SEO

In mid-2018, the EU had the greatest impact on the tech industry EVER with the implementation of their overarching privacy law: GDPR. Since the EU doesn’t have the same lobbying culture that we do in the US, tech companies and the industry overall didn’t have enough influence on the wording of the law as they …

Hiring for SEO is really hard and it is about to get even harder. After an extended period of time where many large organizations chose to not focus on SEO internally, there is suddenly renewed interest in hiring for SEO. The following is my opinion based on independent research on the sequence of events behind …

In the early days of SEO, the process of choosing keywords to target was quite literal. It really mattered whether you optimized for the singular vs plural version of a keyword or which specific synonym you included in a piece of content. In the same vein, ideas such as keyword density (using a keyword multiple …

This post was first published on Techcrunch on May 16, 2019 Amazon dominates the top ranking positions of Google for tens of thousand of ecommerce queries, but there are plenty of products in newer shopping categories where Amazon has not yet achieved SEO supremacy. Retailers in nascent verticals have an opportunity to follow Amazon’s SEO …

Understanding how long it will take to generate results is one of the biggest questions anyone looking to undertake any SEO effort is going to want to answer. The challenge with this and many other questions is that there is no blanket answer. Each and every site has its own unique fingerprint in Google’s index …

When compared to any marketing channel, organic SEO is going to be one of the most profitable channels because there is a relatively low initial investment and the costs can be amortized over a multiple year period. The basic ROI formula for customer acquisition channels is whatever the value of the customer is to the …

While there are many debates within the realm of SEO over what strategy is most effective to grow SEO traffic, the one thing everyone can agree on is that content – in any format- is the most critical component of any organic effort. Fast pages with a clean architecture will never drive any organic value …

Year after year in December there have , many have been predicting the year of impending death of SEO and there were some years, I almost believed it. Now, not only do I not think SEO is on any sort of death bed, I think that its brightest years are still to come. For years, …

I was once talking to an entrepreneur about the SEO performance on his site, and I suggested that he might want to get an SEO site audit to make sure that all of his bases are covered when it comes to SEO. He immediately rejected that idea since as he said “we already have Moz, …

Sports fans celebrate the Super Bowl as the annual culmination of the football season where the champions from the AFC and NFC meet on the field for a fierce 60-minutes of playing time. Only one team will come out on top as the winner, making the other team the automatic loser. The winning team will …