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A handful of essays each year. We write when there's something worth saying and stay quiet the rest of the time.

Technical · Mar 2026 · 12 min

What we actually check in a Core Web Vitals audit (and what we ignore)

A walkthrough of our internal checklist, including the metrics we no longer chase since the INP rollout in 2024 and how we think about field vs lab data.

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Local · Feb 2026 · 8 min

Bing Places, quietly: why Pacific Northwest businesses should not skip it in 2026

About 11% of our coastal clients' search traffic now arrives via Bing or Bing-powered surfaces. Here's how we get them indexed properly and verified inside Microsoft's webmaster tools.

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Editorial · Jan 2026 · 15 min

Why we still write briefs by hand, in an industry rushing to automate everything

The case for slow content — and what we've learned about quality signals after eight years of editorial work in competitive niches.

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Local · Nov 2025 · 9 min

The service-area page architecture we recommend for multi-location small businesses

How to build pages that rank for "[service] in [city]" queries without falling into doorway-page territory.

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Technical · Oct 2025 · 11 min

JavaScript SEO without the drama: a framework-agnostic checklist

Render parity, hydration timing, soft-404 traps, and the seven things we always test before a JS-heavy site launches.

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Strategy · Aug 2025 · 7 min

Three kinds of SEO clients who shouldn't hire us (and who to call instead)

Sometimes the best advice we can give on a discovery call is "you should be talking to someone else." Here's who and why.

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Full essays publish through 2026. To be notified when new pieces go live, write us at help@top10seocompanylist.com.