A1 SEO Edinburgh has really humble roots. Initially, the company (formerly GMS Digital) was founded by Graham Grieve in 2014, helping bands, artists, as well as not-for-profits with marketing.
After some success, small businesses created a demand for time on more complex (as well as paid) marketing activities. Because of demand, the business transformed into another generic digital marketing agency providing every little thing from SEO to social media management as well as web design.
It became quite clear to us that we was just one of many other jack of all trades kind digital agencies providing a wide range of services with only average knowledge in everything.
During these early years the group became more and more fixated with SEO over all various other digital marketing channels.
Late in 2016, the company moved all non-SEO work over to trusted niche professionals to focus purely on SEO. This is where the team's passion lies.
It so happened that this pivot happened throughout an exciting time of adjustment for the SEO industry. Google released a handful of exciting updates that altered the SEO industry completely. With our newfound focus, the group continued to supply results and built up processes for consistently influencing website's rankings with Google as well as other search engines.
In 2019, the business rebranded from GMS Digital to A1 SEO Edinburgh to reflect our focus on search engine marketing. At this stage, 94% of our business was SEO and also PPC, the various other 6% being development projects that shared close synergy with SEO projects.
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