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Founder-Led. Team-Built. Results-Driven.

What Actually Works in Digital Marketing — Tested on Real Businesses

More than a decade of SEO, content strategy, publishing, and paid advertising—distilled by the team that uses these systems on our own brands and private-client campaigns. No fluff. No gatekeeping. Just practical guidance built around real business results.

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A-Z Glossary

170+Free Guides
10+Years in SEO
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Where Are You Right Now?

Not sure where to begin? Pick the situation that fits. Our team will point you to the guides that answer the next question.

I’m New to SEO

The fundamentals, explained without jargon. Start here if you’re building from scratch.

  • What Is SEO?
  • Technical SEO Guide
  • E-E-A-T: How Google Judges Trust
  • Google Search Console Guide
  • How Long Does SEO Take?

Full step-by-step roadmap

I Need More Local Customers

Everything you need to rank in your market and turn search visibility into qualified opportunities.

  • Complete Local SEO Guide
  • Google Maps Ranking Factors
  • Citation Building Guide
  • Review Generation Systems
  • Get Your First 50 Reviews

Google Business Profile guide

My Traffic Dropped

Algorithm update hit? Rankings disappeared? Start here.

  • How Core Updates Work
  • Recovering From a Penalty
  • Content Audit Guide
  • The Helpful Content System
  • Information Gain Scoring

2026 algorithm changes

Your Industry

Strategies Built From Real Campaigns

Generic marketing advice fails because every industry is different. These guides are built from actual client work, not theory.

Law Firms

  • SEO for Law Firms
  • Personal Injury SEO
  • Criminal Defense SEO
  • Family Law Marketing
  • Estate Planning SEO
  • Attorney Review Strategy
  • Law Firm Content Marketing

Contractors & Home Services

  • SEO for Contractors
  • SEO for Home Services
  • HVAC SEO Strategy
  • Plumber Marketing
  • Roofing SEO
  • Electrician Marketing
  • Landscaping SEO
  • Pest Control SEO

Medical & Dental

  • SEO for Medical & Dental
  • Healthcare Content Under YMYL
  • Dental Local SEO
  • Dental Website Design
  • Patient Review Strategy
  • Local SEO for Dentists

Go Deeper

Content, Technical, and Algorithm Intelligence

The substance behind the strategy. Deep guides on every pillar of modern digital marketing.

Content & Authority

  • Content Marketing Strategy
  • Internal Linking Strategy
  • Building Topical Authority
  • How to Write Content That Ranks
  • Content Repurposing
  • Content Calendar Planning
  • Blog Post Optimization

Technical & On-Page

  • On-Page SEO Checklist
  • Link Building in 2026
  • Local Link Building
  • Backlink Analysis
  • Competitor Analysis
  • WordPress SEO
  • Winning Featured Snippets
  • Fixing Duplicate Content

Algorithms & Updates

  • 2026 Algorithm Changes
  • How Google Ranks Websites
  • AI Overviews and SEO
  • Schema Markup Guide
  • Schema for Local Business
  • Voice Search and SEO
  • Mobile SEO

Tools & Decisions

The Right Tools and the Smart Investments

What to use, what to skip, and where to put your budget. These are the tools and decisions our team works through in active campaigns every week.

The Tools Our Team Actually Uses

  • Google Analytics 4 for SEO
  • Screaming Frog Tutorial
  • Free SEO Tools That Work
  • Ahrefs vs SEMrush vs Moz
  • Rank Tracking Compared
  • Facebook Ads vs Google Ads

Budgets & Smart Decisions

  • How Long Does SEO Take?
  • What SEO Costs in 2026
  • Calculating SEO ROI
  • PPC vs SEO: When to Use Each
  • How to Hire an SEO
  • In-House vs Agency SEO
  • Why SEO Agencies Fail
  • SEO for Startups

Paid Advertising

  • Google Ads for Local Business
  • Landing Page Optimization
  • Remarketing Strategy
  • SEO Reporting: What Matters
  • SEO Audit Checklist
  • B2B SEO Strategy

Do This Today

Quick Wins You Can Implement in 20 Minutes

Pick one of these, do it today, see results this week. Each guide is focused on a single, specific improvement you can make right now.

Title Tags That Get ClicksWrite for humans and search enginesMeta Descriptions That WorkIncrease your click-through rateImage SEO Quick WinsFixes most websites missCore Web VitalsFix the right things firstGBP Weekly Posts5-minute local ranking tacticNAP AuditFind citation errors fastFix Keyword CannibalizationStop competing with yourselfRobots.txt & Sitemap Check10-minute technical auditSchema ValidationMake sure Google sees your data

Work With Team Marketing By Kevin

Senior SEO Strategy for Businesses Where Search Has Real Financial Value

This is a focused, senior-led operating team for established businesses with meaningful customer value, a serious competitive market, and the ability to implement a sustained plan.

A Strong Fit

  • You need senior SEO, editorial strategy, digital PR, or measurable search-growth direction.
  • A qualified customer is valuable enough to justify careful, sustained execution.
  • You can share your website, market, goals, current acquisition economics, and investment range.
  • You want honest priorities and documented decisions, not guaranteed rankings.

Probably Not a Fit

  • You want a one-off phone consultation, sales demo, or free custom strategy.
  • You are shopping for the cheapest article, backlink, or generic SEO package.
  • You cannot provide the information needed to connect marketing work to business value.
  • You need an unsupported guarantee or an undisclosed paid placement.

New engagements are handled by email only. If the fit is strong, you receive a clear written next step—without a sales call.

See the Engagement Fit
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The system behind our own results

Turn Real Business News Into Something People Can Find, Trust, and Act On.

Your Business Did Something Worth Finding. Make Sure People Can Find It. Team Marketing By Kevin built this publishing system for our own brands and private clients in some of the most competitive markets online. After years of using it at scale, we are opening the same results-driven operation to qualified businesses that need more than a press release upload.

Check My Announcement
See How the System Works
  • One-time purchase
  • No required sales call
  • Managed publisher submission
  • Proof after publication

One story. Every decision connected.

01
Find the search opportunityDefine the question, keyword territory, and reader outcome.
Plan
02
Build the strongest true storyShape verified news for the reader and the selected publisher.
Create
03
Use the right routeMatch the announcement to the strongest eligible distribution path.
Place
04
Document what happenedDeliver accepted copy, live URLs, pickups, dates, and available analytics.
Prove
Thousandsof real releases completed across years of production
Hundreds weeklymanaged in a typical operating week
Executive-establishedpublishing relationships earned through volume and experience
One accountable teamstrategy, writing, placement, revisions, and proof

News event first

Search-Planned Press Release

For a launch, partnership, expansion, appointment, report, award, or milestone that deserves a credible public record.

From $595

  • Multiple managed distribution routes
  • Optional professional writing
  • Publication Record after acceptance

Explore Press Release Routes

Understanding first

The Rare Find Advertorial

For a complex offer, founder story, category, or repositioning that needs room to be understood before the reader reaches the sales page.

From $1,495

  • MBK writing required and included
  • ACCESS Newswire/Newswire route
  • Managed revisions and publication proof

Explore the Rare Find

Competitive footprint

Authority Stack

For businesses that need several distinct public assets built around different searches, questions, and proof gaps.

From $4,950

  • Three or five distinct stories
  • Search and route plan included
  • One structured campaign workflow

Check Stack Eligibility

Publisher approval, downstream pickup, indexing, rankings, traffic, leads, and sales remain outside any provider’s control. MBK’s commitment is to make every controllable decision with ranking intentions and document the real result.

About Team Marketing By Kevin

Built by a Team That Does the Work

Kevin Mahoney founded Marketing By Kevin after a career in sales and marketing taught him to judge every strategy by one question: does it help the business move, or does it only look good on a dashboard?

Today, Kevin leads a senior operating team with experience across SEO, content, publishing, campaign operations, and quality control. We use these systems on MBK-owned brands and private-client campaigns in competitive markets—then bring what survives that test to the work we do for you.

Some contributors choose to remain private, and we respect that. What clients receive is clear: specialist capability, one accountable company, and a results-driven process from strategy through documented execution.

Meet Team Marketing By Kevin

Kevin Mahoney

SEO Consultant · Chicago

info@marketingbykevin.com

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SEO and digital PR for businesses that need to grow their search visibility.

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