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ABOUT·THE PERSON BEHIND PLACERANK

Run by an
actual local.

I'm Rich. I run PlaceRank from Ormskirk, with 20+ years of building and ranking websites behind it. It's what happens when you hand local SEO to someone who actually knows the places — not a call centre two hundred miles away.

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ORMSKIRK, L39 · COVERING THE NORTH WEST · PART OF FLEXIWEB
THE SHORT VERSION

Twenty years of getting businesses found.

For two decades I've built and ranked websites through my agency, Flexiweb. And I kept seeing the same thing: brilliant local businesses, all but invisible on Google, losing work to competitors who'd simply set their listing up properly.

So I carved the local side out into its own thing. PlaceRank does one job — getting North West businesses found locally — and does it properly, without the jargon or the faceless-agency feel.

I live five minutes from Ormskirk town centre. I know the difference between serving Southport and serving Salford, and I take my own photos of the towns I write about. That's not a marketing line — it's genuinely how the work turns out better.

WHAT WORKING WITH ME IS LIKE

One person, doing it properly.

01
You deal with me, not an account manager
Ring the number on this site and you get the person doing the work. No layers, no hand-offs, no being passed around.
02
Plain English, always
No dashboards you can't read, no reports stuffed with jargon. What I'm doing, why, and what it's changing — in words that make sense.
03
Genuinely local
I live and work in the North West. That local knowledge goes straight into your profile, your content and the areas we target.
04
Honest about what's realistic
I won't promise you number one by Friday. What's achievable, done steadily, shown honestly — good months and slow ones.
PART OF THE FAMILY

Need more than getting found? PlaceRank is the local-SEO arm of Flexiweb — websites and wider digital, under one roof.

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Let's get you
found. Free.

Tell me where you're based and I'll take a proper look at how you show up across the North West — straight from me, no obligation.

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