# Smiths SEO

> Independent web developer in Castleford, West Yorkshire. Repairs, speed optimisation, local SEO and new websites for small businesses across Wakefield, Leeds and the surrounding towns. Estimates £99–£849, nothing payable until the work is live.

Smiths SEO is one person: Harry Smith, a recently graduated engineer trading as a sole trader. There is no agency, no team and no account manager — the person who audits a site is the person who writes the code.

How the work is priced and delivered: a free written audit within 24 hours, then one fixed figure and one delivery date agreed in writing before anything starts. Invoiced after the work is live. No deposit, no retainer required, and clients keep ownership of the code, domain and hosting accounts.

Not VAT registered, so quoted prices are final.

## Start here

- [Home](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/): What Smiths SEO does, who it is for, and how the process works
- [Pricing](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/pricing): What a small business website actually costs, what moves the price, and straight answers on deposits, VAT and hourly rates
- [Client portal](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/client-portal): The account centre every client gets: invoices and PDFs, live previews of work in progress, subscriptions and a message thread
- [All services](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services): Index of the individual services
- [Areas covered](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas): Towns and cities served, and travel times from Castleford
- [All guides](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides): 19 free plain-English guides to websites for small businesses

## Services

- [Website repair](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-repair): Something broken, diagnosed and fixed — usually within two working days. From £99. Usually live within 48 hours. Answers the intent: "Something on my website is broken and I need it fixed."
- [Speed optimisation](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-speed-optimisation): Core Web Vitals into the green, with before-and-after proof. From £499. About a week. Answers the intent: "My website is slow and it is costing me visitors and rankings."
- [Local SEO](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/local-seo-services): Getting found by people nearby who are ready to buy. From £499. About a week, then it builds. Answers the intent: "People nearby are not finding my business when they search."
- [Web design](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/web-design): A first website, built to be found and easy to keep up to date. From £849. Two to three weeks. Answers the intent: "I have no website, or only a Facebook page, and I need a proper one."
- [Website redesign](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-redesign): A clean rebuild, with your search rankings carried across properly. From £849. Two to three weeks. Answers the intent: "My website is beyond fixing and I need a new one."

## Areas served

Based in Castleford (WF10 2QW). Work is done remotely across the UK; these are the places within travelling distance for in-person visits.

- [Castleford](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/castleford): WF10. Where I am based. I can call in and look at it with you.
- [Wakefield](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/wakefield): WF1–WF4. Ten minutes away. Regular work across the district.
- [Pontefract](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/pontefract): WF8. Next door. Plenty of independents with sites worth rescuing.
- [Leeds](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/leeds): LS1–LS28. Agency-quality work without the agency overheads.
- [Normanton](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/normanton): WF6. Next door to me. Quickest place for me to reach.
- [Knottingley](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/knottingley): WF11. Ten minutes east. Plenty of trades and industrial suppliers.
- [Featherstone](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/featherstone): WF7. Ten minutes south. Small, local, word-of-mouth trade.
- [Garforth](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/garforth): LS25. Fifteen minutes north. East Leeds without Leeds prices.
- [Ossett](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/ossett): WF5. Twenty minutes west, through Wakefield.
- [Morley](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/areas/morley): LS27. Half an hour west. South Leeds and the M62 corridor.

## Service and area combinations

- [Website repair in Wakefield](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-repair/wakefield): Something broken, diagnosed and fixed — usually within two working days. Written for Wakefield specifically.
- [Speed optimisation in Wakefield](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-speed-optimisation/wakefield): Core Web Vitals into the green, with before-and-after proof. Written for Wakefield specifically.
- [Local SEO in Wakefield](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/local-seo-services/wakefield): Getting found by people nearby who are ready to buy. Written for Wakefield specifically.
- [Website redesign in Wakefield](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-redesign/wakefield): A clean rebuild, with your search rankings carried across properly. Written for Wakefield specifically.
- [Website repair in Leeds](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-repair/leeds): Something broken, diagnosed and fixed — usually within two working days. Written for Leeds specifically.
- [Speed optimisation in Leeds](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-speed-optimisation/leeds): Core Web Vitals into the green, with before-and-after proof. Written for Leeds specifically.
- [Local SEO in Leeds](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/local-seo-services/leeds): Getting found by people nearby who are ready to buy. Written for Leeds specifically.
- [Website redesign in Leeds](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/services/website-redesign/leeds): A clean rebuild, with your search rankings carried across properly. Written for Leeds specifically.

## Guides

Free, no sign-up, no email required. Written to be useful whether or not the reader ever becomes a client.

- [Why your website matters](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/why-your-website-matters): Foundations. What a website is really for, what a bad one costs you, and how to judge your own honestly.
- [Site speed & Core Web Vitals](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/website-speed): Performance. What LCP, CLS and INP mean in plain English, why they affect rankings, and what actually makes sites slow.
- [Mobile & responsive design](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/mobile-and-responsive): Foundations. What responsive design actually means, the things that break most often on phones, and how to test properly.
- [Accessibility](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/website-accessibility): Foundations. What accessibility means in practice, why it is both a legal and commercial issue, and the changes that help most.
- [Technical SEO basics](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/technical-seo): Findability. How search engines find and understand your pages, and the technical faults that quietly keep you out of results.
- [Local SEO](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/local-seo): Findability. How to show up in local searches and the map pack — usually the highest-value SEO work a local business can do.
- [Navigation & structure](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/website-navigation): Conversion. How to organise pages and menus so people find what they need — and search engines understand how it fits together.
- [Turning visitors into enquiries](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/turning-visitors-into-customers): Conversion. Why interested visitors still leave without contacting you, and the changes that fix it.
- [Building trust](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/building-trust): Conversion. The signals that make a stranger believe you are real, competent and safe to contact.
- [Maintenance & security](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/website-maintenance): Upkeep. Why sites break on their own over time, and the small routine that prevents most of it.
- [Common website mistakes](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/common-website-mistakes): Foundations. A practical checklist of the faults that appear again and again, and what each one costs.
- [Redesign or repair?](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/redesign-or-repair): Foundations. How to tell whether your site needs fixing or replacing — and why the answer is usually fixing.
- [Choosing a web designer](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/choosing-a-web-designer): Foundations. The questions to ask, the answers that should worry you, and the ownership traps to avoid.
- [Words and content](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/content-and-copywriting): Conversion. How people actually read online, and how to write pages that survive being skimmed.
- [Images and media](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/images-and-media): Performance. Why images slow sites down more than anything else, and how to fix it without losing quality.
- [Domains and hosting](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/domains-and-hosting): Upkeep. What you are actually paying for, who should own it, and what matters when choosing.
- [Analytics and measurement](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/analytics-and-measurement): Findability. The handful of numbers worth watching, and the ones that look impressive but mean nothing.
- [Cookies and privacy](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/cookies-and-privacy): Upkeep. What UK law actually requires of a small business site, in plain English.
- [How I audit a website](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/guides/how-i-audit-a-website): Foundations. The process I follow on every free audit — and how to run most of it on your own site.

## Contact

Email harry@smiths-seo.co.uk. A free audit is requested through the form at https://smiths-seo.co.uk/#contact — send a web address and a written audit follows within 24 hours. There is no call to book and no obligation.

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/privacy): What personal data Smiths SEO collects, why, how long it is kept and who it is shared with. Written plainly, and specific to this website.
- [Cookies](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/cookies): Browsing this site sets no cookies at all. Signing in to the customer account centre sets one, purely to keep you signed in. No tracking, ever.
- [Terms](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/terms): The terms I work under: quotes and estimates, payment, ownership of the work, aftercare, and what happens if something goes wrong.
- [Accessibility](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/accessibility): How accessible this website is, what standard it aims for, the known limitations, and how to report a problem.
- [Site map](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/site-map): Every page on the site in one list
- [Guides feed](https://smiths-seo.co.uk/feed.xml): Atom feed of new and updated guides