Looking for a proven SEO agency in Manchester?
SEO is much more than boosting rankings, it’s about growing your business and putting in place the right foundations for long-term, sustainable commercial growth.
As an award-winning SEO agency based just outside Manchester, we have extensive experience of partnering with local, national and global brands to build a bespoke, highly effective search strategy that delivers your business goals and growth plans.
Our proven track record as an SEO agency for the Manchester area
Being based in Warrington, just outside Manchester, we’re ideally placed to partner with businesses across the North West of England and beyond. We love to develop long-term working relationships with brands and organisations based nearby in Manchester, Warrington, Liverpool, Chester and North Wales, as well as further afield.
Some of the brilliant Manchester businesses and brands we work with include:
Best SEO Agency 2025
We were thrilled to be shortlisted as one of the UK's best SEO Agencies at the 2025 UK Search Awards. We're also proud to have won multiple UK Search Awards in 2023 and 2022 for our work with ecommerce brand, Taking Care - and finalists again in 2024 for our work with the home development arm of Places for People with their Shared Ownership campaign. Take a look at more of our awards and accreditations.
SEO services that drive commercial growth for Manchester brands
Market and audience analysis
To ensure that we’re providing the most effective data-driven SEO strategy and recommendations, we delve into your market, competitors and audience to provide the analysis and insights that inform and shape everything else.
Search strategy development
Every business is different, so our tailormade strategy for you will be specific to your priorities and goals, based on data insights and our expertise. We will provide a timeline alongside the strategy, mapping key deliverables clearly.
Keyword research and mapping
As part of the SEO strategy, we’ll combine your own data with competitor insight to develop a keyword strategy that accurately reflects your audience’s search intent at various points of their journey and drives actions, not just visits.
Technical SEO
Ensuring that your website’s technical foundations are optimal for organic search is an important part of every SEO strategy. We run a range of technical audits and analysis, resulting in a Tech SEO plan, with recommendations clearly prioritised to ensure maximum impact.
Content strategy
Carrying out content audits, competitor analysis and performance reviews, we use the insights provided, alongside everything we know about your audience and their journeys, to develop search-driven content strategies that meets user needs and ladders up to your business goals.
Backlink analysis
Analysing your link profile, both now and historically, can tell us a lot about SEO performance and what could be holding your site back. Along with competitor comparison, we provide recommendations to strengthen your backlinks and develop lasting authority that boosts organic visibility.
Digital PR to support links
Our Digital PR team blends seamlessly with our SEO services to help our clients build valuable, relevant and high-impact links through earned coverage, helping amplify brand reach as well as contributing to SEO performance.
Performance tracking and reporting
Measuring performance and tracking against KPIs that make a tangible difference to your business and goals is an essential part of what we do. Our transparent SEO reporting includes live dashboards and regular reviews so you’re always fully informed about progress and next steps.
“Manchester’s business scene is thriving and it’s something I’m genuinely proud for No Brainer to be part of. We’ve worked alongside local brands both large and small since day one, so we know how competitive and fast-moving SEO in this region can be. That’s exactly what makes it exciting for us - helping Manchester businesses grow with audience-first thinking and decisions grounded in real data.”
– Laura Rudd,
Head of SEO & Content
Why choose No Brainer as your SEO agency in Manchester?
At No Brainer, our approach uses a combination of audience insights, data, research, UX, creativity and decades of combined experience to deliver audience-first SEO services that are designed to deliver commercial growth – making a tangible difference to your business performance.
- B Corp certified - because we're purpose-driven and committed to social and environmental good
- Our SEO, content and digital PR services are fully integrated, maximising impact and results
- Don’t just take our word for it, take a look at what our brilliant clients have to say about working with us
If you’re a business looking for an SEO agency near Manchester, we’d love to chat and demonstrate how we’re helping brands like yours to grow.
Boosting brand share of voice for accountancy outsourcers Advancetrack
70+
pieces of unique coverage
150m+
media reach
+50%
LinkedIn follower growth
- Digital PR, Social, Media Relations
Advancetrack is one of the UK’s leading specialist outsourcers of accountancy and audit services.
Working with nano and micro influencers to increase exposure for North West festival
10
Total collaborations
52k
Accounts reached with no paid budget
221
Minutes total video watch time
- Content, Social, Influencer Marketing
The North West’s favourite family-friendly festival, Deva Fest, is positioned in the heart of Cheshire at Cholmondeley Gardens. Since their launch in 2019 they have welcomed incredible artists from the likes of Fleur East and Will Young, to Scouting for Girls and Morcheeba.
Injecting major organic growth for a new weight loss service
30,705
More clicks
4,149
New ranking keywords
209
New backlinks
- Digital PR, SEO, Content
PillTime is an established NHS pharmacy and medication delivery specialist. Early this year, they asked us to help them launch into the highly competitive weight loss market with 2 key products - Mounjaro and WeGovy.
Powering up visibility for ElectriX – LV Insurance's EV disruptor
2,096
keywords improved
85%
increase in leads from organic
44%
increase in Share of Voice
- SEO, Content
ElectriX, a dedicated electric vehicle business created by LV Insurance – one of the leading worldwide insurance providers, entered a growing but crowded space with a clear mission: to drive the shift to electric vehicles across the UK.
Boosting website traffic for personal alarm retailer
60%
Increase in online revenue YoY
99
Online coverage
73%
More website visits
- Digital PR, SEO, Content
Taking Care are the largest private personal alarm provider in the UK, endorsed as a Which? Trusted Trader Approved Service, and are the first Approved Service for the installation and servicing of personal alarms in the UK.
Raising the roof on trades careers for Checkatrade
200+
PR coverage
476
traffic referring keywords on page 1
4.5k
podcast downloads
- Digital PR, SEO, Content, Social, Media Relations, Influencer Marketing
Checkatrade wanted to be the go-to name in the trades and construction sector for apprenticeships. Our strategy paved the way for the launch of three key programmes that aim to engage schools, employers and young people in the possibility of trades careers.
Related services
You can drive all the traffic in the world, but if your content doesn’t connect, inform, or persuade, it won’t convert. Content marketing is what turns visibility into real value – giving your audience a reason to trust, engage with, and ultimately choose your brand.
Even the best content needs backup. Digital PR helps build the authority and links that give your content the strength to climb the rankings – and the credibility to earn clicks.
Content can’t just sit there – it needs sharing, shouting about, and showing up in the right places. A smart social strategy gets your content in front of the people who matter, building buzz, reach, and even those all-important links.
“No Brainer have been a fantastic partner to us, providing a joined up and cohesive SEO, content and digital PR strategy that we just could not have delivered in-house.”
John Swaffield
TakingCare
Happy customers
“What’s great about working with No Brainer is their depth of knowledge and expertise, their innovation, their holistic approach to content marketing and their efficiency! They’re a genuine and exceptionally talented bunch of people who work with you to understand your needs and deliver the results you want”
Stephanie Mcevoy
Places for People
“No Brainer was able to work nimbly with us at short notice on a story that had already performed very well across mainstream travel and lifestyle media. They leverage the hook, exploring different features and angles to enhance its online impact and SEO.”
Becky Bennett
The Eden Project
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