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Numbers worth knowing before you read further
384 participants across all SEO seminars Each one arrived with a real site, a real problem, and left with a concrete plan — not a certificate.
What actually happens inside these seminars
Orla Fennwick runs a small photography studio in St. John's. She came to a Kelamipud SEO seminar in autumn expecting a lecture about keywords. She left debugging her own site's crawl budget with a participant sitting next to her — a developer from a regional e-commerce shop.
That kind of cross-pollination is what makes the format work. When a local restaurateur, a freelance writer, and a service-business owner all look at the same Google Search Console report, each of them sees something different. The conversation that follows is harder to replicate in any recorded course.
Kelamipud's seminars use real local search data, actual Newfoundland business examples, and structured peer review of participants' own sites. No invented case studies. The friction is real, and so is the learning.
What each seminar session covers
Sessions vary by cohort, but these are the recurring areas participants consistently ask to go deeper on.
Crawlability and indexing issues
Most small-business sites block search engines from pages they actually want ranked. Participants audit their own sites live using Screaming Frog.
Local search visibility
Google Business Profile, NAP consistency, and proximity signals for businesses serving Newfoundland customers specifically.
Reading Search Console without guessing
Participants learn to distinguish between a ranking drop, a click-through rate problem, and a seasonal pattern — they look different in the data.
Content that earns rankings over time
Writing for a page that already ranks at position 8 is different from writing for one buried on page four. Seminar exercises treat them differently.
Page speed as an actual ranking factor
Core Web Vitals are measured, not just explained. Participants run PageSpeed Insights on their own URLs and triage the output together.
Link acquisition without cold outreach
For local businesses, the most reliable links come from community involvement, supplier relationships, and regional directories — not email campaigns.
Want to know what participants say directly?
The stories on this page come from people who attended Kelamipud seminars and agreed to share what changed in how they approach SEO. Reading their accounts is more useful than any agenda description.
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