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What Does the Best SEO Firm in Essex Actually Do Each Month?
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Location pages are one of the most abused tactics in local SEO. You have seen them: a page for every town in the county, identical except for the place…
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Structured data has a reputation for being technical and dull, and the second part is fair. But the idea behind it is simple, and for a local business it…
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Ask ten Essex business owners what ChatGPT says about their company and nine will shrug. They have never looked. That is a problem, because customers in…
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Most business websites are written to sound impressive. AI assistants need something different: text they can lift, summarise and repeat without getting it…
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We look at a lot of websites belonging to Essex businesses, from plumbers in Basildon to accountancy firms in Chelmsford and shops in Colchester. The same…
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A slow website is the most boring problem in marketing and one of the most expensive. Nobody writes a complaint about it. The visitor simply taps back and…
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Think about how you search when you are out. You are standing on a street in Harlow or waiting for a train at Brentwood station, and you need a locksmith, a…
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Every few months someone tells us citations are dead. Then we audit a Chelmsford electrician or a Southend dental practice and find three different phone…
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If you are a sparky, plumber, roofer or builder in Essex, you have probably been tempted by the lead-selling sites. You pay for each enquiry, share it with…
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Running an online shop from Essex, whether it is a workshop in Harlow, a studio in Colchester or a warehouse near Basildon, means competing against Amazon,…
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Duplicate content sounds alarming, and a lot of SEO sales patter leans on that. The reality is calmer. Google does not usually punish a small business for…
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Core Web Vitals is one of those phrases that makes business owners glaze over, and understandably. It arrives in an agency report as a column of red and…
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Every few months a message lands in our inbox from an Essex business owner: "Google has changed something and my traffic has dropped." Sometimes they are…
Read moreVoice Search and Local Businesses: Does It Matter in Essex?
Voice search has been "the next big thing" for about a decade. Smart speakers were meant to replace screens, and every conference talk promised a…
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A business with one shop in Billericay and a van that covers half the county has a very different SEO problem from a firm with branches in Chelmsford,…
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"How often should we be posting?" is probably the question we hear most from small business owners who have decided to start a blog. They expect a number:…
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