
Small business SEO: Your questions answered
Being a small business is tough. Many businesses fail in the first year, and many more will not make it to the five-year mark. But...

SMX Advanced: A paid search roundup
One of my favorite aspects of SMX Advanced is the guarantee of emerging with a list of new tests to try out, along with pointers given by...

5 successful B2B AdWords best practices for any company
AdWords is a brutal marketplace for many B2B businesses. There’s low search volume and high competition, resulting in extremely expensive...

SMX Advanced session: Mobile-First For The Advanced SEO
SMX Advanced was amazing this year, and when they asked me to write up a session, I immediately asked to cover the mobile-first session....

5 must-do technical SEO audit items in 2017
In recent months, we’ve seen many important technically focused Google announcements, such as an update on JavaScript crawling...

Early performance results from Google’s update to close variants
Back in March, Google began expanding its definition of what constitutes a close variant exact match, a change they expected to roll out...

How SEO can create budget efficiencies in paid search campaigns
Oftentimes I’m asked, “Why should I invest in paid media when I already rank in position one for many organic search results?” Well, to...

What link builders really want you to know
Our job is rough. I have done many things in SEO, and none have even come close to being as mind-numbing and frustrating as link...

Advanced testing: What 4,000 A/B tests can teach you
SMX Advanced has always featured the industry’s top talent discussing what they’re passionate about: search marketing. Last...

What advanced SEOs need to know about algorithm updates
Times have changed. Gone are the days of yearly algorithm updates that would upend the search results and leave us scrambling. These...

7 changes by Facebook that make it a real local search player
The race to steal market share from Google in local search has been futile. Google dominates search with over 63 percent market share,...

SEO: The missing piece in brand protection
Let’s face it — if you have worked in the industry for a while, you are aware that a stigma has existed around SEO for years. In addition...

PPC strategy: Planning beyond the click
Google AdWords, Bing Ads and other paid media platforms are attractive channels to reach a targeted audience, foster brand awareness and...

Dear Google: 4 suggestions for fixing your massive problem with fake reviews
Hey Google, If you’re reading this, you already know that fake reviews on Google have been a hot topic lately — and it appears the...

2017 growth hacks: Optimizing organic market share
Welcome back to my eight-part series providing growth hacks to search marketers. I began by sharing growth hacks for protecting your...

Why ‘good’ isn’t good enough in Google Shopping
Growing revenue in Google Shopping by 80 percent YoY sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? But what if I told you that, based on that growth...

4 reasons your PPC programs can fail
None of us set out to have our PPC programs fail. But sometimes they do, despite our best intentions. Why do these programs fail? There...

How to stop worrying about Google updates
As SEOs, we tend to obsess over changes to the organic results. It usually works like this: You get to your computer in the morning....

Learn 3 proven methods for winning additional PPC budget from your clients
One of the chief success metrics for our agency’s account management team is organic growth. We define organic growth as the amount of...
























