At some point, every business that takes search seriously runs into the same question. Do we bring SEO in-house? Or do we hire an agency or consultant to run it for us? On the surface it looks like a simple cost comparison. In reality, it’s a choice about control, speed, risk, and how your team […]
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You can follow every SEO checklist out there and still end up with a website that feels busy but empty. Busy with posts.Busy with keywords.Busy with traffic rising month after month.But empty where it matters — in your inbox, your booking calendar, and your pipeline. This happens more often than people admit. A business pours
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Most websites don’t have a traffic problem. They have an aim problem. You’ll see the pattern everywhere: companies grind away at weekly blog posts while their most commercially valuable pages sit half-finished, buried, or written like someone was afraid of sounding too direct. Meanwhile, their blog is trying to rank for phrases that belong squarely
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SEO is one of the few marketing channels small businesses stick with long after they’ve stopped believing in it. They keep paying. They keep publishing. They keep “optimising.” And month after month, they keep wondering why the return never seems to match the effort. This is the SEO ROI gap — the space between what
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Most small businesses don’t struggle with writing. They struggle with writing the kind of content that leads to enquiries, sales, and actual momentum. That’s usually when outsourcing comes up. You realise you can’t keep writing everything yourself. You don’t have the time. Your team doesn’t have the expertise. And you’re tired of guessing what Google
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Spoiler alert: publishing more content isn’t the only way to increase organic leads from SEO. More blogs. More landing pages. More pages targeting long-tail keywords nobody has ever typed into Google. More of everything — except the thing that actually matters: better performance from what you already have. I’ve worked with companies who posted twice
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I still remember the smug little rush I got the first time I nailed a keyword brief. I’d found a term with decent volume and low competition. I’d packed it into the title, headings, meta description, and even tweaked a few internal links to support it. The content itself was polished. Clean. Technically sound. There
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We’ve entered a strange moment in search. People type a question into Google, and instead of getting ten blue links, they get a giant AI paragraph that tries to answer the entire thing on the spot. It’s fast. It’s confident. And it sits above everything you publish like a wall. For years, SEO was about
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Most SEO content is written by looking sideways. Competitor analysis, keyword gaps, content gaps, cluster models, SERP features. Marketers spend hours reverse-engineering what everyone else is doing instead of asking the only people who can give them an edge: their customers. This is why so much SEO content feels the same. Same topics, same angles,
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B2B SEO isn’t complicated. The internet makes it feel complicated, but the mechanics are the easy part. Write helpful content, structure it well, make it crawlable, link things together, answer the intent behind the search, and stay consistent. Simple on paper. But in practice? Most B2B SEO content strategies collapse before they ever get close
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