What Is Google Clamping Down On? Spring 2024 Updates — Whiteboard Friday


So one of them is a lot of SEOs right now, and a lot of website owners are saying that they feel independent sites have recently, and especially in these recent updates, been heavily punished. Small independent sites have done much worse than they have done historically, or maybe they’re being outranked by larger sites […]

AI-Powered Gap Analysis: 5 Ways to Find What’s Missing at Every Stage in the Buyer Journey


Why do visitors who start on service pages convert into leads? Because they have commercial intent. Every SEO learned this on day one of keyword research class. But let’s ask a question less common in SEO school… Why DON’T visitors who start on service pages convert into leads? It’s usually because the page failed to […]

Carving a Career in SEO — How NOT to Get Taken for a Ride


Decide on the type of agency Before moving to an agency, research it well. Decide whether to work in a small, large, or multinational company. The benefits from the large agency may be that you can work in a different team more easily. For example, if you work in affiliate marketing or PPC and transition […]

Steps for Better Local Business Client Meetings


Download a PDF version of the above checklist for your office or to share with employees to ensure you’re having your best and most productive client meetings. Detailed key to the checklist: 1. Check expectations It’s a momentum dampener when either you or your client arrives at a meeting unprepared or you find yourself staring […]

Combining SEO Data to Make Smarter Marketing Decisions — Whiteboard Friday


So let’s do priority first because this is the big one. Canonicals Firstly, we’re going to take things off in the canonicals. Suppose that we have some canonical problems across our website. Let’s say we run a big e-commerce site and we have some canonical problems on our category pages, on our product pages. How […]

7 Ways SEO and Product Teams Can Collaborate to Ensure Success


Let’s consider the example of developing author pages for a blog. At first glance, this may seem straightforward, but it involves multiple components and collaboration across teams: Page design (UX): The user experience team designs the layout, ensuring it’s intuitive and aligns with the overall site aesthetic. Page coding (developer): Developers turn the design into […]

rite AI Content Optimized for E-E-A-T


While AI can produce content en masse, it often lacks the personal touch and depth that E-E-A-T demands. Here are the pitfalls of unguided AI content and how to avoid them. Problem 1: Lack of personal experience AI-generated content often lacks the personal touch and real-world experience that makes high-experience content. It may provide correct […]

We Lost a Local SEO Client — How We Solved It


We also set up a completely separate practitioner listing that brought in another 80—90 calls a month without competing at all with the client’s main listing. However, it’s not easy to keep the leads increasing at that same rate forever. Sometimes, having early wins like this can set expectations that things will continue to climb […]

6 Things SEOs Should Advocate for When Building a Headless Website — Whiteboard Friday


Now, when you’re thinking about going headless, there are a couple of things to know. Well, first off, is how headless works. The key thing to understand is that the back-end system, that system that holds all of your data, is separate from your customer experience. Those fields and data are coming over via an […]