SEO technique

Core Web Vitals

This jargon was introduced by Google in 2020 to provide businesses with a set of KPIs they could use to measure user experience focusing on aspects of web usability such as load time, interactivity, and the stability of...

Voice search marketing

Voice search or voice-based search marketing has been much hyped for its SEO benefits, but delivers little direct benefits for most businesses in my opinion. I find the hype annoying since for the last 10 years that has...

Google’s core updates

Previous Google created and publicised named algorithm updates like ‘Panda’, ‘Penguin’ and ‘Rankbrain’ focused on introducing a major change to improve the quality of results and...

Local SEO

Working on Local SEO ranking factors is important to gain visibility for a business at a local geographical level if you have local audiences in towns and cities searching for local providers such as stores and services...

Organic SERPs

SEO helps you get visible in the natural listings of the search engines. If effective, it’s one of the most cost-effective ways for businesses to get new visits, leads and sales. It’s about getting the organisation plus...

Link-building

Link-building involves a proactive approach to develop backlinks from other sites, primarily aimed at improving the domain authority of your website. Link-building has secondary goals of building brand awareness and...

Search gap analysis

A benchmarking activity to review the effectiveness of search marketing. It involves comparing the volume of search intent for different grouped keywords (How many people are searching) and then comparing this to the...

SEO ranking factors

SEO ranking factors determine which website pages and content feature in the organic search results or SERPs (search engine results pages). Although it is often reported that there are hundreds of ranking factors such...

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