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SEO Basics

The very basics of SEO to help you fill in the gaps or learn from the start.

WordPress Categories and Tags – Are They Helping or Hurting Your SEO?

WordPress categories and tags SEO can help or hurt your site. Used properly, categories create order and help visitors find related content. Used badly, tags create piles of thin, nearduplicate archiv
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28
Sep

What Is a Redirect Chain and Why Is It Bad for SEO?

A redirect chain is when one URL redirects to another URL, which then redirects again before the visitor reaches the final page. It is bad because it slows the journey, wastes crawl budget, weakens si
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27
Sep

How to Prioritise SEO When Your Website Has Hundreds of Pages

Prioritise SEO by finding the pages most likely to bring leads or sales, then fixing the problems that stop those pages ranking. With hundreds of URLs, seo prioritisation is not about doing everything
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A cramped back office with file boxes, binders and a page inventory on the desk suggests a large website being sorted for SEO priorities.
26
Sep

What Is Content Decay and How Do You Spot It Before Rankings Disappear?

Content decay is when a page that once brought traffic, rankings or enquiries slowly loses them because the content, search intent or competition has moved on. In content decay SEO, the danger is not
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A small business owner checks an old website page at a kitchen table while leads have started to dry up.
25
Sep

Should You Delete Thin Content or Improve It?

For thin content SEO, you should usually improve pages that have rankings, traffic, backlinks or clear business value. Delete or noindex pages that serve no useful purpose, get no engagement and canno
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A marked-up service page sits on a dark desk beside a keyboard, showing thin content SEO being assessed for improvement or removal.
24
Sep

About Page SEO – Can Your About Page Help Your Google Rankings?

Yes, your About page can help your Google rankings, but not by magically ranking for every service you sell. Done properly, about page seo proves who you are, where you operate, why you’re credible an
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22
Sep

Unlinked Brand Mentions – Can They Help Your SEO?

Yes, unlinked brand mentions SEO can help, but usually indirectly. A mention of your business without a link may support trust, brand recognition and entity understanding. It does not pass link equity
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A business owner in a café reads a community newsletter mentioning the company, reflecting everyday unlinked brand mentions SEO.
21
Sep

What Is Anchor Text and How Should You Use It for SEO?

Anchor text is the clickable wording in a link. If you typed “anchor text what is” into Google, that’s the answer: it’s the bit people click and the bit search engines use to understand what the linke
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20
Sep

How Many Internal Links Should a Page Have?

Most normal business pages should have 3 to 8 useful internal links. Longer blog posts can have 8 to 15. The real answer to how many internal links per page is: enough to help users and Google, not so
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19
Sep

Content Clusters for SEO – A Simple Guide for Small Businesses

Content clusters SEO is a way of grouping your website content around the services, problems and questions your customers actually search for. You create one strong main page, support it with related
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A lit Cheshire shopfront at night suggests a business built around connected service pages and local SEO.
18
Sep
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