This course is helpful and fun. If you are completely new to the topic, you will leave with an understanding of the tools that are available to you and how to start using them. With some practice, you will soon be ready for one more advanced Luckyweb's courses. Rafi is a very patient teacher and he explains tasks in a clear manner so that also complete beginners have the opportunity to follow and learn. This is a fun class with interesting students from different backgrounds and industries. I recommend it to anyone who is new to WordPress and is thinking about building a website with it.
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Press and media page for Luckywebs, the London SEO and web agency founded by Mo Rafi. Interview requests, background and media enquiries.
Luckywebs is a London-based UK SEO and web agency, and this page is for journalists, editors, podcast hosts and event organisers who need background on the agency, comment on search and AI visibility, or an interview with one of the team. Everything below is the short version. For interview requests, headshots or anything we have not covered, the quickest route is our contact page.
A teaching history that goes back to Google Campus
Luckywebs was founded by Mo Rafi, who taught WordPress website building at Google Campus London from 2012. Those workshops were built for people with no technical background who wanted to build and manage their own websites, and the original version of this very page existed to support those London events. The teaching habit never went away. Explaining how the web actually works, in plain language and without jargon, is still how the agency runs every client relationship. The longer version of that journey is on our story.
That era is preserved in the Luckywebs archive, as the pages were first published. Nothing on them has been modernised; each carries a note marking it as historical.
The 2012 Google Campus workshop: the free workshop announcement from November 2012, the February 2013 London workshop, and the original session schedule: registration and website setup, domain names, web hosting, security, website management, SEO, social media and web analytics.
The course years: the WordPress training page, the one-day course, the taster session, the webinar programme, the November 2013 tasters (22 November, 28 November), the free WordPress course, the free website course, the course testimonials and the courses at Google Campus, Campus London, Paddington Library and Kensington Central Library, plus the beginners webinar and the SEO bootcamp at Google Campus.
Pages and posts of the era: the WordPress blog index, the client showcase, free WordPress themes, theme customisation, best WordPress course in London, beginners web design and the WordPress install page.
What Luckywebs does today
The agency has moved a long way since the workshop years. Today Luckywebs works across five areas:
- Website design and redesign. Fast static Astro builds that load quickly, score well on Core Web Vitals and stay easy to maintain.
- Search engine optimisation. Technical, local and content SEO for businesses that want measurable growth rather than vanity reports.
- Generative engine optimisation (GEO). Making sure clients are visible and accurately represented when people ask ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI assistants for recommendations.
- Google Ads management. Paid search run with the same accountability as our organic work.
- AI-assisted efficiency. Helping businesses use AI tools to cut admin time and speed up day-to-day work.
Hosting comes bundled with the sites we build and manage, on fast LiteSpeed VPS infrastructure with SSL, backups and Cloudflare in front. The old standalone hosting packages are retired.
Topics we can speak on
If you need a quote, a guest for a podcast episode or a speaker for an event, these are the subjects where we have direct, current experience:
- AI visibility for businesses. Whether AI assistants recommend your business, and what changes that. Our guide on whether ChatGPT recommends your business is a good primer on how we approach it.
- Local SEO for service businesses. How trades, clinics and professional firms win local search. See our local SEO checklist and our guide to Google Business Profile optimisation.
- Website speed and static rebuilds. Why we moved client sites from heavy CMS installs to static Astro builds, and what that does for performance.
- Paid search on lean budgets. Running Google Ads for small and mid-sized businesses without waste.
- Teaching non-technical owners. Lessons from years of workshops on helping founders run their own web presence.
For a sense of how we write and think, the blog is the best starting point.
Results we can stand behind
We do not hand out vague claims. These are client outcomes we can evidence on request:
- Circa London: enquiries up 40%
- RakLAW: leads up 60%
- TWF Roller Garage Doors: revenue up 44%
- East Anglia Ultrasound: bookings up 52%
- Powertools Direct: sales up 22%
Luckywebs holds a 4.7 star Google rating from 60 reviews.
People available for comment
- Mo Rafi, Founder. The Google Campus London teaching history is his, and he is the agency’s lead voice on SEO, AI visibility and web strategy.
- Katy Mironenko, Head of SEO. Speaks on organic search strategy and the day-to-day reality of ranking work.
- Robert Malnieks, Client Strategy Director. Speaks on how businesses should choose, brief and measure an agency.
Press materials and media enquiries
We send logo files, team photographs and agency background on request, rather than leaving download links on this page to go stale. Tell us your outlet, your angle and your deadline through the contact page and we will get you what you need.
Not press? If you are a business owner who landed here looking for help with your own website or search visibility, the better starting point is a free consultation.
Great experience, very informative. The course was an excellent overview of setting up a website, then Rafi broke down each section into steps to follow. Rafi was very generous with his time overrunning to allow for Q&A. I feel confident now to create my own website Thank you
Read moreIt's been a great course. If you want to create your first website without, this is a good course to get started. Rafi explained everything by making the learning process easy and has been so professional and kind enough to answer any question.
Read moreRafi is a very experienced and patient teacher. He is adept at explaining how to build a SEO ready website from scratch, explaining the basic concepts you'll need to create the foundations so when you leave the course, you have the confidence to add your own content. I would highly recommend his courses, no matter what skill set you have or website you have in mind.
Read moreRafi WordPress workshop is absolutely good, he is very patient and very knowledgeable. I learned the how to build my website and the difference between plugins and widget which for me as a beginner was unheard of. I particularly appreciated learning how to secure my site he gave us step by step instruction on how to do it as well as recommending trustful sources to find tools and how to search for them on google. Brilliant class I really recommend.
Read moreI have been working with Rafi since 2011. firstly with the Enterprise society at University College London, where Rafi run two Wordpress courses during our events. These courses were very well attended and we received very positive feedback. Secondly, Rafi has been helping me build a blog with high profile interviews, targetted at the well-educated public in my home country (Brazil). We've been having Skype sessions combined with screenshare, during which Rafi helped me customise theme, homepage, posts, adding slider images, resizing images, etc.The amazing thing is that Rafi teaches me the steps, so I become independent in building the website. Moreover, Rafi is very approachable and patient. I highly recommend Rafi .
Read moreEver since I've met Rafi at a fashion networking event a few years ago, he has been super helpful in helping me build my website using WordPress. He always answers any questions I might have and makes the whole process of creating, designing and building your website a whole lot easier. I am very happy that he is always there when I need him. His workshops are brilliant, where he makes everything quite straightforward to understand, even if you have little or no experience of websites or coding. I would recommend him at any point. Great job, Rafi!
Read moreHave a burning small business project that needs me to personally get directly involved in writing up a website to express the ideas to the final consumers, and then regularily update it. The hand on session Luckywebs has been immensely helpful and has demonstrated that I will be capable of achieving this objective. The instruction was focused relevant and extremely well presented , and will continue with future sessions in the future . Great ! Have a burning small business project that needs me to personally get directly involved in writing up a website to express the ideas to the final consumers, and then regularily update it. The hand on session Luckywebs has been immensely helpful and has demonstrated that I will be capable of achieving this objective. The instruction was focused relevant and extremely well presented , and will continue with future sessions in the future .
Read moreRafi is a great teacher and the course is very informative. Why learn to build a website or blog if it isnt going to be SEO ready? Rafi helps with all of that and has some extra tools as well. I Definetly recommend his class to any newbie!
Read moreA great seminar! I will definitely be coming back to update my skills with WordPress and will be bringing friends along who desperately need to build their own websites. Ravi is a great teacher who made everything look so simple. Highly recommend it! Jay Kay
Read moreExcellent free workshop hosted in RBKC libraries
Read moreI highly recommend this course. It is great for beginners, who have never worked with WordPress before. The course is very intense and informative for a 7 hours session. Rafi was amazing. He was very patient with all of us and made sure we understood every step. I feel confident to finally crate my own website.
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