Write up
Things we’ve noticed

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.

SEO · 3 min read
The death of the keyword and the birth of the claim
The keyword they spent a decade ranking for is no longer the thing Google buys.

SEO · 3 min read
What content decay actually looks like
A page is at its best the day it launches, and it only loses ground from there.

SEO · 4 min read
The AI answer is the new page one
The AI answer is a slot, and most sites are not built to compete for it.
From the studio
What we believe about the web — and why we build the way we do.