SEO Trends: 2021 Trends Recap and a 2022 Look Ahead

Where did the year go? Specifically, around SEO, do you feel you have kept up pretty well, or has life, non-stop “urgent” marketing projects, and just trying to survive the ups-and-downs from this year kept your focus elsewhere? If the latter, I got you. In no particular order, check out 10 SEO changes, trends, and…

1-Hour Guide to Writing a Year-End SEO Report

Let’s turn to your SEO year-end review and reflection report. Off the bat – did you see progress and growth this year? I’d like to challenge you to spend ONE HOUR ONLY outlining this report, looking at the data, sketching in the details, hitting spellcheck, and calling it a day. Get in and get out…

5 SEO Redesign Basics

Redesigns strike both anticipation and fear in the heart of marketers, particularly when it comes to understanding how a redesign will impact SEO. If you’ve been going into redesigns blindly when it comes to SEO, redesign basics will give you a good jumpstart to feeling more confident. This article is designed to equip you with…

Is SEO Hard? {Spoiler Alert YES} – Here is the #1 Explanation Why

I was recently reading through a discussion forum consisting of a group of marketers and SEO professionals lamenting why SEO is such a struggle. This is something I’ve tried to articulate for some time now as to exactly why SEO is as complex and nuanced as it is. In some ways, it is what it…

What Is an SEO Campaign? And Why Do You Need One Now?

If you’ve been a dabbler in SEO but have never known how to quickly and effectively generate an organized effort that yields results high-performing results quickly, then this is for you. What is an SEO Dabbler, Anyway? An SEO dabbler is someone who occasionally does a bit of SEO work here and there randomly as…

“Predictable SEO” – Why This Phrase Fires Me Up

There are a lot of things that fire me up. People leaving their shopping carts in the middle of a parking lot. Drivers not using their blinker. Bright phone screens in a dark movie theatre (I miss those days!). People telling me I look like the mom from Home Alone (true story). Add something else…

Keyword Mapping 101: Why a Map is Critical to SEO Success (Templates Included)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that not all Google searches lead people to the homepage. In fact, this is not just a universal truth; it is a fundamental principle of SEO. I would say that of the searches I do daily for business and personal reasons, less than 15% lead me to a website’s…

Is Managing SEO Really Necessary?

Today, I was initially planning to share a tutorial with you about SEO keyword mapping—one of the most important yet undervalued SEO deliverables. (And yes, I know, we’re getting wild and crazy over here.) But a recent conversation I had with an SEO doubter got me thinking (which is always scary). Being the SEO-savvy marketer…

SEO is a Bottomless Bucket of Work – Here’s How to Make It Manageable

Have you ever heard the analogy about the bottomless bucket? Let me give you a few examples: About 13 years ago, I read a book about babies and naps that became the bible for helping me help my babies nap and sleep well. It said that it’s up to parents to watch for the signs…

How Long Will It Take for SEO Results? Google Weighs In

A Google rep was recently asked and weighed in on how long SEO takes for new pages. Whew, if ever there was a loaded question that required a lot of caveats. (Early on in my career as an SEO, I was asked “How Long Does SEO Take to Show Results?” and I completely bombed the…