You launched into a new market and did everything by the book: Native speakers translators localised the content, the SEO agency set up the country folder or domain, adapted the imagery and implemented the hreflang tags. However, after six months, the pipeline from that market is still dry. In theory, everything has been managed well […]
When browsing on LinkedIn, I keep seeing the same sort of post almost on a daily basis now, usually from a so-called SEO guru or an influencer with a large following. The posts roughly say "I sacked my SEO team [or my SEO agency] and replaced them with 12 Claude agents costing $25 a month" […]
Since early 2024, Google has been rolling out spam update after spam update, and each one quietly wipes low-value pages off the map. Most website owners never see it coming. No email, no warning, no penalty notice in your account. Just a slow climb in the number of "crawled, currently not indexed" pages in Search Console, and traffic that keeps slipping for no reason you can point to.
I recently came back from BrightonSEO with a notebook full of takeaways from the many amazing talks I’ve had the pleasure to listen to. Amongst them, Richard Clifford's session “Is International SEO Dead in the Age of AI? Rethinking Global Strategy for AI Search” really stuck with me. It tackled a question I have been hearing more often from clients lately, particularly the ones under pressure to cut their localisation budgets. With ChatGPT, Gemini and other large language models pulling from high-authority global sources and translating content in real time, do multilingual websites still earn their keep?
I recently heard the news about Cloudflare launching its own CMS and I decided to give it a shot. As someone who spends most of his working week thinking about how websites rank, perform, and get found, a brand new CMS positioned as a "spiritual successor to WordPress" is not something I was going to ignore. So I installed EmDash, set it up, and had a proper look.
Two prospects asked me to review their SEO agencies' work. Both were spending NZD 2,800 a month and getting a checklist of tasks with no strategy behind them. This article explores why that pattern keeps repeating and what both sides (SEO providers and clients) need to change.