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Why Organic Traffic Drops After a Redesign | Intense Path
SEO8 August 2026

Why Does Organic Traffic Fall After a Redesign, and How Do You Get It Back?

A redesign traffic drop has four usual causes, and all four are visible before launch. Diagnose them in order, fix the redirects first, and treat the rest as a recovery plan rather than an emergency.

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AI SEO: How to Get Your Pages Cited in AI Answers | Intense Path
SEO17 July 2026

AI SEO: How to Get Your Pages Quoted in AI Answers

Ranking and being quoted are different jobs. AI SEO is mostly extractability: a definition a model can lift, answers that survive being separated from the page, and HTML that says what it means.

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Technical SEO Fundamentals: Crawl, Render, Index | Intense Path
SEO25 June 2026

Crawl, Render, Index: Where Technical SEO Problems Actually Begin

Most ranking problems are not content problems. They are a crawl, render or index failure that nobody noticed, because the first two stages leave no trace anywhere a marketing team is looking.

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SEO Audit Prioritisation: What to Fix First | Intense Path
SEO3 June 2026

Severity or Priority: What to Fix First After an SEO Audit

An audit ranks findings by how wrong they are. Your Monday needs them ranked by how much they move and how little they cost. Those are two different lists, and only one of them is a plan.

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How Many Pages Does a Website Need for SEO? | Intense Path
SEO12 May 2026

How Many Pages Does a Site Need Before Search Takes It Seriously?

There is no page count that makes a site credible. Search rewards complete coverage of a topic a reader recognises, which is why thirty considered pages beat three hundred spun ones.

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Topical Authority: Clusters Search Can Read | Intense Path
SEO20 April 2026

Topical Authority: Building a Cluster Search Can Actually Read

Topical authority is a structure, not a volume of posts: one hub, spokes that answer distinct questions, and links running both directions. Built from a keyword export, it collapses into cannibalisation.

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Website Migration SEO: The Checklist That Holds | Intense Path
SEO29 March 2026

The Website Migration Checklist That Protects Rankings

The redirect map is the artefact that decides whether a migration holds. Everything else is preparation for writing it, or evidence that you wrote it correctly.

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Core Web Vitals SEO: What Is Worth Fixing | Intense Path
SEO7 March 2026

Are Core Web Vitals Still Worth Chasing?

Yes for your visitors, weakly for your rankings. LCP and INP cost you enquiries whether or not search notices, CLS is an afternoon of work, and the lab score stops mattering the moment field data passes.

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Internal Linking Strategy: A Practical Audit | Intense Path
SEO13 February 2026

Internal Linking: The Cheapest SEO Work Nobody Schedules

Internal links are the one part of your link graph you fully control, and most sites treat them as decoration. Four checks (orphans, depth, anchor sameness, hoarding) fix more than most outreach does.

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Search Intent: Write a Page That Answers the Query | Intense Path
SEO22 January 2026

How Do You Write a Page That Answers a Query Instead of Circling It?

A page circles when the answer is hedged into paragraph nine. Search intent content resolves the query on the first screen, then earns the scroll with the qualifications that follow.

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Schema Markup SEO: What Actually Earns a Result | Intense Path
SEO31 December 2025

Schema Markup: Which Types Earn Something and Which Are Decoration

Schema markup sorts into three piles: types that change the result, types that only feed understanding, and types that do nothing. Only mark up what a visitor can actually see.

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Local SEO for a Service Business, No Storefront | Intense Path
SEO9 December 2025

Local SEO for a Business With One Location and No Storefront

A service-area business is not a small shop with fewer photos. Proximity you cannot move, relevance you write, prominence you earn slowly, and the location page is where most of it is won or lost.

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Content Consolidation SEO: Merge or Optimise? | Intense Path
SEO17 November 2025

When Should You Consolidate Two Pages Instead of Optimising Both?

Two pages, one intent, neither ranking. Consolidation beats optimisation when the overlap is real, and the decision turns on which page has the history worth keeping.

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E-E-A-T SEO: What You Can Actually Publish | Intense Path
SEO26 October 2025

E-E-A-T Without the Mysticism: What You Can Actually Publish

E-E-A-T is not a score, and nothing on your page sets it directly. What you can control is a short list of artefacts: named authorship, a disclosed method, real sourcing, honest dates and a corrections trail.

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SEO Reporting: Leading Indicators That Move First | Intense Path
SEO4 October 2025

How Do You Report SEO Progress Before the Rankings Move?

Rankings are a lagging indicator, so SEO reporting has to lean on leading indicators: indexation, crawl efficiency, link depth, page experience and question coverage.

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