How an SEO company works, one slide at a time

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1. Qualify the Term Before Assigning Any Tactic
2. Is the Authority Gap Too Big to Close Now?
3. Build a Cluster Around the Head Term
4. Close the Depth Gap Without Chasing Word Count
5. Earn Links at a Steady Pace for Months
6. Win the Variants First

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1. Parity: The Mobile Version Is What Google Indexes
2. Responsive Layout and the Viewport Tag
3. Mobile Speed Against Google's Thresholds
4. Intrusive Pop-Ups and Dialogs
5. Tap Targets
6. Test on Physical Phones and More Than One Browser

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1. Who Does What: The SEO Company, Your Team and Your Writers
2. Choosing Topics From Search Demand and Gap Data
3. The Brief: What Your Writer Receives
4. Packaging a Page for Search and AI Summaries
5. What the Data Says About AI in Content Production
6. Reading the 90-Day Review Correctly

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1. The Default Order, and What Changes It
2. Technical Fixes Come First When They Block Indexing
3. Content Built From a Keyword and Intent Map
4. Authority From Links and Mentions
5. On-Page Signals: Early Basics, Later Refinement
6. How AI Overviews Change Keyword Choice

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1. The Checklist
2. Technical Audit
3. Keyword Research and Mapping
4. On-Page and Content Work
5. Link Building You Can Inspect
6. Local SEO and Google Business Profile

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1. Before Anything Else: Is There a Manual Action?
2. Step 1: Date the Drop and Measure Its Shape
3. Step 2: Rule Out a Reporting Glitch or Seasonal Demand
4. Step 3: Match the Date Against Confirmed Updates
5. Step 4: Look for Technical Regressions
6. Step 5: Compare the Pages With What Ranks Now

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1. What the Deliverable Should Look Like
2. Step 1: Pull the Raw Data and Expect a Long Tail
3. Step 2: Add the Terms Competitors Rank For
4. Step 3: Tag Each Term by Intent
5. Step 4: Filter by What This Site Can Rank For
6. Step 5: Add Seasonal Timing

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1. Comparing the Models
2. Monthly Retainers
3. Project Fees
4. Hourly Rates
5. Performance, Value-Based and Hybrid Pricing
6. Why Quotes for the Same Work Differ

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1. Where to Start: Read the Page Indexing Report
2. When Google Crawls a Page but Does Not Index It
3. Robots.txt Controls Crawling, Not Indexing
4. Does Your Site Need Crawl Budget Work?
5. XML Sitemaps: A List of Pages You Want Indexed
6. Canonical Tags and Duplicate URLs

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1. Step 1: Inventory the Site Before Any Redesign
2. Step 2: Find the Pages Nothing Links To
3. Step 3: Rebuild Internal Links Around Hub Pages
4. Step 4: Decide Which Pages Belong in the Same Silo
5. Step 5: Align URLs and Breadcrumbs With the Hierarchy
6. Pagination and Filters Without Competing Pages

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1. Industries and the Rule a Specialist Should Name
2. Healthcare
3. Legal Services
4. Financial Services
5. Education
6. Licensed Trades

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1. Confirm the Update on Google's Own Dashboard
2. Let the Rollout Finish Before Judging
3. Segment What Moved
4. Respond by Update Type
5. What Strong Fundamentals Do, and Their Limit
6. What a Client Should Receive After a Confirmed Update

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1. Which Traffic? Segment Demand by Intent First
2. Map Demand Before Producing Anything
3. How Earlier Work Keeps Paying Off
4. Is Organic Traffic Still Growing in Your Industry?
5. Expanding Into Adjacent Segments
6. Read Click Data Before Expanding

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1. What Page Experience Does and Does Not Do for Rankings
2. Step 1: Start From Field Data
3. Step 2: Fix the Templates That Carry the Most Traffic
4. Step 3: Fix LCP Part by Part
5. Step 4: Fix INP and CLS
6. Navigation People and Crawlers Can Follow

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1. Pick Markets From Your Own Data
2. Choose a URL Structure
3. Implement Hreflang Correctly
4. Send Location Signals That Agree
5. Rebuild Keyword Research and Content for Each Market
6. Earn Links in Each Country

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1. The Seven Flags and How to Test Each One
2. Why a Ranking Guarantee Fails the Test
3. Why Vague Link Answers Matter
4. Reporting and Secrecy
5. How Low Is Too Low?
6. Quotes Without an Audit, and No Technical Work

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1. The Industry Table
2. What the Top of the Table Has in Common
3. Why a Lower Percentage Can Still Be a Good Buy
4. E-commerce and the 317% Figure
5. Local Service Businesses
6. B2B SaaS

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1. Start With One Business Goal
2. Set Targets Before Work Starts
3. Visibility Comes First
4. Key Events and Leads, Not Sessions
5. How to Calculate Return
6. Benchmark Against Competitors

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1. What Do Domain Authority Scores Measure?
2. How Closely Do These Scores Track Rankings?
3. What an Agency Does to Raise Authority
4. Do Trust Signals on the Site Raise the Score?
5. Should a DR Target Go in the Contract?
6. How to Judge a Proposal That Leads With DR

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1. The Six Tactics at a Glance
2. Digital PR and Source Requests
3. Is Guest Posting Still Allowed?
4. Broken Links and Unlinked Mentions
5. Prospecting From Competitors' Backlinks
6. What a Healthy Link Profile Looks Like

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1. Before You Ask: Do You Need an Ongoing Agency?
2. 1. Can You Show Proof of Results in My Industry?
3. 2. How Will You Report, and Will I Get Direct Access to the Data?
4. 3. What Links Do You Build, and Where Do They Come From?
5. 4. Can You Walk Me Through a Problem You Diagnosed and Fixed?
6. 5. Which Tools Do You Use, and How Do You Respond to Algorithm Updates?

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1. What the Agency Needs Before It Starts
2. Pass 1: Crawling and Indexing Blockers
3. Pass 2: Server Responses and Crawl Behavior
4. Pass 3: Speed and Core Web Vitals
5. Pass 4: Site Architecture
6. Pass 5: Mobile Usability and HTTPS

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1. Search Intent It Has Already Mapped
2. Failure Modes It Has Already Fixed
3. A Conversion Event That Matches How You Make Money
4. Directories and Review Platforms That Count in Your Category
5. Do Industry ROI Figures Prove Specialists Earn More?
6. Do You Need a Specialist?

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1. Which Pages Get Worked On First
2. Title Tags: What Google Uses and When It Rewrites
3. Meta Descriptions: A Suggestion Google May Replace
4. Headings: One Clear Hierarchy
5. Structured Data: What It Can and Cannot Earn
6. Images: File Names and Alt Text

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1. Map the Whole Cluster Before Writing
2. Choose a Publishing Pace You Can Keep
3. Refresh on a Rule
4. Prune and Consolidate
5. Match the Format to the Intent
6. Balance Informational and Commercial Pages

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1. Technical Specialists, Not Only Account Managers
2. Strategy That Has Changed Since AI Overviews
3. Reports That Count Leads or Revenue
4. Content That Is Not Interchangeable
5. Knowing Who Does the Work
6. How They Respond When Rankings Drop

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1. Five Traits and the Evidence for Each
2. Trust Checks for a Competitive Market
3. How to Verify Before You Sign
4. Communication Once the Work Starts
5. Score the Finalists on Evidence

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1. Which Pages to Optimize First
2. Match the Intent and Format Already Ranking
3. Put a Direct Answer Under Each Heading
4. Readability Without Losing Substance
5. First-Hand Detail and Cited Sources
6. Keep Pages Current

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1. What Does a Small-Business Budget Buy?
2. What to Deprioritize at This Budget
3. Contract and Ownership Terms That Protect a Small Business
4. Why Local Search Weighs More for a Business That Serves One Area
5. A Short Vetting Process for Limited Time
6. How Long Before You Judge the Agency

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1. What the Monthly Report Should Contain
2. Search Console Belongs Next to Google Analytics
3. Conversions, Links and the Technical Log
4. How Return Should Be Shown
5. Reporting Cadence
6. Who Keeps the Data When the Contract Ends

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1. Who Should Own the Business Profile
2. The Profile Work Itself
3. Listings That Match Everywhere
4. Proximity and "Near Me" Searches
5. Reviews: Requests, Responses and Google's Rules
6. Location Pages That Stand on Their Own

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1. Start From Search Competitors
2. Map the Keyword Gaps
3. Build the Outreach List From Backlink Gaps
4. Audit the Pages That Rank
5. Check Technical Performance and Devices
6. Track Competitors Over Time

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1. The Stack and What Each Tool Costs
2. What Does Search Console Show That Paid Tools Cannot?
3. Which Paid Suite Does a Small Client Need?
4. When Does a Dedicated Crawler or Rank Tracker Pay Off?
5. Does an Agency Need Both Ahrefs and Majestic?
6. What Behavior and Content Tools Add

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1. Why a Ranking Is Half the Answer
2. Step 1: Find Where Visitors Drop Off
3. Step 2: Match the Offer to the Searcher's Stage
4. Step 3: Test One Change at a Time
5. Step 4: Shorten Forms Without Losing Lead Quality
6. Step 5: Speed Up the Pages That Convert

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1. Step 1: Check the Manual Actions Report
2. Step 2: Match the Drop Date Against Confirmed Updates
3. Step 3: Audit the Link Profile Before Any Disavow
4. Building and Uploading a Disavow File
5. Filing a Reconsideration Request
6. How Long Penalty Recovery Takes

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1. Step 1: Start From the Business Outcome
2. Step 2: Audit the Site and Record the Baseline
3. Step 3: Rank the Work by Impact and Effort
4. Step 4: Place the Work in Phases
5. Step 5: Fit the Plan to the Budget
6. Tracking Progress Against the Plan

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1. What Counts as a "Result" at Each Stage?
2. What Does the Ranking-Age Data Show?
3. Is There a "Google Sandbox" Holding New Sites Back?
4. What Puts Your Site at the Short or Long End?
5. Two Checkpoints to Write Into the Plan
6. Do You Need Paid Search While SEO Builds?

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1. First-Year Cost: One Hire Versus a Retainer
2. What a Retainer Buys That One Hire Cannot
3. Ramp-Up on Both Sides
4. Keeping Up With Google's Changes
5. When In-House Is the Better Choice
6. Flexibility and Exit Terms

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1. Rankings and Visibility
2. Organic Traffic
3. Click-Through Rate by Position
4. Organic Conversions and Leads
5. Organic Revenue and Return
6. Engagement Rate and Bounce Rate