Tag: SEO

April 17, 2024

If you own a local business, it’s quickly becoming imperative to understand Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE) and how to adjust your local SEO strategies to maintain and even enhance your presence for optimal visibility, traffic, and revenue. The […]

April 16, 2024

Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from Ines, who asks: “Can we go over how/if keyword optimization will change (after the Helpful Content update)?” Great question, and one that gets asked a lot, especially when sites get penalized, remain stagnant, […]

April 15, 2024

Search marketing is a unique aspect of digital marketing in that it requires multiple skills and “hats” to wear if you want to have a person or team manage it from end to end. SEO, especially, requires more disciplines than […]

April 11, 2024

Google and Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai sat down for a discussion on AI that inevitably focused on the future of search. He explained his of search and the role of websites, insisting that the only thing different is the technology. […]

April 10, 2024

A massive change is coming to search. As Google experiments with AI in its standard search results and its Search Generative Experience (SGE), marketers must understand how to adapt their content strategies for new AI-impacted search experiences. Since 2023, Google […]

April 8, 2024

Over the years, search engines have encouraged businesses to improve the mobile experience on their websites. Today, all websites should be mobile-first. Google prioritizes the mobile versions of websites when indexing them for mobile and desktop. Mobile has gone from […]

April 8, 2024

As an agency, consultant or in-house provider, delivering quality is a top priority. But what exactly defines a “quality” SEO service? Is it solely about achieving results? Or are there other important factors to consider? This checklist outlines key elements […]

April 5, 2024

With the expansion of generative AI and its integration into most SEO workflows and processes, coupled with the significant impact of layoffs in the tech sector, one has to ponder: is AI poised to replace all of our jobs? In […]

April 4, 2024

Research by BrightEdge shows that traffic is surging to Perplexity and where the opportunities lie for optimizing for traffic, particularly for ecommerce . What Is Perplexity AI? Perplexity is a self-described Answer Engine founded by researchers and engineers from OpenAI, […]

April 3, 2024

The March 2024 updates have severely impacted the search engine results pages (SERPs). Within days of the updates going live, Google issued manual actions that resulted in websites being deindexed. Google said it will remove 40% of low-quality, unoriginal content, […]

April 1, 2024

Content continues to sit atop the list of priorities in most marketing strategies, and there is plenty of evidence to support the reasoning. Simply put, content marketing is crucial to any digital marketing strategy, whether running a small local business […]

March 29, 2024

Does it ever feel like your SEO recommendations and projects get lost in the shuffle or deprioritized by other teams? If you work in-house, you’ve likely experienced the “fear of missing out” (FOMO) when it comes to getting your optimization […]

March 27, 2024

Three trending SEO shockwaves could shake marketers to their core vitals. But don’t panic. You can still use search to drive engagement and traffic. You just need to revisit your SEO strategy to prevent your valuable content from getting buried […]

March 25, 2024

2023 was a breakout year for artificial intelligence (AI), and 2024 does not show any sign of slowing down. Generative AI features became a part of the user interfaces of top search engines, social media networks, advertising platforms, productivity software, […]

March 20, 2024

If your business isn’t building quality backlinks, you’re not increasing prominence. If you’re not increasing prominence, you’re missing one of the fundamental criteria to rank higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs). As Google shares, prominence is based on […]

March 18, 2024

This article will show you how to create a simple SEO plan. This plan focuses on a single group of related keywords applicable to your business’s primary offerings or individual products/services. The plan is concise and fits onto a single […]

March 14, 2024

A/B testing for SEO is different than typical UX/CRO testing. Despite how quickly search evolves and best practices change, some changes must be tested before rolling out. Testing can help justify further investment or help prevent a potentially negative impact. […]

March 14, 2024

The rollout of Search Generative Experience (SGE) will change Google SERPs – that’s pretty much indisputable. Whether AI will dominate the SERPs altogether is up for debate. If you’re reading a few strategically placed Google hints, you know there’s an […]

March 12, 2024

Google’s March 2024 core algorithm update is penalizing sites made with AI generated content and it’s a fact that AI-generated content cannot meet the quality standards that Google’s  various documentations outline. But there is still a way to use AI […]

March 8, 2024

I have been in the SEO industry for over seven years, and I have been leading the SEO team for the last year and a half. One thing that keeps the job exciting is how dynamic the industry can be. […]