Six towns on one north-south line mean Stoke-on-Trent customers search by Hanley, Burslem or Longton, not by the city name.
A Trentham homeowner with a dead boiler, a Burslem landlord looking for a managing agent and a tenant leaving a student let near Keele all search Google in their own words. HeyLead runs your Google Ads, local SEO, Facebook and Instagram ads and web pages so each kind of job reaches the right person, and we count the ones that get booked. Ask for a free audit to start.
What we do
A Burslem letting agent and a Fenton plumbing firm need different reach. Each service page starts from your towns and drive times rather than a national template.
Pages and listings that appear when people nearby search Google for what you do.
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Paid search ads that reach people searching right now, reported against the calls and bookings they produce.
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Facebook and Instagram ads for offers that need reach, including ads shown again to people who visited your site.
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Pages built to turn a visit into a call, form or booking.
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Call tracking and customer-system setup come with the work when you need them: analytics and crm integration.
Who we work with
Lettings and sales agents in Hanley, Burslem and Trentham who want landlord and vendor enquiries arriving direct, not only through the portals.
Heating, plumbing and electrical firms whose vans run the A500 between Tunstall and Longton and can reach Newcastle-under-Lyme the same day.
Cleaning firms handling student lets near Staffordshire University and Keele, small offices in Hanley and family homes around Trentham.
Owner-led Potteries firms that would rather deal with one marketing team than a separate freelancer for search, ads and the website.
Industries
Terraced streets, inter-war semis and newer Trentham estates feed three main industries here. Each has its own Stoke-on-Trent page.
Estate agents, lettings and property management teams, commercial owners and maintenance firms working from Hanley and Burslem out to Trentham and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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Heating, plumbing, electrical, damp and pest firms working older terraces and newer estates, with emergency call-outs run apart from planned installs.
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End of tenancy, domestic and commercial cleaners covering student lets near the universities, Hanley offices and family homes around Trentham.
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Focus industry
A Tunstall plumber and a Trentham letting agent sell to very different people, even inside one city. HeyLead plans every Stoke-on-Trent campaign around the towns your team can reach in a working day.
HeyLead is a marketing agency for owner-led firms in the Potteries. We run Google Ads, local search (SEO), Facebook and Instagram ads and web pages for estate agents, trades and cleaners across Hanley, Burslem, Longton, Trentham and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Every month we report booked work in pounds, not clicks.
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The local picture
Your market
Stoke-on-Trent is not one town centre with suburbs around it. It is a federation of six towns, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton, strung out along a north-south line, with Hanley as the main shopping centre.
Each still has its own high street and its own name, and people search with those names. Newcastle-under-Lyme is a separate borough on the western side, and Kidsgrove, Stone and the villages around them sit in Staffordshire rather than in the city.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council runs the city itself. The A500 runs the length of the city and joins the M6, while the A50 heads east towards Derby, so a van can cross the patch quickly off-peak and slowly at school time.
The housing is mostly older: Potteries terraces close to the old bottle kilns, inter-war semis, and newer estates around Trentham. Staffordshire University and Keele University add a steady rental market of student lets. Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket hold the searches from people browsing homes.
Estate agents need redress scheme membership, gas engineers need Gas Safe registration and electricians usually belong to a scheme such as NICEIC or NAPIT.
Your customers
A landlord with a terrace in Burslem searches for letting agents in Stoke-on-Trent and reads two or three websites before ringing. A family in Meir with no hot water types emergency plumber Longton on a phone before work and calls whoever looks reliable first.
An office manager at Festival Park searches commercial cleaning Stoke and wants a quote and a site visit that week. A useful lead comes from a postcode your team already covers, about a job you actually do.
We leave out job-seekers, DIY questions and people a long way outside your area. Each month you see booked instructions, managed properties, jobs and cleans by town, in pounds.
Our approach
We start by agreeing which towns and postcodes your vans, negotiators or cleaning teams can reach in a normal day, from Tunstall in the north to Trentham in the south.
Each main job then gets its own web page, and your Google Business Profile (the listing that shows on Google Maps) is set up with the right categories and service areas. Google Ads covers urgent searches such as a boiler breakdown or a blocked drain.
Facebook and Instagram ads carry planned offers, such as a rental valuation for a landlord or a regular office clean. Every call and form is labelled with the town it came from, and each month budget moves towards the places that book work.
Building stock
Potteries terraces, inter-war semis, and newer estates around Trentham
Portals buyers still use
Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket
Proof on the page
UK estate agent redress schemes; Gas Safe for gas work and an electrical scheme such as NICEIC or NAPIT for electricians
Common mistakes
A searcher in Tunstall and a searcher in Longton rarely type the same words, and one wide Stoke-on-Trent circle cannot tell them apart. Split campaigns by the towns each crew covers, so a call from Kidsgrove does not land with a team parked in Meir.
Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket will keep the people scrolling through houses for sale. Money spent on those searches buys browsers. Landlord, vendor and maintenance searches are where a local firm gets found, with pages that speak to terraces, semis and new-builds separately.
A cold house in Bucknall and a rewire quote in Trentham do not belong in the same queue. On a shared form the urgent job waits. Give each its own page, its own number and its own line in the report.
How it works
We note the postcodes your people cover on a normal day, from Tunstall and Burslem down to Longton and Trentham, and drop anything that needs a special trip. That list shapes every campaign and page.
Landlord valuations, emergency call-outs, end of tenancy cleans and office cleaning quotes each get a page and a form. Terraces, semis and newer estate homes are named where they fit.
Google Ads takes urgent searches. SEO and your Google Business Profile build map results for Hanley, Burslem and Longton. Facebook and Instagram ads promote the jobs people plan ahead.
The monthly report shows booked work and its cost by town, in pounds. A busy area that never books stands out instead of hiding inside one Stoke-on-Trent total.
Searches
These are the searches your pages and ads are built around, and what each person is trying to do.
| They search | What they want |
|---|---|
| Stoke-on-Trent letting agents | Landlord comparing local agents, not browsing listings |
| property management Stoke-on-Trent | Landlord or owner weighing up a managing agent |
| Hanley commercial cleaning | Contract buyer for an office or shop |
| Longton plumber | Urgent trade search, usually on a phone |
| boiler repair Newcastle-under-Lyme | Heating breakdown where drive time decides who gets the job |
Testimonials from HeyLead clients
I've worked with HeyLead for over a decade. There is no one else I'd trust with lead generation and IT. I've tried others, to my detriment. If you want someone who is dedicated and trustworthy, you couldn't pick someone better.
Andrew Woodruff
CEO, Woodruff Property Management
Our company 1800 CLEANER has worked with Martin for over two years now and we can attest he is one of the best. His technical knowledge in the SEO and online marketing space is second to none. But more importantly he cares. He listens and truly empathises with the client. The feeling of support that ensues is truly otherworldly. We have no hesitation in recommending him.
Michael Sweet
CEO, 1800 CLEANER
Month to month, no commitment. One fee covers the pages, the search and ad work and the tracking. Ad spend is separate and stays in your own accounts.
Starting at
$500 USD per month
Free to cancel with 1 month's notice. Tell us what you sell and where. We come back with what the first month would fix.
Get a Free AuditWhat $500 a month covers
Pages built around the searches your buyers actually type.
Search and ads aimed at people ready to enquire.
Calls, forms and bookings tagged to the search, ad or page behind them.
Our team
Martin writes every audit and takes the first call. The same team stays on the account. 160+ businesses since 2010.
Founder, strategy and audits
Writes every audit and takes every first call. On your account from day one, running growth for SMEs since 2010.
Social and app development
Shapes social strategy and builds practical app experiences that turn attention into action.
SEO
Owns technical, local and content SEO so the right buyers find you when demand is highest.
Paid media
Plans and manages paid search and social campaigns around qualified leads.
Analytics
Connects tracking, attribution and reporting so decisions are based on revenue-quality data.
Design
Creates clear brand and conversion-focused design across landing pages, campaigns and product experiences.
Certified and experienced
Verified platform knowledge, 25+ years of hands-on experience, and an operating track record since 2010.
FAQs
Straight answers about local coverage, campaigns, pages, and how we measure demand in Stoke-on-Trent.
No. HeyLead is an online team, so there is no Stoke-on-Trent address to visit. We work with you by phone, video call or WhatsApp, and your campaigns are built around the towns you actually serve.
Often not. Newcastle-under-Lyme is its own borough with its own town centre, and people there search with its name. A separate campaign and page for it, next to the six towns, usually reads better and reports more clearly.
Only for the towns you serve well. A firm based in Longton might start with Longton, Fenton and Meir, then add Hanley once the first pages bring calls. Thin pages for places you rarely visit do more harm than good.
They remain where people browse homes for sale and to rent. We build a second stream next to them: search, pages and ads that bring landlords, vendors and managers to your firm directly.
Access to your Google Business Profile, ads accounts and website, a list of the towns and postcodes you cover, the registrations you hold and how many jobs a week you can take on. If an account is missing, we set it up with you.
We review your current coverage, write pages for one or two offers, set up Google Ads with a block list of words that keep out the wrong searches, and label every call and form by town. The first report follows once real enquiries come in.
Google Ads can produce calls within days of going live, though the first weeks are about learning which searches book. Local SEO and map listings usually take a few months to build. We do not promise rankings or a fixed number of jobs.