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Guides and explainers on web development, custom software, hosting, SEO, IT support, security, integrations, cloud, data and AI, each checked against the sources it lists.

SEO15 min read

AI Overviews in Google Search: how they choose sources and how to appear

AI Overviews and AI Mode link indexed pages that can show a snippet. How Google picks those sources, and the controls that decide whether your pages appear.

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SEO17 min read

How to improve SEO: a process to audit, prioritize, fix and measure

Improve SEO as a loop: record a baseline in Search Console, audit the site, rank fixes by impact and effort, fix templates, then measure over weeks.

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SEO17 min read

How to do link building for SEO: tactics and outreach within Google's rules

Link building for SEO: earn links with assets worth citing, digital PR and personal outreach, within Google's spam policies, and measure them in Search Console.

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SEO22 min read

Google AI Overviews and your traffic: how to measure the impact

AI Overviews and AI Mode cut clicks on many informational searches; measure the impact on your site with Search Console, GA4 and matched date ranges.

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SEO16 min read

Quality backlinks in SEO: what makes a link valuable, and what is spam

A quality backlink is an editorial link from a relevant site people trust. What Google counts, what its link spam policy bans, and when to disavow.

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SEO16 min read

What are backlinks in SEO? How Google reads links, anchor text and nofollow

A backlink is a link from another site to yours. How Google uses backlinks, what anchor text tells it, and how it treats nofollow, sponsored and ugc links.

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SEO14 min read

How Google determines if a website is relevant and authoritative

Google publishes no authority score. It judges each page's relevance and trust from many signals; DA, DR and Authority Score are vendors' link estimates.

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SEO16 min read

Untapped SEO opportunities: how to find them in your own data

Find untapped SEO opportunities in Search Console: low-CTR queries, pages just off page one, unanswered questions, internal links, video and images.

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SEO18 min read

How the Google search engine works: crawling, indexing and ranking

Google Search works in three stages: Googlebot crawls pages, Google indexes them under one canonical URL, and ranking systems serve the best matches.

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