I'm Saad Tanvir, a freelance SEO consultant working remotely with Leeds and West Yorkshire businesses. I cover local SEO, technical audits and content that ranks, without an agency retainer.
There's no Leeds office and no local receptionist. You get a named consultant, a written scope and a monthly report you can read in a few minutes. Calls are on UK time.
Leeds has a busy SEO agency scene, and many Leeds firms have already tried an agency. If you're looking for a freelancer instead, it's usually for one of three reasons: you want to talk to the person doing the work, you want a smaller fixed scope, or the last retainer produced reports but no rankings.
Leeds businesses often compete with Manchester and national brands for the same searches, while also needing to win the local Map Pack. The usual winning mix is a strong Google Business Profile for Leeds and the towns you actually serve, service pages that name those areas, and content that answers the questions local customers ask before they call.
Bradford, Wakefield, Harrogate and York are not the same market as Leeds city center. A service-area business should say where the vans go. A professional firm in the city should not pretend to cover every Yorkshire town if the reviews and the pages do not support it.
I work remotely from a UK-registered company. Distance is not the advantage. Proof is: Search Console numbers, a Map Pack plan, and one person who does the work.
Leeds is one of the largest legal and financial centers in the UK outside London. That has a knock-on effect on search. Professional-services searches in Leeds city center are competitive, and national firms with Leeds offices often outrank local independents on head terms like "solicitors Leeds". Independents usually win on the specific practice area plus the area, such as "conveyancing solicitor Headingley" or "accountant for contractors Leeds".
Trades and home services work differently. Most of the volume sits in the surrounding towns, not the city center. A roofer based in Morley who works across Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford needs a Google Business Profile service area and pages that reflect where the jobs happen. A single "Leeds" page won't cover it.
A lot of Leeds sites were built by local agencies on WordPress or Wix and haven't been touched in years. The usual problems are slow pages, duplicate URLs from filters and tags, and service pages that Google has crawled but not indexed. I fix these first, because new content won't rank on a site Google struggles to crawl. If the platform itself is the problem, I can rebuild it. I've moved client sites from Wix to Payload CMS and Next.js with 90+ PageSpeed scores on mobile and desktop.
Week one is access and a fit check: Search Console, the website, and the Google Business Profile if local search is the goal. I compare Leeds city-center queries with the towns you named on the call. If the profile says Leeds and the jobs are in Harrogate, the plan starts there, not with a generic Yorkshire article.
The next two months are the unglamorous list. Categories and services on the profile, citations that still show an old phone number, and service pages that say what you do in the towns you cover. If the site is slow or half the URLs are parameter junk, that sits above new blog posts.
Reporting is a short note: queries that gained clicks, pages that lost them, and the three tasks for the next month. I do not send a 40-page PDF to prove the retainer was busy.
Often a junior after the pitch
Account management and office overhead
Usually higher central-city retainers
Large multi-channel programs
4→84
4,180→10,600
13.8→10.8
Remote work, real results. After the July drop, we migrated from Wix to Next.js with Payload CMS and rebuilt local SEO.
Different city, same kind of business: a service-area company where the Map Pack decides who gets the call.
You describe the business and the city or service area. I say whether SEO is the right lever.
A ranked list of what to fix first, tied to your market, not a generic checklist.
I do the work, or I hand your team ticket-ready recommendations. Reporting stays plain-language.
Calls on UK time. A 30-60 minute call for $75.
