
Meta Lead Generation
Thomas Electrical & Solar
2,342 leads and 131 installs won from Meta ads.
2,342
leads since Apr 2023
$1.1M+
tracked revenue
Chapter IV of Seven · SEO · Newcastle
Every click from an ad costs you money again tomorrow. A ranking you own keeps delivering after you stop paying for it. That is the whole argument for SEO.
Businesses We've Worked With




What's Actually Happening
When someone searches for the job you do, the businesses at the top get the overwhelming majority of the traffic. Everyone below them is competing for scraps, and page two may as well not exist.
The difference between position three and position eight is not a small percentage. It is most of the work in your area going to somebody else, every day, permanently, while you keep paying for ads to make up the difference.
The compounding cuts both ways. Every month you are not ranking is a month a competitor is building the authority that makes them harder to shift later.
Ads stop the moment you stop paying. A ranking does not.

Why Most Of It Fails

You pay a retainer, you get a PDF full of impressions and average positions, and nothing in your calendar changes. The metrics improve and the phone does not.
It happens because the work targets the wrong terms. Big volume keywords with no buying intent look impressive in a report and never produce a quote request. Meanwhile the specific, boring, high-intent searches that actually turn into jobs get ignored because the numbers are small.
We chase the terms that produce work, then we defend them. A position won and lost six months later was not worth winning.
The Short Answer
Black Lion Digital's SEO service covers keyword research, on-page optimisation, technical SEO and content creation, followed by its Ranking Defence Plan to hold positions once won. Typical time to meaningful movement is 3 to 6 months, and clients are never asked to write their own content.
What's Included
Finding the terms your buyers actually type, weighted by intent and what a job is worth, not by how big the search volume looks.
Titles, headings, copy and internal links tuned so every page earns the position it is targeting.
Speed, crawlability and site structure fixed at the foundation, so rankings have something solid to stand on.
Supporting content produced for you where it helps. You will not be handed a content calendar and told to start writing.
Once the position is won we actively protect it, so a competitor cannot simply outspend or outwork you back down the page.
Positions, traffic and enquiries. If the work is not moving the number that matters, we say so rather than reframing it.
Case Studies

Meta Lead Generation
2,342 leads and 131 installs won from Meta ads.
2,342
leads since Apr 2023
$1.1M+
tracked revenue

Meta Lead Generation · Review Automation
21.2% of leads became customers, at $52.68 a lead.
478
leads since Nov 2023
$52.68
cost per lead
CRM Build · Funnels · Meta
$2.9M in won deals through the CRM we built, in under two years.
$2.9M+
won deals through the CRM we built
8,228
opportunities tracked
Meta Lead Generation
1,200+ farmer leads for a niche agricultural product.
1,206
leads since Mar 2023
$75,540
won value in the CRM
Website Rebuild
40%+ increase in website conversions after the rebuild.
40%+
increase in website conversions
SMS Reactivation
48% conversion rate on a reactivation SMS campaign.
48%
conversion on the last reactivation send

Lead Generation · Remarketing
143 leads over 6 months, well over $385,000 in tracked revenue.
143
leads in 6 months
$385K+
tracked revenue
Lead Generation
A lookbook campaign at $30 a lead.
$30
average cost per lead
The Shape Of It
Paid traffic is a tap: open it and leads flow, close it and they stop. SEO is the asset the tap pays for. Every month of ranking work stacks on the last, until the enquiries arrive whether you spent that month or not.
That is why SEO sits in the Scale stage of the system: it is what you build once the paid numbers already work, so the machine gets cheaper to run every quarter you own it.
Part Of The System
Stage 04 · Scale
SEO is a Scale lever, not a starting point. It compounds slowly and it is the cheapest lead source you will ever own, which makes it the right investment once paid acquisition is already proving what a lead is worth to you.
The Honest Bit
We ask for an initial three months, because that is how long it takes to build the system and let real data speak. After that it is month to month, with thirty days' written notice whenever you need it.
Every company we have seen offering one is running a churn-and-burn model. Nobody can guarantee a specific outcome. We guarantee the work, the optimisation and the honesty.
Your ad account, your pixel history, your data. If we part ways you keep every bit of it.
Every campaign is run by a full-time Black Lion employee, with a dedicated consultant you actually speak to.
Our Clients Have a Message for You
5.0from 57 Google reviewsThe results that we've got has really kept us #1 on Google. We're getting a lot of Facebook inquiries from new clients and we've also moved into new markets as well.
Straight Answers
Typically 3 to 6 months for meaningful movement. It is the slowest channel we run and the one that compounds hardest: once a position is won, the leads keep arriving without paying per click.
No. We do not need you to write anything to improve your rankings. Extra content helps and we can supply it for most common industries, but it is not something we hand back to you.
Our specialists monitor industry news, participate in professional forums and do ongoing training. Search changes constantly, so the method for staying current is part of the service rather than an afterthought.
They do different jobs. Ads buy you demand today and stop when you stop paying. SEO compounds and keeps producing. Most businesses that scale well end up running both, and we will tell you honestly which one your situation needs first.
Then the job is defending it, which is exactly what the Ranking Defence Plan is for. Holding a hard-won position is the half of SEO most agencies skip.
Limited to Three Businesses a Month
The Acquisition Audit is a free in-depth marketing report from Black Lion Digital covering three areas: your traffic campaigns, your sales pages and your follow-up. Valued at over $1,500, it is limited to three businesses per month and identifies what to double down on and what to fix first.

The Acquisition Audit covers your traffic, your pages and your follow-up. Three a month, no more.