What it is

The explanation

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization: the work that makes your pages appear when somebody searches for what you offer. It breaks into three parts. Technical: can a search engine read your site, is it fast, are the titles and structure right. Content: does a page exist that answers what somebody typed. And authority: do other sites link to you.

It is not a button and not a one-off job. It is a property of how the site is built and what is on it.

Why it might matter to you

4 points
  • The difference almost never lies in tricks, but in whether a page exists at all for what people search. One page listing every service ranks for none of them.
  • It takes months, not weeks. A new page needs three to six months before it is clear whether it works.
  • Technical SEO is a one-off investment that keeps working; content is ongoing work.
  • Anybody promising you the top spot next month is selling something other than SEO.

How we handle it

In practice

This site has a separate page for every service, every trade and every decision, because that is how people search. It is also why there are more than a hundred pages rather than ten: not to impress Google with volume, but because a webshop for wholesalers and a website for roofers are two different questions deserving two different answers.

Related terms

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Sitemap

A sitemap is the list of every page you want indexed. Why it exists and why it is so often wrong.

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Hreflang

Hreflang tells Google which language version belongs to which visitor. Without it your own pages compete with each other.

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Core Web Vitals

The three numbers Google uses to measure how your site feels: loading, responsiveness, and whether the page stays still while it loads.

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