Get found on Google, Maps and AI search

Being good at what you do is not the same as being found

When someone in Chelmsford needs a roofer, an accountant or somewhere to eat tonight, they reach for their phone. They search Google, look at the map, read a few reviews and pick from the first few businesses they see. More and more of them now ask ChatGPT or Gemini instead, and get a short list of names in reply.

If your business is not in those first few results, or not in the AI answer at all, the work goes elsewhere, however good you are. Often the reasons are small and fixable: a Google Business Profile that has not been touched in a year, a handful of reviews, an address that appears three different ways across the internet, and a website that never says clearly what you do and where.

How we do it differently

Plans with published prices. Our local SEO and AI search plans are £295, £495 or £895 a month, rolling, with no long contract. You can see what each includes on the cards below and on our prices page. If the work is not paying its way, you can stop.

Google, Maps and AI answers together. Many SEO services still treat AI search as an afterthought. We treat it as part of the same job. The things that help you rank on Google and in the Maps pack, such as clear pages, accurate business details, structured data and good reviews, are the same things ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity use to decide who to recommend. We set them up once and keep them consistent.

Founder-led and local. Waltham Websites was founded in 2007 and relaunched in 2026 by Fay O’Leary, who has spent 18 years building websites for Essex businesses and getting them found. You deal with Fay, not an account manager reading from a dashboard. Before the relaunch Fay spent a year leading AI automation for a national company, so she knows how these assistants read the web from the inside.

Start with a free website and AI check. Send us your web address and Fay will look at how your business shows up on Google, Maps and the main AI assistants, then reply personally with what to fix first. There is no obligation, and some of the fixes you can do yourself.

Who it is for

• Trades and local services who win most of their work from people nearby searching on a phone.
• Hotels, restaurants and venues who need to stand out on the map and in AI recommendations.
• Professional firms who want to rank in more than one town.
• New businesses who need a Google Business Profile set up properly from the start. Our guide to getting on Google Maps in Chelmsford walks through the basics.

SEO works best on a fast, well-built site. If yours is slow or dated, a website redesign keeps your existing rankings and gives the plan something stronger to build on. If you are starting from scratch, see website design. And if you want AI working inside your business as well as finding customers for it, see AI automation and software.

We work town by town, with plans for Chelmsford, Colchester, Southend and businesses across the rest of Essex.