Nick Samuel

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Brighton SEO April 2025: XML + Hreflang for E-Commerce Sites

Thanks for either attending my BrightonSEO talk, looking up the slides or showing a general interest in the topic of Hreflang. Here is a list of references and resources… Brighton SEO Talk: XML + Hreflang: A practical guide for large ecommerce sites Date: Friday 11th April 2025, 9.30am By: Nick Samuel – Head of Technical…

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Digital Spring cleaning

So my general PC is was a bit of a mess and hasn’t really had much TLC go into the arrangement of folders, files and everything else for at least since I graduated in 2013. And even then I wasn’t particularly organised; I just hadn’t accumulated enough stuff to make my computer feel “unmanageable”. As…

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Getting a New Site Indexed: Observations

Site:nicksamuel.com As a full-time SEO who tends to work with established companies, it’s been a while now I’ve been involved in launching a new website from scratch and seeing how Google responds to it. By new website from scratch, I don’t mean a new redesign or site migration; I’m talking a new-ish domain with 0…

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