You know your market better than anyone. Sometimes we overthink and get stuck when it comes to content creation for our small business SEO. I always say that you should always err on the side of just being helpful to your customers. But how do you get started, when you decide you want to show [...]
One of the key aspects of helping small businesses succeed with SEO is knowing where to focus your resources. There are literally hundreds of ranking factors to worry about. Each having different weights for different types of searches and industries. Typically the small business owner doesn't have the time or budget to have every "i" [...]
This is an update of a prior post that mostly holds true today in 2021. Clients ask me all the time how long their content needs to be. More than ever with broad core algorithm updates in June and July of this year (2021), the ranking factors and needs to rank are becoming more nuanced [...]
Anchor text is another area where there can be a lot of discussions and, I believe, analysis paralysis. In the world of SEO, we often reverse engineer to try to understand ranking factors. We take a look at what pages are successful and then put all of the data from large samples of those successful [...]
Content is King in the world of SEO and sometimes it helps to get your content out there early and get positioning before your competitors in the small business world. One of the questions I hear most often is "what do I write about?". It seems simple, but once you start to focus I find [...]
One of the most common questions I get from clients is "What do I write about?". SEO success relies on good, and unique content. Google's job is to provide the best source and answer for user search queries. As Google evolves, they begin to look at your pages and even entire site as entities that [...]
With so much content out there, it can be difficult to figure out what to write about and how to write it. What is the optimal length? What points do I need to include? What style is most engaging? It can all be difficult and sometimes leaves us frozen in analysis paralysis where we can't [...]
There are a lot of moving pieces in the SEO world and literally, hundreds of different things are shown to have correlations with your rankings in Google. Often, for small business owners who just step into this world because they see how important it is, it leads to immediate confusion. They meet with a few [...]
With the major changes in AI and Google's understanding of content, research is showing that information architecture and content silos are becoming more and more important. Pruning content and building content clusters may be critical things to focus on in 2020. Add these skills to your toolbox. For the small business that is struggling to [...]
Fresh off of a nice, but brief talk with the Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce, where I really had to streamline a longer SEO talk into just the basics, it got me thinking about some very basic stuff small business owners can keep in mind to help with their SEO in 2020. I am [...]
