
Link free or die
Why are we so afraid of links? Back in the old days of SEO, we loved any link if it was free, even if it was from a spammy scraper site...

Sharing is caring: Click share and post-holiday shopping success
Click share is a key way to gauge the success of your Shopping campaigns. The metric shows you the percentage of total possible clicks...

5 ways you can improve your new business’s visibility on Google Maps
New businesses need all the help they can get to attract customers, generate revenue and establish themselves to compete with existing...

Need to contact Google My Business support? Use Twitter!
It’s the end of the month, and that means it’s time for another edition of Greg’s Soapbox! Except this time, it’s not so much me standing...

Links to AMP content are showing up outside of search results
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) standard was designed to bring the fast-loading, clean experience of native apps to the open web. With...

A review of free PPC reporting solutions from Google
Doing PPC reporting right often involves some trade-offs between time and money. The perfect report takes a lot of time to build — time...

Why UX is pivotal to the future of SEO
Search engines are advancing at the fastest rate we’ve seen in many years thanks to machine learning. These advances have allowed the...

Has machine learning created a new model for SEO ranking?
The way Google ranks pages in its search results today is much different from the way it ranked them two years ago. Why? In early 2015,...

7 ways small retailers can compete with retail giants using Google Shopping
To a small niche retailer, it can seem daunting (almost pointless) to invest too heavily in Google Shopping. After all, how could you...

Will my organic rankings suffer if I don’t have a blog?
A client wants to develop a content strategy so they can rank for more keywords but isn’t sure if they can muster the resources to create...

Hyperlocal marketing will soar in 2017: 5 tips to stay on top
The conversation about local search is not a new one; marketers have been discussing the importance of targeting customers by location...

Dos and don’ts of PPC advertising for universities
If you’re a marketing manager of a post-secondary education institution (or a PPC agency working on its behalf), then you already know...

6 business types that reap the most reward from local SEO
National — or even global — SEO was once the revolutionary way to gain visibility on the internet. Now, it has become incredibly...

Organic traffic & link building for small businesses
When it comes down to it, the hardest part of SEO for most small businesses is building links and authority. Keyword research, on-page...

How to write PPC text ads in 2017’s sophisticated environment
I’ve been in the paid search industry for a nearly a decade. A lot has changed since I first learned how to write a simple ad with a...

Broken link building made easy
I see questions on forums every day from people asking how they can build links to their website. There are many ways to build links, but...

Can we machine-learn Google’s machine-learning algorithm?
Google’s rollout of artificial intelligence has many in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry dumbfounded. Optimization tactics...

Missed link-building opportunities: Reclaiming broken links
It’s inevitable. Despite your best efforts to prevent them, there will likely be some 404 errors showing up on your website for old pages...

Keyword SWOT analysis: Finding your content opportunities
If you’ve been working with one client or one site for a long time, you know it can be challenging to keep things fresh, both from an...
























