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Hong Kong's most innovative SEO agency

  • 15 years of experience

  • English and Chinese websites

  • Custom-built, cutting-edge tools

  • Proven results


Clients

Airbnb
Airbnb
China Mobile
Indigo Living
Lane Crawford
Calvin Klein
Casetify
Linda Farrow
Wristcheck

How We Work

Our SEO approach

Let's say you're an ecommerce store selling pet food in Hong Kong for example...

1. Research how people search

Keyword research

The first step is keyword research. This means looking at what keywords your site currently ranks for as well as looking at what keywords your site should rank for.We don't just scratch the surface here, but love rolling up our sleeves to get into the guts of your business: gaining knowledge about your industry, your strengths and advantages within that industry, as well as the mindset and language used by consumers to search within a given product category.We take multiple passes going through all the keywords and make a final list containing only those that are relevant to your business.

2. Create a content strategy

Once we know how people search, we prioritize each keyword (based on search volume, competition, existing ranking position and other factors) and categorize them into topics and sub-topics, which themselves are also prioritized (based on the average priority of the keywords within).

Topic map

These topic clusters are then mapped to a page on your site. Sometimes you'll already have a page that's relevant for a topic, but many times you won't.You now have a content strategy: what existing pages need optimizing, what pages you need to build, all the keywords each page should include, and everything prioritized so you get maximum results fast. We'll also put together a SEO writing guide tailored to your website so you know how to write in a way that Google will love your content.

3. Write content

You can have your team execute the content strategy or have us take it on. We're fluent in both English and Hong Kong Traditional Chinese.

Content strategy board

4. Make technical updates

At the same time we're researching keywords, we're also looking under the hood of your site for technical issues holding it back from ranking higher.Google visits your site regularly to crawl all your pages. Does it get lost, stuck, or confused? Where? How? We look at your crawl logs, analyze your indexation data, crawl the site ourselves as Google would, and write out recommendations for your developers.

Indexation issues

After all, all the work you're about to embark on with the content strategy would be for nothing if Google can't even crawl and index your site properly.

5. Improve your authority

Link building

Last but not least, we improve your site's authority. Simply put, this means getting other websites in your niche (or that cover your niche) to talk about your website and include a link to it. If this sounds a lot like public relations, that's because it is. If you already have a PR team we'll work with them to build links, amplifying their existing efforts.Besides building new links, we'll also monitor your existing links so that if another site removes their link to you or a link for whatever reason breaks, you'll know and can fix it.

Recent Results

Monte Carlo
Bookairfreight

Bitwave
Bitwave

How We Charge

The job scope is largely determined by:

  • the size of your product catalog (or service offering)

  • your business model

  • tech stack

  • geographic focus

  • language focus

For example, are you offering a finite catalogue of products where each product is listed by you and within your control or is your site a marketplace with a theoretically limitless number of products?The cost also depends on the number of ways that people try to find you (or that you want to sell under). Do you sell something so specific that only a few keywords are applicable to your product offering (e.g., “electron microscope”) or does your offering potentially fall under many keywords (e.g., “down jacket”, “winter jacket”, “men’s jacket”, “navy jacket”).SEO service for a typical, medium-size website in Hong Kong (based on finite number of products) begins at HK$30k/mo. We can also do a one-off SEO audit and strategy to pass to your team to execute, which starts at HK$80k.

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Our agency has worked with small sites and big sites, B2C sites and B2B sites, English sites and Chinese sites. No client or assignment is too small or unusual for Cogney.

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"[Cogney founder] Doug Pierce is an SEO legend and we had him on retainer for the truly difficult technical stuff."Tommy Griffith, Head of SEO

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