Fix what's actually broken with your SEO, in weeks not months.
Rankings drifting, board asking questions, no time for a year-long retainer. An SEO Sprint fixes the technical and content problems actually holding you back, in one focused, fixed-price burst.
You don't need another retainer. You need results you can point at.
Whether you're the entire marketing team, answering to a sceptical board, or a business owner who's watched rankings slide with no idea why, you don't need a year of promises. You need someone to show you what's wrong and fix it fast.
An SEO Sprint runs as a defined, fixed-price project: technical fixes, content gaps and local visibility all tackled in one focused burst, not spread across a year-long retainer you didn't ask for. You'll know the scope and the cost before we start. It's also built with an eye on how search itself is changing: AI-driven search and generative AI answers are already reshaping what search engine results pages look like, and a sprint that ignores that isn't much use to you in eighteen months' time.
Why Teams come to us?
“We're paying for SEO and I can't see what's changing.”
Every sprint ends with a plain-English report showing exactly what we changed, why, and what moved as a result, not a dashboard you need us to translate.
“I can't get budget for a year-long SEO retainer.”
An SEO Sprint is fixed in scope and price from day one, so you can put a number in front of your board that won't move later.
“Our rankings are slipping and nobody can tell me why.”
We run a proper technical and content audit first, so you get the actual cause, not a guess dressed up as strategy.
“I don't have months to wait and see.”
A sprint is built to move fast: fixes land within weeks, not quarters, so you've got something real to show before the next board meeting.
The Gecko Way™
Our approach to successful projects
Before we touch a single page, we want to know what's actually driving the sprint: falling rankings, a board that needs proof, a competitor pulling ahead, or all three. We'll get access to your analytics, Search Console and any existing SEO work, and ask the questions most agencies skip, like who actually needs to see results, and by when. If your current data isn't trustworthy, we'll say so now rather than building a sprint on numbers nobody believes. This stage sets the scope, so nothing gets added or discovered halfway through that changes the price you agreed.
Next, a proper technical crawl and content audit, the kind that finds the real cause of a ranking drop rather than the obvious symptom. We check site speed, indexing issues, structure, on-page basics and how your content actually compares to what's ranking above you right now. We'll also look at your Google Business Profile and local signals if that's relevant to your business. You get a clear, prioritised list of what's actually wrong, not a forty-page audit nobody in your building will read. We pull data directly from Google Search Console to see how your site's actually performing in search, and run checks for the technical basics: 404 errors, broken links, and redirect chains that need 301 redirects instead. Keyword research runs alongside this, checked against keyword research tools, so recommendations are grounded in real industry keywords rather than guesswork.
This is where the fixing happens. Technical issues get resolved, not just flagged. On-page elements are rewritten where they're underperforming. Content gaps get filled with pages that answer what your prospects are actually searching for, and local SEO gets tightened up if it's part of the sprint. Everything's built within the fixed scope agreed at the start, so there's no scope creep and no surprise invoice at the end.
Once the work's done, we walk you through what changed and why, in language you can repeat to your own board without translating it first. You'll get a report tying fixes to movement, not a wall of jargon and green arrows. If something didn't move the way we expected, we'll tell you that too, along with why, rather than quietly leaving it out. That means showing you where you've actually moved up in search results, not just handing over a spreadsheet of numbers.
The sprint ends with a clear next-steps roadmap: what's worth doing next, what you can safely leave alone, and whether ongoing support makes sense for your situation or whether the fixes we've made will hold on their own for a while. There's no pressure into a retainer you don't need. If you'd rather come back for another sprint in six months than sign up to anything ongoing, that's a genuinely fine outcome as far as we're concerned.
What's Included in an SEO Sprint
Technical SEO Audit & Fixes
We start by crawling your entire site to find what's actually stopping search engines, and your visitors, from doing what they're supposed to. That covers broken links, redirect chains, indexing problems, duplicate content, missing structured data and anything else quietly capping your rankings. Rather than handing you a list and walking off, we fix what we find within the sprint.
Most sites we look at have been patched by whoever had time, not built with SEO in mind from the start, so there's usually more wrong than shows up on the surface. You'll get a clear before-and-after of exactly what's changed, so the fixes aren't just theoretical. This is also where we check metadata are actually filled in, not left blank across half the site, since both quietly affect search engine optimisation and more often than you'd expect, page rank.
On-Page Optimisation
Titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal linking and on-page content all get reviewed against what's actually ranking for your target terms, not against a generic checklist. A lot of sites are stuffed with keywords that don't match how anyone actually searches, or missing the basics entirely.
We rewrite what needs rewriting, restructure pages where the content's buried in the wrong place, and make sure your most important pages are actually built to be found, not just to exist. This is done page by page against real search intent, not templated across the site.
Meta titles and meta descriptions all get checked here too, since they're often the first thing to slip when a site's been patched together over time. We also check keyword density, so your pages read like something a person actually wrote rather than something built purely to rank.
Content Gap Analysis & Quick Wins
We compare what you've got against what's genuinely ranking for the terms that matter to your business, and find the gaps: the questions your prospects are asking that you're not answering anywhere on your site. Rather than a long-term content calendar, an SEO Sprint focuses on quick wins: pages or sections that can be built or improved fast and start earning visibility within the sprint window, not six months from now.
If a bigger content programme makes sense afterwards, we'll tell you honestly, but the sprint itself is built around what moves the needle now. This isn't a full content strategy overhaul, it's the specific gaps stopping you appearing in search results for the terms your prospects are actually using. The content recommendations that come out of this tab are usually enough on their own to shift your organic traffic reaching your site.
Local SEO & Google Business Profile
If local visibility matters to your business, we'll get your Google Business Profile properly set up and optimised, check your listings are consistent across the web, and make sure your site actually supports local search rather than working against it.
A surprising number of businesses lose local visibility simply because nobody's touched their profile since it was first created. This tab isn't relevant to every sprint, and we'll flag honestly if it isn't worth including for your business rather than adding it to pad out the scope.
Site Speed & Core Web Vitals
Slow pages cost you rankings and, more importantly, they cost you the visitor who gave up waiting. We test your site against Google's Core Web Vitals and fix what's actually within reach in a sprint timeframe: image sizes, unnecessary scripts, hosting issues and render-blocking problems.
Some speed issues need bigger platform changes than a sprint can cover, and if that's the case for your site, we'll say so plainly rather than pretending we've fixed something we haven't. What we do fix, you'll be able to measure.
Reporting & Next Steps Roadmap
Every sprint ends with a report that ties what we did to what moved, written so you can hand it straight to your board without translating it first. Alongside that, you get a prioritised roadmap of what's worth tackling next, what can wait, and what genuinely doesn't need touching again for a while.
This isn't a sales document dressed up as a report. If the honest next step is "nothing, you're fine for now," that's what it'll say. The report itself pulls from tools like Google Analytics and lays out exactly how your search engine rankings and overall search engine performance have shifted, alongside conversion tracking data so you can see whether the extra visitors are actually doing anything once they land.
What's Included in an SEO Sprint
Technical SEO Audit & Fixes
We start by crawling your entire site to find what's actually stopping search engines, and your visitors, from doing what they're supposed to. That covers broken links, redirect chains, indexing problems, duplicate content, missing structured data and anything else quietly capping your rankings. Rather than handing you a list and walking off, we fix what we find within the sprint.
Most sites we look at have been patched by whoever had time, not built with SEO in mind from the start, so there's usually more wrong than shows up on the surface. You'll get a clear before-and-after of exactly what's changed, so the fixes aren't just theoretical. This is also where we check metadata are actually filled in, not left blank across half the site, since both quietly affect search engine optimisation and more often than you'd expect, page rank.
On-Page Optimisation
Titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal linking and on-page content all get reviewed against what's actually ranking for your target terms, not against a generic checklist. A lot of sites are stuffed with keywords that don't match how anyone actually searches, or missing the basics entirely.
We rewrite what needs rewriting, restructure pages where the content's buried in the wrong place, and make sure your most important pages are actually built to be found, not just to exist. This is done page by page against real search intent, not templated across the site.
Meta titles and meta descriptions all get checked here too, since they're often the first thing to slip when a site's been patched together over time. We also check keyword density, so your pages read like something a person actually wrote rather than something built purely to rank.
Content Gap Analysis & Quick Wins
We compare what you've got against what's genuinely ranking for the terms that matter to your business, and find the gaps: the questions your prospects are asking that you're not answering anywhere on your site. Rather than a long-term content calendar, an SEO Sprint focuses on quick wins: pages or sections that can be built or improved fast and start earning visibility within the sprint window, not six months from now.
If a bigger content programme makes sense afterwards, we'll tell you honestly, but the sprint itself is built around what moves the needle now. This isn't a full content strategy overhaul, it's the specific gaps stopping you appearing in search results for the terms your prospects are actually using. The content recommendations that come out of this tab are usually enough on their own to shift your organic traffic reaching your site.
Local SEO & Google Business Profile
If local visibility matters to your business, we'll get your Google Business Profile properly set up and optimised, check your listings are consistent across the web, and make sure your site actually supports local search rather than working against it.
A surprising number of businesses lose local visibility simply because nobody's touched their profile since it was first created. This tab isn't relevant to every sprint, and we'll flag honestly if it isn't worth including for your business rather than adding it to pad out the scope.
Site Speed & Core Web Vitals
Slow pages cost you rankings and, more importantly, they cost you the visitor who gave up waiting. We test your site against Google's Core Web Vitals and fix what's actually within reach in a sprint timeframe: image sizes, unnecessary scripts, hosting issues and render-blocking problems.
Some speed issues need bigger platform changes than a sprint can cover, and if that's the case for your site, we'll say so plainly rather than pretending we've fixed something we haven't. What we do fix, you'll be able to measure.
Reporting & Next Steps Roadmap
Every sprint ends with a report that ties what we did to what moved, written so you can hand it straight to your board without translating it first. Alongside that, you get a prioritised roadmap of what's worth tackling next, what can wait, and what genuinely doesn't need touching again for a while.
This isn't a sales document dressed up as a report. If the honest next step is "nothing, you're fine for now," that's what it'll say. The report itself pulls from tools like Google Analytics and lays out exactly how your search engine rankings and overall search engine performance have shifted, alongside conversion tracking data so you can see whether the extra visitors are actually doing anything once they land.
"What I like is watching a client walk into their board meeting with a screenshot of their own rankings, instead of a slide we made for them."
Steph Swift, Marketing Manager at Gecko
SEO Sprint Case Study
(Placeholder) [CLIENT NAME] came to us with rankings that had been sliding for months and no clear reason why. A four-week SEO Sprint uncovered a stack of technical issues nobody had flagged before, alongside content gaps their competitors were quietly winning on. Within [TIMEFRAME], [METRIC, e.g. organic traffic/keyword rankings] had moved enough for [CLIENT NAME] to take real numbers into their next board meeting, instead of another set of promises.
An SEO Sprint is a fixed-scope, fixed-price project that tackles the technical, on-page and content issues actually holding your site back, all in one focused burst rather than an ongoing monthly retainer. You'll know upfront exactly what's included, how long it'll take, and what it costs, and we won't move the goalposts halfway through. It's built for anyone who needs real, visible improvement without signing up to a year-long commitment they're not ready for. If you've been comparing SEO Sprint agencies or general SEO agencies before landing here, the difference with ours is the fixed scope: you're not signing up to a specialist SEO-only relationship, just a focused project delivered by a team that also handles the rest of your website. We're a full digital marketing agency alongside that, not a specialist SEO-only shop, so if a sprint isn't actually the right first move for your wider digital marketing, we'll say so.
Most sprints run over a few weeks, depending on the size of your site and how much needs fixing. We'll confirm the exact timeframe during the initial scoping stage, based on what your audit actually turns up, rather than quoting a generic number before we've looked at anything. You'll get a clear start and end date, so you know when to expect the finished work and the report that comes with it.
Some things move fast, like technical fixes and on-page changes, which search engines can pick up within days or weeks. Other improvements, particularly around competitive keywords or content, take a bit longer to show in your rankings, simply because that's how search engines work, not because we're managing your expectations downward. We'll be upfront in your report about what's already moved and what's still working its way through. Search engine rankings for competitive terms tend to move slower than technical fixes, simply because that's how search engines weigh established signals against newer ones.
Every sprint covers a technical audit and fixes, on-page optimisation, and a content gap review as standard, with local SEO and site speed work added where they're relevant to your business. What we won't do is quietly leave something out of scope and let you assume it's covered. If something turns up during the audit that's genuinely outside the sprint, we'll tell you honestly and let you decide whether it's worth tackling separately. One thing we don't run as part of a sprint is Digital PR or outreach-driven link building, that's a longer-term project in its own right, and bundling it into a fixed-price sprint would mean rushing something that needs time to do properly. The on-page tab alone typically means new titles, headings and meta descriptions across whichever pages need it most.
A retainer is an open-ended, monthly commitment to ongoing SEO work. An SEO Sprint is the opposite: a defined project with a clear scope, a fixed price and a finish line. It's built for anyone who wants meaningful improvement without signing up to anything ongoing, whether that's because budget's tight, board approval is easier for a one-off project, or you'd simply rather test the relationship before committing further.
Some sites genuinely only need one. Others benefit from a second sprint further down the line, once the first round of fixes has had time to bed in and new priorities become clear. We won't push you towards more SEO Sprints than your site actually needs, and if one sprint is enough for now, the report we hand over will say so.
An SEO Sprint works on any platform. While Umbraco's our home turf, the technical and content principles behind an SEO Sprint apply whatever your site's built on, and we'll adapt our recommendations to what your specific platform allows.
Cost depends on your site's size and what the initial audit finds needs fixing, but you'll always get a fixed price agreed before any work starts, not an estimate that grows once we're in. Get in touch and we'll talk through your site and give you a proper number, not a guess.
You'll get a full report, a prioritised roadmap for what's worth doing next, and honest advice on whether ongoing support makes sense for you. There's no pressure to sign up to anything further. If you'd like to talk through your results, next steps, or just what an SEO Sprint would look like for your site, get in touch and we'll set up a time to chat.
