SEO for Letting Agents
Landlord instructions, not tenant enquiries. Website built free, from £300 a month.
Rightmove and Zoopla have already won the tenant search, and no amount of budget changes that. The search worth having is the landlord looking for an agent to manage a property, and that one is wide open in almost every town in the country.
Why letting agent websites waste their traffic
Optimised entirely for tenants
Property listings dominate the site and the portals outrank them anyway. Meanwhile there is not one decent page aimed at a landlord.
No answer to the questions landlords ask
Fees, compliance, deposit rules, EPC requirements and Section 21 changes are searched constantly. Most agent sites cover none of it.
Fee structures hidden
Landlords compare on fee before they call. Publishing your fully managed and tenant-find percentages captures a search competitors avoid.
Portal dependency treated as normal
You pay a portal to be findable, and it advertises your competitors alongside you. Your own rankings are the only channel you own.
What lettings SEO involves
Almost entirely landlord-facing, because that is where the recurring management income is and where the search competition is weakest.
Fully managed, rent collection and tenant-find, each with published fees, what is included and who it suits.
Deposit protection, EPC ratings, licensing, gas safety and legislative change, written plainly. This is what landlords search for at midnight.
A page per area with rental yield context and a valuation request route, which is the highest intent conversion in the sector.
Kept current for the local searches landlords make when they are unhappy with their current agent and looking to switch.
Structure, internal links, speed and a listings feed that does not drag the rest of the domain down with expired properties.
Websites for letting agents: the fees page is the money page
"Seo for letting agents" runs at 50 searches a month and "websites for letting agents" at 10, so this is a quiet market where a serious effort goes a long way. Very few agents build anything a landlord would actually read.
The single most valuable page you can have is an honest fee page: fully managed percentage, tenant-find fee, what is included and what is not. Landlords search for exactly that, and almost every competitor hides it. We build the site free, publish that page, then work on rankings monthly.
Also selling? Estate agency carries far larger demand, with "seo for estate agents" at 480 searches a month and "websites for estate agents" at 320. We cover both sides for combined agencies.
Landlords do not live where their properties are
A large share of UK rental property is owned by someone living somewhere else entirely, often in London or overseas. They search for an agent in the town where the property sits, but everything else about them is remote.
That changes the content plan. Alongside local area pages you want investor-facing content: yield comparisons, area guides written for someone who has never visited, remote onboarding, and clear answers about how management works when the owner is two hundred miles away.
It is the cheapest expansion available to a letting agent, because you are not opening an office, you are writing for a landlord who already wanted to be somewhere else.
What letting agents actually get searched for
UK monthly search volumes from DataForSEO.
| Search term | UK monthly searches |
|---|---|
| seo for estate agents | 480 |
| websites for estate agents | 320 |
| seo for letting agents | 50 |
| websites for letting agents | 10 |
| letting agent fees for landlords | To be confirmed |
| letting agents near me | To be confirmed |
Measured in properties under management
Traffic is a poor measure here because most of it will always be tenants. We report landlord enquiries, valuation requests and the pages that produced them, which maps directly to properties added to your management book.
Most letting agents start on Local
One town, landlord-facing focus, monthly optimisation. Several branches or covering a wider region? See Regional and National.
Local
£300/mo
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AN £8,000 WEBSITE INCLUDED FROM DAY ONE
Start with your free mockupLettings SEO questions, answered
Can we outrank Rightmove and Zoopla?+
Not for tenant property searches, and we will not sell you the attempt. For landlord-facing searches, fees, compliance and choosing an agent, an independent agent can rank at the top in most towns.
Should we publish our landlord fees?+
Yes. Landlords compare fees before they make contact, and publishing yours captures a search almost every competitor avoids. It also filters out the ones who were only ever going to haggle.
What about the property listings themselves?+
They stay, fed from your existing system, but they are structured so expired properties do not accumulate and weigh down the domain. They are not where the optimisation effort goes.
How much does SEO for a letting agent cost?+
From £300 a month on Rental with £0 upfront, including the website, hosting, all content and monthly optimisation. Agencies covering several branches usually need the Regional plan at £1,500 a month.
See what your letting agency site could look like
Have a site? We rebuild it as a free mockup in 3 days. No site yet? Tell us your business and area and we start from scratch.