Today a friend relayed to me a clickbait experience they had and asked me what the point of this was from an SEO perspective. The answer is kind of nuanced and kind of difficult. As Google gets better and better at indexing and understanding content, I'm hopeful they are better at weeding out clickbait stories, [...]
I shared the amazing Local Search Deep Dive last week with Mike Blumenthal and Carrie Hill discussing how amazing Google has become at understanding images and relating them to search entities. You can listen and read about that here. I wanted to share the tool they mention and give a little bit of perspective on [...]
2019 has been a year of change in the world of SEO and Google Local Search. So was 2018, and 2017, and... The point is that if you are going to invest in SEO, which can be incredibly successful when done right, you need to be ready for change. In fact, I wrote this post [...]
With the Google algorithm updates of 2018 and 2019, I have had many site owners come to me that saw dramatic drops in traffic. Most often the dramatic drop is due to old content. Many of these sites have been churning out blog posts and articles on a regular basis for years that was leading [...]
There are many, many SEO tools out there to help you move your site up the rankings. Some promise instant results or "automated SEO" that will take care of everything and let you focus on your business. In actuality, like with any tool, they don't have much value unless you understand how to apply their [...]
Links are often the most misunderstood part of SEO for small business owners trying to compete in this confusing environment. With recent studies showing inbound links still being a huge part of ranking success, I still have many talks with business owners that think if you just insert keywords on your pages and in your [...]
If you are ready to take the jump into the high ROI world or SEO in 2019, you should know how important trust has become to this top-tier digital marketing strategy. Not only do you need to show the world and Google that your company is trustworthy, but you need to hire someone you know [...]
Google had announced long ago that they were officially moving to a "mobile first" index this year and have slowly rolled it out throughout the year. If you have an account with Google Search Console for your site, and you should, you would get an email when the official change happens for your site. As [...]
I shared a post from Marie Haynes yesterday about what we are seeing following the massive Google algorithm update on August 1. She does a good job of digging into the data. The update is called the Medic update because it seems to have hit medical sites that hardest, or what those in the industry [...]
A recent study was recently published by Clutch showed that SEO was the least popular digital marketing channel. It stated that only 44% of businesses are spending money on SEO and pointed out the longer process before results were seen and the confusion about how it works as the leading cause. I would also point out [...]
