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6 contributions to AI SEO | Rank & Rent Lead Gen
I own a Lead Gen Agency. Looking to connect.
What’s good everyone? I’m Alex. I run KV Agency (a SEO marketing & Lead Gen agency) and co-founded Sérai (an events firm). We work with brands and businesses across the UK and globally. Our current bottleneck is in the Volume. We want to do more, cold calling & WA DMs are our main channels, at a 2-3% CVR. I’m here to connect with closers, setters, cold callers and agency owners to scale up together. What business are you running?
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Hi Alex, same name, other side of the problem. I build LeadDrive, which finds which local businesses have no website at all, so you know who's worth a call before you dial. On the volume point, one thing from my own data that might be useful: the town moves your hit rate more than the trade does. Same trade, same night, ten towns, and the no-website rate ran from 24% to 55%. If you're sitting at 2-3% across mixed towns, some of that spread is probably which towns are in the list rather than the script. I can't predict which way a town will go either and I'm the one holding the data, so the only way I know is to run it first.
How to pick a valid niche?
Hey guys, Iam not a local business owner. Iam someone who want to deliver local SEO service. I dont know If Iam welcomed here. If yes could you guys tell me how I can pick a valid niche where I know these guys need me and the business owner himself knows that he needs me. They just need to be relying on google maps and the owner must understand that himself. Could anyone help?
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Pick the thing the owner can check himself while you're talking, not the thing you think looks bad. "No website at all" is the cleanest one going. He knows whether he's got one, so there's nothing to argue about. I ran 204 plumbers across ten UK towns and 83 had none, so it isn't a rare case. What I'd avoid is "your site is broken" - across 21 towns only about 1.7% published an address that doesn't resolve, so you'll be wrong nearly every time. And the bit most people miss is that the town matters more than the trade. Same trade, same night, one town came back 55% with no site and another 24%. So check the town before you commit to it rather than picking a niche and hoping.
I checked 21 towns. The "loads of local businesses have broken sites" thing is wrong.
Everyone selling websites to local businesses says the same thing: loads of them have broken sites. I spent a while actually checking, and the number is not what people claim. Across 21 UK towns, 30 businesses publish a web address that doesn't resolve at all. Long run that's about 1.7%. Nowhere near the "half the town needs a new site" line you see thrown around. Last full re-check was 8 September. But in my own runs, roughly one in five had no website whatsoever. Different thing entirely, and a much bigger opening than the broken-site angle. So when you're picking a niche and a location, "their site is broken" is mostly a myth and "they haven't got one at all" is about one in five. That's the difference between a patch worth building into and one that isn't. Two things that caught me out early. A domain that fails on the bare version often still works on www, and the other way round. Check both or you'll write off someone whose site is completely fine. Always put a known-live domain in the same batch. I had a run come back telling me 14 domains were dead, and the control was dead too, which meant my own DNS was broken rather than their sites. Without that control I'd have acted on 14 businesses with nothing wrong with them. Happy to go into the method if it's useful to anyone.
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@Manju Gl The readiness point is the right objection and I do not have a clean answer to it. No website tells you there is a gap, not that the owner will pay to fill it, and plenty of them have been fine without one for fifteen years. Where I would push slightly is that the Google Business Profile check you describe is probably what separates the two: no website but an active, reviewed, photo-updated profile means someone is already spending effort on being found, whereas a bare unclaimed profile usually means they are not. I have not measured whether that actually converts better, so I am guessing there the same as you are. Order I would run it in is pool first, profile second, call third, because the pool is the only part you can do at volume. If you want to see what the pool looks like where you work rather than where I work, the free tier of the thing I built does two searches on 20 credits with no card at leaddrive.uk. It gives you the businesses and what their web presence actually does, though phone and email only come with a paid plan, so treat the free runs as sizing the pool rather than a list to dial.
Aug 25 • 
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Current Strategy
Hey, how are you guys launching new sites still, like nationwide, or plain URL, or subdomain, or citywide, or metro-wide? After that heavy spam update? Like, what's your go-to strategy right now?
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One angle on citywide vs nationwide from the renting side rather than the ranking side: I've been checking local business websites by hand in UK towns for a month, and in each of the last three towns three businesses in a trade had a directory listing pointing at a domain that no longer resolves at all. Those are the owners who most need what a rank-and-rent site produces, they don't know their own listing is dead, and they're only findable town by town. So whichever site structure you pick, I'd choose the town first by how many businesses in that trade have a broken web presence you can point at, because that's who signs a rental agreement fast.
Starting My UK Rank & Rent Journey
I recently started expanding my work into the UK market, and my goal is to build my own rank-and-rent portfolio across the UK. I’ve been working with Google Business Profile (GBP) verification and Local SEO for a while, and now I’m putting that experience into my own lead-generation assets. So far, I’m focusing on niches like: 🔧 Car Repair / Auto Services 🏠 Roofing My long-term goal is to build and rank assets across different UK cities, generate consistent leads, and eventually rent those leads/assets to local businesses. I’m still in the building stage, so I’d love to connect with people already doing UK rank & rent. If you’re working on UK R&R, what niches and cities are you currently seeing the best results with? 👇 Would love to learn from everyone and share the journey along the way. 🤝🇬🇧
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One data point from the other side of this, Ashikur - I check UK local businesses' own websites for faults, town by town, and the pattern that would matter for a rented site is how many businesses in a trade are effectively unreachable online. Two real counts from this week: Bristol accountants, 0 of 25 published an email on their own site; Chesterfield trades, three whose listed web address no longer resolves at all. A trade where the incumbents' sites are dead or unreachable is a trade where a fresh ranking site has less to beat, and where the owners you'd rent to are already losing calls. Roofing is a sensible pick on that basis. Worth running the same check on your first towns before you build - the checker I built has a free tier (150 credits, no card) so one town costs nothing, and the counts tell you what you're up against. If you post what you find I'll compare it with mine.
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