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The Pitfalls of DIY SEO
With the amount of great SEO guides out there, anyone can learn about SEO, and with enough time, anyone can learn to do it well. Here are some guides to get you started: Getting started - The Definitive Guide To SEO In 2021 (Backlinko)SEO strategy - How to Create an...
7 Types of Google Search Result You Need to Know About Google is more than a search engine. It is a knowledge base. It can answer your most complex queries and deliver contextual results that answer your next questions without being prompted. It does this in...
Understanding Search Intent is the Key to Great Keyword Research -- There are two critical aspects to keyword research: the first is the research itself, i.e. figuring out what people are typing into search engines to find businesses like yours, and the second is...
What Does Google Want?
What does Google want? We’re not ashamed to admit that this question keeps the Leeds SEO Agency up at night. We have seen websites rise and fall with Google algorithm changes, sometimes with no rhyme or reason or logic behind their movement. What we can say with...
Search Console: An Introduction to Google’s Most Powerful Tool
If you have a website, you’ll want to track how many people visit your site and how they interact with it. For this, there’s Google Analytics. Google Search Console is a very different tool. It specifically tracks your presence and performance in Google Search, and...
What are local SEO services?
Local SEO services are provided by an SEO agency or SEO consultancy to improve a business’s local visibility in Google Search. Businesses turn to providers of local SEO services to assure good strategy and maximise return on investment. Local SEO can transform a...
How do you know if you need local SEO?
You need local SEO if your business does not show up on the first page of Google when people search for it. Google uses machine algorithms to decide which websites make it to the first page. These algorithms can be satisfied in a number of ways. The basic premise is...
SEO-Manager.co.uk is now redirected to LeedsSEOAgency.co.uk
If you just landed here after trying to visit SEO-Manager.co.uk you haven’t landed here by mistake. The SEO Manager website was purchased by Leeds SEO Agency and the site was redirected. SEO-Manager.co.uk was a leading provider of local search engine optimisation...
Great People to Learn SEO From
Whether you’re new to SEO or want to expand your skill set, learning from a high-quality source is essential. Trouble is that there are so many so-called ‘experts’ out there. Knowing who the real experts are can be difficult to figure out. Following over 20 years’ in...
The Basics of Local SEO
There are plenty of detailed explanations. but here, in an infographic, is the basic methodology for improving your local search listings. A local SEO specialist can do all of this for you but if you want to go it alone, here is...
The importance of completing your Google and Bing business listings
Dominating Google and Bing as a local business will give you a significant competitive advantage and win you a lot of business. These golden traffic sources provide long-term value through new customer acquisition. Google and Bing are the two biggest web search...
What are local address citations (and why are they important?)
When people use Google to find a local service, Google returns a few different types of search result. These include ad (pay-per-click) results, organic results (everything that doesn’t have ‘ad’ next to it) and Google My Business listings (these show up on Google...
‘People Also Ask’ boxes: How to optimise and rank for PAA
63,000 people per second (3.6 million per minute, 228 million per hour) use Google to search for something. The sheer number of searches Google crunches is mind-blowing, but even more impressive is the quality of the results. When you use Google, you always get what...
Using Content Hubs for SEO
When we discuss search engine optimisation as professionals, it’s easy to get lost in algorithms and data. As a businessowner, you just want results -- a return on what you spend for someone like us to handle your SEO. Something we place a lot of weight on is content,...
Google Keen Explained
Google Keen: Your Guide to Google’s New AI Content Board Google has had a lot of interesting projects that failed. Some died in the cusp of the consumer domain (Nexus, Inbox) while others were slowly beaten away by better products from other vendors (Google Reader,...
Google Update: Page experience to become a Google ranking factor
Are you sick of getting low-quality websites in your search results? Perhaps you have a rubbish website of your own that’s ticking along? If so, we have some good news and some bad news: sometime in 2021, Google is going to roll out a search engine ranking algorithm...
How do Google Determine Local Rankings?
How does Google determine local ranking? Google determines local ranking based on an unpublished score that factors in a business’s location, distance from the searcher, and prominence. Out of these, prominence is the one factor we can control. The others are out of...
SEO Resources
Some useful websites and resources if you want to look deeper into search engine optimisation GOOGLE ANALYSIS Test My Site Test My Site is a free online tool from Google that you can use to benchmark your website for speed. It measures the speed of your website based...
Google Update – Page experience to become a Google ranking factor
Are you sick of getting low-quality websites in your search results? Perhaps you have a rubbish website of your own that’s ticking along? If so, we have some good news and some bad news: sometime in 2021, Google is going to roll out a search engine ranking algorithm...
The Advantages of Local SEO Versus Traditional Marketing
Local SEO versus traditional marketing. If it’s got to be one or the other, you’d be mad to choose traditional marketing. The reason is three-fold - Relevance, Reach, Return. If you do anything today, read our reasoning for choosing local SEO. It could mean the...
Unwrapping Google’s ‘Mobile-First’ Strategy
Google’s 'mobile-first' strategy is a sure thing, confirmed by the search giant itself and implemented in 2019. It means that Google will consider mobile-friendly websites first when deciding how to rank content. The effect this has had in search so far, is that the...