Episode 12 | Optimize Your Business for the Google 3 Pack How do you get your business in the Google 3 Pack, also known as Google Maps?  When you do manage to get your business listed how do you dominate the Google 3 Pack section of the Google Search Engine Results Page? This week I […]

Ep 11 | YouTube Optimization for SEO Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few years you know that video has become a huge part of marketing and the internet in general.  Business owners are encouraged to create videos and upload them to YouTube as a means of marketing their businesses.  And so […]

Episode 10 Two SEO Hacks You Can Crush Your Competition With I wrote a blog post about an SEO hack that you can use (ethically) to increase traffic by 95% (or in some cases 200-300%).  I discovered some other hidden benefits to this SEO hack so that was the focus of this weeks episode.  Then […]

This week I reviewed an article on Forbes “7 SEO Trends That Will Dominate 2017“.  I also received a question during the show. What is the most important aspect of SEO currently? I spent some time on the answer.  Content is still the most important part of SEO but not quite the way it was […]

Episode 8 | 5 Things Your SEO Forgot About I recently wrote a blog post about the 5 Things Your SEO Forgot & Why It’s Hurting Your Business.  In that blog post I discussed what SEO providers who are not staying current with best practices may be overlooking some things, what those things are and […]

Episode 7 | The Future of SEO in 2017 2017 is rapidly approaching so it only seemed logical that it was time to discuss the near future of SEO and what business owners need to look out for.  SEO evolves all the time.  The days of keyword stuffing and adding your website URL to every […]

This week we discussed a blog post I found about the 5 Best Ways to Beat Your Competition Using SEO.  After reviewing the article I discovered they only listed 4 methods but I analyzed them and provided additional information.  Here is a short synopsis:   Know Your Competition:  When it comes to SEO you should […]

This week we talked about how Google determines who ranks higher for keywords, or why your keyword ranking has dropped.  There are over 200 ranking factors for Google but we only had time for about 8.  Here are some of the things to look for: Is the Keyword in the URL? Is the Keyword on […]

It’s all the rage…Google Rankbrain.  Wait, you never heard of it?  Ohhhh.  Well those of us that help businesses with SEO have been hearing about Rankbrain for a while now.  It was introduced to the Google core Algorithm a year ago and today accounts for 15-30% of all search query results. Rankbrain returns search results […]

This week we talked about the Penguin 4.0 update and what it means to your SEO efforts.  The penguin algorithm on Google focuses on backlinks.  The last update was in December of 2014, almost 2 years ago.  That means if you were penalized 2 years ago you were only able to remove those penalties with […]