Generic SEO wins traffic. Sector SEO wins enquiries.
Most SEO underperforms not because the execution is poor but because the targeting was never grounded in how that particular market actually buys. These are the four things that change most between industries.
Your buyers search differently
A homeowner with a burst pipe and a procurement engineer sourcing a supplier behave nothing alike. One converts in ninety seconds, the other researches for six weeks. Generic keyword strategy serves neither well.
Your competitors are not who you think
In most sectors you are not competing with the business down the road. You are competing with an aggregator, a marketplace or a publisher whose entire model is capturing your enquiries and selling them back to you.
Value per enquiry varies enormously
A single commercial legal matter can be worth more than a hundred general enquiries. Ranking strategy has to be weighted by what an enquiry is actually worth, not by search volume.
Some sectors carry real constraints
Healthcare, legal and financial content is advertising-regulated. Claims must be defensible. Knowing those rules before writing saves expensive rework and genuine exposure.
26 sectors, each with its own playbook
Every page below covers how buyers in that sector search, who currently captures that demand, the queries that actually produce enquiries, and what we do about it.
Home & Trades
5Health & Wellness
5Professional & B2B
5Retail & Ecommerce
6What stays the same in every sector
The strategy is built per industry. The discipline underneath it does not change — and it is what makes the strategy work.
Sector-specific audit
We start from how buyers in your industry actually search, who currently captures that demand, and what an enquiry is worth to you — not from a generic checklist.
Technical foundation
Crawlability, rendering, Core Web Vitals and indexation resolved first, because content investment on a site that cannot be crawled properly is money spent on pages nobody sees.
Content with real depth
Built from what currently ranks, with the first-hand evidence, named authorship and verifiable claims that separate ranking pages from merely competent ones.
Local & entity strength
For anything with a physical catchment, Business Profile, citations and review velocity — usually the fastest route to enquiries in local sectors.
AI search visibility
GEO and AEO built into the core engagement, so you are cited inside AI answers rather than displaced by them as those surfaces keep absorbing queries.
Reporting on enquiries
Calls, forms and revenue attributed by source and segment, with cost per enquiry benchmarked against your paid spend. Rankings sit behind that as diagnostics.
Numbers across every sector we work in
Blended medians across all industries after six months. Individual sectors vary considerably — the industry pages carry sector-specific figures.
Medians, not best cases. Results vary with domain authority, category competitiveness and starting position. We model an expected range for your specific situation during the audit rather than quoting these as a forecast.
Questions about industry SEO
Straight answers on how sector-specific work differs, and what to expect.