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She's in the Attic

Archaeology  ×  Literature  ×  Astrology  ×  Science & Art

On the work

She's in the Attic is an independent SEO consultancy. That means one person — not a team of juniors with a senior face on the proposal — doing the actual work, every time. Fifteen years of it, across enterprise brands, e-commerce, and specialist charities.

The name comes from the idea of something valuable being quietly accumulated over time, out of sight, away from the noise. Which is more or less what good SEO looks like when it's working.

"The latest acronym doesn't mean sustainable growth or success."

Search changes constantly. The fundamentals — relevance, authority, technical soundness, genuine usefulness — don't. The work is understanding which is which, and not letting clients spend money chasing the former when they need the latter.

Four disciplines

The services are named for what they actually are, rather than what a brochure would call them. Each one reflects a different kind of attention — the excavation of what's buried, the long reading of patterns, the careful construction of narrative, the measurement that matters.

Archaeology Technical SEO — crawling beneath the surface, finding what's broken, buried, or blocking visibility.
Literature Content strategy — mapping expertise to intent, building content that earns its place rather than filling space.
Astrology Ongoing retainer — reading the long cycles, the slow patterns, the compounding return of sustained strategic work.
Science & Art Reporting & analytics — GSC, GA4, custom dashboards. Numbers that explain something rather than just exist.

On independence

Working independently matters. It means the strategy isn't shaped by what's easiest to sell, or what an agency needs to fill headcount with. It means honest conversations about what's actually wrong, what's actually worth doing, and what the data is actually saying.

Clients tend to be organisations that have already tried the big agency approach and found it wanting — or those who've grown smart enough to know they want a practitioner, not a presenter.

If this sounds like the right approach

Most engagements start with a conversation about where things currently stand and where they need to go. No audit-for-audit's-sake. Just a clear-eyed look at the work.