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Yes — we apply a 20% discount on all retainer services for registered UK charities with an active Charity Commission registration number.

Absolutely. Many clients start with SEO or PPC and add content marketing or AEO once they've seen initial results. Our programmes are designed to integrate.

Our standard initial contract is 6 months for retainer services. This reflects the time needed to deliver meaningful, sustainable results.

For new SEO and content clients, we charge a one-off onboarding and strategy fee (£495–£1,495 depending on plan) to cover the initial audit and roadmap work.

Yes — web design projects and brand identity projects are fixed-price. See the Web Design and Branding sections above.

A UK digital marketing agency costs £500–£5,000+ per month in 2026. Starter campaigns (one or two channels, e.g. local SEO) run £500–£1,000/month; growth programmes combining SEO, paid ads and content run £1,000–£3,000/month; full-service retainers run £2,000–£6,000+/month. Ad spend sits on top of management fees. Elite Digital publishes its pricing openly — most agencies don't.

Yes, for most businesses — provided goals and measurement are agreed up front. An agency gives you a senior team (strategy, SEO, ads, content, design) for less than one in-house hire: a single UK marketing hire costs £35,000–£55,000+/year with overheads, while a full agency programme typically costs £12,000–£36,000/year. The test is accountability: require cost-per-lead reporting from month one.

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) ranks your pages in Google's blue links. AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) structures your content so answer engines — featured snippets, voice assistants, AI Overviews — extract it as the direct answer. GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) builds the entity trust and citations that make ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude recommend your brand in generated responses. In 2026 you need all three: around 60% of searches end without a click, so being cited inside the answer matters as much as ranking.

Most UK businesses see measurable SEO movement in 3–6 months and compounding returns from month 6–12. Local SEO in lower-competition areas can move in 6–10 weeks; national commercial terms take longer. Any agency promising page-one rankings in 30 days for competitive terms should not be trusted. AEO/GEO wins (featured snippets, AI citations) often arrive faster than classic rankings because they reward structure over authority age.

Ask five questions: (1) Can you show results from a business like mine? (2) What exactly is delivered each month, in writing? (3) How do you report — leads and revenue, or vanity metrics? (4) Who does the work — seniors or juniors? (5) What happens to my accounts, data and content if I leave? A credible agency answers all five without hesitation and never locks your ad accounts or website hostage.