SEO guides

How ranking actually works, written the way we would explain it to a customer: the mechanism first, the specifics second, and no step you cannot verify yourself.

How to Run a Free SEO Audit

What a genuine SEO audit checks, how to run one on your own site without paying for anything, and how to tell a real audit from a lead-generation form with a score attached.

9 min read

How to Rank Higher on Google

A practical, ordered method for ranking higher on Google: fix what blocks indexing, earn relevance on pages that already have authority, then close the link gap. With the reason each step works.

11 min read

Technical SEO Checklist

Every technical check that changes whether a page can rank, ordered by consequence: indexability first, then crawlability, then on-page signals, structured data and performance.

12 min read

Backlink Gap Analysis

How to find the sites already linking to your competitors but not to you, how to prioritise them, and how to confirm a link actually landed rather than trusting a claim.

9 min read

Keyword Research Without Seed Keywords

How to derive a keyword universe from your own site and market rather than starting from a list you guessed - and how to rank the result by revenue instead of search volume.

10 min read

Google Ranking Factors That Actually Matter

The ranking factors with evidence behind them, grouped by how much control you have over each and how quickly each one moves - rather than a list of two hundred signals with no weighting.

10 min read

Core Web Vitals and Ranking

What LCP, INP and CLS measure, the thresholds that count as passing, how much they influence rankings, and the fixes that move each one.

8 min read

How to Rank in AI Overviews

What decides whether an AI Overview or an LLM cites your page, and the formatting and authority work that makes a page quotable.

8 min read

How Much Does SEO Cost?

Real monthly ranges for agencies, freelancers and software, what each actually delivers for the money, and how to work out what SEO is worth to your business before you buy any of it.

8 min read

Run these checks on your own site

Every check in these guides, run against your live pages, with the findings shown before you are asked for anything.

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