SEO Advice.

General advice about WordPress SEO and things you can do to improve the overall SEO of your SME website and win more new business from search.

What is WordPress SEO and why is it different to other types of SEO?

Optimising WordPress for SEO is not the same as doing it on other sites: if you approach it this way, your SEO efforts can fail.

Here’s why it’s best to write as a person, not a brand, for SEO.

Why write like a faceless brand when you are a one-man-band or just a small team: write like yourself.

Are you paying for failing SEO that’s dressed up as success?

Are your SEO reports any good? There are many ways data can be manipulated to turn failure into success.

Are you looking for advice about WordPress SEO?

Doing the SEO on a WordPress site can be a tricky task. You can read many blogs on the subject, but does that make you an SEO expert?

These articles are designed to help you with the basics of SEO work on your WP site; they contain simple, actionable tips that most WordPress site owners can do themselves to save SEO budget.

SEO tip: An important fact about SEO that you should be aware of before you do any SEO on your website is that six months of bad SEO can take at least 12 months to rectify.

With the above in mind, it’s crucial to approach SEO cautiously and use these SEO advice articles to improve your technical and on-page SEO before you dive into off-page SEO, as this is where the most damage can be done.

Need help with what you read here?

If you need any help with your SEO, get in touch. I am happy to help with off-page SEO and content production basics.

I often find that small business owners are very busy, so they attempt to improve their sites’ SEO quickly as they don’t have time to spend hours on it.

This often leads to SEO errors that harm their websites, so while I provide these articles to help with DIY SEO, I suggest getting in touch to discuss paid options.

You know what it’s like – you can paint your living room yourself and do an OK, albeit a little messy, but if you pay a professional to do the job, it will be perfect.

I can work on your site for as much as your budget allows, and I am also happy to work in an SEO consultancy role, where I lay out the plan of action for your site, and you then take my advice and go away and implement it.