Google’s June 2025 Core Update: What It Means for Your Website (and What to Do Next)

Google June 2025 core update

Google rolled out its June 2025 core update yesterday, the second of the year, and the SEO community is, as usual, running around wondering what’s going to happen this time. What Actually is a Google Core Update? While Google tweaks its algorithm constantly, core updates are the big ones! These are the updates that can … Read more

Google I/O 2025: What New AI Means for SEO, Digital Marketing, and Business

Google I/O 2025 - Meet AI Mode. One for the SEO gang.

Google I/O 2025 was wild. I normally report on the Google I/O annual developer conference but was a bit busy this week to even watch live. However, my friends updated me on the key aspects of the event and I’ve been able to catch up with the aftermath. This year, it seems like this was … Read more

AI Overviews Ate My Clicks

Google AI Overviews ate my clicks

This was such a timely report. I was only last week (Tuesday) expressing my scepticism with an old-fashioned approach to SEO, and the fact that professionals haven’t been guaranteeing clicks for a very long time. Part of my reasoning was the zero-click results from featured snippets and now the new Google AI Overviews. When I … Read more

How to Get Started in Digital Marketing

Getting Started in Digital Marketing

TL;DR Start with a Project: The best way to learn digital marketing is by applying your knowledge to a real project—ideally, a personal website or blog based on your interests or business idea. This hands-on approach helps embed your skills beyond theory. Build Your Website: Secure a domain, hosting, and set up your site (WordPress … Read more

Practical E-E-A-T for SEO and Digital Marketing

Practical E-E-A-T

The acronym E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It’s Google’s framework for evaluating the quality of a website’s content, and Google uses teams of people around the world as “Quality Raters”. Practical E-E-A-T is my way of helping you put it into practice. So E-E-A-T is the backbone of any manual analysis of … Read more

Tactical vs Strategic Digital Marketing: Why You Need Both (But Strategy Comes First)

Marketing strategy vs tactics, and their essential relationship

In digital marketing it’s easy to get involved in the latest trends and manifest these as marketing tactics. New concepts, platforms and algorithm updates do indeed surface fresh opportunities for your business and your website to innovate and grow. But before you jump on the bandwagon with the latest digital trends you need to contemplate the … Read more