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SEO Academy

Understand crawling, indexing, on-page signals, technical foundations and the patient work involved in improving organic visibility.

What this path helps you do

  1. 01Separate indexing problems from ranking problems
  2. 02Prioritise technical, content and authority work
  3. 03Measure useful progress without chasing a single score

Guides and tools

Start with an existing AHANIX resource

guideSEO

Why Isn’t My Website on Google?

Work through crawl, indexing and ranking problems using Search Console, robots, canonicals, sitemaps and a practical investigation checklist.

12 min readRead resource
guideSEO

How Long Does SEO Take?

Set realistic expectations for technical SEO, indexing, content discovery, local search and longer-term growth without guaranteed ranking dates.

10 min readRead resource
checkerSEO

SEO Score Checker

Review selected technical and on-page signals on a public webpage.

About 2 minOpen tool
guidePerformance

Why Is My Website Slow?

Diagnose slow hosting, oversized images, JavaScript, third-party scripts and Core Web Vitals with a prioritised website speed checklist.

11 min readRead resource
guideSEO

What Is Robots.txt?

Understand robots.txt crawl rules, sitemap references, full-site blocking risks and why the file cannot secure private information.

11 min readRead resource
guideSEO

What Is Technical SEO?

Learn how crawling, indexing, canonicals, status codes, rendering, internal links and performance shape a website’s search foundations.

13 min readRead resource
guideSEO

What Is On-Page SEO?

Improve individual pages through useful intent-led content, clear titles and headings, internal links, media and trustworthy evidence.

12 min readRead resource
guideSEO

What Is a Sitemap?

Learn what an XML sitemap does, which canonical URLs belong in it, how to validate and submit it, and why inclusion is not an indexing guarantee.

11 min readRead resource
guideSEO

What Is Schema Markup?

Understand schema.org structured data, JSON-LD, supported search features, validation and the risks of marking up invisible or invented claims.

12 min readRead resource
guidePerformance

What Are Core Web Vitals?

Understand LCP, INP and CLS, the difference between field and laboratory data, and how to improve real website experience without chasing scores.

12 min readRead resource
comparisonSEO

Website vs Social Media for Google Visibility

Why a professional website gives UK small businesses better Google visibility than relying only on social media pages.

8 min readRead resource
guideSEO

How to Read an SEO Score

Learn what automated SEO checks measure, what they miss and how to prioritise findings without chasing a perfect score.

6 min readRead resource

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