SEO

Years ago, Google used to have a publicly visible score called Page Rank that ranked the authority of a website based on backlinks. All websites began with a score of zero and as they acquired valuable backlinks the score moved up to a maximum of ten. Most well trafficked sites hovered around a five or …

In 2001, a nonprofit named the Internet Archive launched a new tool called the Wayback Machine on the URL: archive.org. The mission of the Internet Archive was to build a digital library of the Internet’s history, much the same way paper copies of newspapers are saved in perpetuity. Because webpages are constantly changing, the Wayback …

A sitemap guides your website visitors to where they want to go. It’s where they turn if they haven’t found what they are looking from those dropdown menus. Beyond helping your visitors navigate your website, which should be the primary focus of any marketing effort, there are many other reasons to use a sitemap. First, …

In the early days of the Internet and search, Google differentiated themselves from the other search engines by focusing on quality signals to determine relevancy for a query. Amazingly, the other engines – and yes there were lots of other engines – completely ignored quality and looked at keyword matches to pages in the index. …

The tactics and strategies for SEO are very similar whether the target customer is a consumer, business, non-profit or government. In all cases, the goal is to maximize organic visibility for whomever is looking for this particular website or content. The means to achieve this goal are always the same. The real difference in strategies …

Competition and competitors are always a touchy subject in any business strategy, but things could get really heated in the digital marketing realm. Unlike in the offline world where attacking a competitor costs a pretty penny and is very visible, online there are many areas of opportunity to unseat a competitor without breaking a sweat. …

Managing SEO as a product means that SEO asks will have to fit within a typical product prioritization process. In many organizations, product requests must be accompanied with detailed information that would allow a product manager to stack rank any request against any other priority. The stack ranking will typically have the ask as well …

Within Growth circles there is this idea of “product led growth” which upends the whole premise of  marketing a product to promote adoption and instead focuses on getting a great product into the hands of users who become the marketing agents. In this paradigm, users of the product will the love it so much that …

In the realm of worlds where people think that Google is out to get them, there is a popular idea of a duplicate content penalty. As a result, there is a level of unjustified paranoia around ensuring that all content is unique and even efforts made to spin duplicate content into something else. There is …

Once you have decided what type of SEO person you want on your team, you will have a better sense of the skillset you want to ensure they have. With this in mind you can begin crafting an interview process and questions to ask during the interviews. Process Any SEO candidate should always meet with …