Field notes on SEO, paid media, content and web design — the tactics we run for clients, written plainly.
Content Marketing Every editor has a mental checklist, and most of them live only in that editor's head, applied inconsistently depending on how much time they have that day. A written checklist doesn't replace editorial judgment; it m…
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AI Search Reputation management used to mean monitoring reviews and search results. Now it also means monitoring what AI systems say about your business when someone asks directly, and that's a much harder thing to control, bec…
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AI Search AI website builders can now produce a passable-looking site in minutes from a short prompt, which raises a genuine question for any business weighing the cost of a professional designer against a tool that promises th…
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Local SEO National publications get all the attention in link building conversations, and for a genuinely local business, they're often the wrong target entirely. The organizations that actually shape local search relevance- ch…
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SEO A page not showing up in search results could mean a dozen different things: blocked by robots.txt, never discovered, crawled but not indexed, indexed but suppressed, and guessing wastes time you don't need to spend.…
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Web Design The hamburger icon has been the default answer to mobile navigation for over a decade, and defaulting to it without thinking has produced a lot of menus that technically work and quietly frustrate everyone who uses th…
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Content Marketing Research is where content quality actually gets decided, long before a single sentence gets written, and it's also where writers waste the most time chasing sources that turn out unreliable or irrelevant. A faster, mo…
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AI Search Traditional competitor analysis checks who ranks above you and why. That's still worth doing, and it's no longer the whole picture, because a competitor can be losing traditional rankings to you while quietly dominati…
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Graphic Design "We need a rebrand" gets said in a lot of meetings that actually needed a much smaller conversation. Refresh and rebrand are treated as points on the same scale, when they're really different decisions with different…
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Content Marketing A page built around a single question competes against every other page built around that same question, and there are usually a lot of them. A page that genuinely answers several related questions someone would natur…
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AI Search AI Mode doesn't rank pages the way traditional search does, and treating it as an extension of the same playbook has already cost some businesses visibility they didn't know they were losing. The signals that matter h…
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Link Building A story breaks, journalists scramble for expert commentary, and for a narrow window, anyone who responds fast with something genuinely useful can get quoted and linked by publications that would never have answered a…
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