Resources & guides

Plain-language explainers on the topics clients ask us about most: SEO, performance, accessibility, content, and conversion.

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Useful, jargon-light reading

These guides exist because the same questions come up in almost every kickoff. Rather than re explain them across calls, we wrote them down, with definitions, examples, and decisions you'll have to make.

What is in the library

The library currently covers the foundational topics our clients ask us about most: a marketing and SEO glossary, an SEO-specific glossary, an explainer on Core Web Vitals, a guide to web accessibility, a guide to choosing a content management system, an explainer on schema markup, and a series of broader strategy and execution guides on content, conversion optimization, and what SEO actually is. Each one is written to stand alone as a reference and to read as part of the broader picture if you read several of them together. Where guides cover overlapping ground, we cross-link them so you can navigate between related topics easily.

How to use these resources

These resources are written for the people who actually work on websites and marketing programs, owners, marketers, in house developers, and the analysts and strategists who sit between them. They're not white papers gated behind forms, and they're not lead-generation bait. The intent is that any of them should be useful on its own as a reference, and that taken together they should give a complete-enough picture of the foundations of modern digital marketing and web work that you can have substantive conversations with vendors, employees, and consultants without being talked past.

If a resource you wish existed isn't here, tell us, we add to the library when topics come up repeatedly in client conversations.

How these resources are written

Every resource references only publicly defined standards, Google's documented Core Web Vitals thresholds, the W3C's WCAG guidelines, the schema.org vocabulary, well known industry frameworks like RACE, AIDA, and STP. Where statistics or claims appear, they come from those public sources, not from invented numbers. The glossaries are written and maintained by hand rather than auto-generated, and the longer guides are reviewed against current platform documentation before publication. We also revise older resources as the underlying standards change, INP replacing FID in Core Web Vitals is a recent example, rather than leaving outdated information live.

None of the guides are gated behind email capture, none redirect to sales pages, and none cite invented client outcomes to make the writer's points feel weightier than they are. If a guide describes a practice we use with clients, it describes it the same way we'd describe it on a sales call. If a guide covers a topic we don't actively work in, it cites the public sources you'd otherwise have to assemble yourself.

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If there's something you wish was explained better, tell us, we'll add it to the queue.

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