liam hayward
seo specialist

I'm Liam Hayward, I work across SEO + AI search.
I find and fix, build and break, solve and share.

I have 7+ years of hands-on experience across in-house and agency digital marketing roles in the UK, Singapore, and Australia, specialising in search and technical SEO since 2022.

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what i work on

Fixing what's broken, finding what's being missed, and building measurable performance that holds up over time.

things i've made

Exploring, experimenting, and explaining.

free seo tools

A little lab of free, browser-based SEO tools. Have a poke around.

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the seo handbook

A free, independent reference to how search works: technical SEO, content, crawling and indexing, and where AI is changing things.

visit seohandbook.co.uk

brands i've worked with

Experience across direct and agency-led projects.

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latest blogs

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i've got (seo) tools... they're multiplying

Take a look, you might find the tool that you want, the tool you need. Oh, yes, indeed.

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your site might be invisible right now

The wrong tag in the right place can make all the difference. How rogue noindex tags go unnoticed for months, and how to catch them before they cost you.

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it's perfect... too perfect: google's ai search guidance

Google's AI search guidance is pretty much exactly what the SEO community wanted to hear. I've got a bad feeling about this.

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