We give an insight into how we've grown our agency to 26 staff, the processes we have implemented, and the lessons we've learned along the way. We've tried and tested a lot of digital services and give you honest and reliable feedback on our experiences.
7. The why.
• 5.7 million private businesses
• 99.9% are SME’s
• Employing 60% of all workers
• Earning 52% of total UK turnover
• Spending between £250 and £5000 per month
• Provides a strong financial base
• Creates our own internal testing platform
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14. Work For Spend.
• LessThan £500 Standard Month One.
• £500 - £1000 Month One ProcessWith Audit Fixes Completed
• £1000+ Content Marketing & Outreach Campaigns
• Everyone Gets 1 Content Piece Monthly Minimum
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15. SEO Team Process.
• CentralWIP
• No One Point Of Contact (usually)
• Stopped assigning acc managers as time drain
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16. Welcome Call.
• ConfirmAll NAP Details
• Confirm Seed Keywords
• GetThemTo Set-up Socials
• Trust huge for local algo
• All of our local successful sites have active socials
• Add socials to followlike.net.Organic growth
• AccessTo GMB
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17. Month One.
• Analytics/SC/AA set up. Events, conversion, ecom tracking
• Keyword Research & Mapping
• Budget limits depth
• Small budgets, optimise on the fly
• £1k+ grouping KW’s byAIDA
• Tools
• Ahrefs
• Keywords Everywhere
• AnswerThe Public
• Story Base
• Google Suggest
• Related Searches
• GapAnalysis
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18. Technical Audit.
• AA Audits Powered by SEMrush
• Screaming Frog
• SpreadsheetTrack Fixes
• Get OptimisingThe Easy Stuff
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19. Technical Audit...
• Titles
• Keyword first word | LSI
• URL
• Keyword in URL for RSOS
• AltTags
• Keywords In Content
• Schema
• Review schema for local
• Blog
• Internal Linking
• Small sites, smash links to each and every page
• Larger, map out using sitebulb
• Page Speed
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20. Remember Budgets... More budget, more
flex.
• Other things we could do, all budget dependant
• More content
• More outreach
• More links
• Decisions made about best use of budget each month
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21. Backlink Audit
• GSC, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Majestic
• AnchorText Over Optimisation real.
• Always an issue on sites with previous SEO work.
• Disavow Works EvenWithout Penalty
• Citation Alignment
• This is ongoing every month as part of retainer.
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22. Get Some Quick & Easy Links.
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Citations
• https://www.citationsbuilder.com
• http://localcitationservices.com/
Buy relevant domain to 301
• https://www.spamzilla.io/
• https://www.registercompass.com/
• https://hammerheaddomains.com/
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BuildYourGMB Out
• Geotag 10+ images
• UNIQUE description
• GMB Site
• Add GMB site to citation
listings
• https://massoptimizer.com/
RepairYour Broken Links
IndexYour Links!!
• https://indexinject.com
• http://elitelinkindexer.com
24. Month Two Onwards
– Content + Links.
• Add ATLEAST one content piece
• 500 word blog, share on socials
• Get traffic to it
• https://www.followlike.net/xchange.php?p=surf
• Press Releases – Nix Lee
• https://www.legiit.com/profile/SpinePR
• IFTTT – Fahad
• https://www.legiit.com/profile/geminiguy
• PBNs
• Test services yourself.Very hit and miss
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26. Month Two Onwards
– Content + Links.
Larger budgets, content marketing:
• Identify/create content to use
• Prospect with search operators
• Scrapebox
• Mailshake
• Follow Ups
• Links Links Links
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27. What We’ve Learned Along The Way.
• Budgets don't go far.You have to do the stuff that works. Don't sit for
hours thinking of blog titles.
• Bringing Developers In-house
• No room for sentiment
• Keep hold of your good staff. Do all you can.Too hard and expensive to
replace. Get rid of the crap ones and quick. Poison spreads
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28. What We’ve Learned Along The Way.
• Accountability
• CommunicationVital
• Be careful of rogue staff doing stupid shit like GSA'ing your
own site.
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29. Tips & Tools.
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SendTier 2 GSA links at GP’s &
Citations. Helps keep them
indexed. Do this right away as
takes 3-4 months to yield results
Reviews don’t move the needle,
but still get them forTrust signals
• Google & FB Review Exchange
(UK Only)
• https://www.facebook.com/group
s/126491831343188/Duplicate content works in local
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Communication vitally
important. Doesn’t matter
how good you are at SEO,
clients will leave if you are not
on point with your comms.
Perception is truth until proven
otherwise.
Call your clients every month to
run through the report
• Our client retention rate at 90%
• Always go with solutions to any
problems
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MattTricot
• Domains
• Small PBN
If you buy PBN links and you see
ranking drops, get them removed
ASAP.You won’t rank if you have
toxic PBN’s pointing at your site.
Send PBN’s at your social
props, IFTTT rings
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Don’t sweat the metrics
Links with traffic is bs
Focus on the stuff that works