• Google E-E-A-T: Authority of Content, Its Author, and The Website Where It Lives

    Google E-E-A-T: Authority of Content, Its Author, and The Website Where It Lives

    Google E-E-A-T, while not a direct ranking factor for SEO, can mean the difference between a website that ranks and one that gets lost in the vast wasteland of Internet noise. Google recently added an extra E to its acronym, turning E-A-T into E-E-A-T, which is even more annoying to type. Anyway, that extra E…

  • How to Avoid an SEO Calamity with Your Next Website Redesign

    How to Avoid an SEO Calamity with Your Next Website Redesign

    First of all, I love the word calamity. Second of all, website redesigns are all too often the cause of an SEO calamity. You know, loss of rankings, traffic, and, gulp, sales! One of the most common website redesign mistakes is to leave SEO out of the process until the last minute. You spend tons…

  • Google E-A-T, Link Building, and SEO’s Future

    Google E-A-T, Link Building, and SEO’s Future

    I was talking to Karl Hindle, our CEO and resident SEO nerd, about the latest Google Core Algorithm update. My concern was whether or not our clients would be affected by this update. His answer confirmed what I suspected, “if you’re doing white-hat SEO, these updates rarely hurt and often help your rankings over time.”…

  • Search Intent, Content Marketing, and B2B SEO Priorities

    Back in the day, I used to talk endlessly about Utility Content, content marketing that solved a problem for the user. Your content should entertain, inform, or educate. It should serve a purpose. All of that still matters but these days we need to also focus heavily on search intent. Why? Because Google does. What…

  • Does Website UX Matter for SEO?

    Does Website UX Matter for SEO?

    In the past, in another life, I argued that SEO was simply just good UX (user experience). This was a massive oversimplification of what SEO really involves, and I admit I was naive and not very learned in the art of technical SEO. Well, now I work for Karl Hindle, a world-class SEO, and I…