Blogging for Small Business: Topics, Frequency and Mistakes
A small business blog works when each post answers one real customer question with your own experience. How to find topics, how…
4 min read
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Tarek Zaman
Manager at SEOs Hut
Tarek Zaman is the Manager at SEOs Hut. He oversees delivery across the team's SEO and web design projects and reviews most articles before they are published, checking that every claim is accurate, current and useful for local business owners.
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How to Check Your Website Keyword Rankings (Free)
The free way to see which keywords your website ranks for, how to check one keyword live, and why every tool shows a different…
3 min read
How to Check If a Page Is Indexed by Google
The fastest accurate way to check if Google indexed a page is the URL Inspection tool in Search Console. Four free methods, and…
4 min read
URL Length and SEO: Does URL Length Affect Rankings?
Google's URL guidance sets no ideal character count and does not treat URL length as a ranking factor. It asks for simple,…
15 min read
SEO-Friendly URLs: Best Practices and Examples
An SEO-friendly URL uses readable words to describe the page, separates them with hyphens, keeps one consistent letter case and…
18 min read
Robots.txt Best Practices: 10 Rules for SEO
Use robots.txt to manage which URLs crawlers can request, not to keep pages out of Google. Google says robots.txt is mainly for…
14 min read
HTTPS and SEO: Is HTTPS a Google Ranking Factor?
Yes, HTTPS is a Google ranking signal, but a lightweight one. Google announced it on 7 August 2014, saying it affected fewer than…
16 min read
What Is Crawl Budget? How It Works and When It Matters
Crawl budget is the set of URLs Google can and wants to crawl on your site, set by your server's capacity and Google's demand.…
16 min read
Best Website Builder for Small Business: 10 Options Compared
For most small businesses, Wix or Squarespace is the easiest builder, WordPress is the most flexible, and Webflow suits…
19 min read
Weebly vs Wix: Which Website Builder Is Better?
Wix is the better choice for most people: it has more templates, a wider app market and more plan options than Weebly. Weebly is…
15 min read
Content Mapping: How to Build a Content Map Step by Step
Content mapping is planning which piece of content serves which audience, question and buying stage, then giving each one a…
15 min read
How to Find the Sitemap of a Website (5 Steps + Free Finder)
Open thesite.com/robots.txt and look for the "Sitemap:" line, then try /sitemap.xml. Five steps that find any website's sitemap,…
11 min read
How to Choose a Web Design Company: 9 Steps
To choose a web design company, define what you need, shortlist agencies with relevant portfolios, check their live work and…
12 min read
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Build It
Responsive web design (RWD) builds one site that adapts to any screen size using fluid grids, flexible images and CSS media…
15 min read
Web Design Color Theory: Color Wheel, Schemes and Contrast
Colour theory in web design is the set of rules for combining colours: the colour wheel, harmonies such as complementary and…
18 min read
Squarespace vs WordPress: Which Is Better for Your Site?
Choose Squarespace for a polished, all-in-one site with little upkeep; choose WordPress for flexibility if you can manage…
13 min read
How Much Does Website Design Cost? What Drives the Price
Website design costs vary widely, because the price depends on who builds the site, how custom it is, how many pages and features…
14 min read
Google Business Profile Optimization: 12 Fields, Done in Order
How to optimize a Google Business Profile field by field: the six fields that get you shown, the six that get you chosen, every…
23 min read
Is Local SEO Dead? No, but It Has Changed
No, local SEO is not dead, but it now covers your Google Business Profile, reviews, consistent listings and clear pages. Google…
13 min read
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Website?
A small business website can cost a few dollars a month on a builder or thousands of dollars for a custom build. The main costs…
12 min read
Content Marketing for Small Business: A 9-Step Guide
Content marketing for a small business means publishing genuinely useful content for your customers, such as guides, case studies…
14 min read
Local SEO for Multiple Locations: How to Do It Right
Local SEO for multiple locations means giving each real location its own Google Business Profile and its own useful page on one…
13 min read
Local SEO Keyword Research: A Step-by-Step Guide
Local SEO keyword research means finding the words people use to look for your service near them, then matching each term to a…
14 min read
Local SEO for Small Business: A Practical Guide
Local SEO for a small business means making it easy for Google and nearby customers to find, trust and contact you. Google says…
13 min read
Local SEO Citations: What They Are and How to Build Them
A local SEO citation is any mention of your business name, address and phone number on another website. Here is what the data…
16 min read
Local SEO Guide: How to Get Found in Local Search
Local SEO is the work of helping your business appear in Google Maps and local search results when people look for what you offer…
29 min read
How Long Does It Take to Rank on Google? Four Clocks, Real Data
Most pages never reach Google's top 10, and the ones that do often get there within a month: Ahrefs' 2025 numbers, Semrush's…
17 min read
What Does a Technical SEO Consultant Do? 9 Key Roles
A technical SEO consultant finds and fixes the site-level problems that stop search engines from crawling, rendering and indexing…
15 min read