SEO will never die and here’s why
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SEO will never die and here’s why

At this point in my career, I think I’m *starting* to get old enough to where I frequently begin see the same questions crop up, as in “is SEO dead?” and it’s many variations, every so often. Lately, according to the data, SEO, at its core is rising in popularity: Why? Well, one theory is…

What I learned from improving a website’s header navigation: the road to page 1
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What I learned from improving a website’s header navigation: the road to page 1

This post is a short case study on an in-house initiative I began with my new team in January implementing recommendations from our agency to increase the number of URLs in our header navigation. I’m fortunate, as the acting SEO Manager, to benefit from the previous SEOs who have overseen the site and laid the…

One day at Google: Webmaster Product Summit
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One day at Google: Webmaster Product Summit

On Monday, November 4, 2019 around 50 or so SEO’s descended upon the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, California to attend an invitation only one-day Product Summit. There was much of this… See what I mean? SEO’s love Twitter btw. There are tons of insights under the event hashtag #GWCPS. I highly recommend combing through it…

3 Key Tenants of Content Marketing
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3 Key Tenants of Content Marketing

I get lots of questions about content marketing and how it can be improved using SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I thought I would take a moment to capture the advice I give for the questions I get asked most often on this topic. Since there are a lot of questions that are tangentially related, I…

Diagnosing A Drop In Traffic: 6 Data Sources to Check & Why
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Diagnosing A Drop In Traffic: 6 Data Sources to Check & Why

It’s a common scenario for an SEO Manager. You come into the office one morning, open up your SEO dashboards and notice a large drop in traffic to a core product page for your main software product.  It seemed to happen almost over night. How do you go about diagnosing the issue? What are some…

Why You Should Care About Search Engines: It’s How People Find You Online
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Why You Should Care About Search Engines: It’s How People Find You Online

The short answer: because search engines are the gateway to paying customers finding you online. Aside from the glaring fact that 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine and there are over two billion people online (that’s roughly 40% of the world’s population). The reality is, a majority of your customer base is…