Freelance SEO Expertise For Your Organisation

SEO Services That I Offer:

SEO Audits Ireland

SEO Audits

eCommerce SEO Ireland

eCommerce SEO

GEO - Generative Engine Optimisation AI SEO Ireland

AEO / GEO

Website Migration SEO Support Ireland

Site Migration SEO

New Website SEO Support Ireland

New Website SEO

AI Overviews Impact Review Ireland

AIO Impact Review

How Can I Help You?

I am a freelance SEO consultant based in Galway, Ireland with 10 years experience working with some of the biggest brands in Ireland / the UK as well as some of the most exciting startups in the US. Over this time, I have built up the kind of broad SEO experience required to know how to supercharge organic traffic for any kind of business.

I can help you to make sure that your website sends the right signals to Google as well as other search engines and LLM platforms to ensure that you appear in front of your target audience for queries relevant to your product or service offering.

About Darren McManus

Over my 10 years as an SEO professional, I've worked in-house, agency side and now as a freelance SEO / fractional SEO manager for clients across Ireland, UK and USA.

Unlike many freelancers and agencies, I don’t try to offer all the digital marketing services under the sun. I have broad experience and understanding of all aspects of digital marketing but in terms of the services I offer, I stick to my area of genuine expertise – SEO - and dedicate my time to keeping up to date and mastering the latest updates and trends in the niche of SEO, rather than attempting to cover all bases.

I don’t outsource or delegate any key strategy or technical work. I work on a project by project basis and guarantee that I will personally undertake your SEO project from start to finish myself – only outsourcing content creation from time to time to suitable content writers (which is always agreed in advance with clients). This is not a guarantee you will get from many other consultants or agencies where very often the senior team does the pitch and hands over the implementation to junior teams or outsources some aspects of the work.

Darren McManus - SEO Expert Ireland

|Companies I've Worked With

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Excellent. I have worked with Darren on numerous occasions with websites from very different industries and would gladly recommend his service to others. He is thorough in his reviews, efficient and delivers results that matter. Really like his approach & how he educates his clients on why the recommendations he makes matter.
Sharon Tighe
Director of Marketing, Maverick Communications
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