schema
Tweak or improve Page titles to engage in SERPs
Tweak or improve meta descriptions to convert more visitors
Add Alt tags
Optimise images
Use or improve anchor texts
Use a mini menu structure with jump links in long articles
Create and A/B Test landing pages
Off-Site SEO
Build new relevant links
Disavow unsuitable links
Work on your Google Business Profile entry
Work on the Linkedin Business Profile
Work on Facebook Business Page
Check external links to your internal pages
Resolve any current Google Search Console coverage issues
Do NAP audits for listings with your Name, Address and Phone number
Get more reviews
Compare competitor sites and reverse engineer
Do some PPC or engage someone to manage a campaign
Constantly check, add to, improve and edit Web 2.0 listings
Typical Plan or flow of SEO work over 6 months to a year
We would usually work in this sort of order:
1. SEO Initial Assessment
2. On-Page SEO
3. Web Core Vitals
4. Google Business Profile
5. Navigation Restructure
6. On-Page SEO
7. Off-Page SEO Web 2.0
8. Content Audit
9. Linkedin
10. On-Page SEO
Every client is different, so we focus on what exactly each client needs at any given time, in order to get the results they want.
Some start with a Technical Audit or SEO Audit and request Onsite Optimisation or Offsite Optimisation, perhaps for Local Search Optimisation and ask for Content creation or guided recommendations, whilst some just ask for Keyword Analysis or Mobile Optimisation and some want detailed Reporting with full Tracking details. We have a proven system that we like to use, however we are happy to tweak it to suit each individual project.
What is included in Technical SEO?
Title Tags Optimisation
META Tags Optimisation
Back Linking
Images Optimisation
Sitemap update submissions
Broken links
301 Redirects
404 error check and repair
What is included in Off-Site SEO?
Web 2.0 Pages
Social Signals & Bookmarking
Google My Business edits/management
Citations
Reviews
What is included in On-Site SEO?
On-page edits
Content Optimisation
Internal Link Optimisation
Alt tags
Meta Descriptions
Page Titles
How much does SEO cost in Donegal Ireland?
How much does SEO cost in Donegal or Ireland?
SEO or Search Engine Optimisation entails a lot of different tasks and skills. So it needs a specialist or a specialist team of SEOs and developers to apply any technical or code changes, plus perhaps a graphic designer. Usually an agency will bill an hourly rate to include the use of the team members, whichever are required at any given time. An average rate is about €100, but many do charge twice that figure. A freelancer may charge less, but therefore does not have the full team with all the skills required.
In the USA the average spend in 2021 on SEO services by a small company was about $500 a month, as referenced by Brian Dean at Backlinko. They surveyed 1200 small businesses or companies who identified as investing in monthly SEO services. Many invest thousands a month and most are happy with their returns. These business plan to invest more in 2022. Most who spend under $500 a month are generally not happy with the results. These respondents do not plan to stick with theircurrent agency or freelancer.
What are the options when getting someone to do your SEO?
Employ an SEO.
You could employ someone inhouse to do your SEO and the going rate is between €30,000 for a start and about €70,000 for the more experienced SEO, so the average salary is about €50,000 in Ireland. This is about €30 per hour plus tax and benefits.
Pros – include having the person in your physical office to do as instructed, when instructed.
Cons – You have to find someone suitable to recruit, manage them, look after them with benefits such as sick pay and holidays etc.
Employ a Freelancer.
There is a plethora of Freelancers offering SEO services and they can seem like the cheap or low cost option. The good ones are freelancing because an agency will pay them between €30 and €60 an hour, whereas they can get €100+ if they work directly with the client. The better ones can code as well as do SEO. And the unicorns can do both, plus be qualified graphic designers too!
Pros – They are self employed. You simply pay an agreed hourly rate. And there are no extra benefits. You can sack them at any time.
Cons – You still have to find one that you think is good and then gamble on them for a while to see if they are any good. And if they leave you can be left in a situation where you do not know where you stand, so you have to start all over again.
Employ an Agency
Pros – They have to find their own staff, train them and make sure they are good at their job, then manage them and provide relief staff for holidays and sickness. They have to do any recruiting and replace people who leave. They have to deliver results for you or you can just leave to go to their competitor.
Cons – It costs you more (or it can appear to cost you more).
SEO Sevices rates or costs
Some SEO services are more expensive to buy and deliver than others. You can expect to pay more for Link Building or website management , eCommerce or Enterprise SEO, creating Infographics and videography. More that is, than paying for Social Media marketing or management, keyword research or writing simple blog articles, on page or off page seo, audits and guest posting.
A good agency can be tasked with doing everything, whereas employees or Freelancers tend to focus on one or two services.
Marketing Budget versus SEO Budget
If you have a budget of say 10% of overall sales and you sell €1m a year, take that €100k as the Marketing budget, then allocate say 20% to 25% to SEO services. This is about industry standard. If you are applying metrics to all your marketing spend, you should be able to determine which tactics work best. It could be as simple as asking new customers, where did they get your contact details or why did they call you.
Bottom LineIf you really do understand SEO Search Engine Optimisation, you could employ someone to do the work you give them through a comprehensive SEO Plan. If you do not want to employ someone, you could try some freelancers and hope to get a good one, even if it is short lived.
However, if you want to have a team of specialists do the work and get the results, hire an agency. Give them 6 months to get some results, to show a good return on your investment. What is the average LTV Life Time Value of a new client for you? If the first Agency does not work out find another one until you get it right. Then build a mutually beneficial long-term relationship, so that you can work and grow together. Any good SEO Donegal Agency will not want short-term clients, so they will run you through as much of a filter as you apply to select them.
Does every website need SEO?
No – Not every website needs SEO Search Engine Optimisation?
Some people have a website more as a Digital Business card.
When you meet someone you are likely to google them. This is where SEO comes in, as you want to turn up when someone does that search. And you want to look professional. However, this could be as simple as having a one page website or a basic site such as Wix or Weebly. Add some relevant text and some images, along with your contact details and that is you done.
Will this simple one page site work without SEO?
Yes and no.
This one page or simple website may work if you are going to send people to it, use it on your business card or advertising etc. For example something like www johnsmithaccountant.com
However, it will probably not rank in Google for anything, but the domain name itself. In a search for “john smith accountant” this site may turn up. It is unlikely to turn up in a search for accountant or any specific accounting service. Depending on the competition and the number of competitors in the geographic location of the business.
If John Smith Accountant is based in a city, lets say Dublin or maybe Birmingham, he may get found for “john smith accountant”, but he will not rank for John smith or for accountant or for any accountant services.
Generally you can rank one page for one term or keyphrase. So if you have five services, you will want at least one page for each one, to be able to optimse for these services in your target area.
Is this enough for you?
Maybe this is enough. You can direct people straight to your website. Or you could do Ads such as Google Ads or Facebook or Linkedin Ads, to bring people to this website. Effectively you pay to play.
Bottom LineIf you are happy to bring people to the website by advertising, then you do not need SEO.
If you are paying for ads to get visitors, it will work, but it may become very expensive after a while. Once you stop paying, you stop displaying too.
Investing in SEO is a longer term tactic. And it is one that over time reduces your requirement to spend so much on Ads as a tactic.
Initially you could do both, advertise in the short term whilst doing SEO for the long term.
Remember that SEO is a tactic, but it is not the only way to promote your business. So all the usual ways such as social media marketing, signage, livery, adverts in newspapers, magazine also can work. TV, Radio, Van wraps, uniforms and loads of other standard marketing channels.
Fact check – We reckon that the overall figure is really about 1% click on the first ad in Google. The vast majority or 20% to 40% click on the first ‘organic’ result and half of that for the second organic result. Just as many will simply refine their search and move on to another page of results. Sounds surprising, and yet you know you do that yourself. Good SEO is critical.
Optional Turbo Charge: DONEGAL SEO KICKOFF Offer €2,250
Well done, you launched your website already! Or it is live, but not performing. Now, let’s talk SEO or Search Engine Optimisation.
Think of your website as the body of a beautiful car. Sure, it’s great to look at, but without an engine it will get you nowhere. Our SEO Donegal KICKOFF package serves as that engine and is a great start to your Search Engine Optimisation. This one time fee allows us optimise quickly for potential new leads and allow you generate real profit quickly.
Take advantage of our SEO experience and proven expertise for a few months to get your own website started off on the right footing with our Ongoing option.
In the SEO Donegal Kickoff we do your initial keyword research and mapping. Then optimise all your main pages initially. Effectively, we front-load our work to get you results fast. It can be done in one month or two or three – your call. How quickly do you want to see results?
We cover website analysis, competition analysis, keyword research, initial title tag optimisation, robots txt, sitemap, initial meta tag optimisation, local business profile optimisation, mobile responsiveness, security, google analytics, google search console set up, image optimisation, internal links, directory submission, nap submission, keyword use in anchor text, website analysis and site speed benchmarking. This is not ‘rocket science’ but like many things it is somewhat complex, if you are not working in it every day.
Finally we give you a plan to manage all your own Ongoing SEO moving forward. Or you can choose an agency such as ours to do it for you.
Kickoff SEO Works QUICKLY
Irish businesses have used Kickoff SEO to drive the steps required to grow their organic traffic. SEO takes dedication and time.
But what if you want to accelerate your SEO results? What if you want to get set up and start seeing results more quickly?
That’s where Kickoff SEO comes in.
What is SEO Donegal Kickoff?
What if you could skip keyword research, content strategising, and backlink analysis? What if you could cut your ongoing monthly SEO efforts in half? With SEO Donegal Kickoff, you can.
With SEO Donegal Kickoff, our experienced SEO guys and gals, like Hannah or Rory in Donegal, and Maryann or Michael in Dublin, do the work to build a solid SEO foundation for you.
We follow a holistic approach to Search Engine Optimisation by focusing equally on
1. Technical SEO
2. Content
3. On-site optimisation, and
4. Off-site SEO.
SEO Donegal Kickoff Typical Questions – FAQs
Can SEO Donegal Kickoff be completed on any and all websites?
Kickoff SEO can be completed on most WordPress websites that are for Professional Services Businesses – this is our sweet spot.
We do not work with huge Enterprise websites, Hospitality, or eCommerce such as WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and Drupal. And we know nothing about proprietary or closed platforms such as Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, or Shopify.
If I have a new website in development, when should I get started with SEO Donegal Kickoff?
The sooner the better. Completing the research and planning phase now ensures that the new website’s content and structure will pair well with your keyword space.
Is your SEO Donegal Kickoff price flexible?
The investment is based on previous projects, but we are always happy to look at potential projects and quote individually. We start at €2250 and try to stay at that.
Are there any guarantees of results?
Yes, in short, we do offer Guarantee. And yes, that is rather unusual.
How can we offer guarantees? Well, we have been doing this for a long time, so we know who we can help and who is not a good fit for us. After 20 years at a web design agency doing SEO in Donegal, you get to know what you are good at. So we are confident enough in our SEO abilities that we can give assurances, guarantees, or promises. Talk to us about it. We do not expect people to throw money at us and pray that we deliver some results. Why shouldn’t we share in the investment or the risk?
And we can give you references from happy Irish clients.
SEO Donegal Monthly Ongoing Service – Option 2
We can take the reins from here. Take incremental steps, at whichever pace you like, using whichever targets we agree. You’ll pay a low monthly fee, and we’ll make everything happen for you – profitably. Learn more about your SEO Plan Options in Donegal.
SEO Donegal Kickoff Option
If you’re looking for faster results than our Monthly SEO service offers, consider our SEO Donegal Kickoff program — a one-time, one-month project where we do all of the initial SEO work from the Assessment for you, super quickly. Know your SEO Donegal plan options.
What’s Included in Donegal SEO Kickoff?
SEO Donegal Kickoff is a one-time project to properly build your website’s SEO foundation.
It’s completed over the course of two months and includes:
Research & Planning of SEO
We complete the research and strategic planning needed to direct your website towards steady growth. We’ll review our findings with you and get your feedback.
Execution of SEO tasks
We identify focus keywords, write page titles and meta descriptions, update your alternative text, fix broken links, dial in your headers, and so much more.
Results of SEO
We expect to see your website ranking higher in the search results within weeks of completing the execution phase. We’ll review your SEO progress with you.

Can you take the SEO Donegal reins from there?
SEO Donegal Kickoff takes care of the initial work for you so that you can see results more quickly and with less hands-on work.
Once we’ve completed the Kickoff SEO, you’ll be in a great place to continue your SEO journey on your optimised platform.
Thanks to SEO Donegal Kickoff, you’ll already have a 12-month content plan. You’ll also have an SEO roadmap with marketing tactics for increasing your website’s trust and authority.
Or you can have us work on SEO Donegal Ongoing Monthly on your behalf – your call.