Local SEO · Dorset

SEO agency in Dorset

We help Dorset businesses get found in Google and in AI search. Local SEO, technical SEO and content built to bring you real enquiries, from an AI-first agency based in Shaftesbury.

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Why local SEO matters

When a Dorset customer searches, you need to be the answer

Most buying decisions still start with a search. Someone in Shaftesbury, Sherborne or Bournemouth types what they need into Google, or increasingly asks ChatGPT or Gemini, and picks from what comes back. If your business is not there, the enquiry goes to a competitor who is.

Okapi & Co is an SEO agency in Dorset that fixes this at the root. We make your website easy for both Google and AI tools to understand, trust and recommend, so the right local customers find you first.

What our Dorset SEO includes

Everything needed to rank, in one place

Local SEO

Google Business Profile, local citations, location pages and review signals so you appear when nearby customers search for what you do.

Technical SEO

Fast, crawlable, well-structured pages. We fix the foundations that quietly hold most Dorset websites back in search.

AI and GEO visibility

Structured data and entity authority so your business is cited in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, not just the blue links.

Content that ranks

Pages written around what your customers actually search for, mapped to clear commercial intent rather than vanity keywords.

Areas we serve

SEO across Dorset

Based in Shaftesbury, we work with businesses right across Dorset and the surrounding area. Wherever you are, we know the local market.

SEO ShaftesburySEO SherborneSEO GillinghamSEO Blandford ForumSEO Sturminster NewtonSEO DorchesterSEO WimborneSEO BournemouthSEO PooleSEO Weymouth
How it works

A clear path from invisible to found

01

Free audit

We review your current visibility in Google and AI tools, plus your technical foundations. Clear findings, no jargon.

02

Local strategy

A plan built around the Dorset terms your customers search and the towns you want to win. Quick wins first.

03

Implement

We do the work: technical fixes, local pages, structured data and content. You see exactly what changed and why.

04

Report

Plain-English monthly reports. What moved, what we are doing next, and what it means for enquiries.

What Dorset clients say

Real businesses, real results

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Gavin Kieser
3 weeks ago
★★★★★

The course was excellent, and we came away with an audit report on our website which has given us a roadmap for future improvements. Jim certainly gave us a lot of great information about the role of AI as it relates to our website, and how we should be using it.

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Alison Hall
8 weeks ago
★★★★★

Jim recently offered to run a report for our solar company to assist with raising our profile online. The report was very easy to interpret and several of the ideas contained within should be quick and easy to implement as a starting point. Thank you so much, hopefully we can work with you in the future once we have our branding etc worked out.

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Chris Duffy
10 weeks ago
★★★★★

I recently had an SEO and AEO audit from James and Okapi and Co. The audit was eye opening and gave me a plan to increase my visibility. Highly recommended.

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Common questions

Dorset SEO, answered

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Find out where you stand in Dorset search

Book a free audit and we will show you exactly where you rank, where you do not, and the quickest wins to fix it. No jargon, no hard sell.

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