25 August 2025/
I used to see it over and over. A company would come to the agency I worked at, often months...
Search Insights
Thoughts on SEO, digital strategy, and the machines shaping our online world
Welcome to the Search Insights hub - a space for deep thinking across SEO, PPC, Analytics, and the evolving mechanics of our search landscape.
Here you’ll find practical strategies that work right now – from organic SEO wins and PPC performance tactics, to deeper dives into analytics, tracking, and the role AI plays in shaping the digital landscape. Behind it all is the philosophy of Machine Experience (MX) – my unique approach to distributing authority and building visibility through intelligent site structures that search engines love to reward.
Whether you’re optimising for today or planning for what’s next, these insights are designed to keep you ahead – grounded in what works, and informed by what’s coming.
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2 August 2025/
Google has quietly rolled out a new search feature in the UK: AI Mode. It appears as a tab to...
28 July 2025/
The AI era hasn’t just arrived – it’s already gutted the top of the funnel. AI Mode. Gemini. Perplexity. ChatGPT...
21 July 2025/
Everyone’s talking about how AI is changing search, but what most people haven’t clocked is that GPT doesn’t replace traditional...
16 July 2025/
For over a decade, SEO has revolved around two mantras: ‘Build great content’ and ‘optimise for the user’. Post-Panda, thin...
8 July 2025/
Sovereign SEO is a strategy of control. It’s about building systems that allocate authority like capital, protect upside, and compound...
12 June 2025/
Every few years, someone declares SEO dead. It’s a familiar pattern by now: new technology emerges, fear kicks in, and...
19 May 2025/
On April 15th 2025 Google announced (in a recent blog post on Google’s official blog, “The Keyword,” – https://blog.google/products/search/country-code-top-level-domains) that...
5 August 2024/
Machine Experience (MX) is becoming increasingly relevant to how Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns operate, particularly since the advent of dynamic ad...
