Insights Guides
Evergreen guides on Google Ads, Local SEO and landing pages, written for UK business owners rather than agencies: where budgets leak, what actually moves results, and how to decide where your next pound goes. No jargon, no filler.
Six recurring self-inflicted wounds: unsupervised broad match, broken tracking, homepage landing pages, stale budgets, click-based judgement and weak pages. And the order to fix them in.
Size the budget from your own economics, not a round number: customer value, affordable cost per lead, realistic conversion rates and enough data to learn.
The map pack is the modern shop window. The four levers that actually move local rankings, why the work compounds while ads stop, and a realistic first 90 days.
Websites fail silently. Six common leaks, from slow load to missing proof, structured as a self-audit you can run on your own site in under an hour.
A website is a conversion asset, not a brochure. What a professional build changes, when DIY builders are honestly fine, and six questions to ask before hiring.
PPC buys demand today and data in weeks; SEO builds an asset over quarters. Cash, margin, urgency and search behaviour decide which gets your next pound.
One budget, three options. Why sequence beats splitting: fix the site that converts first, buy measurable traffic, then compound with SEO. Plus the exceptions.
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Twenty-five yes-or-no checks across tracking, structure, search terms, bidding and landing pages, written for business owners rather than agencies. Work through it and you will know whether your account is leaking before anyone tries to sell you anything.