Someone in Jersey is searching for what you sell. SEO decides whether they find you.

It depends on what your site is built on. Some platforms let me implement all of it properly in a day. Others fight you at every step. Rather than quote a number that turns out to be wrong, I would rather look first and then tell you. That look is free, and if a couple of hours would sort you out, I will say so.

No, and neither can anyone else. What can be done is to remove every reason you are not showing up, and there are usually only a handful: a missing listing, a slow site, pages that do not mention what you sell, details that disagree across the web. Fix those and you are in the running on merit. On an island this size that is usually enough.

Nobody can promise that yet, so I will not sell you a separate AI SEO package that pretends otherwise. The behaviour change is real: Ofcom found 54% of UK adults now use AI tools, and Pew Research found people click through to a website roughly half as often when an AI summary appears. What the best available evidence does not show is that the techniques commonly sold as AI SEO reliably move whether an AI mentions you. What genuinely helps is unglamorous: a fast, clear, readable site, business details that agree everywhere they appear, and a real Google Business listing. That is real work and it is charged for like any other work, but it is the same groundwork that makes you readable to Google, so it earns its keep whether or not an AI ever quotes you.

For most small Jersey businesses the fastest win is not the website at all: it is a properly filled-in Google Business listing, with the right category, real opening hours, photos and reviews. After that it is making sure your name, address and contact details match everywhere they appear online, and that your pages use the words people actually type. Those three things move local rankings more than anything else, and none of them require a rebuild.

Cheap packages do the visible third: a listing, some page titles, a monthly report. What gets skipped is everything nobody can see: structured data, crawler configuration, load speed measured and fixed, research done before the words are written. Those parts take real time and cannot be automated, which is exactly why they get left out. Ask anyone quoting you which of that list they are actually doing.

Often not. A good chunk of this is done once and then stays done. I would rather fix the thing and stop than put you on a retainer that produces a monthly report nobody reads.

Usually yes, because the local field is small and the basics are so often left undone. You are not competing with the whole internet, you are competing with other Jersey businesses, plenty of whom have an unclaimed listing and a site that takes five seconds to load. That race is won with tidiness rather than budget.