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Senior SEO. Hands-on delivery.

GM SEO Services is not an agency with layers of account managers and juniors. It is one senior specialist, delivering every piece of work personally.

Graham McCann, Senior SEO Specialist at GM SEO Services
Founder-led

No juniors, no offshore handoff

Name

Graham McCann

Title

Senior SEO Specialist

SEO Since

2006

Based

Larkhall · serving the UK remotely

Hands-on SEO and development since 2006

GM SEO Services was founded by Graham McCann. Graham started in SEO in 2006 and has worked through major changes in search, from mobile-first websites to AI-generated answers. That experience keeps our focus on useful content, sound technical foundations and measurable progress.

Before focusing on SEO full time, Graham was a programmer. That background shapes how we approach technical problems: methodically, with clean execution, and without shortcuts. We read code, diagnose server-level issues, and implement fixes directly rather than writing a report and hoping a developer picks it up.

Graham set up GM SEO Services out of frustration with how agencies operate: clients signed up by senior staff, then handed to juniors, with work often outsourced to third parties. That model is bad for results and bad for trust.

At GM SEO Services, the people you talk to are the people doing the work. No junior handoffs, no outsourcing, no middlemen.

We are based in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, and work remotely with pharmacies, clinics and healthcare practices across the UK by phone, email, and video call.

Typical weekday

A day in the life

No two days are identical, but this is how work actually gets done - Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm.

  1. Morning

    Search Console, GA4, and rankings first - then urgent fixes and anything blocking a client.

  2. Midday

    Hands-on work on sites: on-page, schema, speed, GBP, redirects - whatever the plan says moves results.

  3. Afternoon

    Calls, monthly reports in plain English, outreach, and content or briefs for the weeks ahead.

  4. Before close

    Tasks and time logged so every client can see what shipped - no black-box retainers.

How we work

Four things we never compromise on

These are not marketing lines. They are the principles behind every piece of work we deliver.

Plain-English communication

We will never blind you with jargon or hide behind complexity. Every report, every update, every recommendation is written so that a business owner can understand exactly what is happening and why.

Outcome-driven, not vanity-metric driven

Ranking number one for a keyword nobody searches for is pointless. We focus on the metrics that translate into enquiries, footfall, and revenue. That is what we are measured against.

Hands-on execution

We do not write reports and hope someone else implements them. We implement the changes ourselves, working directly with your website and your tools. No recommendations sitting in a backlog.

Efficiency over busy-work

We do not pad hours or create work to justify a retainer. Every task on our list exists because it will make a useful difference. If something is not worth doing, we will tell you and spend the time on something that is.

Toolkit

Tools and technologies

The full stack behind the work. No black boxes, no mystery software, no locked dashboards.

SEO and Research

Google Search Console Google Analytics 4 Ahrefs Semrush Screaming Frog Moz BrightLocal Majestic PageSpeed Insights GTmetrix

Development

PHP 8.x JavaScript Python HTML5 CSS3 MySQL Apache Nginx .htaccess JSON-LD Schema WordPress WooCommerce

Platforms and CMS

WordPress WooCommerce Shopify Wix Squarespace Webflow Custom PHP Google Business Profile Google Merchant Center Bing Webmaster

20

Years in search

2006

SEO career began

1-to-1

Senior on every job

1 day

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