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SEO agency red flags with Emina Demiri-Watson

Emina Demiri-Watson joins Jack Chambers-Ward for a confession session on the many sins committed by SEO agencies. If you’ve worked with or are considering hiring an SEO agency, here are some things you’ll want to avoid.

• Overpromising and underdelivering
• Lack of transparency
• How to recognise red flags
• Competition between agencies
• Spreading themselves too thin
• Lack of alignment across teams

Follow Emina:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemiriE
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emina-demiri/
• Website: https://www.vixendigital.com/
• SEOs Getting Coffee: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCZ9vc4nEbzcuLUnuJcC_c_cbcybHDhW4

In this week's episode, Jack Chambers-Ward is joined by Sodiq Ajala, Technical SEO Analyst at Second Eclipse. Sodiq gives his top five recommendations of mistakes that will rule your website out of Google's Knowledge Graph.

1. An incomplete Google Business Profile
2. Thin, poorly-researched content
3. Getting low-quality backlinks
4. Neglecting the technical 'health' of your website
5. Under-utilising Google Search Console information & data

For full links, show notes and transcript visit search.withcandour.co.uk.

What's in this episode?

Mark Williams-Cook will be talking to Andrew Smith about his experiences with companies such as Expedia, CheapFlights and eDreams on big site SEO.

What are the differences between big and small site SEO? What are the specific challenges and how do you approach them? Do big sites have a free pass with Google in 2019?

You can get the full transcription and links for this episode in our show notes at https://search.withcandour.co.uk

Get your ticket for the free live episode of Search With Candour/The SEO Mindset on 19th April in Brighton

This week, ⁠Jack Chambers-Ward⁠ is joined by ⁠John Iwuozor⁠ to discuss how to create content that satisfies Google's E-E-A-T guidelines including:

• Why E-E-A-T matters and the dangers of AI-generated content
• How E-E-A-T promotes high-quality product reviews
• How to improve E-E-A-T SEO

For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.

Sarah and Tazmin from The SEO Mindset podcast join Jack to recap their live podcast from BrightonSEO.

The trio gives some tips and advice about managing your energy levels at conferences and life in general.

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For the full show notes and transcript, go to search.withcandour.co.uk.