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With over 5.2 billion internet users reported in 2021 alone, the online marketplace is unavoidable, as is the need to market effectively to buyers there. Users are constantly browsing the web to find solutions to their problems, needs and challenges; and have innumerable solutions in the form of products and services to choose from. Every business is fighting to be seen by their target customers and, as there are now over 2 billion websites online, the competition to win greater amounts of that digital business is fierce.

In the world of SEO, Google E-A-T is on every SEO specialist’s radar and has been a trending subject since August 2018. E-A-T stands for Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness, which was outlined in Google’s official Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines. E-A-T looks at the content creation, the content creator, and the website overall to understand whether the content provides valuable and correct information to the user. This guide will explain what E-A-T is, how important it is, and how to optimise towards a SEO friendly website by using Google’s E-A-T as guidance.

We were delighted to be asked to work with the Simone Thomas Wellness team earlier this year to provide website development and digital marketing services designed to help them meet ambitious growth goals.

Back in May we reported the announcement of Google MUM and what it might mean for search. MUM began to come into effect in June 2021, with the aim of delivering improved search results based on a more real-world understanding of language and complex queries. This updated blog gives more information about Google MUM and how it is likely to be applied in real world searches. 

Three members of the IV team headed to BrightonSEO this month to deepen their knowledge on all things SEO. A talk we found particularly interesting focused on the three key steps you can take to improve the organic click-through rate (CTR) of your site.

Three of the Innovation Visual team attended the in-person spectacle that is BrightonSEO recently. Brighton SEO is a search marketing conference where like-minded SEOs unite and congregate to discuss the latest insights, trends and tools available. From ecommerce focused speakers and technical SEO data-driven experts to local SEOs, BrightonSEO had a variety of informational teachings on how experts in the field can do things even better.