Rethinking SEO as a channel
If we want to succeed with SEO, we must stop treating it like PPC, and start using it to win the hearts and minds of our audiences - before they’re at the point of purchase.
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It’s all just a game, right?
Now, more than ever, we need to consider our role as curators of the web; to balance the short-term demands of our businesses and clients with the integrity and utility of the web-to-come.
“Good content” isn’t enough
We must integrate genuine value, utility, and problem-solving into our content strategies. We must stop trying to find ways to make our 500-word articles seem helpful, and instead ensure that we’re producing content that is inherently helpful by design.
What is a search engine, anyway?
People search, and it’s our job (and unique ability) to shape the experiences they have, wherever that may be.
Everything, and nothing, is a ranking factor
Doing anything that improves how users experience your website makes your website more like the kind of website that Google would want to surface.
Do your Core Web Vitals scores really matter?
Even if it is only a ‘tie-breaker’, speeding up a slow website remains one of the best things that you can do for SEO.
Airport resilience
How resilient is your brand, if you're silently, invisibly, and immeasurably failing your audience? You'll never know, because all you'll see is decreasing reach, increasing costs of acquisition, and your competitors eating your lunch.
SEO is no longer enough
We can choose to stop being a discipline whose job is to produce content, get links, and improve websites. Nobody’s imposed those constraints on us, except for ourselves.