Canterbury, CT1 to CT4

SEO, ads and websites for Canterbury businesses.

Roughly twenty minutes from our Ashford office.

The place

What Canterbury actually runs on.

Two universities and a cathedral shape almost everything here. The student population is large enough to change the character of the city by term, filling the centre from September and emptying it again over the summer, while the World Heritage cathedral brings a steady stream of visitors who keep hospitality and independent retail busier than the resident population alone could. The hospital is a significant employer, and so, less visibly, is the education sector itself. The historic core comes with conservation constraints that quietly shape a lot of the building work done here, because a great deal of the housing stock is listed or sits inside a conservation area. Ring the city and it changes again into affluent villages and the fruit-growing country that has been part of this part of the county for centuries.

The search market

Where the opportunity is.

Nothing else on our list has a calendar like this one. Demand rises and falls with term dates and the visitor season, which means a campaign judged on a August's figures tells you almost nothing about how it performs in October. Anybody planning here has to plan around that rather than be surprised by it twice a year. The student population is a poor target for most trades, since they rent and rarely commission work, but it is genuinely valuable for lettings, transport and food. The money for building and home services sits in the surrounding villages and in the period property inside the city, where conservation work carries specialist search terms that are low in volume, high in value, and largely uncontested because few firms bother to write about them properly.

Straight answer

We do not have a client based in Canterbury.

Not yet, and we would rather say so than dress up a map pin as a local office. Here is what is true instead: these are clients we run who cover Canterbury, and you can open any of their sites and see the work.