This year’s Google I/O 2026 made one thing very clear: Google Search is continuing its shift away from a traditional “10 blue links” experience and towards a far more AI-led, conversational and predictive ecosystem.
Cedarwood Win Eight European Search Awards
Lovely night at the European Search Awards with Cedarwood taking home a total of EIGHT awards including Best Integrated Search Agency! ✨
Reimagining E-E-A-T: How Ethos, Pathos & Logos Supercharge SEO Campaigns
The concept of Ethos, Pathos, Logos and how rhetoric can be used in a powerful manner to drive performance in marketing.
Director Amanda Speaking At SEO Estonia
Last Friday our Director Amanda spoke at SEO Estonia, one of Europe’s leading digital marketing events. Her talk, discussing how Aristotle’s Ethos, Pathos and Logos can help to drive ROI was well-received by the 400 attendees.
SEO for Financial Services: How to Win Trust and Traffic in 2025
Let’s be clear: SEO is not a “nice to have” in this sector – given the strong YMYL guidance across finance, adhering to guidelines and following these processes plays an important role in ensuring visibility for your brand while also meeting regulatory compliance.
Cedarwood Digital Wins Big at the European Search Awards 2025! 🏆
We’re absolutely thrilled to share that Cedarwood Digital has taken home five trophies from this year’s European Search Awards – including all three Agency of the Year categories!
🥇 Best Small SEO Agency
🥇 Best Small PPC Agency
🥇 Best Small Integrated Agency
Winning these three awards is a huge honour – not only do they recognise our team’s dedication across SEO, PPC and integrated campaigns, but they also position Cedarwood as one of the top-performing agencies in Europe. That’s a huge milestone for us, and one we’re incredibly proud to achieve.
Award-Winning Campaign Work
In addition to agency accolades, we were also recognised for the outstanding results of our client campaigns, winning:
- Best Use of Search (FMCG)
- Best Use of Search (iGaming)
These awards celebrate the strategic, creative and data-led work we deliver for our clients day in, day out. It’s amazing to see that effort recognised on a European stage.
A Standout Year For Growth & Community
2024/2025 has been a standout year for Cedarwood Digital. Not only have we seen incredible growth as an agency, but we’ve also focused on giving back to the community and helping shape the future of digital marketing talent.
This year alone, we:
- Launched Manchester DM, a brand-new digital marketing meetup focused on sharing knowledge and growing the northern digital community.
- Partnered with colleges to help students upskill and explore careers in SEO, PPC and beyond.
- Delivered talks, training and insights at a range of conferences and events across the UK.
It’s been a year of ambition, collaboration and meaningful impact – and we couldn’t be prouder.
Thank You
A massive thank you to Don’t Panic Events for organising such a brilliant event and to the judges who dedicated so much time reviewing entries – your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed.
And of course, to our team, clients and community – thank you for being part of the journey. Here’s to continuing to push boundaries, drive performance and make 2025 our best year yet.
Cheers to what’s next! 🥂
Director Amanda On The Main Stage @ Brighton SEO
For her fourth time speaking at Brighton SEO, Director Amanda took to the main stage at Brighton SEO to deliver a talk on “Reimagining E-E-A-T: Using Ethos, Pathos And Logos To Boost SEO Campaigns” drawing on skills that she learnt when studying philosophy at school, Amanda discussed how the valuable rhetoric of Ethos, Pathos and Logos can be applied to SEO campaigns to not just improve performance, but most importantly to improve conversion rate and drive sales and leads – which at the end of the day is why everyone does it!

At the event which had over 2,000 attendees, Amanda went into detail about how to apply these principles to your SEO campaigns and why doing so plays such an important role in ensuring your maximising your return on investment. Key focus areas included:
- Understanding that 87% of people will leave the conversion funnel if they read a negative review or mention of your website – brand perception and awareness is key and building/protecting your reputation plays a key role in this
- Showcasing “benefits” not “features” – why should I use your product/service, what benefit does it have to me? Rather than just listing a specific feature it has, appeal to the user’s emotional side by helping them to understand how it could help them
- Matching user intent plays an important role in keeping users in the funnel – understanding what type of content best resonates with them is important here, do they want content that showcases experience or expertise? Or sometimes do they want a mixture of both?
- Utilising Digital PR effectively to build reputation – how to best use your thought leadership and data-led campaigns to make people find your brand online and ensuring that when people are researching they’re finding what they need to to better understand your brand.
Overall, the outline of the talk focused on how Aristotle utilised “rhetoric” to help persuade an audience to do something – not too different from what we try to do in modern day SEO and provided relatable takeaways that not only help to align E-E-A-T (specifically in YMYL industries) but also help to boost those all important conversion rates.
A big thankyou to everyone who attended the talk – please reach out if you’d like a copy of the deck!
Director Amanda Walls Speaks At The SEO Mastery Summit, Saigon (Vietnam)
Our Director Amanda Walls was on stage at the SEO Mastery Summit, Saigon last week discussing “Using Digital PR To Simultaneously Boost SEO And CRO”

The SEO Mastery Summit is one of the most highly regarded SEO conferences in the world with nearly 500 delegates from around the world attending the week-long conference each year & Amanda was delighted to have been invited to speak at the event. The conference is held each year in Ho Chi Minh City and attracts a huge international audience.
“The SEO Mastery Summit is one of the leading SEO events in the world so it’s great to be able to get on stage and share knowledge with as well as learn from some of the world’s best SEO’s,” she said.
Also on stage, were leading SEO speakers including Craig Campbell, Kavi Kardos, SEO Jesus, Christopher Hofman and many more…
Key themes of the conference focused around the rise of AI and how we can adapt it into strategy to help improve efficiencies, as well as looking at personal branding and the rise of this within SEO. There were many cutting-edge talks discussing recent Google algorithm updates and how to stay ahead of the evolving landscape, as well as some great social networking events and a chance to meet SEOs from all over the world.
Overall, the conference had some great actionable takeaways to bring home for clients, in addition to being a great way to learn from and speak in front of some of the world’s leading SEOs.
Cedarwood Wins SIX UK Search Awards

We are over the moon to announce that we won SIX UK Search Awards at the event last Wednesday – a great way to finish off a record year in 2024! 🎉
On the night we took home:
🏆 Best Small PPC Agency
🏆 Best Small Integrated Agency
🏆 Best SEO Agency (Silver)
🏆 Best Use Of Search (Healthcare) – Patient Claim Line
🏆 Best Low Budget PPC Campaign – Salt Of The Earth
🏆 Best Use Of Search B2C (PPC) – Salt Of The Earth
2024 has been a great year for us as we continue to grow from strength to strength, improving partnerships with our existing clients while growing each of our departments in turn so it’s great to have been recognised in particular for the agency awards which are testament to this.
It was a great evening all round and we are already looking forward to 2025!
5 Steps To Increase Your Organic Click-Through Rate
Organic click-through rate (CTR) is the number of users who click on your website in the SERPs.
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If you have noticed a drop in your organic traffic, don’t panic as there are steps you can take to find out what has happened and how you can recover your rankings and traffic in order to increase conversions.
The Value Of External Link Building In Enhanced E-E-A-T
By prioritising E-E-A-T, Google aims to deliver search results that users can confidently rely on for trustworthy and valuable information.


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