Why TES Jobs needs a strong digital presence
In today’s competitive UK education recruitment market, a powerful digital presence is essential for reaching top teaching talent, engaging schools and academies, and driving sustainable growth. For TES Jobs, a trusted name in the human resources sector, the quality of your website, its visibility in search engines, and the performance of every landing page directly influence brand credibility, candidate acquisition, and revenue outcomes.
Alex Costin, a seasoned digital marketing strategist with over 17 years of experience, can help tes strengthen its online footprint through expert market research, technical SEO, website development, and data-driven campaign management—all tailored to the needs of business directors across the United Kingdom.
Market research and audience understanding
Before any technical or creative work begins, understanding the market is critical. Alex Costin specialises in in-depth market research that uncovers candidate behaviours, employer expectations, competitor strategies, and untapped opportunities within the education recruitment industry. This intelligence ensures that every decision—from keyword targeting to content strategy—is grounded in real data rather than assumptions.
For tes, this means identifying the precise search terms, pain points, and motivations of both teachers seeking new roles and schools looking to hire qualified educators, leadership staff, and support professionals. With this insight, Alex Costin can craft campaigns that resonate, drive qualified traffic, and improve conversion rates across all digital channels.
Website development and landing-page quality for tes
A well-structured, fast-loading website is the foundation of digital success. Alex Costin builds and optimises websites using modern frameworks like Drupal and Bootstrap 5, ensuring mobile responsiveness, accessibility, and search-engine friendliness. Every landing page is designed with clear calls to action, intuitive navigation, and content that aligns with user intent.
For tes, this translates into professional, high-performance pages that not only look great but also convert visitors into leads—whether that’s a teacher uploading a CV or a school requesting recruitment services. Each page is engineered to support business goals and reflect the brand’s authority in the education recruitment sector.
Technical SEO and search visibility
Technical SEO ensures that search engines can crawl, index, and understand a website’s content effectively. Alex Costin conducts comprehensive audits to identify and resolve issues such as broken links, duplicate content, missing meta tags, and poor site architecture. These fixes improve organic visibility and help tes rank for relevant keywords across the UK.
Importantly, technical SEO is not a one-time task. As search algorithms evolve and new content is added, ongoing monitoring and refinement are necessary to maintain and improve rankings over time.
Slow pages and poor mobile performance
Page speed and mobile performance are critical ranking factors and user experience indicators. Slow-loading pages frustrate visitors, increase bounce rates, and reduce conversions. Alex Costin optimises images, minimises code, leverages browser caching, and uses content delivery networks to ensure fast load times across all devices.
For tes, this means a seamless experience for teachers and school leaders accessing the site on desktops, tablets, or smartphones—key to retaining attention and encouraging engagement in a competitive digital environment.
Core Web Vitals and page-speed improvements
Core Web Vitals—Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)—are Google’s user-centric metrics for measuring page experience. Poor scores can negatively impact rankings and conversions. Alex Costin implements targeted fixes such as server-side rendering, deferring non-critical JavaScript, and reserving space for dynamic content to improve these metrics.
Real-world evidence underscores the value of these improvements. According to a published case study on web.dev, Vodafone Italy achieved a 31% improvement in LCP, which correlated with an 8% increase in sales, a 15% improvement in lead-to-visit rate, and an 11% improvement in cart-to-visit rate. This is an external example and not a guaranteed forecast for tes, but it illustrates the potential business impact of performance optimisation. [web](https://web.dev/case-studies/vitals-business-impact)
By focusing on Core Web Vitals, Alex Costin helps tes deliver a faster, more stable, and more engaging user experience that supports both SEO and conversion goals.
Creation of new landing pages to increase acquisition
Strategic landing pages are powerful tools for capturing leads and driving specific actions. Alex Costin designs and develops new landing pages tailored to distinct audience segments, services, or campaigns. Each page is optimised for relevance, speed, and conversion, with clear value propositions and frictionless forms.
For tes, this could mean dedicated pages for specific teaching roles such as primary teachers, secondary subject specialists, leadership positions, or support staff, as well as school partnership programmes—each engineered to convert visitors into qualified inquiries and support business development efforts.
Backlink strategies and website authority
Backlinks from reputable, relevant websites signal authority to search engines and can improve organic rankings. Alex Costin has access to more than 10,000 backlink opportunities that may help improve a website’s authority and visibility across search engines and AI services. However, backlinks alone do not guarantee rankings, traffic, or AI visibility.
Quality, relevance, editorial context, technical SEO, and useful content are equally important. A sustainable backlink strategy focuses on earning links through valuable content, strategic outreach, and partnerships—not manipulative tactics that risk penalties.
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PPC campaign management and reducing wasted advertising spend
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can deliver immediate visibility, but without careful management, budgets can be wasted on irrelevant clicks or poorly performing ads. Alex Costin audits and optimises PPC campaigns across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and AI-driven platforms to reduce cost per acquisition and maximise return on ad spend.
For tes, this means tighter keyword targeting, compelling ad copy, high-quality landing pages, and continuous performance tracking—ensuring every pound spent contributes to measurable business outcomes.
Organic social media campaigns
Organic social media builds brand awareness, trust, and community without relying solely on paid promotion. Alex Costin plans and executes social campaigns across platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, creating content that engages teachers, school leaders, and education decision-makers.
For tes, this could include thought leadership articles, industry insights, success stories, and interactive posts that position the brand as a leader in education recruitment while driving traffic back to the website.
Conversion tracking and measurement
Without accurate tracking, it is impossible to know what is working. Alex Costin implements robust conversion tracking using tools like Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, and platform-specific pixels. This allows for precise measurement of job applications, school inquiries, newsletter sign-ups, and other key actions.
For tes, this data-driven approach ensures that marketing decisions are based on real performance, enabling continuous optimisation and better allocation of resources across channels.
A realistic explanation of potential income improvement
It is important to set realistic expectations: results depend on the website’s starting position, existing traffic levels, current conversion rate, campaign budget, average customer value, and the quality of implementation. No ethical practitioner can guarantee specific rankings, traffic volumes, or revenue figures without first analysing these factors.
To illustrate, if a website generates £100,000 in monthly revenue attributable to digital activity and improvements produce a measured 10% uplift, the additional revenue would be approximately £10,000 per month. This is an illustration, not a forecast. A real estimate requires data on monthly visitors, leads or sales, conversion rate, average client value, current revenue, PPC spend, cost per acquisition, lead-to-customer rate, organic social performance, and the number and quality of existing landing pages.
Alex Costin works collaboratively with tes to gather this data, set achievable goals, and measure progress transparently—ensuring that every investment is accountable and aligned with business objectives.