AuthorCharles

Charles has been working on the web for 20 years, building and promoting websites in New Zealand, Australia, the US and China.

The AI Content Reckoning

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The following screenshot from Google Search Console shows how a site built entirely on AI content grew steadily for three months this year, from around 300 clicks/day in late May to more than 1,700 clicks/day by early August. This could only be seen as a huge success…until it wasn’t. Within the span of a few days, both clicks and impressions collapsed to almost nothing. The drop occurred...

How to Calculate SEO ROI

If you run paid search, ROI is straightforward. You spend $1,000, you track the clicks, you count the conversions. Done. SEO doesn’t work that way. Results build over time. Multiple channels share credit for the same sale. Your analytics platform makes assumptions you may not even know about. And the agency report you received probably just divided total organic revenue by the project cost...

A Guide to hreflang

This guide is for anyone who runs an international website with versions of the site available for specific markets or in different languages, or both! For example, you might have a version of the site for the New Zealand market and additional versions for Australia, the UK and Canada. For Canada you might also have versions in English and French. In this guide we will explain why and how to use...

How Does Google Crawl and Index Pages?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is really an umbrella term which encompasses a wide range of activities including front end design and coding (UX and performance), backend optimization (crawl optimization and performance), content strategy and optimization, digital PR and promotion.

Are you ready for the Big Core Web Vitals Update?

UPDATE: Google have announced that Core Web Vitals will be included in the ranking algorithm from May 2021. Now’s the time to start working on the user experience of your website. Website performance has always been important. User experience advocates and SEO’s have been banging on about page load times and the impact on bounce rate, engagement and rankings for ages. Other user...

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Paul - (027) 513 6134
Charles - (021) 807 829


Paul - (027) 513 6134
Charles - (021) 807 829