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Case studies, teardowns, and what I'm seeing in SEO and AI search. Written from the work, not for the algorithm.

Featured SEO Teardown June 2026 10 min read

A Brilliant Brand That's Invisible in Search.

Marshmallow is one of the best-looking brands in UK insurance. Their SEO is a different story. 36,000 monthly visits sounds fine, until you see where it all comes from.

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Chart from the Marshmallow insurance SEO teardown
Featured SEO Teardown June 2026 8 min read

One Insurer. Three Niche Brands. £422K/month in Organic Traffic.

Acorn Insurance built three niche brands generating 241K monthly organic visitors worth £422K in traffic value, without relying on aggregators. A full breakdown of how they did it.

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Organic traffic overview chart from the Acorn Insurance SEO teardown
Proof of Work Jul 2026 2 min read

The First Sale on My eSIM Store, and Why Small Wins Feel the Biggest

eSIMs for Travel made its first real sale: a 5GB Morocco travel eSIM, bought at 9:56am and delivered automatically two minutes later, completely hands off. Then the customer came back and bought again.

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The eSIMs for Travel homepage hero with the headline eSIMs for travel wherever you're headed
Proof of Work 2025 3 min read

I Bought an Ecommerce Site. Here's Why

A six figure revenue dropshipping site with terrible CRO, awful design and poor SEO. Commercial traffic up within four weeks, then a high-risk payment processor roadblock nobody warned me about.

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Google Search Console chart showing 100K clicks for the ecommerce site Tom Riley purchased
Proof of Work 2023 2 min read

Tom Riley Relaunches UK Smiles: 20,000+ Leads and 150K Organic Clicks

A weekend website rebuild with Ste Bell of Technically Creative, the branding studio for startups, for the lead generation business Tom Riley helped his brother build: 150K organic clicks, 20,000+ leads and seven figure partner clinic revenues.

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