SEO Metrics: Which Ones You Can Verify, and Which You Can’t
A client forwards a screenshot on a Monday morning. Their Search Console says the main service page sits at position 3.2. Your rank report says 7.…
Reporting, retainers and running SEO on client accounts. Running SEO for clients is as much about measurement as about fixes. The guides in this topic cover the parts of agency work that clients question most: how to report rankings and traffic so the numbers survive a second look, what belongs on a scorecard and what does not, which SEO metrics are verified and which are estimates, and how to turn a site audit into a report a client can act on. Each article defines the numbers first, then shows how to set up the measurement, and ends with the mistakes that make a report hard to defend. Start with the reporting guide if you send monthly reports, or with the scorecard if you are agreeing targets for a new retainer.
A client forwards a screenshot on a Monday morning. Their Search Console says the main service page sits at position 3.2. Your rank report says 7.…
·9 min read
A client forwards you a report from the agency that pitched against you. Under a heading called Performance it says: average position 4.2. Your own report,…
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The report goes out on Monday. On Tuesday the client replies with one line: what am I paying for. Attached is the same PDF, and someone…
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Your audit report goes to a new client on Thursday. On Friday their developer answers in one line: the report says hundreds of pages have duplicate…
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