
The SEO benefits of developing a solid site structure
When a user lands on your site for the very first time, do they know where to go? Can they find the information they are searching for...

The Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors: 2017 edition now released
Search Engine Land’s Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors has been updated, with its fourth edition now available. It sees factors...

LiveRamp adds people-based search targeting to IdentityLink
Let’s say you’re a Honda auto dealer in Boston, and you want to target some of your previous and current customers with a new sale of...

Is your information architecture costing your e-commerce web shop millions in lost sales?
If you need water and decide that drilling a hole in Hoover Dam is a good idea, you’ll be rewarded with a thin stream that lasts for a...

New Quality Score metrics: What matters most, and how to improve your ads
As you are no doubt aware, Google recently added additional reporting and transparency to the Quality Score (QS) metric that’s...

The silent revolution of search
Conventional wisdom within ad tech is that search is boring. In the display ecosystem, life is exciting: in the last decade alone,...

5 strategies to improve your ad copy
Ad copy is a very important element in online advertising, but it’s often “set and forget” — once written, advertisers move on to newer...

5 massive SEO and content shifts you need to master right now
Google has thrown a lot at marketers in just the last five years. All of these big changes — from rolling out major algorithm updates to...

2017 SEM growth hacks: Gain monster paid search growth using competitive data
Welcome back to my eight-part series providing marketers with growth hacks for their paid search campaigns. I began the series last month...

The anatomy of ad copy relevance: The new Google standard
Recently, enterprise-focused Google representatives have been encouraging a metric called “Relevance,” which is believed to be one of the...

Let’s get visual: Shopping from within images
A little over a year ago, I published an article on the importance of data feeds as influencers of future search: Structured data feeds...

Relevance vs. authority: Which link has more value? (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of my series on relevance versus authority in link building. In this series, I’m sharing expert opinions from around...

Canonical tags are easy, right? What’s the worst that could happen?
How does a canonical tag help with SEO? The canonical tag helps solve duplicate content issues by setting the preferred version of a page...

Relevance vs. authority: Which link has more value? (Part 1)
Relevance versus authority: these two metrics are always at the forefront of a link builder’s mind. Both authority and relevance should...

Capturing ‘made in the USA’ searches: Strategies for building awareness and sales
Since making the commitment in 2014 to purchase goods made in the in US whenever possible, I’ve watched and learned how companies build...

3 tactics we’re using for Answer Boxes
“Position 0” is the new holy grail in organic search rankings. A normal position 1 ranking is great and all, but I’ll take an answer box...

Pinterest’s object-recognizing Lens feature now scans QR codes, too
Welp, QR codes are a thing again. Snapchat’s spin on the QR code has popularized the bar code’s ugly offspring to the point that...

3 logical myths about rankings that can destroy a business
I was scratching my head trying to decide what to write about this month. Lately, I’ve been writing pieces that focused pretty heavily on...

Why e-commerce SEO is NOT a one-shot wonder
A “one-shot wonder” is someone who gets drunk after one shot — an extreme lightweight. In business parlance, the term refers to an...
























