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Rather than giving you big promises and only a few services, we have three dedicated, complete Approaches that are designed to help you and your team get the most from SEO.

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We have an Approach that suits your business.

We'll help you choose the Approach that suits your goals, targets and requirements.

Cartello has developed three broad Approaches to help you achieve your goals. Depending on your site, goals, targets, history and in-house resources, one of these broad Approaches will be perfect. The first step is helping you determine which Approach suits you the best.

Approach 1

Roadmaps.

Every SEO improvement you'll need at a once-off, affordable cost.

Cartello creates a custom-made Roadmap of all your SEO challenges and opportunities. We deliver a six month SEO project plan of all your site's bugs and opportunities organised by milestone, all expertly broken down and explained. We create detailed guides with problem-solution, associated KPI measurement and video breakdowns of your issues, along with two weeks of free support.

How do you know if a Roadmap is the right Approach?

If you understand the importance of SEO but don't know where to go next, Roadmaps are the place to start. You might have teams in place, with no-one to drive your SEO efforts. Roadmaps offer six months of SEO direction to help you identify your key challenges and requirements. If you're looking to get started, this Approach gives you extensive SEO expertise at a once-off-fee.

If you decide to upgrade to a Campaign you'll also get the cost of the Roadmap refunded.

More signs you need a Roadmap:

You're re-launching your site

Whether you are re-building, re-skinning or re-launching your site, it's ideal to fix all SEO issues before launching.

We help make the process easier, providing a Roadmap and meeting with all your key stakeholders, including dev and UX, to oversee the rebuild.

Rebuild Roadmaps

You're planning a site migration

If you are moving to a new domain, merging another site with yours or dropping a previous domain, you don't want to lose the SEO value you have built over the years.

We guide you through the process with a solid, merger-specific Roadmap.

Migration Roadmaps

Your SEO traffic has dropped

For some reason your SEO traffic has taken heavy declines recently and you're not sure why.

It could be a general algorithmic penalty or a manual action by Google. A Roadmap will diagnose the root cause and prescribe a course of action.

Recovery Roadmaps.

You first have to prove that SEO works

You know that SEO is valuable, but getting budget approval is difficult.

You need something to show that SEO can meet your revenue and targets. Try a Roadmap and get the costs paid back if you upgrade to a Campaign later.

Roadmap Refund

A quick look into a roadmap:

Milestones, Tickets & Great Support

Every time Cartello begins a new project we create an SEO Roadmap.

These Roadmaps can either be bought on their own or enjoyed free as part of our campaigns. Each Roadmap details the overall, large milestones we set for your campaign. When we have our first call we'll take you through a few example milestones. These are overall goals, things like "0% Content Duplication" or "Perfect Mobile SEO". Each milestone is comprised of dozens of smaller tickets.

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Approach 2

Campaign

A thorough, in-depth SEO Approach handled and driven by Cartello.

Integrating within your teams, Campaigns give you the benefit of our extensive SEO insight, for optimal success with your SEO campaigns. We also provide a comprehensive Roadmap, dedicated support, and the option to cancel at any time.

How do you know if a Campaign is the right approach?

You know that SEO is an important part of a successful marketing mix but you don't have the team to drive this channel right now.

SEO items arrive in the development queue, but no one is there to test releases or work with tech to find solutions to problems. You know that more can be done with PR for SEO and that the content and product teams have processes that touch on SEO, but all those opportunities are being missed.

More signs you need a Campaign

SEO growth is flatlining or declining

You're concerned that organic SEO was once one of your best performing channels and now seems to be declining.

You know this is because nothing specific has been done recently and you need a driving force behind the channel to start seeing results.

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SEO was just handed off to someone in-house

Finding an in-house specialist is difficult, which means that SEO has just fallen into the lap of someone in SEM or marketing who isn't an expert.

You know that without a dedicated person or team this long-term channel won't grow.

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You have steep targets and a lack of direction

You have ambitious targets for revenue, sales and growth for the next financial period and you need all the help you can get.

You know how to project, quantify and plan for paid media channels but planning for SEO is more complex.

You're planning marketing for the months ahead

You are planning your marketing efforts for the next six months to a year and need to plan a budget that works for your needs.

You know that SEO is a long-term but important channel and you need to begin planning.

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A quick look into a campaign

Roadmaps, Meetings & Reporting

To kick things off, we start with a six month SEO Roadmap that is included free in a Campaign.

These Roadmaps are divided into large milestones, each with their own child items. We set up first calls with your team and create a dedicated communication channel. We also drive weekly initiatives and monthly reporting. Working off our Roadmap, we drive every element. Unlike the Roadmap only Approach, we detail the impact, requirements and timelines for each item. During the project kick-off meeting, we work with your team to determine the impact, complexity and business value of each item.

Approach 3

Creative Campaigns

Drive serious traffic and backlinks with our innovative approach to SEO. When SEO meets branding and marketing, you get Creative Campaigns.

These are SEO Campaigns, with a bigger engine. Designed to boost traffic, conversions and backlinks quickly and in large numbers, you get all the value of a normal SEO Campaign with the link and traffic bait content that complements your broader marketing and branding efforts. We pitch ideas for web assets that drive conversion, brand awareness and long-term SEO growth.

More signs you need a Creative Campaign

You've already done the basic SEO

You've been doing SEO for a while, and either it hasn't worked or your results are plateauing. You've covered the basics but now what?

A Creative Campaign helps you take things from where they are, giving your results the boost you need.

You're far behind your competition

You are trying to compete with massive websites who have long histories, big teams and years of SEO effort.

To really stay ahead, you need an innovative, comprehensive strategy that includes the basics along with a driver for growth, engagement and backlinks.

You've gotten into trouble over links

You're savvy enough to know that backlinks drive SEO growth and essential in Google's algorithm. Instead of results, you got Google penalties.

We'll help you recover from the penalty and create an engaging, organic campaign to regain trust, engagement and Domain Authority.

Brand and marketing are launching campaigns

Your brand and marketing teams have great ideas on how to drive customer awareness, grab market share and communicate your brand's unique value.

We'll craft something that's not only good for SEO but also good for branding, marketing, messaging and customer relations.

Examples of creative SEO Campaigns

Let's discuss your ideal Approach.

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Services

Under the hood we have dozens of services and solutions including everything from analytics, technical SEO, Javascript SEO and many more. At a top level we provide:

Technical SEO Consulting

We break down all issues in detail, with screenshots, code examples, priority scores and mock-ups doing all of that in your chosen ticketing system. We know how to work with dev and product teams.

Competitive Intelligence

We understand your market, your targets, KPIs and your competition. We find gaps, opportunities and paths-of-least-resistance getting you better results.

SEO Content Production

SEO content is far more than just keywords. We understand tone, brand, conversion as well as the journey to getting rankings. We both produce ‘“normal’” SEO content and 10X, linkbait content strategies.

Google Penalty Recovery

You might have been hit by a Google penalty and that’s the reason your traffic has tanked. We do deep dives into data to find and fix the source of explicit, manual action penalties as well as wider, subtler algorithmic SEO penalties.

Project Management

We pride ourselves in crystal clear communication. We provide a dedicated Slack channel, weekly catch-up meetings plus a living, breathing project board in Trello with all the bells and whistles.

Analytics & Data

We work with your team to get the correct tracking and reporting set up for accurate SEO analytics. We assist with Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Tag Manager and other platforms to track campaign success and identify opportunities.

We don’t provide:

• Manual Link Building
• Directory Submission
• Email Link Building