SEO

Getting you found in search

We’re known as SEO experts. With over 10,000 marketers following our newsletter and podcast, you‘re in safe hands. If you want to invest in effective, long-term SEO, that builds equity, then we've got the people, processes, tools and track record to make it happen.

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Onboarding

For SEO to get ‘real’ results, we need to understand your business. This means knowing how you make money, learning about your team, and want to you want to be known for.

Auditing

Whether it’s technical, content, links, or competitors, we can provide you with a comprehensive, contextualised, and prioritised overview of where you are.

Strategy

Once we know where you are, where you want to be, and put that in context to everything to know about your business and resources, we can map out the path to success together.

Delivery

You can rest assured that all work at Candour is done in-house and we've got a team made up of industry veterans, many with over a decade's experience getting results.

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Our SEO process

for monthly SEO retainers

1

Onboarding
  • Business fundamentals

  • Brand, mission, values, USPs

  • Tone of voice

  • Competitors

  • In-house capabilities

2

Auditing
  • Technical audit

  • Content performance review

  • Link analysis

  • Competitor benchmarking

  • Analytics review

3

Strategy
  • Business targets

  • SEO position review

  • Strategic statement

  • Task prioritisation

  • Delivery resource planning

4

Delivery
  • Technical SEO support

  • Keyword research

  • Content planning

  • Digital PR

  • Account management & reporting

SEO engagements

  • Building long-term success

    Almost all of our clients work with us monthly to generate more business through search and do ‘the next right thing’ for their organisation. In some cases this will mean integrating with your existing strategy and team, helping you prepare for stakeholder meetings and providing analysis, in other cases we’ll be managing everything from the initial audits, all the way through to content briefs and digital PR campaigns.

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  • Moving safely

    With a team that has completed hundreds of successful migration projects, we can hold your hand all the way from identifying and quantifying migration risk to giving you processes to re-platform and migrate millions of URLs in a scalable and reliable way. Whether it's a redesign, a move, or M&A, we've been there and can help.

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  • Turning the ship around

    If you’ve been hit by a Google penalty, or if your website is not thriving since a core update, we can help you analyse what has happened and formulate a strategy to start moving you back in the right direction.

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  • Learn from the experts

    Understanding what you want to rank for, what is feasible, where the gaps exist, what still needs to be created, deleted, moved and of course, which page should be ranking underpins a lot of work in the search space. We can help give you a plan that covers everything from cannibalisation to clustering.

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  • Expert assessments and analysis

    On a standalone basis, Candour can offer SEO Performance Audits which cover all areas, or help you get into the long grass with specialised technical, content, link or competitor audits.

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About us

A not award-winning agency

Candour is a digital agency which places results for our clients over plaudits for us. We will work with you as transparent, frank partners. Our approach embraces feedback and open conversation as a foundation for brilliant work.

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