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Starwebdesignsince 2008

B2B SEO

Search for long sales cycles and small audiences

B2B search does not look like consumer search. The audience is small, the terms have low volume, and the gap between the first visit and the signed contract can run to months. Judged on traffic, a good B2B campaign looks like a failure.

So we do not judge it on traffic. We work out the handful of searches your buyers actually make — including the ones that sound too specific to bother with, which are usually the ones that convert — and build the pages that answer them properly. Then we track enquiries through to qualified opportunities, so the reporting is about pipeline rather than sessions. That means a smaller keyword set, more depth per page, and patience: six months is a realistic horizon for this work to show its value.

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What you get

What’s included

Buyer research

The searches your actual buyers make, including the low-volume ones that convert best.

Depth over breadth

A small number of thorough pages that answer a real evaluation question, rather than many thin ones.

Technical foundation

The usual crawl, index and schema work, because none of the content pays without it.

Pipeline tracking

Enquiries tracked to qualified opportunities, so search is judged on pipeline rather than sessions.

Quarterly review

A longer reporting rhythm that suits a long sales cycle, with monthly numbers in between.

How it works

Three steps, and you see the work at each one.

  1. Understand the buyer

    Who signs, what they compare, and what they search at each stage of that.

  2. Build the evidence

    The pages that answer evaluation questions: comparisons, methods, integrations, proof.

  3. Track to pipeline

    Connect enquiries to opportunities so the reporting reflects value rather than volume.

FAQ

Questions before you call

Our search volumes are tiny. Is this worth it?

Often yes — that is the normal shape of B2B. Twenty searches a month for a term with a five-figure contract value is a better target than five thousand for something nobody buys.

How long before we see results?

Six months to judge it fairly, with leading indicators — impressions, rankings, first enquiries — visible well before that.

Do we need to publish constantly?

No. A small number of genuinely useful pages, kept current, beats a weekly blog nobody reads. We would rather write six good pages than sixty thin ones.

Can you work with our sales team's CRM?

Yes. Connecting enquiries to what happened next is the only way to report on pipeline, so we set that up as part of the work.

Have a project in mind?

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Tell us what is not working and we will tell you what we would do about it. No pitch deck, no pressure.