SEO training

SEO training for regulated in-house teams

A working day on how organic search is won in a market where the content has to clear review before it ships. Your team leaves able to plan, brief and audit SEO that holds up to both a search engine and a regulator.

The syllabus

What the day covers

The spine of the session. The examples and the live accounts we work in are yours.

How search works now

Crawling, indexing, ranking and the parts of that chain a regulated site breaks most often. Enough depth to diagnose, without pretending anyone knows the algorithm.

Keyword strategy you can get approved

Finding the terms worth winning, then sorting them by whether your market’s rules let you target them at all.

On-page in a regulated template

Writing titles, headings and body copy that rank while carrying the wording your regulator requires.

Technical foundations

Site structure, internal linking, speed and indexation, taught as the things that decide whether good content gets seen.

Measuring honestly

Which numbers mean something, which are vanity, and how to report a result that survives a sceptical question.

Working with legal and compliance

How to brief a reviewer, what to send them, and how to stop review becoming the bottleneck that kills your publishing schedule.

Why it is different here

SEO is the discipline regulation reshapes most

Taught with your market’s constraints built in.

The commercial keywords in a regulated sector are contested by brands with large budgets and careful lawyers, and the usual advice about publishing fast and often collapses the moment every page needs sign-off. Training has to deal with that honestly: how to build a keyword strategy you can actually get approved, how to write for both the reader and the compliance reviewer, and how to run technical SEO on a site where half the pages carry mandatory wording.

Adm insights
Taught by the agency, not a training company

The people in the room are the ones doing the work

Our trainers are the specialists who run client campaigns in regulated markets the rest of the week. That is the whole proposition: when somebody asks what happens in an awkward edge case, the answer comes from having been in one rather than from the next slide.

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FAQs

SEO training, answered

Who is this training for?

In-house marketing teams, and the people around them who need to brief or review the work. We run sessions for complete beginners, for experienced marketers moving into a regulated sector for the first time, and for senior teams who want a second opinion on their approach. The scoping call sets the level.

Is the training specific to regulated industries?

Yes. That is the reason to come to us rather than a general training provider. Every module is taught with the constraints of your market built in, because the tactics that work in an unregulated sector are often the ones that get a regulated brand into trouble.

Where does the training take place?

At your offices, at ours in London or Essex, or remotely. Hands-on work needs your team in their own accounts, which works equally well in a room or on a call, though a full day in person tends to hold attention better than a full day on video.

How long is a session?

Most are a single day, or two half-days if taking a whole team off the floor at once is difficult. Shorter formats work for a single module, and longer programmes work when a team is being brought up from a standing start.

How many people can attend?

Up to about twelve. Beyond that the hands-on half stops working, because there is not enough time to get round everyone’s screen. Larger teams are usually better split across two sessions by level.

Do you certify attendees?

No. We are not an accreditation body and a certificate from an agency means very little. What attendees leave with is the deck, their own worked files and a written summary of what we found in their accounts.

What does it cost?

It depends on the format, the number of attendees and how much of the syllabus you need, so the scoping call comes before the quote. We would rather size it honestly than publish a price that turns out to be wrong for your team.

Can you train our team and run our campaigns?

Yes, and a fair number of clients do both. Training a team to brief and review well tends to make the agency relationship better, not redundant. It also works the other way round: some clients train up in order to bring work in-house, and that is a legitimate reason to book.

Independently judged

A multi-award-winning agency

European Agency AwardsIntegrated Agency of the Year - SilverEuropean Agency Awards 2026European Search AwardsBest Use of Search B2C (PPC) Small (The Swallow Co.)European Search Awards 2026UK Digital Excellence AwardsStandout B2C Ecommerce Website of the Year (Stelrad)UK Digital Excellence Awards 2026UK Paid Media AwardsBest Integrated Paid Media CampaignUK Paid Media Awards 2026UK Agency AwardsBest New Business CampaignUK Agency Awards 2025UK Search AwardsBest Use Of Search (Retail/Ecommerce) - SEOUK Search Awards 2024European Agency AwardsIntegrated Agency of the Year - SilverEuropean Agency Awards 2026European Search AwardsBest Use of Search B2C (PPC) Small (The Swallow Co.)European Search Awards 2026UK Digital Excellence AwardsStandout B2C Ecommerce Website of the Year (Stelrad)UK Digital Excellence Awards 2026UK Paid Media AwardsBest Integrated Paid Media CampaignUK Paid Media Awards 2026UK Agency AwardsBest New Business CampaignUK Agency Awards 2025UK Search AwardsBest Use Of Search (Retail/Ecommerce) - SEOUK Search Awards 2024
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