Non-wanky SEO and SEO Content. They say you can't know Technical SEO AND copywriting - I can. And do.

You're probably only here to see what type of person uses the word 'wanky' in a business profile, and that's OK.

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I help B2B business owners get found on Google with non-wanky SEO. Because there's a lot of wanky SEO advice out there. I explain it in proper English, I don't promise miracles, and I won't try to sell you a course on optimising for traffic sources that account for less than 1% of your visitors.

If you're fed up with SEO advice that makes your brain hurt, I've spent 30 years learning what works and what's complete bollocks. While everyone else is losing their minds over AI search or "GEO" , I'm over here focusing on the stuff that brings in actual traffic and actual enquiries..

WHAT I OFFER:

♦️On-page and technical SEO for businesses that need to show up in Google searches that matter. From £750

♦️SEO copywriting for websites and blogs. The kind that brings in leads, not just people who click away after three seconds. From £450

♦️The Non-Wanky SEO Course (£750, payment schedules available) if you want to learn this stuff properly without someone talking at you like you're five.

♦️The Non-Wanky On-Page SEO Toolkit (£200, payment schedules available) for the quick wins you can sort out yourself.

♦️The SEO Fucking What? Newsletter - weekly -  and Podcast, where I spend 15 minutes a week ranting about whatever's currently annoying me in the SEO world (and telling you what to do instead). Free.

WHAT I WON'T DO:

♦️Promise you'll be ranking number one by next Tuesday.

♦️Charge you hundreds for tactics I could explain in ten minutes.

♦️Talk in jargon when normal words exist.

♦️Take your money if I don't think I can help.

My mornings start with SE Ranking and Google Search Console, because guessing is for people who like wasting money, and data is where the insights come from.

I've been doing this since before SEO was even called SEO, and I can tell you what drives traffic versus what gets sold in flashy courses that cost £3000.

Whether you need someone to sort out your SEO, want to learn it yourself, or just need to know why Google's ignoring your website, drop me a message.

Fair warning: if you don't need my help, I'll tell you that too.

Nikki Pilkington

Website Owner: "We made the URLs more SEO friendly."

Me: "How?"

Website Owner: "Changed them from stuff like /page123 to proper words. /services, /about-us, that kind of thing."

Me: "Good idea. Where do the old URLs redirect to?"

Website Owner: "What do you mean?"

Me: "If someone clicks an old link, or Google tries to crawl the old URLs, where do they go?"

Website Owner: "They'd go to the old page."

Me: "The old page doesn't exist anymore. You changed the URLs."

Website Owner: "..."

Me: "So they go nowhere?"

Website Owner: "I suppose."

Me: "Every backlink you've ever earned. Every page Google had indexed. Every link from your social posts. All pointing to pages that don't exist."

Website Owner: "But the new URLs are better."

Me: "..."

#SEOFuckUps2026

non-wanky SEO. Yes, non-wanky. Yes, I know - it’s OK if I’m not for you. Thanks.

Me: "What happened to your website?"

Website Owner: "My nephew made some updates."

Me: "What kind of updates?"

Website Owner: "He knows about websites. Does it at college."

Me: "What did he change?"

Website Owner: "Just tidied a few things up."

Me: "Your H1s are gone. Your meta titles all say 'Home.' Half your pages are returning 404s. And your site's running on a theme from 2014."

Website Owner: "He said it looked better."

Me: "You've lost 60% of your traffic."

Website Owner: "He only charged us fifty quid."

Me: "..."


#SEOFuckUps2026

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

...

RIGHT?

#LinkedInFuckups2026

Website Owner: "We deleted our case studies."

Me: "Why?"

Website Owner: "They were a few years old. Made us look outdated."

Me: "How many?"

Website Owner: "Twelve of them."

Me: "Were they ranking for anything?"

Website Owner: "I don't know. Maybe?"

Me: "Did you check before you deleted them?"

Website Owner: "..."

Me: "Did you redirect them to anything?"

Website Owner: "No, they're just gone."

Me: "So twelve pages of real project examples, with client names, locations, and industry terms that Google loved..."

Website Owner: "Gone."

Me: "Because the dates looked old."

Website Owner: "We were going to write new ones."

Me: "When?"

Website Owner: "..."

#SEOFuckUps2026

Some people really don't like women, do they?

Someone (who shall remain un-named unless he wants to out himself) put one of my LinkedIn posts into an AI system and asked it if it was written by AI or human. 

Obviously (thankfully!) it said it was human. 

I tried it myself - put the same post he mentioned into ChatGPT to see what it said. 

It said the things that made my post human were:

1) Consistently strong voice and personality
2) Messy, uneven rhythm
3) Specific, unglamorous metaphors
4) Genuine motive mixed with mild self-sabotage*
5) Tone consistency with personality, not “brand voice”

My un-named "checker of posts to see if they're AI but not in a bad way" then tried to get AI to use the things it had said made my post human to write him a similar (he used the word copy, I'm being nice) post - and it couldn't. In his words, "it was bad".

And honestly, I should probably be annoyed by the fact he even bothered checking in the first place, and should definitely be annoyed by him trying to use my post to get one of his own, but I just find the whole thing kind of amusing. 

Because if AI can't copy me, and people feel the need to try to copy me, then I guess I'm doing something right, right?



*Genuine Motive Mixed With Mild Self-Sabotage is going to be the title of my autobiography one day.

I can't tag the person involved as he has blocked me, and even naming him made LinkedIn remove the post as harassment, so, you wonderful people will have to comment or DM me to find out who it is.

Please DON'T tell any one that the person I am speaking about is an idiotic plagiarist who copied every word of at least 2 of my posts (I mean who leaves the hashtag that only I'm using in the post FFS?).

Oh, and also, DON'T think that him pouting and blocking me because I refused his connection request is a bit childish.

Oh, and then writing a post about me, thinking no-one would send it to me - DON'T automatically assume that he's a bit of a twit. (I do see the irony, yes.) 

Oh, and as I don't use AI to write my LinkedIn posts, DON'T assume that him claiming that he got the exact same words because we both used AI is a lie, because it must be possible for that to happen (it's not).

Oh, and DON'T think anyone is a coward for deleting his plagiarised posts, especially not him.

(Finally, and I'm serious here - FEEL FREE to think I am stupid in so very many ways, but please DON'T ever, ever call me a fucking guru.)

#LinkedInFuckups2026
#SEOFuckups2026
#StupidSEOGurus

P.S. Probably best NOT to repost this, or click the hashtags above to find out who it is.

Did you make your whole site password protected "just while we made a few updates"?

For six weeks?

Google tried to crawl your site. Got a login page. Assumed your site was gone. Dropped your pages from the index.

The updates look great though.

#SEOFuckUps2026

Did you add pop-ups to every page to "capture more leads" and now your site takes 12 seconds to load?

Google stopped waiting after 3 seconds. So did your visitors.

But hey, at least that newsletter sign-up box nobody wanted is working great.

#SEOFuckUps2026

Google chaos (again zzz), pages that earn nothing but still matter, and the GEO rant that made a few people uncomfortable.

Hey hey! Google's been having another wobbly week. Rankings jumping around, visibility shifting, the usual chaos that happens more often than not thes

Open article: Google wobbles, zero-traffic pages, and why I'm disappointed in SEOs by Nikki Pilkington • 3 min read

Google wobbles, zero-traffic pages, and why I'm disappointed in SEOs

"You know what Google needs? To be a different colour. Not better documentation for website owners. Not AI results in GSC, oh no, not those useful things.  Colour options, that's what we want."

said no-one ever...

Open article: Google Search - Add Splash Of Color by f.mtr.cool

UW Authorised Partner

Range of Award Winning residential services including:
Gas
Electricity
Smart Meter Install
Broadband (up to 76Mbps)
Fibre to the Premises (up to 500Mbps)
Mobile Phones (Handsets and/or Sim cards)
Home Insurance 
Home Services Cover
New Boiler Installations
Home Landline Installs
CashBack Card
Also an excellent home based business or a way to create extra income streams on a part time basis
Promoted to Senior Group Leader 31st January 2014
Promoted to Senior Group Leader One Star 17th March 2018
Building towards National Group Leader - achieved 7,000 group customers in August 2022. (update soon crashing through 10,000 group customers September 2023.)

UW Authorised Partner - Senior Group Leader - One Star

Combyne Group with a portfolio offering

Expert provider within the telecoms and utility marketplace - home and business users partnering with an award winning United Kingdom based company.

Proprietor 

AFC Wimbledon

Look after media on the match day at our new stadium in Plough Lane - exciting times - work very closely with the Chief Executive, Club Secretary, Communications Manager and club Media Executive. Also support media promotion of events for both the football club, Foundation and Dons Trust, who are the ultimate owners of AFC Wimbledon. 

Also looked after supporter coaches to away games for many years. Organised 24 coaches to the Play Off Final in Manchester on the 21 May 2011 - great fun and came away with the right result (for us) of promotion to League 2. Hugely proud of the academy started by Nigel Higgs, which is delivering a great stream of players to the first team squad. 

UPDATE: On the 3 November 2020, the club moved into its new stadium on Plough Lane and played their first competitive fixture against Doncaster Rovers. The game ended 2-2, but the result didn't matter, just the fact we were home after 29 years. Very emotional. 
You can see more via the Insta link below. 

April 2023: The stadium has now hosted cup finals, its first international match and much more is to come as many understand the benefit of this vital community asset, which is helping in regeneration of the locale with excellent non-match day facilities available.

Member of Media Team (Volunteer Matchday Media Coordinator) - former

Onmi Local Networking

I had three successful years running this group - started face to face, but lockdown and zoom put an end to it

Group Director

NABO Networking

New concept in Networking.
Successfully launched NABO Networking in Croydon on the 3 June 2011.  NABO Networking delivered business relationships as well as education to improve your business performance. Feedback from members has been very positive with the format being fresh and focused upon delivering connections, business education and support.

Group Director - NABO Networking Croydon

Colour Pages

Direct sales, responsible for own marketing and generation of appointments & sales.

Company ran a number of paper based directories in Central London, and whilst with I helped them create and set up their web presence, writing the business plan, planning the website and sourcing provider and ongoing marketing of same.

Introduced networking and exhibitions to the company with great success.

Senior Sales Rep

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Spent 8 years with EB Inc, and eventually headed up the UK and Ireland recruitment and training reporting to MD Joe D Adams

Head of Recruitment and Training

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Hello - I may have checked out your profile recently, since I would do that as part of my system check to assess whether you can join one of my many LinkedIn groups. If you are UK based, then most likely would have accepted you into the group, and pretty certain, I would be happy to connect - please do ask, and don't be shy? ;o)

Crypto? Suggest you check out my point at the foot of this section. 
Blockchain? We might have a casual conversation ...... do though read on for more. 
I have spent 30 months getting my head around BlockChain, but still see Crypto as gambling.

Hope 2024 is delivering all you want and more? If not, then please see what I have on offer for a SAM person in 2024? SAM stands for Socially Active, Ambitious & Motivated.

Are you seeking a new challenge? If so, we should have a chat. Contact details here: https://combyne.wordpress.com/category/opportunity/ 
Working UK wide with an award winning British success story.
It is an ideal opportunity to get started with a business that is delivering success for its partners.
Does that sound of interest to you?
Then please check out www.future-biz.co.uk 
Everyone NEEDs a side hustle and this one is perfect, and we are having a record year - just £10 to start. The rewards are massive, and ethics second to none. 

On a personal basis, I have a passion for AFC Wimbledon, where for 47 years I was a volunteer. Stepped down in July 2023 - a book now beckons. :o)  Brilliantly we won promotion to League One in May 2016, but slipped back into League 2. Now in our new stadium - exciting times.  https://www.instagram.com/plough_lane_stadium_wimbledon/

REMINDER: I primarily network with UK based people because I have UK centric offers.
I am NOT an Open Networker, but I am a Successful Networker. 
There is a major, major difference. 
If you are UK based, but focus elsewhere - then unlikely I want to connect.
Nothing personal

Also I have ZERO interest in anything crypto - very happy to block you, if you approach me about it? 
Can't say fairer than that! Blockchain is fine and I owe that to my friends at BlockDojo - they have educated me.

PS I run 60 groups on Facebook - I am very easy to find. 
Have a great interest in start up businesses. 

Last Updated Saturday 20 January 2024

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