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SEO Insights
What Is Corporate SEO?
Corporate SEO carries two separate senses: the kind of firm doing the work, and project based, human focused SEO that is slow but safe.

Company News
Piri Reis: Web Design in Kdz. Ereğli
Piri Reis, our partner agency in Kdz. Ereğli, on web design, SEO and graphic work across Zonguldak, Eskişehir, Bolu and Düzce.

General Topics
We Put Google's Gift Pen Through Its Paces
Google sent a diary and a pen after the AdWords board game. The diary is useful. The pen has a few problems, and here is our score out of 10.

Case Studies
Yeni Birlik Newspaper Project Management
The web project management and SEO work we ran for Yeni Birlik, a national daily newspaper: load time down to 2 seconds and 200% more visitors in three months.

Case Studies
VIPDOLAP: Second Hand Luxury Fashion Case Study
A marketplace for second hand luxury brands, ranked for its hardest keywords and up 84% in organic visitors. The project ran through 2014 and 2015.

Inspiring Stories
What Is Seeding and How Does It Help SEO?
Seeding fails when the pages carrying it bought their followers. How the reach unlock works, why sharing beats liking, and where SEO picks it up.

Company News
A Surprise Gift from Google: The Game
Google sent us a board game built around AdWords questions. We played a round in the office, and here is how it went and what else was in the box.

SEO Insights
The SEO Effect of the “.tr” Domain Extension
A country extension helps you inside that country and holds you back outside it. Who issues .tr now, which extensions are open, and when to avoid them.

SEO Insights
The Latent SEO Method
A third area beside on-site and off-site work: lifting your click-through rate with the title alone, so the ranking rises without touching anything else.

Inspiring Stories
How to Use Google Alerts to Track Your Brand
Google Alerts emails you whenever your company name or a keyword turns up somewhere new on the web. Here is how to set one up in a couple of minutes.

SEO Insights
How Responsive Design Affects SEO
Ten years ago I argued against responsive design on speed grounds. Mobile-first indexing changed that, and here is why it is now a requirement.

Company News
Turk SEM Public Notice on Impersonation
Türk SEM has only three official phone numbers: +90 216 606 23 72, +90 532 234 24 40 and +49 160 5649217 in Germany. No other number is ours.