They Always Ask About Google. Now You Have Something To Say.
The site's built, they're happy, and then they say "so will it come up on Google?" You either oversell it, undersell it, or refer it out and lose the relationship.
You Build Sites. You Don't Want To Sell SEO.
It's a different business with a different rhythm.
Design is a project. It's scoped, delivered, invoiced, done. SEO is a retainer that needs attention every month and never finishes. You could learn it. Plenty have. But it means monthly commitments, monthly reports, and clients ringing about rankings you don't control. So most designers do one of three things. They either say something vague and hope, hand over a checklist, or refer it to someone who then takes over the client.
The Site Launches Half Finished
Beautiful design, placeholder copy on four pages, no descriptions, no business details and no schema. It looks done, but it isn't.
What She Fills In
They Blame The Site
Six months later there's no traffic coming to the website. Nobody did any SEO, but it's the site that gets blamed, and you made it.
What She Does Every Day
You Refer It Out And Lose The Client
Whoever does their SEO talks to them every month. You spoke to them when you built it. Guess who they call when they need a new page.
See The Plans
Pages Get Written Properly, Not Left As Lorem Ipsum.
The thing that delays launches usually isn't design. It's the client not sending the copy.
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Describe The Page, Get The Page
Cleo writes a new page from the client's business details and builds it in Elementor or the WordPress editor, with pictures where the sections call for them.
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One Design, Every Town
Build a location page once and make one for every area they cover, written properly each time, not find-and-replaced. A page that reads too much like another is held back as a draft.
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Images That Match
Generated for the page, using the site's brand colours, saved to the media library with names and descriptions.
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Your Layout, Untouched
When she rewrites a page, she changes the words inside your design. Columns, spacing and widgets stay exactly where you put them.
Something To Say When They Ask About Google.
You don't have to become an SEO specialist. You do have to have an answer.
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Cleo Looks After The Site Every Month
Writing, daily checks, fixes and rankings, without you doing the work. Nothing on their pages changes until someone approves it.
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They Get A Report With Your Name On It
Their logo or yours, scheduled, arriving in their inbox whether or not you remembered.
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Nothing On Their Website Mentions Presstack
No badge, no credit line and no link back to us anywhere a visitor can see.
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Billed Per Site
Add it to the build price, charge it monthly, or pass it through. Writer & SEO costs less for sites that only need writing and upkeep.
You Don't Become An SEO Specialist. You Stop Saying "I'm Not Sure".
Most designers don't refer this out because of the work. They refer it out because they don't want a monthly conversation about rankings they don't control. You're not selling SEO expertise. You're selling a site that stays looked after, which is something you can honestly promise.
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Your Current Stack What You Do Now |
What's Included With Presstack |
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| "Will It Come Up On Google?" | Say something vague | Show them the report |
| Page Copy At Launch | Chase the client for weeks | Written from their business details |
| Location Pages | Build one, quote for the rest | Build one, make the rest from it |
| After Handover | Nothing, until something breaks | Checked every day |
| The SEO Conversation | Refer it out, lose the client | Keep it, as a monthly line |
| Get Started Now |
What Keeps Happening Once The Site Is Live.
The six months after launch is where most sites quietly fall apart. This is what stops that.
| What Happens? | How Often? | Who Decides? |
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| Articles written | On the days you choose | Saved as drafts unless you choose to publish |
| Titles and descriptions written, duplicates fixed | Checked daily | Search Listings: Ask Me or Automatic |
| Image descriptions written | Checked daily | Behind The Scenes Fixes: Ask Me or Automatic |
| What Google is told about the business | Checked daily | Behind The Scenes Fixes |
| Broken links redirected | Checked daily | Behind The Scenes Fixes |
| Redirect chains cleared | Checked daily | Behind The Scenes Fixes |
| Pages that dropped out of Google put back | Checked daily | Behind The Scenes Fixes |
| Oversized images found | Checked daily | You, always |
| Thin and stale articles flagged to refresh | Checked daily | Blog Post Upkeep (pages always ask) |
| Search Console read for drops and near misses | Daily | Turned into suggestions for you |
| Positions on Google and Bing (Core and Theme) | Weekly, or daily | Automatic |
| Whether AI answers mention the business | Weekly, if switched on | Automatic |
| Report sent to whoever you choose | Weekly or monthly | Automatic |
Common Questions From Web Designers
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You don't need to.
The pitch is "I'll keep the site looked after and send you a report every month", which is true and doesn't need you to explain schema to anybody.
What you mustn't do is promise rankings. Nobody can deliver that, and a client who was promised it will hold you to it.
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She rewrites pages in Elementor, the WordPress editor, Divi, Avada, WPBakery, Beaver Builder and SiteOrigin, inside the layout you built.
New pages are built for you in Elementor or the WordPress editor. On the other builders she writes the page and gives you the copy, section by section, to lay out yourself.
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No. When she rewrites a page, she works inside the layout and leaves it alone.
The same columns, the same spacing, the same widgets, everything you designed. When a rewrite comes from her to-do list, she shows you the before and after first and writes nothing until you have seen it.
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Your call entirely. It's billed per site, so you know your cost exactly.
Some designers add it to the build price for the first year, some charge monthly from the start, and some pass it through at cost to keep the relationship.
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It's their site and their WordPress.
Hand it over and it keeps working. If they want to carry on with Cleo themselves, they subscribe. Our affiliate programme means you can still earn from it.
Try Her On A Site You've Already Built.
Pick a site where you know the copy never got finished, and see what she does with it.