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We See What Others Don’t

Embryo was founded in 2015 as a business that was very aware of the need for a company that could spearhead innovation, growth, and development. In just a few short years, the company, powered by a raft of incredible talent, has done just that.

We never tire of helping our clients, across a range of industries, including but not limited to, finance, automotive, tourism, manufacturing, and e-commerce. The digital channels we leverage allow them to grow their teams, dominate their industry’s online space, and most importantly, increase their revenue.

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    Our environment fosters the growth of our business and our people. Collaboration is what drives our creativity. We value inclusivity and we are all in this together.

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    Our environment fosters the growth of our business and our people. Collaboration is what drives our creativity. We value inclusivity and we are all in this together.

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Who are The Inn Collection Group?

The Inn Collection Group owns dozens of stunning, picturesque inns across Northumberland, the Lake District, Tyne and Wear, Yorkshire, and County Durham. Providing the perfect place to rest up after a busy day exploring England’s finest landscapes, The Inn Collection Group offers premium, rustic accommodation at fantastic rates.

Our Team

Meet Your Content experts

  • Kara Smith

    Kara Smith

    Senior Content Manager
  • Shona Worsman

    Shona Worsman

    Lead SEO Copywriter
  • Danielle James.

    Danielle James

    Content Editor
  • Lauren Entwistle

    Lauren Entwistle

    Content Writer
  • Klaudia Kubica

    Klaudia Kubica

    Content Executive
  • Jane Howkins - Embryo

    Jane Howkins

    Content Writer
  • Martha Peters

    Content Writer
  • Ciara Johnson

    Ciara Johnson

    Content Writer
  • Dalia Rodriguez

    Dalia Rodriguez

    Content Writer

Our Team

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  • Callum Leonard

    Callum Leonard

    Head of PPC
  • George Noon.

    George Noon

    PPC Lead
  • Amy Phelan

    Amy Phelan

    Senior PPC Executive
  • Thomas McGuigan

    Thomas McGuigan

    PPC Account Manager
  • Chelsea Powell

    Chelsea Powell

    Senior PPC Executive
  • Victoria Wynters

    Victoria Wynters

    PPC Executive
  • Kris Boorman

    Kris Boorman

    Senior PPC Account Manager

Our Team

Meet Your SEO experts

  • Jamie Beatty.

    Jamie Beatty

    SEO Account Manager
  • Sam Welch

    Sam Welch

    SEO Executive
  • Amy Leach

    Amy Leach

    Organic Lead
  • Alisa Thorley

    Alisa Thorley

    SEO Executive
  • Adam Chapman - Embryo

    Adam Chapman

    Technical SEO
  • Callum McCormick

    Callum McCormick

    SEO Account Manager
  • Ryan Jones

    Ryan Jones

    SEO Executive

Our Team

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  • Harriet Tuite.

    Harriet Tuite

    Head of Paid Social
  • Megan Airey.

    Megan Airey

    Paid Social Manager
  • Kasey Healy

    Kasey Healy

    Paid Social Executive
  • Tom Jowle

    Tom Jowle

    Paid Social Manager

6 White Hat SEO Techniques

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Fast loading speeds:

Getting your website to load, jump from page to page, and function quickly is one of the best ways of being seen as worthy in the eyes of ranking algorithms. Having a site that loads quickly keeps users happy when they’re on your site. If it’s slow, laggy, and not optimised, users get frustrated and leave. If you think that Google’s main priority is user experience, it’s easy to see why fast sites rank better.

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Fast loading speeds:

Backlinks are so explicit in the way they tell Google “This site is legitimate, reward it”. Working to manually build backlinks from sites with high domain authority takes time, and isn’t particularly fun but it’s priceless.

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Fast loading speeds: Fast loading speeds:

Messy, bloated code means it takes longer for crawlers and spiders to understand the context of your site and index it. Ensure your code – be it on the backend or in places such as the URL structure

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Fast loading speeds:

This may sound obvious and 99% of people reading this will understand the need for this. Doing an ounce of keyword research is going to help the relevance and authority of your content 10 fold. Pick one target keyword and disperse that at the correct points around your content (not too much, not too little). Further, pick 3-5 supplementary keywords that you can use to support that target word. Beyond that, you can focus on the ontology of your piece, we’ll be touching on this later.

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Fast loading speeds:

Creating lots of content circles back to our idea about White Hat SEO techniques taking longer and being more difficult. Yes, it might take a day or two to write two, three, or even four thousand words for an important service page. But by doing so you’re giving yourself the best chance of succeeding because you’re offering out more knowledge, answering more questions, and generally just proving that you’re worthy of a good ranking. Some may worry that content for users which exceeds a high word count will put them off reading it. However, it’s important to understand that Google can cherry-pick answers from any point on a web page to answer any query (you only have to look at the ‘People Also Ask’ section for proof).

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Fast loading speeds:

One of the easiest things you can do to improve your site, yet it’s so often ignored. Making sure that alt text is on images, meta titles and descriptions are filled out correctly – and include your target keyword – and page titles are relevant to what you’re writing about are all easy-to-fix things.

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Ross Green MD

Ross Green

Managing Director

James Welch.

James Welch

Chief Innovation Officer

Lloyd Morris-Fletcher.

Lloyd Morris-Fletcher

Strategy Director

Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham

Sales Director

Harriet Sutton-Kirkby.

Harriet Sutton-Kirkby

Client Services Director

Operations

Grace Nolan.

Grace Nolan

Head of Performance

Ruby Hume

Ruby Hume

Operations Manager

Jen Forrester

Jen Forrester

Head of Strategy

Heads

Hannah Matthewman

Hannah Matthewman

Head of Brand and Marketing

Cicely Ward.

Cicely Ward

Head of HR

Sam Thomas.

Sam Thomas

Analytics Lead

Harriet Tuite.

Harriet Tuite

Head of Paid Social

Callum Leonard

Callum Leonard

Head of PPC

Cameron Barrington

Cameron Barrington

Head of Creative

Charlotte Fallon
Charlotte Fallon

Account Director

Megan Ritchie.
Megan Ritchie

Client Services Manager

Jamal Maynard.
Jamal Maynard

Project Manager

Steven Woodcock
Steven Woodcock

Senior Client Services Manager

Chloe Hryziuk
Chloe Hryziuk

Client Services Manager

Harriet Sutton-Kirkby.
Harriet Sutton-Kirkby

Client Services Director

Sam Evans
Sam Evans

Senior Client Services Manager

Hannah Matthewman
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Head of Brand and Marketing

Charlie Meyler
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Brand and Content Strategist

Paul Cunningham
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Sales Director

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Business Development Manager

Connor O'Rourke
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Business Development Executive

Paige Delahunty
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Business Development Executive

Danny Waites
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Data Analyst

Jen Forrester
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Head of Strategy

Lloyd Morris-Fletcher.
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Strategy Director

Kara Smith
Kara Smith

Senior Content Manager

Jamie Beatty.
Jamie Beatty

SEO Account Manager

Shona Worsman
Shona Worsman

Lead SEO Copywriter

Sam Welch
Sam Welch

SEO Executive

Danielle James.
Danielle James

Content Editor

Lauren Entwistle
Lauren Entwistle

Content Writer

Amy Leach
Amy Leach

Organic Lead

Alisa Thorley
Alisa Thorley

SEO Executive

Adam Chapman - Embryo
Adam Chapman

Technical SEO

Klaudia Kubica
Klaudia Kubica

Content Executive

Jane Howkins - Embryo
Jane Howkins

Content Writer

Callum McCormick
Callum McCormick

SEO Account Manager

Martha Peters

Content Writer

Ciara Johnson
Ciara Johnson

Content Writer

Ryan Jones
Ryan Jones

SEO Executive

Dalia Rodriguez
Dalia Rodriguez

Content Writer

Emma Day
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Tamara Siddiqui
Tamara Siddiqui

Senior Digital PR Strategist

Penelope Banton
Penelope Banton

Digital PR Lead

Daniel Scarth
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Cameron Barrington
Cameron Barrington

Head of Creative

James Thornes
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UX Designer

Josh Parker Designer
Josh Parker

Senior Designer

Our Team

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  • Charlotte Fallon

    Charlotte Fallon

    Account Director
  • Megan Ritchie.

    Megan Ritchie

    Client Services Manager
  • Jamal Maynard.

    Jamal Maynard

    Project Manager
  • Steven Woodcock

    Steven Woodcock

    Senior Client Services Manager
  • Chloe Hryziuk

    Chloe Hryziuk

    Client Services Manager
  • Harriet Sutton-Kirkby.

    Harriet Sutton-Kirkby

    Client Services Director
  • Sam Evans

    Sam Evans

    Senior Client Services Manager

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What Our Clients Say

  • Embryo is the best team and agency we have ever worked with! Their PPC and SEO strategies have been fundamental to our business growth. I couldn’t recommend them more.

    Daniel Sheridan, Operations Director, Sheridan Lifts
  • After our digital results started to stagnate we were looking for an agency to help push us to the next level and achieve the results we wanted, and this is exactly what Embryo have and continues to deliver.

    Kate Easdown, Marketing and Business Development Manager, Dental Law
  • Paid marketing channels are crucial to The Range’s online success so finding an agency that understood that and would have the tools in place to take it to a new level was critical. Not only are Embryo incredibly innovative and knowledgeable, but they used all that to tell a story about how their interpretation of PPC and paid social would be ideal for The Range.

    Jamie Messham, Chief Financial Officer, The Range
  • After years of experience dealing with multiple agencies, I almost believed there wasn’t one out there that truly cared about the results delivered. Since engaging with Embryo to manage our PPC our business has gone from strength to strength, which has allowed us to scale at a healthy rate.

    Kieran Harris, Owner, Senior Stairlifts

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How To Create A Bulletproof SEO Strategy

SEO checklists tend to be fairly generic and not very helpful to the reader, there are a lot of basic things in there that don’t go beyond ‘do this, do that’. To create a bulletproof SEO strategy you need to always be thinking about the “Why?” behind whatever it is you’re doing. Further, everything must be aligned back to your overall KPI, sure great keyword rankings are important but if they don’t bring you new revenue or increased traffic, then what’s the point?

    In Short

  • Set goals from the very start
  • Research your competitors, what are they doing?
  • Undergo extensive keyword research
  • Invest time and money is attaining good quality links
  • Optimise the back end of your website from the very start
  • Measure results in 3-month chunks

About

Who are The Inn Collection Group?

The Inn Collection Group owns dozens of stunning, picturesque inns across Northumberland, the Lake District, Tyne and Wear, Yorkshire, and County Durham. Providing the perfect place to rest up after a busy day exploring England’s finest landscapes, The Inn Collection Group offers premium, rustic accommodation at fantastic rates.

If the Shoe Fits: A Basic Example of How SEO Works

Let’s run through a quick example to set the scene. Imagine you own a shoe shop and you want to increase the number of sales you make online. The natural next step is to be found for shoe-related keywords such as “black shoes for men” “school shoes for girls”, and “what is the best shoe for runners?”

The shoe shop would then – either in-house or by hiring an external search marketing agency – optimise their website in a variety of ways to ensure that they are found on page one of Google for the shoe-related keywords that matter to them.

That, in the broadest, most top-level sense, is what SEO is: Getting your website in front of people that are going to engage with your website, blogs, or pages.

Now, there’s a huge caveat here, and that is that the practice of enhancing your search engine rankings requires months of commitment, hard work, and holistic approaches that complement each other.

Working on one aspect, e.g. link building, is not enough. That investment in links needs to be complemented by including relevant keywords throughout the website, ensuring your site’s Core Web Vitals are good, and a clear SEO strategy that defines what you intend to do over a period of time.

Given Google’s secrecy, there are no guarantees when it comes to ranking, it’s more about following (a lot) of best practices. These practices are relatively little in isolation but when added together they have a transformational quality – provided people have enough patience in the process.

To borrow a quote from Sir Dave Brailsford, the man behind Team GB’s Olympic cycling success, optimising your site for leading search engines is about “Incremental marginal gains”, all of which add up.

It might seem like a daunting thing to try and achieve but internet users type literally trillions of key terms every day. This qualified traffic which is, as you read this, going to your competitors if you’re not at least attempting to rank on page one for 80-90% of the keywords that matter to you, has a variety of different intentions behind them. These intentions, which we’ll touch on in more detail soon, are varied but almost always come from a user wanting to buy or learn about a product or service.

Add to this the fact that content in search results is constantly changing to provide the most seamless user experience possible, and the need to invest in internet marketing strategies is just emphasised further. Think about it, when was the last time you searched for a question on Gooale and didn’t have to click on a page to get your answer. Google’s page 0 answers (those which don’t require you to click anywhere are just one of many features that are all skewed to make the user’s life more enjoyable.

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What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimisation (or, as we’ve established, SEO) is the term that describes all the ways that an individual, group, business, or anyone who wants to be found online for something, can tweak their websites to improve the performance of their websites on search engines.

Major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing spend their days – among other things – scanning new web pages, crawling them to understand their contents, and indexing them for the right thing.

Think of it like a librarian sorting books in the correct sections – fiction and non-fiction – and genres.

The search engine crawlers, or spiders as they’re often called, have a busy job of crawling BILLIONS of new web pages every single day. Once they understand what the pages, blogs, and other types of content are about, they then have to decide which search query or queries that page fits under. The final task is to decide – based on dozens of ranking factors – which of these pages deserves to be at the top of page one for the given keywords.

Nine times out of 10, the results that are the top of page one will receive the organic search traffic that comes its way.

You can see why so many people work so hard to essentially impress search engine algorithms. If they rank top, it’s the nearest guarantee to online success you’re going to get.

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