
Four brand-building activities that lay the foundation for SEO
At Google’s inception, one innovation differentiated it as a search engine: It used information gained from off-site sources to inform...

8 simple ways to utilize a blog to improve SEO results
Seemingly every company has a blog these days. Unfortunately, very few organizations fully capitalize on their blog content to maximize...

My 12 most important SEO metrics to monitor
As a digital marketer, you can measure the success of your work in several ways. One of those ways is by examining key SEO metrics....

Law firms spamming Google My Business: Don’t trust your money or your life to them!
Last year, I wrote a piece addressed to SEO companies showing how much they were spamming Google Maps and giving the industry a bad...

SEO SWOT Analysis: Focus your efforts in areas that deliver results
When it comes to SEO, it can be hard to know where to start — and it is easy to waste a lot of time and effort on activities that are...

Choosing an enterprise SEO platform
More specifically, managing SEO through an enterprise toolset can provide the following benefits: Many tools, one interface — enterprise...

Looking to get out of the SEO business? Good!
It’s not your imagination — there’s no denying that SEO has become increasingly difficult over the last few years. A recent thread on...

When SEO isn’t your SEO problem
If you’ve been doing SEO for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly experienced your fair share of failures. And in many cases,...

Why consistent marketing can pay big results for small industrial manufacturers
“Dianna, you’ll never reach your goal if you don’t consistently monitor your diet!” my trainer chastised me after my weigh-in and...

Is the featured snippet bubble bursting?
This article was co-authored with my colleague at Go Fish Digital, Chris Long. We’ve been bullish on answer boxes (also known as featured...

SEO + UX = Success
In the good old days, SEO was simple. You stuffed a page full of keywords, and you ranked number one. Oh, if only it were that simple...

Private blog networks: A great way to get your site penalized
You may have heard about private blog networks (PBNs) before, but you may not be sure what they are or why they are used. A PBN is a...

The final recrawl analysis: A powerful and important last step after implementing large-scale SEO ch
When helping companies deal with performance drops from major algorithm updates, website redesigns, CMS migrations and other disturbances...

3 strategic goals SEO consultants should fulfill
What is the benefit of an SEO strategy? This is a question I get asked quite frequently — and one that I usually have to answer more than...

3 case studies of duplicate content consolidation
It’s commonly held that duplicate or substantially similar content is bad for SEO. When Google finds duplicate content, this creates a...

CEO who forged court order to get Google to remove defamation faces prison
Note: Since this piece was originally published, we’ve received a statement from the firm Michael Arnstein blames for the reputation...

8 game-changing SEO trends that will dominate 2018
With over 200 factors in Google’s algorithm, SEO is a complex science. But it’s not how much you need to know that makes it really...

Why real human users are the key to the best links for you
Let me begin by stating that I do not put an enormous emphasis on SEO when I’m training a link builder. Generally speaking, my team of...

Target the right keywords — for Google AND your clients
It’s been awhile, thanks to a crazy fall conference season, but I’m back — and it’s time for another exciting episode of Greg’s Soapbox....
























