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Notes From the People Who'd Actually Do the Work. Page 10 of 12

Field notes, playbooks, and straight answers from the 11 Marketing + Design team: what's actually moving the needle in search, sites, and ads right now.

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Marketing solutions for a local business
Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Smart Marketing Solutions for Local Businesses

Local marketing works when a handful of pieces reinforce each other: local SEO, a fast responsive site, social presence, email, and reputation. Here's what each one is for and where the trade-offs sit.

Choosing the right SEO agency for a business
Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

How to Choose an SEO Agency

What actually separates a good SEO agency from an expensive one: market knowledge, provable results, plain reporting, and a strategy built for your business rather than a template.

Effectively optimizing a Google Business Profile
Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

How to Optimize Your Google Business Profile Effectively

The gap between a claimed profile and an optimized one is where local leads get won. What optimization actually covers, which tools help, and when hiring it out pays.

A step-by-step SEO guide for local businesses
Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

How to Do SEO: A Step-by-Step Guide for Local Businesses

A working order of operations for SEO on a local business website: research the terms that lead to revenue, fix the pages, earn links, clean up the technical layer, and keep watching the numbers.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

What Makes a Good Website Design?

Good web design is not a matter of taste. It comes down to a set of repeatable principles covering type, scanning patterns, space, color, hierarchy, and structure. Here are fourteen worth knowing.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Will SEO Be Replaced By AI?

AI has already taken over the repetitive parts of SEO and is changing how people search. What that actually removes from the job, what it does not, and where to put your effort.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Which SEO Plugin Is Best for WordPress?

Six WordPress SEO plugins worth considering, what each one is actually good at, and why the plugin you install matters far less than what you do with it.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Where to Put SEO Keywords

Keywords earn their keep in specific places: page content, headings, title tags, alt text, URLs, anchor text, and your Google Business Profile. Here is where each one goes and how much is too much.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Why SEO Matters

SEO earns attention from people already looking for what you sell. Here is how that shows up in revenue, how the cost compares to paid ads, and what SEO will not fix.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Which SEO Techniques Should Be Avoided

Eight SEO tactics that still get sold to small businesses and still get sites penalized, plus what to do instead of each one.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Why Are SEO Audits Important?

An SEO audit tells you which problems are actually costing you traffic and which ones can wait. Here is what a real audit checks and how to turn the findings into a plan.

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Updated 07/25/2026 · By Walter Steelman

Where Is the SEO Title and Meta Description in WordPress?

WordPress does not give you SEO title and meta description fields on its own. Here is where they actually live, plugin by plugin, and how to write ones worth clicking.