Write up
Things we’ve noticed

SEO · 3 min read
The rules moved, and most sites are still built for the old ones
A standing checklist for how a page should be built to get found, tested against what search is doing right now, not what was true last year.

SEO · 3 min read
Schema markup is not optional anymore
Google quietly stopped showing most of the visible rewards for structured data, and a lot of smart marketing people read that as the end of the story.

SEO · 3 min read
There is no secret in SEO, and that’s the whole problem
There is no secret in SEO, only the work most sites are unwilling to keep doing.

SEO · 4 min read
Earn the link before you need it
The first thing we tell a client who wants better rankings is that we're not going to chase links.

SEO · 4 min read
What maintaining a national broadcaster taught us about durable URLs
The most expensive SEO decision most sites ever make is the one nobody thinks of as an SEO decision.
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What we believe about the web — and why we build the way we do.