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06 · SEO · 06/06

SEO & content

Not throwaway content. Not gamed SEO. An authority built layer by layer, month after month.

Technical SEOPillar pagesAI writingLocal SEO

02 · Lived scene

You have been publishing for a year.

On which queries are your pages ranking?

Off-topic impressions. Not a single visitor who converts.

When you lead the company, it bugs you. The blog holds its monthly cadence. The SEO report talks rankings. Sales sees no inbound coming from it.

When you run marketing internally, it bugs you. You write, brief freelancers, publish. You don't have the topical frame to lift a whole subject.

When you delegated to an external provider, it worries you. The contract runs. So do the pages. But the brand authority on your segment isn't being built.

Three readings. One cause. Content without a topical frame ranks no one.

That's where we frame.

03 · The path we follow

Seven steps for authority that settles in.

01 / 0702 / 0703 / 0704 / 0705 / 0706 / 0707 / 07
001 · DIAGNOSTIC
102 · INTENT
203 · ARCHITECTURE
304 · TECHNICAL SEO
405 · CONTENT
506 · LINKING & MEASUREMENT
607 · OWNERSHIP

We look at what ranks before touching the site.

Technical audit: Core Web Vitals, indexation, schema, domain authority, sitemaps. Semantic audit: intent coverage, quality of existing pages, cannibalization. Competitive audit: who occupies page one on your target keywords, with which cluster, which external signals. By the end: a quantified map of what's blocking you. Not a blind overhaul.

One query, one intent, one page.

We list the buyer's search intents (informational, transactional, navigational). For each: volume, difficulty, real intent behind the keyword, target page. Not a raw KW list. A map of intents prioritized by business weight. That's what decides where we write, not an obsession with the head-on competitive keyword.

One subject, one cluster. A pillar, satellites linking back to it.

For each major topic, we build a cluster: one pillar page covering the topic in depth, 8 to 15 satellite pages handling specific subtopics, internal linking that lifts authority toward the pillar. Internal linking accounts for 40 % of the SEO performance we see. Not content alone.

A fast, indexable, semantically clear site.

Core Web Vitals (LCP under 2.5 s, CLS under 0.1, INP under 200 ms), structured schema per page (Article, Product, Organization), silo architecture, clean sitemap, controlled indexation. If Google takes 4 seconds to load your site, the world's best content won't lift it to page one. The foundation goes down now.

Strict brief. AI assist. Human QA.

For each page: 40 % of time on the brief (intent, structure, sources), 30 % on Claude-assisted generation, 30 % on human editing. Your subject-matter experts review technical details in 30 minutes per article, not 3 hours. Not 50 articles per month. Four, structured in a cluster, with a clear intent.

Interlinking continuously. Positions weekly.

Internal linking updated with every new page (toward the pillars, toward the relevant satellites). Search Console + position tracking tool (Semrush or Ahrefs) to follow the queries climbing. Not a cosmetic monthly report. A weekly read that drives the next content arbitrage.

You pilot SEO without asking us.

Full documentation: topical plan, brief templates, lexical charter, Search Console access, technical runbook. Your team or your next provider can take over without a forensic audit. We stay on backup as long as you need it. We leave the moment you don't.

05 · Where it held

A new brand. Authority built in 6 months.

AVD Revival · reinterpreted Ferrari 250GTO · 1 year with HeySquad.

0 kbrand-name impressions6 months after SEO setup. Brand was invisible in organic at the start.
0qualified inquiries via SEOInquiries arriving directly from organic traffic, not from paid.
0invitations to global motor showsExternal signal: the reputation reached the organisers of the segment.

Bjorn launches AVD Revival, a contemporary reinterpretation of the Ferrari 250GTO. Young brand, ultra-niche segment, zero organic authority at the start. Sensitive lexical charter: Ferrari watches what gets written about the iconic model — every word has to pass.

HeySquad mission over 12 months. Phase 1: brand image with EPIC and tone-of-voice work with Bjorn. A balance between luxury, commercial and technical to speak to 250GTO enthusiasts without stepping on Ferrari's territory. Phase 2: technical SEO as foundation, topical cluster around the category terms (revival, restomod, 250GTO), AI-briefed writing + passion-and-detail human QA on every page.

6 months into active SEO: the brand is visible on its two pivot queries, AVD Revival and revival 250 GTO. Thirteen qualified inquiries arrive directly through organic. Three invitations to global motor shows received — the rarest and most telling external signal that a reputation is being built.

AVD Revival, reinterpreted red Ferrari 250GTO on a Tuscan road under stormy sky

06 · Let’s talk

We work directly. No sales intermediary.

Tell us what you’re looking for. We come back to you for a first chat. No pitch, no slides: we check if it’s a fit.

You write to the squad, not to a sales rep.

You can also write to hello@heysquad.be

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Plan for 6 to 18 months to see SEO produce significant traffic on your target queries. A new page ranks in 3 to 12 months depending on competition and domain authority. If you need leads in 60 days, it’s paid acquisition (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn) that needs to run in parallel. SEO will take over once it has been seeded.

Yes for base writing, no for strategy. Google penalizes mass-produced AI content without added value. Not AI content that's briefed, verified, human-edited. We spend 40 % on the brief (intent, structure, sources), 30 % on Claude-assisted generation, 30 % on human editing. Result: undetectable + better than unbriefed human writing.

Google Ads is a paid channel: you buy an ad placement at the top of search results, you pay per click, you get results in days. SEO is an organic channel: you work on your site so Google ranks it naturally, you don’t pay per visit, you measure over 6 to 18 months. Both are complementary: Google Ads covers the short term and captures hot intent while SEO builds durable authority.

Not a volume answer. Four well-briefed articles per month, structured in a topical cluster, with a clear search intent beat fifty generic articles Google ignores (and that sometimes penalize the rest of the domain). Internal linking accounts for 40 % of the SEO performance we see. Quantity never compensates for lack of structure.

Three business indicators: qualified organic traffic (Search Console + GA4), contact inquiries attributed to organic (form, phone, email), revenue generated by organic sessions (organic ROAS for e-commerce, lead value for B2B). All in a live dashboard consolidating impressions, positions, traffic, conversions. Not a cosmetic monthly PDF.

Yes. Without mapping what exists (Core Web Vitals, indexation, schema, domain authority, current intents, competition), we build on sand. It’s the first month of the HeySquad mission: technical audit, semantic audit, competitive benchmark, topical plan. The result comes out as a quantified map that then plugs into the broader marketing strategy if there is one.

Who this service is for

4 Belgian contexts where SEO holds.

01

Young brand on a niche segment

You launch a brand on an ultra-niche segment: zero organic authority at the start, brand vocabulary to define, sometimes lexical charter to negotiate with a historic partner. We build the topical cluster around your target intents, write down the lexical charter, and track authority trajectory month after month until the first external signals appear.

eg: premium automotive brand, restomod, artisan manufacture, deeptech scale-up

02

E-commerce with a large catalog

You sell online with hundreds of SKUs. Your product pages capture long-tail traffic, but you lack category pages that build authority on top-of-funnel search intents. We organize the architecture (category pillar to product satellites), clean Product schema, editorial content that ranks on informational queries before the purchase act.

eg: Wallonia pure-player 500-5000 SKUs, basket 50-300 €

03

B2B with expert content to capitalize

You sell complex expertise (consulting, SaaS, technical service). Your teams have the matter in their heads but it doesn't come out as indexable content. We brief with your experts, turn internal knowledge into pillar pages, capture top-of-funnel B2B intents and bring them down to the qualified form.

eg: consulting firm 2-30M€ revenue, B2B SaaS 10-50 staff, IT services Wallonia/Brussels

04

Local service across multiple cities

You operate multiple sales points or interventions across several Belgian cities. Without per-city local SEO, you lose 60 to 80 % of geo-located searches to the competitor who polished their Google Business Profile. We structure local presence (GBP, citations, LocalBusiness schema), geo-targeted pages, per-city content capturing the « service + city » intent.

eg: tradesperson/installer 3+ BE cities, multi-office agency, local franchise

so? shall we settle in?

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