SEO Weekly

This is it – the final SEO Weekly. ???? It’s been an absolute pleasure to share the last 52 weeks with you… When I started this series at the beginning of the …

At SEOHive we often help agencies (through our strategy sessions) prepare SEO pitches and proposals for their clients – and we’ve seen SO many different obstacles that agencies have put in their …

Pricing SEO services is one of the most common things people struggle with. And I get it – set your price too high and you lose clients, set it too low and …

Those three local business listings that appear at the top of Google search results – can be a goldmine for local businesses.  They can also be a source of endless frustration when …

As we’ve discussed in previous SEO Weeklies (even just last week!), SEO isn’t a single skill anymore. It’s a collection of disciplines that need to work together – technical expertise, content strategy, …

There’s a myth floating around that’s costing agencies real money… If you’re publishing content regularly, you’re “doing SEO.”  Hire a content writer, pump out blog posts twice a week, sprinkle in some …

We all know site speed matters – for SEO, user experience, and conversions. But start comparing results from tools like PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and Pingdom, and it’s easy to get lost in …

I realise we’re all at different stages of our business… Some of us relish the recurring/retainer model, whilst to others this will be new territory. I’m also fully aware that a lot …

Doing SEO without fixing your on-page issues first is like driving with your seatbelt on the wrong way – you’re technically moving, but everything feels restricted. No matter how much time or …

For years – literally my entire career – SEO has revolved around keywords. We researched them, grouped them, tracked them, stacked them, stuffed them, unstuffed them and built content around them… But …

This week’s SEO tip is short, sharp, and useful. Two tiny directives – noindex and nofollow – can shape what shows up in Google and where your link equity flows. They are …

Semantic HTML uses tags that describe the meaning of content, not just how it looks on screen. In its simplest form, it’s the difference between <div class=”big-text”> and <h1>. Both might look …

After last week’s topic got a little spicy (go check it out!). Let’s have some fun this week and talk about the SEO practices that make me tilt my head like a …

This week’s topic is something that hits close to home for many of us in TAB… It’s a topic I’ve been vocal about because I believe we, as digital agencies, have a …

Backlinks has to be one of the most mysterious and misunderstood ares of SEO. People (clients and agencies alike) know they’re a thing, but no-one ever seems to be able to put …

As much as we all like the presentation of a good report, clients don’t invest in SEO audits for reams of data… What they’re really after is clarity, direction, and a confident next …

This topic has come straight from the Barflies Slack Channel (if you’re not a member, why not?!-  Go check it out).  SEO in 2025 involves looking way beyond the blue links of …

Literally one of the most common conversations I have with the agency owners I work with – in either a consultancy or supplier capacity – goes something like this: “Pete, our clients …

This is a great question! And there are two perspectives to this, both of which we need to look at. Firstly, a client who may not know too much about how the …

Paid Discovery is a contentious issue…  On the one hand it makes perfect sense as you should NEVER give your strategy away for free, but on the other, it delays the start …

SEO is a game of displacement. For your site to move up, someone else must move down – it’s a zero-sum battle for limited real estate on page one. So, how do you …

We’ve all been there… You craft what you think is the perfect meta title and description, hit publish, then check Google only to find they’ve completely rewritten it. And if you’re like …

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) and SEO are normally considered different disciplines… However, if you’re running SEO for yourself or for your clients, they are intrinsically linked. Let me put it this way… …

In general, “marketing” is a noisy space to be in… There are always “gurus” with their new-fangled marketing plan that has led them to rent a Ferrari and post with it outside …

Everyone loves a new website… It’s like having a fresh start – a fresh user experience, an updated navigation, everything where you want it because nothing extra has been bolted on.  However, …

I often think that no company can be too small to help, no company can be too small to be a potential opportunity in the future. However, we’ve all had inquiries come …

So here’s SEO weekly no 26 – can’t believe we’re already halfway through the year! I’d love to know how your business is doing as we’ve closed out Q2 – are you …

In the ever-expanding universe of SEO tools, it’s easy to get lost in the endless options promising to revolutionize your workflow and make you all the money with none of the effort …

I often refer to SEO as playing a game – literally, yesterday I was describing it exactly like that to a client. And it is very much a game of sorts – …

This week, it’s time to substantiate something I’ve been mentioning in a few SEO Weeklies over the past few months…  Like I keep saying, as web professionals, we have a duty to …

I’m going to be blunt: If you’re building websites for clients and NOT including the appropriate schema markup, you’re not delivering the full value that your client is investing in. Schema isn’t …

I don’t know what it is about ecommerce sites that often freaks people out?! ???? Maybe it’s because I used to work at an ecommerce agency that I’m just normalized to them… …

This is one that comes up in almost every Q&A I take part in! ???? What is the “right” number of links to include on a page? But before we start counting, …

Local SEO is a completely different animal to regular SEO. While Google Business Profile optimization is crucial, the on-page elements of your client’s website play an equally important role in local search …

Choosing the right SEO plugin is a question every WordPress agency faces (and one I get A LOT!). With so many options available, it’s easy to get caught up in feature lists …

E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness) has been around for a while and over the last 5 years or so, has become more influential in the SERPs. But in late 2022, Google turned …

One of the most underestimated parts of any website build is the go-live process. I mean it’s just as simple as switching some DNS records, right?! ❌ WRONG! Getting the go-live process …

If there’s one content strategy that consistently delivers both SEO results and a better user experience AND has stood the test of time, it’s the pillar-cluster model. Yet many site owners are …

This is a slightly different SEO Weekly post… Rather than something tactical, this is the post that could make a difference to YOUR agency.  This post is not about some SEO process …

Running an agency isn’t easy… We all know that building monthly recurring revenue is essential for agency stability, and SEO services offer great MRR potential. But delivering consistent SEO work month after …

If there’s one thing that consistently flies under the radar in SEO, it’s internal linking. Everyone knows it matters, but very few implement it with any real strategy. Why? Because it’s not …

This post comes directly from a comment on an earlier post. Faye asked how breadcrumbs benefit local search, especially for sites struggling with map rankings. As I mentioned in my comment, while …

There are times when you need to show value to a client fast. Perhaps at the beginning of an agreement or when things have headed south a bit, and you want to …

Let me preface this week’s SEO Weekly by saying I see A LOT of websites that other agencies make. The purpose of this post isn’t to criticise ANYONE but to help deliver …

We’ve all been there. It’s the first retainer review meeting with a new client. You’ve been busting your gut for a month to show them you know what you’re doing. You open …

Selling SEO doesn’t have to be complicated, but it does need to be strategic. I’ve been selling SEO retainers for agencies for over 10 years, and the key thing I’ve learnt is …

It can be difficult to consistently generate fresh, engaging blog ideas that are both creative and tie in with an SEO strategy.  Believe me, I get it. At SEOHive we have to …

It’s fairly widely known that word count is not part of Google’s algorithm – and that’s 100% fact. So no matter how many clients come to you and say, “I’ve heard that …