Welcome to Hot House Digital, your Leeds based SEO agency. Our expert team of search, content and digital PR specialists are here to give your business the space to succeed.

What image first springs to mind when you hear the term, ‘SEO agency’? (By all means, be honest).

If a stuffy room of square eyes staring at complex graphs was your initial thought, we won’t take offence. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised at all.

That’s because SEO has been introduced to the marketing world as a mysterious dark art. A task only the most anti-social of tech nerds can fulfil; an analytics report of jargon that business leaders could never understand.

But if knowledge is power, why keep it behind closed doors?

HotHouse Digital is here to cut out the complicated and make way for clarity.

Providing best in class SEO, content and digital PR services, we’ll leverage your brand awareness both on and off page to drive long-term, sustainable success..

Time to insert a new picture into the old SEO agency frame.

Our core values

Meet the team

‘‘Starting Hot House Digital has allowed us to nurture an incredibly skilled team, each of whom share our people-first values in driving business success.’’

Patrick Rose & James Lockwood
Co-founders

With over 20 years experience, it’s safe to say our team have become well acquainted with the ever-evolving search landscape.

We know that ensuring our clients are always one step ahead of the algorithms can only happen if we are. That’s why Hot House Digital continues to deliver impactful results, project after project.

From in-depth technical audits, strategies to accelerate traffic, and ability to find budget saving solutions right through to SEO training and email automating – we cover all the search skills needed to make every campaign as successful as the last. And we’re proud to have a great team of friendly faces to do this with (even with their questionable office playlist choices).

Our founders

“I’ve always been impressed with the attention to detail and enthusiasm that the Hot House team brings to the table. Their work for Pelican and our clients has been very valuable.”

Michael Bennett
Founder & MD – Pelican Communications

The brands we’ve boosted

Real impact, real results

SEO

TOG24

The expansion of TOG24 stores required a comprehensive local SEO strategy to encourage new visitors. Using a three step approach, we delivered impactful business growth – both in and outside for the SERPS.

CRO

Wain Homes

As a leading UK housebuilder, Wain Homes chose Hot House Digital to ensure a seamless website migration – as well as drive new traffic and conversions. Discover our full CRO strategy.

CRO ● SEO

Global Insurer

A major global insurance provider required a solid SEO and CRO strategy to boost its sales. Thanks to our in-house expertise, we were able to build new conversion and ensure a significant increase in website traffic.

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Driving conversions is what makes us click. Enquire now to discover how we can help your business grow beyond the search bar.

I’m James. Hello.

My background in marketing and PR started right after I graduated from Lancaster University. After working as a consultant at a national accountancy firm, I soon found where my passion was: SEO.

This passion was tested to its limits once Google rolled out its first algorithm update on poor-quality links. This was a big one. So big, in fact, that it meant the entire accountancy website was taken out of Google.

The agency that managed the SEO of the website was sacked, and it was up to me to remove the penalty that was losing the business tens of thousands of pounds per week. No pressure.

Over six months of intensive work, I got the penalty removed. The website was back owning the SERPS, and I was ready for the next challenge.

That’s when I became an SEO specialist at iProspect for some of the UK and Europe’s biggest brands. As well as working on additional Google Penalties and on all areas of SEO, my venture into digital PR meant securing one client a three-page spread in The Sun.

Three years on, I was SEO Lead for Thomas Cook and Pets At Home, growing their annual organic search revenue to over a quarter of £1 billion for the former.

I met Patrick and it was love at first sight on the train into work. We talked about developing an offer that could really work with clients to grow their businesses. Countless late nights, long weekends and much coffee drinking later, we had a plan. We launched Hot House Digital. The rest is history.

Hi, I’m Patrick.

It was a pretty winding road that led me to launching Hot House Digital. And that started with telesales. Not a job for everybody.

After completing my Master’s in creative writing, I took an internship at a surveyor company.

They set up a directory for surveyors and my job was to write punchy web copy. I basically smashed out article after article on industry topics to help them rank higher on Google.

Despite not knowing it at the time, I was doing hardcore SEO. And I absolutely loved it.

Fast forward a few years (which included a year of teaching English in South Korea), and I became an SEO Manager at iProspect in Manchester. It was here that I got to know James, Hot House Digital Co-Founder.

We both wanted something ‘more’. Sure, the work was enjoyable – and we were great at it. But we missed being close to the clients – you guys.

Eventually, the opportunity to do some work for a specialist food marketing agency arose. Our second client soon followed, and after months of working evenings and weekends, we were ready to launch full time.

Good things come to those who wait. And apparently, also to those who work in telesales.

Fair play, but just in case you’re on the fence, here’s how our services can drive big successes for your brand.

SEO

If you’re not getting the results you want, it’s because your customers can’t find you. Rank high in the SERPS and get ahead of the competition with our 360 approach to search optimisation.

Content

Gaining consumer trust calls for authentic content that offers true value to audiences. We’ll dive into trending topics and keywords to ensure every page makes people want to stick around.

Digital PR

One of the biggest drivers of organic search visibility is links, and we know how to build them. Showcase your expertise on the very best online publications with our strategic PR campaigns.