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8 posts on SEO — practical notes from building modern websites and software for real businesses.

[ 01 ]content-strategy-for-small-businesses-without-a-marketing-team.md
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Content Strategy for Small Businesses Without a Marketing Team

A realistic content strategy for small businesses with no marketing team. Pillar pages, topic clusters, publishing cadence, repurposing, and when to outsource.

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[ 02 ]on-page-seo-checklist-2026-what-still-actually-matters.md
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On-Page SEO Checklist 2026: What Still Actually Matters

An on-page SEO checklist for 2026. Title tags, meta descriptions, headings, internal links, entity coverage, and helpful content updates — what still moves rankings.

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[ 03 ]how-to-do-keyword-research-for-a-service-business-website.md
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How to Do Keyword Research for a Service Business Website (Without Guessing)

A practical keyword research process for service businesses. Search intent, local modifiers, free tools, and competitor gap analysis — without paid software or guesswork.

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[ 04 ]technical-seo-audit-checklist-for-small-business-websites.md
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Technical SEO Audit Checklist for Small Business Websites

A practical technical SEO audit checklist for small business sites. Covers crawlability, indexability, sitemaps, robots.txt, redirects, canonicals, and log file basics.

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[ 05 ]local-seo-for-service-businesses-rank-in-your-service-area.md
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Local SEO for Service Businesses: How to Rank in Your Service Area

A practical local SEO guide for service businesses. Rank in your service area with Google Business Profile, location pages, citations, schema, and reviews.

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[ 06 ]seo-friendly-website-redesign-checklist-for-small-businesses.md
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SEO-Friendly Website Redesign Checklist for Small Businesses

A practical website redesign checklist for small businesses that need a better site without losing rankings, leads, or the pages that already work.

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[ 07 ]core-web-vitals-2026-page-speed-strategies-that-move-rankings.md
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Core Web Vitals in 2026: Page Speed Strategies That Move Rankings

What Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) mean in 2026, why Google uses them as a ranking signal, and the page speed fixes that actually move small business rankings.

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[ 08 ]schema-markup-for-small-business-websites-practical-guide.md
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Schema Markup for Small Business Websites: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to schema markup for small business websites. Which schema types matter most, how to implement structured data, and how to test it.

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