Struggling to Get New SEO Clients

josefdoc · Jul 17, 2025

Hey guys,

I have a small SEO consultancy, JD SEO Consulting. I have three clients right now, a lawyer, and two therapists. I'd like to get around six clients, as I want to keep my company small. Just struggling to get new SEO clients. What strategies have worked best for you? I've tried rankleads but had no luck there. Also, how much do you charge for Local SEO on average?

Thanks!

Eli Mercer · Jul 17, 2025

Yeah, getting SEO clients lately feels like pulling teeth. What’s helped me is offering something small upfront—like a free audit or pointing out quick wins they’re missing. It builds trust without sounding salesy. Also, try niching down. When you say “I help dentists rank locally” or whatever your niche is, people take you way more seriously than just “I do SEO.”

Rufai · Jul 17, 2025

How did you get the 3 clients. You should try reaching out to businesses that are ranking on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th... Pages.

SilverClouds · Jul 17, 2025

Yeah, harder than usual to get clients right now.

OmniMarketer · Jul 17, 2025

I would recommend changing the angle behind your sales pitches.
Earlier people were selling links and basic on page services, however after AI came since last 2 years, value of links and basic services went very down and that’s why people are loosing interest in investing for SEO.
If one shares with their prospects that they will be creating semantically optimised pages, quality PR links that still works and than contents only native expert research based writers, the pitch will attract the prospects for sure.

deepjoshi · Sep 19, 2025

@josefdoc I have 6+ years of experience in SEO and busines development. I can help you to make more clients and getting leads for your current clients.

Do_Follow · Sep 19, 2025

josefdoc said:
Hey guys,

I have a small SEO consultancy, JD SEO Consulting. I have three clients right now, a lawyer, and two therapists. I'd like to get around six clients, as I want to keep my company small. Just struggling to get new SEO clients. What strategies have worked best for you? I've tried rankleads but had no luck there. Also, how much do you charge for Local SEO on average?

Thanks!

It's highly competitive so you gotta get creative. Focus on pumping your business listing up with reviews. Work on your own SEO and build out pages.

In surrounding areas open up more GMBs under a different domain and business name (you should always have a test site anyway)

UnusualSubstance · Sep 20, 2025

You have 3 clients currently.

Do 10x more of how you acquired them.

What's stops you from doing that?

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