People overcomplicate SEO.

July 26, 2024
AUTHOR
Matthew Proctor
CEO & Founder

I help tech, B2B, and professional services firms fill their pipeline with qualified leads. I've done search and social media marketing for almost 2 decades — first as a consultant for brands like Tiffany's, Facebook, and McKesson. Then in-house leading Content & SEO at HomeLight and Kickoff.

I’ve been doing this over 15 years — for big brands like Tiffany’s and for startups and scale ups like HomeLight and Kickoff. Don’t make it harder than it already is.

Listen, if you’re new to this:

Avoid:

- chasing broad high search volume keywords.
- reverse engineering Google’s algorithm.
- publishing thousands of pages with ChatGPT.
- getting lost in the weeds on things like sitemaps, page load speeds, schema markup, and other high effort low impact technical site changes.

Instead:

- talk to your customers and figure out what troubles them.
- do keyword research around those topics to see how they search for answers.
- create genuinely helpful resources for them.
- tell other sites about what you’re making and get them to link to your stuff.
- get your reporting right so you can see how your work ties to revenue.

Keep it simple:

1. Talk to your people.
2. Create outstanding stuff they ACTUALLY want.
3. Tell other people about it and get links.
4. Measure and learn what works.
5. Rinse & repeat.

Focus on this for the first year, at least.

Build from there.

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