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- Trusted by growth-focused UK businesses across multiple sectors
- Award-winning SEO strategies delivering measurable business outcomes
- Proven frameworks for local, regional and national visibility
Search visibility is your next competitive advantage.
How customers find businesses is changing
They now use AI-powered summaries to compare options in seconds, so your business needs to appear credible and visible at every stage of their decision-making journey.
Sustainable growth comes from being the most visible and trusted option in your category: in search results, in AI summaries, and in the local environments your customers already know and rely on.
That demands a joined up approach to SEO, content, digital PR, and local presence.
Why LOCALiQ is built for this moment
As Newsquest’s digital marketing arm, we combine leading SEO expertise with a nationwide network of trusted UK news brands, helping businesses build search visibility and reach established local communities.
We help you show up more often, in more of the right places, turning visibility into leads, pipeline, and measurable growth.
What’s holding your search performance back?
We help solve the challenges that get in the way of growth.
Struggling to turn search visibility into qualified enquiries?
Getting overlooked in AI search, local listings and competitive results?
Finding it hard to build authority beyond your own website?
Too reliant on paid media to keep leads coming in?
We close the gaps between being visible in search and being chosen by customers.
Your customers still trust the news brands they know.
So your SEO doesn’t operate in isolation. We connect search visibility with the credibility and reach of trusted local media, putting your brand where people are already looking and already paying attention.
Turn local authority into more enquiries
Leverage decades of coverage across Newsquest’s 250+ titles to build trust, strengthen authority and turn search visibility into clicks, conversions and inbound leads.
Align SEO with the stories your market follows
Build your search strategy around the topics and narratives shaping local news, making your brand more relevant, engaging high-intent audiences and driving action when customers are ready to buy.
Turn local visibility into pipeline
Combine SEO with regional content partnerships and local PR to build authority, boost rankings and generate more qualified enquiries in the locations that matter most.
From fast-growing independents to established brands, we help businesses turn stronger search visibility into meaningful commercial results.
They’re very good at putting everything into layman’s terms for you to understand. They’re very good to work with, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
Toni Dawson
Owner and Managing Director, Geraldo’s of Largs
As a business we love working with LOCALiQ. I think we could say that LOCALiQ have been a big factor in contributing to the business growth and success so far.
Georgina Pellant
Marketing Manager,
The Cut & Craft
The whole team is very efficient and proactive – they don’t just react to our requests, they’re always pre‑empting what we might need and taking the time to explain everything clearly.
Danielle Ackerman
Director, Bathroom Inspirations
How search opportunity is turned into growth.
Discover the opportunity
A detailed review of current search visibility, website performance, and the competitive landscape identifies areas of strength, gaps in visibility, and unmet demand within the market. This discovery phase highlights where the greatest opportunities for growth exist.
Build the strategy
A tailored SEO strategy is developed to align with business objectives, combining technical optimisation, on-site improvements, content development, local search visibility, and authority-building activity. Every recommendation is focused on creating sustainable, long-term growth.
Deliver and optimise
The agreed strategy is implemented and continuously refined based on performance data. Rankings, organic traffic, and lead generation are monitored closely, with clear reporting provided to demonstrate progress and measurable business impact.
Award-winning SEO powered by local insight.
LOCALiQ combines award-winning SEO expertise with the local insight of Newsquest Media Group to help businesses increase visibility, generate more leads, and grow their presence in the markets that matter most.
Recognised as Standout SEO Agency of the Year 2026, our focus is on delivering measurable business results, not just rankings.
Recognised as Standout SEO Agency of the Year, LOCALiQ delivers performance-led SEO that drives measurable business results.
The Challenge
Maki & Ramen was scaling quickly across the UK, but historic SEO had inflated traffic and distorted reporting, while the website – built for a smaller operation – underperformed on mobile and high‑intent local searches, limiting real visibility and insight just as new locations were opening.
The Strategy
LOCALiQ reset performance with a full SEO and tracking audit to strip out artificial traffic and rebuild clean data, then prioritised mobile UX, menus and location content, adding localised pages and “coming soon” locations, supported by proactive account management to keep digital activity aligned with expansion.
The Results
LOCALiQ’s SEO and website strategy helped Maki & Ramen double website clicks from 60,000 to 120,000 within a year, achieve 3 million monthly impressions, and reach a 35% click-through rate and 96% engagement rate – driving greater visibility, stronger customer engagement, and increased footfall across multiple UK locations.
The Challenge
Absolute Blinds’ legacy site structure and UX made it hard for search engines to rank key blinds, shutters and curtains pages, kept most organic visibility to branded searches, and created friction for users trying to enquire or request a quote, limiting the volume of high‑quality leads.
The Strategy
LOCALiQ introduced a structured SEO roadmap and delivered an SEO‑ready rebuild that modernised design, navigation and technical foundations, then ran a targeted SEO campaign around high‑value local blinds, shutters and curtains terms to turn stronger search visibility into more high‑intent enquiries.
The Results
LOCALiQ’s SEO and website strategy helped Absolute Blinds significantly grow their organic presence, delivering a 154% increase in sessions, 116% increase in organic clicks, and 301% increase in impressions, driving greater visibility in local search, stronger engagement on site, and more opportunities for new enquiries.
The Challenge
As The Cut & Craft launched in Leeds and Manchester, online visibility lagged behind the in‑venue experience, meaning potential guests struggled to find the brand in competitive local searches for special‑occasion dining, leading to softer bookings and under‑used services in otherwise high‑potential locations.
The Strategy
LOCALiQ built a joined‑up performance strategy with location‑specific SEO and PPC to support day‑to‑day trading and new openings, responding quickly to issues like weekday lunch in Manchester and using regular strategy meetings and reporting to show how digital activity translated directly into bookings and covers.
The Results
LOCALiQ’s SEO and PPC strategy delivered a 269% increase in sessions and a 68% uplift in clicks, alongside a 48% improvement in click-through rates, while PPC campaigns drove around 70% more website visitors year-on-year and helped accelerate awareness and bookings across key locations including Manchester.
Combining technical expertise, strategic thinking, and proven industry experience, LOCALiQ’s SEO team delivers search strategies designed to drive long-term business growth.
What to expect
- A dedicated SEO Customer Success Manager focused on continuous performance improvement and transparent monthly reporting.
- A bespoke SEO roadmap aligned to business objectives, with clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Specialist support across technical SEO, content, digital PR, web design, and authority building.
- A growth-focused approach that goes beyond rankings to increase visibility, generate leads, and support commercial success.
We go far beyond the scope of SEO, developing a comprehensive strategy to ensure your website is seen more, performs better, and drives more sales.
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We deliver award-winning SEO.
Our work is recognised by leading industry bodies and award programmes across digital marketing and search, reflecting the results we deliver for clients and the quality of our approach.
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