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SEO and local search guides

Two core guides on organic search where it is hardest, complex products and multi-location businesses, plus related reading from other topics that an SEO team will also need.

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Two problems that generic SEO advice handles badly.

Complex B2B and SaaS products have small search volumes, long vocabularies and buyers who search by problem rather than product. Multi-location businesses face the opposite issue: plenty of demand, but a temptation to create near-identical pages that neither Google nor a visitor finds useful.

The two guides in this topic take each case in turn. Because search and AI answers now overlap, the related reading below points to the guides in other topics that cover technical access, crawler behaviour and local discovery through AI assistants.

  1. SEO for a complex B2B or SaaS productHow to build search coverage for a product that few people search for by name.
  2. Multi-location local SEO without thin pagesLocation pages that earn their place instead of repeating a template.
  3. What a technical SEO agency does, and how to judge an engagementWhat a technical SEO engagement should include, and how to judge one.
Core guides

Complex products and many locations.

The two situations where standard playbooks produce thin pages and little traffic.

Related reading from other topics

Technical SEO, crawler access and local discovery.

Guides filed under other topics that an SEO team will reach for in the same project.

Related service

When search needs a commercial owner.

If organic search is a channel you want planned and run against enquiries rather than rankings alone, the SEO services page sets out how an engagement is structured and what is reported each month.

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