Free tool

SEO ROI Calculator

SEO is an investment case, not an act of faith — and the case should be modelled before you spend. This calculator runs a traffic scenario through your real conversion rates and margin to show what improved visibility would be worth per month, and how many extra customers cover the cost.

Model conservatively — this is the assumption everything hangs on.

At a glance

What it does, what it reads, what it cannot see

Every tool on this site states its scope in the same six lines, so you know what a result means before you act on it.

You enter
Current and projected monthly visits, conversion rates, customer value, margin and the monthly cost
You get
Extra leads, customers and gross profit a month, the net after cost, and the customers a month needed to break even
It reads
Nothing beyond the form
It cannot see
The projected visits: that is your forecast, and every other figure depends on it
It takes
Instant
Worked example

This tool’s own output on a fictional business

Generated by the tool at build time
Scenario
900 → 1,500 visits a month · 3% visit-to-lead · 30% lead-to-sale · £450 per customer · 60% margin · £795 a month
18Extra leads a month
5.4Extra customers a month
£1,458Extra gross profit a month
£663Net of the monthly cost
2.9Customers a month to break even

How to read it

Every figure here rests on the projected visits, which is a forecast, so the useful output is the last one: 2.9 extra customers a month pays for the work. Ask whether that is plausible from the queries you can see in Search Console before you ask whether £663 a month is exciting. The calculator will not tell you the projected visits; nothing honest can.

Meadowbank Dental is a fictional practice written for these examples: the result above is what this tool’s code produces on that page, regenerated whenever the site is built, and is not a real business’s data.

How it works

What this tool measures, and what it leaves alone

Read this before you act on a result. Every tool here states its method and its limits in the same breath.

Using this honestly

Everything downstream of "projected visits" is arithmetic; the projection itself is the assumption — so model conservatively and let results replace assumptions. Nobody can promise a ranking or a traffic number, and a provider who guarantees one is telling you something about themselves. What can be verified monthly: whether visits, enquiries and customers from search are actually rising against the baseline.

The most useful output is often the smallest: break-even customers. If £495 per month needs 1–2 extra customers to pay for itself, you can judge that against your own sense of what better visibility would bring — a far more honest conversation than any projected revenue figure.

Questions

Common questions

How long does SEO take to pay back?

For local businesses, meaningful movement typically shows in 3–6 months, with compounding after that — but it varies with competition and starting point. Model the first year with conservative traffic numbers and treat faster results as upside.

If you need more than the tool

Before you spend monthly on SEO, make sure the website converts the visitors you already get — the cheapest gain available, and exactly where the audit starts.

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