When I sit down with SME owners or corporate marketing managers, TikTok usually gets a laugh: “Isn’t that just dancing and lip-syncs?” But within minutes, those same people realise it’s where their competitors are already attracting customers, shaping reputation, and showing up in search. TikTok isn’t just another social app. It’s now a discovery engine,
I’ve sat with business owners in Bournemouth cafés, SME teams in Poole boardrooms, and corporate managers in London offices, and this question always comes up: “Our site is fast, but Google still isn’t indexing our content. Why?” It’s a frustration I hear a lot. You’ve invested in web design, streamlined your code, compressed your images,
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A Dorset client pulled me aside not long ago and asked, “Why does Copilot keep recommending my competitor when I outrank them on Google?” I knew exactly what they meant — and I also knew the answer wasn’t simple. We’re in a different game now. Ranking first on Google doesn’t guarantee you’ll show up in
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SEO has always been about chasing visibility. But in 2026, visibility looks nothing like it did a decade ago. Winning one organic spot isn’t enough anymore, not when AI Overviews, People Also Ask boxes, video carousels, and local packs are crowding out clicks before a user ever sees your link. For agencies, the question isn’t
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I’ll let you in on a trade secret. The most profitable keyword list I ever found for a Bournemouth client didn’t come from SEMrush or Ahrefs. It came from their server logs. Buried in those endless lines of code were the queries and crawl patterns Googlebot cared about — and the customers were hinting at.
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Stop Posting. Start Building. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most brands are stuck in what I call the “content treadmill.” They churn out posts, chase likes, and hope something sticks. It’s exhausting, and it doesn’t scale. I’ve sat in too many marketing meetings where the question is, “What do we post this week?” That question is
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A few months back, I was in a Poole café with an understandably grumpy business owner. Rankings looked lovely, impressions were up, but the phone felt quieter than it should. I pulled up their top landing pages and asked a simple question: “If I search this query, is this the page I actually wanted?” Ten
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Last summer a Bournemouth business owner said to me, “We’re ready to push £8,000 into LinkedIn ads.” Their diary was quiet. The offer wasn’t tested. We paused the spend and ran what I call a Social Lab for two weeks. By day ten they had a sharper hook, two objections neutralised, and three warm calls
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A Bournemouth-based SME rang me not long ago and said, “Maria, we’ve done the ads, we’ve written the blogs, but nothing really sticks.” So I asked them a simple question: “What happens after someone clicks?” The silence on the other end told me everything. We love to obsess about the shiny front end of digital
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Are Keywords Losing Their Crown? For decades, keywords were SEO’s compass. Agencies invested considerable time in keyword research, focusing on search volume, difficulty scores, and SERP rankings. But in 2025, the game has changed. With Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and other AI-driven platforms, search isn’t about exact phrases anymore; it’s about understanding intent. Instead of
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