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Learn SEO in five clear series.

Each series builds step by step, but every lesson also works on its own. Start wherever your site needs it most.

SEO for Beginners

New to SEO? Start here. This series explains how Google finds, understands and ranks pages, in plain language, then walks you through the first checks to run on your own site. One small step per lesson, no jargon for its own sake.

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On-Page SEO

Titles, descriptions, headings, content, URLs, images and links: the parts of a page you control completely. Nine short lessons, one example business, and a checklist for any page.

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Keywords & Content

Search intent, keyword research and content that answers the search: how to choose what a page is about before you write it.

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Technical SEO

Crawling, indexing, sitemaps and site structure: how search engines find your pages, read them and decide what to keep.

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SEO Audit Playbook

A step-by-step SEO audit in 6 short lessons, with a free workbook. Each lesson has a 30-minute "must do" part, so you always know where to start.

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TECHNICAL SEO · 11Tell Google what your page means, not just what it says.

Structured data for small businesses: what's worth adding

Structured data tells Google, in a language it can't misread, which number is your phone number and which hours are your opening hours. Learn which types a small business needs, and follow Blue Cove Kayaks as it adds its first markup without writing code.

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TECHNICAL SEO · 10Stop the visit, or stop the save? Pick the right tool.

Noindex or robots.txt? How to keep a page out of Google

Robots.txt stops Google visiting a page. Noindex stops Google saving it. Mix them up and the page stays in Google. Follow Blue Cove Kayaks as it keeps four different pages out of search, each the right way.

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TECHNICAL SEO · 09One small file decides where Google is allowed to go.

Robots.txt explained: what to block, and what never to block Robots.txt explained: what to block, and what never to block

One line in robots.txt can hide a whole website from Google. Learn how the file works, what's worth blocking, what you should never block, and follow Blue Cove Kayaks as it fixes a rule that blocked every tour page.

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The On-Page SEO Guide

The whole series in one place, with checklists you can run on any page of your site.

  • Title tag and meta description templates
  • A heading structure checklist
  • An internal linking plan you can reuse

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I work on the technical side of SEO: fixing crawl issues, restructuring sites and helping pages get found. SEO Expert Tips is where I break that work down into small, practical steps anyone can follow.

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