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131: Bias in SEO, Overconfident SEO Case Studies, Google’s SERP Struggles w/Sarah Pokorná11 Jul 202401:08:18

Sarah Pokorná, is Digital Marketing Director at Dragon Metrics. She holds degrees in both Psychology and Digital Marketing and has been doing SEO, Marketing and Psychomarketing in corporate roles for 12 years.

As SEOs, I think we spend FAR too much time obsessing over Google ‘Ranking Factors’ (most recently the API leaks) and NOT enough time trying to actually understand and empathize with searchers – the people we are supposedly making content for and trying to win over in the SERPs. 

In this conversation, Sarah brings her unique perspective drawing from her background in psychology to help unpack some of the psychological perspectives searchers have – particularly cognitive biases.

If you want to gain a deeper understanding and get into the minds of the people who search Google – the same people who traffic websites and ultimately drive revenue and business goals for sites and businesses – this episode is definitely worth a listen!

Topics In This Episode:

  • Cognitive Biases in Search
  • Why were AI Overviews such a miss for Google?
  • The importance of fact-checking for SEO content
  • Search and Social Impacts on the Nervous System
  • How did biases impact how the SEO world reacted to Google’s API Leaks?
  • Biases like Confirmation Bias in SEO Case Studies
  • Why do overconfident people actually believe they are good at SEO?
  • Should Google play a role in preventing misinformation?
  • What else can we as SEOs do to understand searchers better?

And much more – listen now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Articles, Resources, and Links

Find Sarah Online

The post 131: Bias in SEO, Overconfident SEO Case Studies, Google’s SERP Struggles w/Sarah Pokorná appeared first on Evolving SEO.

130: The Future of SEO – Optimism In Uncertain Times w/Will Critchlow13 Mar 202401:15:35

Will Critchlow is the CEO of SearchPilot, an SEO A/B testing company. I invited Will back to Experts on the Wire to discuss the Future of SEO. I feel like things have felt very turbulent and uncertain in the SEO world lately (more than usual!) – because of things like AI/Chat-GPT, changes in how the community engages online, GA4, massive SERP changes from Google, and changes in the economy and world at large post-covid.

I’ve always known Will for having a great perspective on the future of our industry so I wanted to get his take on what the future of SEO holds. Is THIS finally the inflection moment where ‘SEO is dead’? How does he see the next 5-10 years playing out? If it’s not dying, how will it look different? What should SEOs and businesses be doing to future-proof their marketing? How do we all navigate these big changes?

Topics In This Episode Include:

  • How is AI affecting informational queries?
  • What the ancient steel and iron industry has to do with content
  • Is it worth still investing in content marketing?
  • How is the eCommerce SEO space changing? Is eCommerce and spending online down or is it growing?
  • Challenges for new people entering the SEO space
  • And lots more…

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Tools Mentioned

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Will Online

The post 130: The Future of SEO – Optimism In Uncertain Times w/Will Critchlow appeared first on Evolving SEO.

122: Crawl Optimization, How Google Works, SEO Income Studies w/Jori Ford12 Apr 202101:07:46

Tech SEO fans and anyone passionate about the SEO industry, this episode is for you!

My guest for this episode is Jori Ford!

Jori Ford is currently Chief Marketing Officer at FoodBoss, which is a food delivery search comparison engine.

Prior to that, she was Sr. Director of SEO and Content at G2 among many other roles.

In addition to her vast SEO, Content, and Marketing experience spanning over 15 years – Jori also has a very extensive Engineering Background as well and is experienced in how search engine algorithms are actually created.

She has been a Speaker for Search Summit, Tech SEO Boost, and SES – and a columnist for Search Engine Watch.

In this episode:

  • Demystifying the “Magic” of Google
  • Different algos for different industries
  • Historical Content Records in Google
  • How Brand Search Volume may impact Rankings
  • Advanced Crawl Budget and Optimization
  • Crawl budget vs Crawl demand
  • Conserve vs optimize vs expand crawling
  • Why it’s possible for SEOs to be both technical and creative
  • Ways to learn SEO
  • Problems with SEO income studies
  • And lots more!

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

  • Coming Soon!

Find Jori Online

The post 122: Crawl Optimization, How Google Works, SEO Income Studies w/Jori Ford appeared first on Evolving SEO.

033: John Mueller On AMP Pages, Crawl Budget, Podcasting SEO11 Aug 201600:52:54

This week’s episode features John Mueller, one of only five Webmaster Trends Analysts at Google. Warning though: this episode also gets a little technical and nerdy.

But I wanted to create an episode for you all about AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages). This was a really hot topic in the last week, with Google announcing future integration of AMP pages right in normal search results. So I figured, who better to talk to than … someone right from Google!

This episode can serve as an “everything you need to know” about AMP as a good jumping point. So when your boss, client, business partner etc say “hey, I heard about this AMP thing, what is it and should we do it?” you’ll be informed.

John and I also get into some peculiar issues around crawling and “crawl budget”, Podcasting SEO, dates in content and more! So for those of you that might already be up to date on AMP, you can skip ahead about 15 minutes to get to the “fun” stuff

Enjoy!

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Agenda

John’s Background

  • “I’ve been at Google for almost 9 years.”
  • “They asked me if I wanted to come by and visit the office.”
  • “As a kid we lived in Alabama and Texas.”
  • Webmaster Trends Analysts
  • “It’s a pretty small team.”
  • “We’re doing SEO on the internal side.”

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)

  • What is AMP?
  • “A lot of people make mobile websites in a way that is essentially a desktop website.”
  • “Everything is much, much slower.”
  • “It’s an open source project … all are welcome to join.”
  • “AMP pages load extremely fast.”

Benefits of AMPs

  • “The speed aspect makes a big difference with users.”
  • “Conversion rates are usually influenced by faster load times.”
  • Content Delivery Networks will be able to take a load off of the servers
  • “AMPs are mobile friendly by default.”
  • “You can have one site that features AMPs.”

How it works for a smaller site

  • “The end project is moving more towards all kinds of content.”
  • “Regarding more dynamic content, you may want to wait a bit to see how AMP evolves.”
  • “To date, it works best with static content.”
  • “AMP is on a per-page basis…you can mix and match.”
  • “Think about what will make sense for the user (regarding interlinking, etc.)”

‘AMP’ or ‘AMP friendly’?

  • “It’s probably just ‘AMP'”

Establishing AMP

  • “Based on the feedback that we get, we’ll probably tweak things.”

How Analytics Work with AMP

  • “There is an AMP analytics tag you can use.”

Will People Click on AMP results?

  • “We did a lot of tests on how we should label the search results.”
  • “There will be a period for people to get used to the AMP label.”

AMP and Click-through Rates

  • “There have been studies to show that people click through more …”

Search Console

  • AMP error report
  • AMP and search analytics (queries, etc)
  • “AMP is not a ranking factor.”

Crawling

  • “Googlebot has a really good memory.”
  • Crawl budget

Googlebot Video Crawling Podcasts?

  • “There have been discussions to integrate podcasts better into search.”
  • Have transcriptions made of podcast episodes?

Dates on Content

  • “From a personal point of view, I love dates on content.”
  • “From a search point of view, we do try to pull out a date and determine if it makes sense.”

How Many Emails Do You Get a Day

  • “I get over ……. a week! “

Google Panda at Holiday Parties?

The post 033: John Mueller On AMP Pages, Crawl Budget, Podcasting SEO appeared first on Evolving SEO.

032: The Candid Story Of My Journey From Poor Musician To Evolving SEO03 Aug 201601:12:26

Today’s episode features a reverse interview – with me! I sat down with Tom Critchlow at the Marriot in Times Square, while I was there for Affiliate Summit as a speaker.

I reveal a LOT to Tom in the interview – including where “Evolving SEO” got it’s name, challenges we face now, how I approach speaking, the growth of this podcast, what it’s like working with my wife Sarah, unexpected outcomes of podcasting  – and a better term I’ve been using secretively (in my head) to describe “S.E.O”.

Enjoy!

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  • “My mother realized I love music when I was three-years old.”
  • “I had a Bucket Band group with friends from high school.  It was like a little business.”
  • “I would drive 2 hrs. oneway to play an $80 gig.”
  • “I started with me literally having no money.”
  • “I learned to build a website from scratch.”
  • “We can still talk about the industry being … ‘free jazz'”
  • “The term ‘SEO’ is terrible.”
  • “… We have the real world, the digital world, and a search engine …”
  • Search Ecosystem Optimization?
  • “SEO is a tool.”
  • “What am I about?  Therefore, what’s my business about?”
  • “I bought the Evolving domain in December of 2010 and that was the same time I started the LLC.”
  • Working with a spouse
  • “The podcast has done things I didn’t expect.”
  • “90% for me is vitamin D.”
  • “I’ve gone through a whole detox program.”
  • “A lot of things tie back to your physical health.”
  • “It’s a ludicrous idea to separate business from your personal life.”
  • “There’s a direct relationship between how you feel about yourself and the work that you do.”
  • The Ideal Client

The post 032: The Candid Story Of My Journey From Poor Musician To Evolving SEO appeared first on Evolving SEO.

031: Mastering The Power Of LinkedIn w/Viveka von Rosen27 Jul 201600:58:37

I feel like today’s show is going to give the listeners of ‘Experts’ a special edge over everyone else on LinkedIn. That’s because my guest today, Viveka von Rosen focuses 100% of her time and energy only on LinkedIn. She even ranks #1 in Google for “LinkedIn Expert” (try it!).

Today, Viveka will teach us why it’s important to be on LinkedIn (and how a poor profile can actually harm you or your business). She gives a full, spontaneous critique of my profile (with actionable takeaways for everyone). And I have not edited it yet so you can see exactly what she is critiquing (but check soon! I will get to updating it!)

She teaches us some secrets to getting the very coveted testimonials – and tons more!

NEW: you can now ask me a question by leaving me a voice message here – and I will answer on an upcoming show!

Listen to this week’s episode now:

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People

Agenda

Viveka’s background

Why is LinkedIn Important?

Free vs Premium Account

Setting up Profile

  • Personalize the URL
  • Have a good picture (that resembles you)
  • Add a background image
  • Put your business phone number above the fold
  • Put your email address above the fold
  • Add a landing page, unique URL, website, etc
  • Add media links (videos, powerpoint presos, podcasts, slideshare preso)

Networking

  • “Know your audience.”
  • Use Advanced Search option
  • Find trends via people who view your profile

“You’re never going to conduct a business deal (just) on LinkedIn.”

Light Touches

LinkedIn Endorsements

  • “It’s always better when someone says you’re awesome rather than you saying so.”
  • Try to get (at least) two endorsements per skill
  • Ask for a recommendation (give the person talking points)

The post 031: Mastering The Power Of LinkedIn w/Viveka von Rosen appeared first on Evolving SEO.

030: Chatting About Twitter Chats w/Arielle Tannenbaum of #BufferChat21 Jul 201600:52:58

This episode is for anyone that wants to be a better participant in Twitter chats, wants to run their own Twitter chat – or if you simply just love Buffer and want a behind the scenes look at how they run #BufferChat.

My guest, Arielle Tannenbaum has been running #BufferChat for over nine months. With over 300 regular participants, she really knows her stuff and tells us all about the tools, processes and people Buffer uses to keep their Twitter chat running!

Enjoy!

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People

Agenda

Working with Buffer

  • #Bufferchat

Benefits of Hosting a Twitterchat

How to Manage One Company Twitter Account

Using Image Tools and Prescheduling Tweets

Keeping the Chat Organized

Benefit of Posting a Chat Summary

How to Start a Twitterchat

Mistakes People Make While Chatting

Working Remotely

  • Benefits
  • “It’s great to be in a space where you’re the happiest while doing what you love.”
  • “The majority of our communication takes place via Slack.”

Overcoming Shyness in order to Network

Making Introverts Comfortable

The post 030: Chatting About Twitter Chats w/Arielle Tannenbaum of #BufferChat appeared first on Evolving SEO.

029: Facebook Live, Periscope & The Power Of Live Streaming Video w/Alessandra Colaci13 Jul 201600:53:43

There’s probably a lot of us out there that keeps hearing about live streaming video, but we’re not sure how to get started or what to do with it. If you’re one of these people (like I am), now is definitely the time to get involved. Periscope reported to have 10 million users by August of 2015 and that number is surely to have grown. By March of 2016 Periscope had over 200 million broadcasts. It’s really one of the next big waves in social media, that’s just starting to explode.

Personally, I’ve experimented a little with Periscope – so that’s why when the opportunity arose to interview this week’s guest, I was very excited to do so. Alessandra Colaci is the founder of Influence Buzz, a speaker, business and startup consultant and podcaster herself – and has worked with clients like Coke, TJ Maxx and Warner Brothers.

She’s been into live streaming video since the very beginning. In this interview we chat about:

  • The differences between Periscope, Facebook Live and Blab.
  • How to convince your CEO or boss to get on live video.
  • What to do and what content to share.
  • How to get people to watch your live streaming content.
  • What someone like Rand Fishkin should do with Periscope
  • And … I make a confession….

Enjoy!

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People

Agenda

Alessandra’s Background

Live Streaming

  • Is it for everyone?
  • Overcoming shyness in front of camera
  • Preparation
  • How long is a ‘good’ broadcast?
  • Periscope

In-Platform Engagement Tips

  • Participate (via comments) rather than just listen on Periscope
  • Mention the benefit of watching in the title of the video

Facebook Live

  • Personal vs business page?
  • Steps leading to first broadcast
  • “Repurposing is huge.”
  • The future of Facebook Live
  • Split screen = more viewers

Spilling Coffee = Trustworthy?

The post 029: Facebook Live, Periscope & The Power Of Live Streaming Video w/Alessandra Colaci appeared first on Evolving SEO.

028: Drift’s 138X Blog Traffic Growth, Ditching Gated Content w/Dave Gerhardt06 Jul 201600:55:36

Dave recently led a 138X growth in blog traffic for Drift. In today’s episode he’ll tell us how they achieved this growth – and to put that tangibly – it was 198 visits a month in October, and last month they received 27,369 visits to the blog. He’ll tell us why he ignores analytics, how he leveraged cold email outreach … and actually didn’t even have a plan, yet still achieved this growth.

We also chat about how to leverage community sites like Inbound.org and Growth Hackers by self submitting without seeming self-promotional, why most startups suck at PR, why Drift ditched all gated content, and how their Podcast gets over 10,000 downloads a month.

Also discussed in this action packed interview – side-projects, books, bad podcast hosts and “sneezers”.

Dave Gerhardt has worked with companies like Constant Contact, Hubspot and now runs marketing for Drift (a company founded by David Cancel and Elias Torres, former Hubspot execs).

Enjoy!

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People

Agenda

Dave’s background

What is Drift?

Gated Content

  • The wrong way to market
  • “Make all your content free.”

Content Marketing

  • “There wasn’t a plan.”
  • Content PR
  • Compounding effects

Creation Process

  • “We only promote 1-2 pieces at a time.”

Content Promotion

  • Cold emailing?
  • Posting on communities
  • “I started writing-out the content on the forum (rather than just a link).”
  • “Self promotion is okay when you’re the one who wrote the post and explain why you’re posting.”

Startups and PR

  • “A lot of startups are telling the wrong story.”
  • Transparency
  • “What’s your story?”

Drift Podcast

  • 10,000 downloads per month?
  • “Keep a conversation going.”

The post 028: Drift’s 138X Blog Traffic Growth, Ditching Gated Content w/Dave Gerhardt appeared first on Evolving SEO.

027: Growth Marketing Lessons From Inbound.org’s 5x User Growth w/Sam Mallikarjunan29 Jun 201600:56:36

When I read Sam’s post “The Hard Choices Behind How Inbound.org Grew 5x” (they now have over 160,000 members) I knew I needed to get Sam on Experts On The Wire.

We dissect many of the elements of their growth, including – why you need to ignore your earliest adopters, keeping a team focused on one thing (only the things you can grow with statistical significance!), how they leveraged SEO, their homepage algorithm – and the secrets behind the “persona” and micro-copy on Inbound (hint: it’s modeled after a real person!)

Enjoy!

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People

Agenda

What is HubSpot Labs?

Inbound.org

  • “It started as Dharmesh and Rand’s side project but got too big.”
  • How Inbound grew (a lot)
  • “We tried to create the Avengers team of the marketing world.”

Growth Tactics

  • “Your early adopters will rarely form the core of your future growth.”
  • “Velocity indicates value.”
  • Featured content
  • “Should we allow people to sign-up without Twitter?”

Personas

  • The why is more important than the who
  • Implicit and explicit data

Measurement

  • Statistical significance
  • “Let’s get to X number of subscribers before we start doing advanced lead attribution.”
  • Build a reliable bank of data

SEO and Inbound.org

  • “We’re going to stop building new features and focus on SEO.”
  • The Smartest Inbound Marketing Community Online
  • Using microcopy
  • “Tone/personality of site is modeled after……”
  • “Puts happy juice in your brain.”

Depth and Width

  • Width of opportunity is a more valuable business practice
  • Many ecommerce sites lack the confidence that customers will buy again

Publishing on Outside Sites (LinkedIn Pulse/Medium)

  • Focus on building your own sustainable blog/brand

Humor

  • Don’t ask, “Does humor work?” but “Does it work with the persona I’m going after?”

Dharmesh Wisdom

  • “Focus, focus, focus.”
  • “Always solve for the customer.”

The post 027: Growth Marketing Lessons From Inbound.org’s 5x User Growth w/Sam Mallikarjunan appeared first on Evolving SEO.

026: Rand Fishkin on Influencer Marketing, Whiteboard Friday, Time Travel & More.21 Jun 201601:06:03

In this episode with Rand Fishkin, we chat about getting outsized results from influencers, Moz’s “worst landing page the web has ever seen”, the inputs to success of Whiteboard Friday, time travel, emotions .. and LOTS more. Beards and whiskey too

Enjoy!

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Agenda

What to Ask Customers

  • Why, When, Who, How, etc (related to the product/service)
  • What to learn from the influencers of potential customers
  • What do influencers share and why do they share it?

Whiteboard Friday

  • “It was a format (at the time) that was extremely unique.”
  • Extremely focused on best practices
  • We eventually invested heavily in cameras, staff, the room, lighting, etc
  • Time on page, memory/recall, and brand impact/association was tremendous
  • Helped Rand get speaking gigs

Roger Mozbot

  • Injecting fun into a brand can have a positive impact if … “
  • “The key is to find something that is relevant and credible.”

Keyword Explorer

  • How are you measuring its success?
  • “Worst-performing landing page … “
  • Free trial offer was not clear (New landing page is coming soon)

Rand’s Book in the Making

  • Why a book?

Most-Important Thing Small Marketing Teams Should Do

  • Balance of 3 things

Beginner Resources

  • Start with resources and move to application

Marriage & Business

  • Communication
  • Short and long-term (“Are you okay with that?”)

Why Do You Do That?

Time Travel?

The post 026: Rand Fishkin on Influencer Marketing, Whiteboard Friday, Time Travel & More. appeared first on Evolving SEO.

025: Wil Reynolds on Audiences vs Algorithms & People vs Positions17 Jun 201600:59:16

I honestly have no better way to set up this conversation with Wil than to tease you with some quotes:

  • “Clients will judge you on what you do the weakest not the strongest.”
  • “Great SEO is caring about people over penguin and audiences over algorithms.”
  • “The SEO industry has set up clients to ask for the wrong thing. Rankings are a leading indicator, but I’m here to drive revenue.”
  • “SEO’s should sit with PPC people. There were 13 dollars signs in the PPC report, compared to 2 dollar signs in the SEO report. This is why SEO’s don’t get any money.”
  • “When’s the last time you did something new for the first time?”

This will certainly be a discussion I go back and listen to over and over again.

Enjoy!

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Agenda

Update on Seer Interactive

  • Kinds of clients
  • “I want to help people find stuff that are using the Internet to find it.”
  • “Clients are going to judge you on the things you do the weakest.”

SEO Agencies in 2016

  • What are agencies offering in 2016?
  • “A good consultant knows what they don’t know.”
  • “You gotta find a way to stand out.”

What’s Correct SEO?

  • “Talks more about people than positions.”
  • “Great SEO is multidisciplinary.”
  • “When I give a PPC team $5, they’re coming back with $10.”
  • Path of less resistance

Repeatable vs New Tactics

  • “It’s not exciting for a company to do the same thing it did last year.”
  • Diminishing returns
  • Is strategy teachable?
  • “If you stay focused on revenue, that focus will tell you where to go.”

Time Management

  • “I’m learning to say ‘yes,’ but not now.”
  • What’s the one thing I want to get done today to feel successful?

Speaking

  • Speak to kids
  • Don’t read from your slides
  • Watch your videos to critique yourself

Diversity

  • “Sometimes you have to intentionally be diverse.”
  • “I’m constantly walking in other peoples’ shoes.”
  • “Diversity invites ways to tackle problems.”

Charity

  • “I built my company because I wasn’t able to volunteer when I wanted.”

The post 025: Wil Reynolds on Audiences vs Algorithms & People vs Positions appeared first on Evolving SEO.

024: The Irresistible Power Of StoryHacking w/Alaura Weaver06 Jun 201601:01:15

I stumbled across Alaura’s article on CopyHackers – StoryHacking: Cracking The Code Behind the Irresistible Selling Power of Stories – and within 5 minutes knew I wanted her to join us to teach you all about the power of StoryHacking.

This isn’t just the same old advise you hear from marketers “tell a story” – she goes into great depth and detail into the various aspects of how to actually do this and do it effectively. It’s especially great for someone like me who is NOT a natural storyteller. It’s explained in a way that even I can get it, and start to work into my marketing.

For instance, Alaura teaches us that your content needs a Hero (which might not be who you think it would be!) and a protagonist (also not who you might think) and tangible ways to incorporate these into your brand’s content.

Alaura even gives me some suggestions for how to market and position this podcast

Whether you’re working on blog posts, product pages, email newsletters, social media – I think you will really enjoy this conversation and hear a lot of inspirational and actionable tips!

Sit back, relax and listen now!

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Agenda

Alaura’s Background

  • 10 years of sales experience
  • “Remember the phonebook?”

Speaking Human

  • Creating tribes

Story Hacking

  • “The word, ‘hacking’ is a buzzword…but it’s become part of the vernacular.”
  • Who is story hacking for?
  • Stories within stories

Elements of Story Hacking

  • Identifying the hero (your target customer)
  • Identifying the world of the protagonist (emotional spectrum)
  • Call to adventure (the goal of the protagonist)
  • The stakes/refusal of the call
  • A helper (the brand’s solutions)
  • A magical item (the offer)
  • Crossing the (first) threshold (the call to action)

The Mindset of Telling a Great Story

  • Building trust

Dan Gets Meta

  • Uses story hacking elements to deconstruct the podcast

The post 024: The Irresistible Power Of StoryHacking w/Alaura Weaver appeared first on Evolving SEO.

121: In-House, Large Scale SEO (Migrations, Crawl Optimization & More) w/Becky Westmoreland16 Feb 202100:57:14

Tech SEO fans this episode is for you! If you are curious about what it’s like doing SEO for a site with 70M+ URLs indexed, how to handle challenging issues like migrating millions of URLs across 250,000+ distinct websites, and what it’s like doing SEO in-house for such a gigantic site you’ll definitely want to tune in and take notes.

My guest for this episode is Becky Westmoreland. Becky is currently SEO Director at Fandom where she has successfully led a project of migrating 250,000+ websites with millions of URLs, including many other interesting SEO initiatives. Becky was also formally SEO Manager at E! Online, as well as SEO Manager at Dictionary.com.

In this episode:

  • What do site migrations have to do with core updates?
  • How do you safely and smoothly migrate 70M+ URLs? The process, tools, and metrics used.
  • Signs that Googlebot may ignore your robots.txt file (feature or bug?)
  • How the tech SEO team collaborates with other teams
  • When and why core web vitals may actually be a big deal for rankings
  • A very interesting alternative method for blocking certain content from Google (totally whitehat and effective)
  • Subdomains vs subfolders – what’s Becky’s take on this debate?
  • And lots more!

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

  • Coming Soon!

Find Becky Online

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023: Building A YouTube Community With Jared Falk Of Drumeo02 Jun 201600:56:47

Drumeo is an online community and educational resource for drummers. They have almost 500,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel with over 97 million total video views. Some of their videos receive over 1,000 comments and over 1 million views.

Drumeo didn’t do this with sleazy marketing tricks or buying subscribers on Fiverr. They did it by organically building a community from the ground up.

Jared Falk of Drumeo is going to explain steps that they took to grow their community and attract the likes of drummers that have performed with Prince, Jay Z, Aretha Franklin and more to teach on their YouTube channel.

Enjoy!

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Agenda

Jared’s Background

  • “Wheeling and dealing hockey cards online”
  • Four months of touring and gigs
  • Where does the name come from?

What Drumeo Does

  • One new drum lesson every day
  • YouTube is a main acquisition channel

YouTube

  • “You’re getting pretty close to 500k subscribers.”
  • How did you get subscribers in the beginning?
  • Keyword Research – “We went longer tail.”

How Drumeo Gets Guests

  • “We started by asking them.”
  • We need to provide value in return (exposure and a fee)
  • “If you provide someone with a lot of value, they’ll spread the word for you.”

Mistakes

  • Deposit/Withdrawal

Advice to New YouTube Publishers

  • Learn how to write captivating titles – “It sells the viewer on the click.”
  • Thumbnail needs to represent the video

Viewer Retention

  • “Our average view rate is above five minutes.” (YouTube)
  • “What did you like best about the lesson?” (comment contest)
  • “We’re at 97 million views on our channel.”
  • Where are people dropping off while watching your videos? (audience retention data)
  • Look at stats on other publishers’ videos

Facebook Video

  • “Facebook video is huge.”
  • “We don’t upload long videos to Facebook.”
  • The user intent is different on Facebook vs YouTube

Social Media

  • “I’d listen on social and try to find out how you can add value.”
  • “95% of what I share is value based.” (not asking for something)
  • “Being on social is like trying to advertise at a party.  If you’re at a ‘party,’ try to get to know people.

Testimonials

  • “Testimonials are there to answer any objections potential customers may have.”

Offline

  • Go to festivals
  • Roots in the community

Being an Entrepreneur

  • “What is my unique ability?”
  • “I like change.”

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022: One Brand, A Thriving Community, Blog Comments & How They Help SEO27 May 201600:35:21

Hey everyone we’re going to do something a little different today.

I had wanted you to meet someone, from a brand that I’m sure you’ve all heard of (we’ll reveal that in a moment):

But first, this is a brand that has:

  • 532,000 likes on their facebook page
  • A Single Article With 79+ Linking Root Domains
  • And Domain Authority of 75

OK, I’m telling you all those numbers just to impress you – and also to say that I know metrics matter. But HOW you get those metrics matters even more.

And this brand has done so, by building a thriving community. Just today, one of their organic facebook posts has 38 comments, over 1,100 shares and almost 2,000 likes.

To quote the person from this brand I want to introduce you to – she says: a positive brand interaction “builds friendship. Friendship builds loyalty. And loyalty will eventually build sales.”

You can see why I wanted to talk to her.

So, with some persistence,  I found her email address and reached out to ask for an interview.

Their PR company wrote back

and said…

…. you didn’t think I was going to tell you everything in the description?

Listen to the show to find out.

Enjoy.

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Agenda

  • …something different
    • They have over 500,000 likes on Facebook
    • “They Said No”
    • We’re going to do it anyway
  • Using Facebook To Build Friendships
    • “I was a writer first”
    • Technology Connects People
    • Ask For Help
    • Learn About Your Audience
    • This Brand’s Best Social Channel
    • Friendship->Loyalty->?
    • Be An Educator
  • Why Community Is Important For SEO
    • The Broken Art of Company Blogging
    • Google: Comments Help SEO
    • Buffer’s Lost Traffic
  • 5 Ways To Inspire Blog Comments
    • Asking For Help
    • Researching & Focus Groups
    • Education
    • Friendships
    • Going Cross-Discipline
  • Measuring Comment Success
    • Establishing Your GOALS
    • Example Metrics
    • Do An 80/20 Analysis

*Photo by Brooke Cagle via Unsplash

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021: Facebook Video Ads With Rick Mulready25 May 201600:59:57

Chances are, you’re looking for NEW ways to drive quality traffic to your site, business or blog. But it can be tough to know what direction to take or what new channel to try.

Today, Rick Mulready is going to teach you all about Facebook VIDEO ads – and how they can hold great opportunity for you to drive low cost targeted traffic. He’ll clearly walk you through what you need to know to get started experimenting!

Rick Mulready is a consultant, trainer, speaker and also a Podcaster! His background is in corporate America, where he even worked for the show Funny Or Die, before moving on from his 6-figure job to start his own business in 2012.

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People / Companies

Agenda

“I come from a corporate background.”

  • Worked at Yahoo
  • Recruited to work for Funny or Die
  • “I got bit by the entrepreneurial bug in 2010.”

Facebook Ads

  • “I started creating ads for friends.”
  • Boost a post
  • Are ads for ‘anybody’?
  • “What is your goal?” You got to have a clear objective.
  • Types of ads (standard, video, carousel, etc)
  • “100 million hours of video are being consumed on Facebook every day.”
  • “Let Facebook’s algorithm do the work for you.”
  • Facebook can now transcribe your video ads
  • “You always want consistency between an ad and landing page.”
  • Facebook pixels

Podcasting

  • Rick’s former and current podcast
  • “I have no audio background whatsoever.”
  • Asking for Reviews
  • Getting (high profile) guests

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020: Tom Critchlow On Working For Google, Escaping The SEO Vacuum & Startup Mistakes19 May 201601:03:02

For those of you that do not know my guest today, Tom Critchlow has a diverse background of experiences. He was Head of Search Marketing and then VP of Operations at Distilled for 4 years, worked in Google’s Creative Lab for 2 years, and has since founded Fiercely Curious – an online gallery of art from Brooklyn artists. He also is a freelance strategy consultant – all in an English accent

I’ll start this episode with the quick story of how I met Tom. Then we chat for an hour about Google, SEO, Startups, and a TON more.

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Agenda

What Tom Has Been Doing

  • Stepping Away from Social
  • What Does Social Do for You?

Escaping the SEO Vacuum

  • “No one got into SEO for SEO’s sake.”
  • “SEO is a slightly more boring industry.”

Where Does Search Fit In

Pros/Cons of Agency, In-House, and Entrepreneur/Freelance Work

Did You Meet Larry Page?

Is There Anything You Worked On (at Google) You Can Talk About?

Providing Insight for Free (“Giving It Away”)

Marketing Mistakes Startups Make

What is Fiercely Curious?

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019: Analytics Explained With Annie Cushing18 May 201600:43:36

It’s true that there’s a LOT of misinformation out there about Analytics. It can be hard to dig through all the content out there for the right path to take.

Thankfully, we have a true expert on the show today. Annie Cushing has spent over 10 years mastering, practicing and teaching analytics. In this episode she distills down her expertise into easy explanations – so you don’t have to spend hours upon hours wondering what direction to take.

For example, Annie will teach you the exact way to tag your paid social media ads (hint: don’t use ‘cpc’!), and where to go to easily set up simple dashboards that will give you more time to actually do marketing (and impress your boss).

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People

Agenda

Basics of Analytics

  • Purpose
  • Setting-up an account
  • Track what’s most important (to you)
  • ‘Keeping the puppy inside the box’
  • Mistakes

Dashboards

  • ‘The data comes to you’
  • Customization
  • Should everyone have a dashboard?
  • How intimidating is learning to set-up/use a dashboard and related tools?

Referral Spam

  • Is there a solution?

Screencasts

  • Use them for clients?
  • Too many screenshots or too many words

Campaign Tagging

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018: Johnathan Dane on PPC, Sardines vs Whales & Why CPC Doesn’t Matter13 May 201600:59:48

Johnathan breaks down PPC concepts in a clear, understandable way – better than almost anyone else I’ve heard. Maybe you’ve “tried” PPC in your business and though it “didn’t work”, or maybe you’ve been doing SEO and want to get into PPC, or maybe you’re looking for an additional source of high quality traffic.

You’ll learn about why Johnathan think CPC and quality score doesn’t really matter (not in the way you think they do). He’ll explain “Sardines vs Whales” in search marketing, caring about the details and lots more.

This episode is a must listen. MUST.

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People

Agenda

Company day-to-day

PPC Ad Misalignment

“PPC Didn’t Work”

  • Attracting traffic, converting traffic, and closing a sale

Danger of Wasting Money

Starting the Process

  • “How are you judging success?”

Ad Spend is Arbitrary Number

  • Clients spend on average 5k per month

Metrics to Measure

  • Cost per Click and Quality Scores don’t matter
  • Cost per acquisition (so you can be more aggressive with bidding)
  • Sales rate per keyword

Whales vs. Sardines

  • Know which keywords (and platforms) invite the best opportunities

Data from AdWords

  • Search term vs keyword
  • Matched search query
  • Tracking template

Use the Data to Optimize Sales vs Conversions

Creating Titles

  • First started writing for Unbounce
  • Evoking emotion
  • “Attention is the ultimate courtesy”

Replying to Blog Comments

I Want All of the Pages on My Site to Kick Ass

  • About Us page
  • “Caring about the details is a trust builder”

Ask Clients Annoying Questions to Build Trust

Landing Pages

  • Mistakes

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017: Applying Digital Ethology To Your Content Strategy Process w/Rhea Drysdale11 May 201600:54:05

“What content should I create?” You may ask yourself this often, but the answer isn’t always that obvious. Rhea breaks down how applying “digital ethology” can inform your content ideas. You’ll learn what people really mean when they search Google for “how big is an eggplant?” and why that matters to your content strategy.

We also chat a little about PR, reputation management and the pros/cons of using an SEO tool vs hiring an agency.

Rhea Drysdale is the CEO of Outspoken Media and speaker at leading industry events like MozCon, SMX, Searchlove and featured in publications like The Wall Street Journal and CNN Technology.

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People

Agenda

Content Strategy

  • Content ethology
  • What content should be created

Client Goals

  • Creating personas
  • Identify query intent
  • Query types
  • Google as an ‘answer provider’

Using language that consumers use

10x Content

  • Be ‘the authority’
  • How Google determines an expert source

Press/PR

  • Has to be targeted
  • You must have something to say

Reputation Management

  • Suppression vs removal

Platforms vs People

  • Platforms ever the better choice?

Employees’ Personal Brand

Women in Marketing

  • The ‘middle’ woman

 

 

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016: Taking Control Of Your Own PR w/Dmitry Dragilev06 May 201601:00:51

For a long time, Public Relations has been this “mysterious” activity reserved for high-profile PR companies or shady press releases. Of course some PR companies are really good at what they do (I’ve worked alongside of a few). But the truth is, YOU can take charge of many “PR” activities yourself.

Enter Dmitry Dragilev, who has for example helped Polar go from 0 to 40+ Million pagesviews (his article about it on The Next Web has been shared over 3,500 times and has 55+ comments). Polar was eventually acquired by Google.

Dmitry is a true PR expert and has trained hundreds on how to do their own PR. In our conversation, he shares dozens of tips and tactics to help you take control of your PR. I learned a ton of things myself!

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People

 

Agenda

Dmitry’s Background

Using Polls to Go from 0-40 Million Views

Mistakes Contacting Journalists

  • Would you say that to their face?

Advantage of Using PR Firms

Disadvantage of Using PR Firms

PR is Now B2C

Finding a Common Point of Interest

Pitch by Email

The Buzzword is…Empathy

  • It Sucks to Be a Reporter
  • How Can You Improve Their Lives?
  • Keep Providing Value

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015: Using Humor In Your Marketing w/Amy Harrison04 May 201601:03:57

Does humor sell? Well sure, think back so campaigns like the classic VW ads to Dollar Shave Club. Humor definitely works when done right. In this episode Amy Harrison will teach you how to incorporate more humor into your marketing. She’ll also give you ways to improve your copywriting – with techniques such as using contrast, and watching out for umbrella terms.

This episode is definitely for anyone looking to make their marketing material more compelling.

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People

Agenda

Amy’s Day-to-Day

Amy TV?

  • The ‘Sesame Street’ of Content Marketing

Copywriting

  • Contrast
  • Tips to establish contrast
  • Comparative value
  • “People will invest in change”

Umbrella Terms

  • “But what do you do?”
  • Qualify your slogan/marketing language

Advice to Marketers

  • Show examples
  • Experiment with the medium and message
  • Get to know your audience

Humor in Content

  • Don’t force it – find your style of humor
  • Benefits of humor
  • “You don’t want to undermine what YOU do”

Naming Products

  • Drawing parallels
  • Splicing two words

Venturing Outside Your Industry

  • Does it overlap with your target market?
  • Guest posting

Measuring Success of Content Marketing

  • Gauge via number of email subscribers

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014: Integrative Marketing For Retail Brands w/Katherine Romero28 Apr 201600:59:35

Katherine Romero was the Senior eCommerce Marketing Manager for the Deckers portfolio, including brands like UGG Australia, Teva and Sanuk. She now runs her own agency MAKA Digital helping brands build digital happiness.

She also tells us how a content marketing campaign for a small cycling brand has been hit 500,000 views with less than $5,000 spent to promote it.

The entire interview is packed with Katherine’s knowledge about the intersection of PPC, SEO, PR, content and more for retail brands. She explains how to set up an affiliate program, how to get offline retailers to take digital seriously, and why at Deckers they loved the Google Panda update.

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Links

People

Agenda

Katherine’s Background

  • How she ‘discovered’ digital marketing
  • Studying people

Managing Offered Services

  • Putting consumer experience first
  • Convincing executives to buy-in to digital marketing
  • Digital marketing is not always the ‘first concern’
  • Organic Search vs Paid Search

Re-Marketing

  • Common mistakes
  • Diminishing return

Providing Full Service Marketing

  • When to switch types of marketing
  • Establishing an affiliate program
  • Cons of an affiliate program

Content

  • Service-oriented content
  • Related sales channels
  • Paid promotion
  • Video

Marketing and PR Team Synergy

  • PR teams are practical
  • Addicted to data

Paid and Organic Synergy

  • Brand recognition and recall
  • Using ads to ‘test’ copy

Product Pages

  • Mistakes
  • Mobile

Last Three Feet

Product Counterfeiters

Amazon

  • Develop a product line exclusive to Amazon

 

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120: SEO Ranking Factors, A/B Testing & The Evolution of Google w/Will Critchlow19 Jan 202101:01:49
What does Google core updates have to do with the now old concept of the “Google Dance”? The Google Dance was an SEO nuisance from years ago, and the core updates are a more modern challenge.The connection lies in the fact that you can’t separate the past of SEO from where we are today. And you can’t fully do great SEO today without having some understanding of where things came from.In this episode, Will describes exactly what the connection between core updates and the Google Dance might be — and why an understanding of this evolution is important. We cover that, and many other traditional to modern ranking factors.In this episode:
  • Why Will started Distilled and got into SEO
  • Quality vs Sustainability in SEO
  • Distilled’s Relationship with Moz
  • April 2003 and “Index Everything”?!
  • Why Google needed to introduce the Panda and Penguin Penalties
  • Are we too focused on “ranking factors” in the SEO Industry?
  • Why does something like the ‘duplicate content penalty’ myth stick around for so long?
  • Will’s take on core updates
  • How does ‘nofollow’ being a hint impact SEO and rankings?
  • How to evaluate the value of links
  • SEO Community Interaction and Fragmentation
  • SEO events during COVID
  • SEO Split Testing – how it works and how it can help your SEO
Note: this episode was recorded in August 2020Listen Now!Related Episodes You Might LikeInformation About United SearchUnited Search is a brand new Speaker Accelerator program helping especially those from underrepresented groups – learn more about them in today’s episode.To apply to be a mentor, mentee or learn more in general go to: https://www.unitedsearch.org/mentorsShow Agenda and Timestamps
  • Coming soon!
Tools Mentioned
  • Coming soon!
Articles, Resources, and Links MentionedFind Will Online

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013: Growing Blog Traffic 37x In 18 Months w/Sujan Patel26 Apr 201601:01:21

Sujan Patel is one of the most talented marketers I know. He recently helped grow WhenIWork’s traffic from 20,000 to 750,000 visitors per month in an 18 month period, all with content marketing and promotion.

Find out how many one-on-one cold Skype calls he did in a one year period (it will probably surprise you!) (No, that’s not a click-bait hyperbole).

You’ll also learn about how Sujan creates over 20 pieces of 1,500 word articles per month and generally in his extra time.

Sujan – who jumps out of planes and drives fast cars for fun – also reveals what he fears the most and what he’s going to do to get over that fear.

(Note: in the intro I say “200,000 to 750,000 a month growth, but it IS actually 20,000 a month).

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Agenda

Sujan’s Background

  • Consulting → In-house → Consulting

10x Content

  • 4-5 promotion tactics

Content Circle

  • Circle keywords
  • Evergreen content strategy

Content Promotion

  • 5 methods of promotion
  • 5-10 Facebook ads
  • 10-15 days paid ads
  • Outreach

Email List

  • 2 email blasts

Tweeting

  • Include influencers

Relationship Marketing

Publishing Personal Content (30 posts per month?!)

  • Email yourself ideas
  • Use a voice recorder
  • Use intern/team member to transcribe

Networking

  • Create an ecosystem
  • Being a connector
  • Skype rather than comment
  • Giving more than taking

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012: How To Run A User Generated Blog w/ Ronell Smith22 Apr 201600:42:11

You may have a blog at your company or on your own, but struggle to find resources to post more often at a high quality. And you ALSO may want to build more of a community around your brand. USG (User Generated Content) might be the solution you’ve been looking for.

Ronell Smith tells us why he thinks this is a strategy ALL companies can leverage. And he walks us through the exact steps Moz uses to run YouMoz, their successful user generated content blog. By the end of this episode you’ll know the benefits, possible pitfalls, and process behind running your own user generated content initiative.

Also – find out what StarBucks REALLY sells (not coffee).

In addition to being the Chief Content Champion for YouMoz, Ronell is also a brand ambassador for Moz Content and Moz Local and an independent consultant helping companies with their content strategies.

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People

Agenda

Ronell’s Background

  • Product strategy for outdoor brands
  • Content/business strategist
  • Moz associate

User-Generated Content

  • Choose a format (format, audio, video) that shows your strengths
  • Establish content standards
  • Show don’t tell
  • Train/coach users

Powerful Words

  • “I don’t know”

Disruption

  • What StarBucks really sells

Strengthening Your In-House Content Muscles

  • Be more specific with your goals and less bogged down with the process

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011: Interview With Everette Taylor19 Apr 201600:52:35

Everette is Head Of Growth For New Mobile Products At Microsoft and CEO of Millisense.

We talked about a TON in this conversation… meeting Jaime Foxx, getting press in places like Fortune and Forbes, how ‘verified’ Twitter works, diversity in tech, working TWO full time jobs, snapchat and more. I hope you enjoy this in-depth conversation with Everette Taylor.

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Don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes! And we’re now live on Google Play too!

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Agenda

Everette’s Day-to-day

  • The 16-hour day grind

T-shaped marketing

Everette’s #1 Skill

Persistence In Your Marketing

  • Double-down on what’s working first

Email Marketing At Stickermule

Qualitative Customer Insight

Missed Opportunities of Traditional Companies

Using Snapchat

  • Be diverse with your content

Growing Your Personal Brand

Meeting Jamie Foxx

Diversity in Tech/Marketing

  • Create change

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010: Guest Publishing Tactics With Kristi Hines15 Apr 201600:37:41

This episode is for anyone looking to achieve greater marketing results with guest publishing. Whether you run a personal blog, do content marketing for a company or consult for clients – this episode is for you! Learn about how veteran writer Kristi Hines has amassed over 700,000 total shares on all of her guest content combined, some mistakes to avoid when guest blogging, and how to really stand out with great images.

Kristi writes for dozens of sites in the business and marketing worlds – such as Moz, KissMetrics, CrazyEgg, Unbounce, Hubspot, FreshBooks, Quickbooks, Social Media Examiner – and LOTS more.

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People

Agenda

Kristi’s Background

Blog Commenting

  • Networking

Accepting Guest Posts

  • Guidelines
  • Content needs to be fit for audience
  • Start with one site consistently

How to Find a Good Site to Post On

  • Contacting editors

Writer vs. Ghostwriter

Frequency of Writing

  • Process and Tools

Social Sharing

  • Tweet publication and author

Finding Images For Blog Posts

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009: Pro Networking Tips With Mike Ambassador Bruny12 Apr 201600:57:29

Mike Ambassador Bruny is the Director Of Attendee Engagement for Social Media Marketing World (run by Social Media Examiner) and was also Director Of Operations and Brand Ambassador for Intel.

This episode is for ANYONE attending conferences and events. Maybe you want to get more value from the events you attend, or perhaps you’re shy and don’t know what to say, or don’t know how to end that awkward conversation. Mike walks you step by step through what to do before, during and after the event to get as much value as possible.

I have to say – as someone who’s attended and spoken at dozens of events – Mike shares some tips and tricks I had never heard before.

Also – learn about his famous bow tie what it has to do with Gary Vaynerchuck.

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Please subscribe and review on iTunes!

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People

Agenda

Mike’s Background

  • “Ambassador”
  • Intel, Social Media Examiner
  • Speaker, Helping People

Networking at Conferences

  • Creating Anticipation
  • Making connections
  • Getting leads
  • What to do before/during/after

Conference Evening Events/Parties

  • It’s important you show up
  • How to break the shyness
  • W.H.E.N.

Technology

Hip-Hop Affirmations

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008: Retention, Analytics & Growth at… GrowthHackers.com With Anuj Adhiya08 Apr 201601:00:05

Anuj Adhiya is the Director of Engagement & Analytics on the Growth team at GrowthHackers.com  – he talks about the metrics they actually use to measure their growth on their community website. You’ll learn what most people misunderstand about the term “growth hacking”. Learn why they do NOT have notifications for link up-votes. He also reveals the challenges GrowthHackers.com faces right now, the tools GrowthHackers use to track their metrics – and the moral responsibility we have when marketing. And we chat about how ANY site owner can come up with a specific, measurable metric for growth. And – what is the HOOK model?

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People

Agenda

Anuj’s Background

What is a Growth Hacker?

  • Sustainability

Retention Week One

Metrics vs KPIs (So what?)

Reverse Engineer Business Process

The Hook Model

  • Create a habit

Using Skype for Community Building

Challenges for GrowthHackers

Future of Growth Hacking

Hacking a Podcast

Controlling the Situation

  • Learned humility
  • Empty your cup

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007: Evaluating Your Backlink Profile In 2016 – With Sha Menz05 Apr 201600:52:24

Whether you need to remediate a link penalty, or you just want to be informed about the state of links in Google for 2016 – this show is for you! Sha Menz is a top expert on link based penalties in Google. She really breaks things down for us – some of the topics include doorway pages, site variants in Google Webmaster Tools (Search Console) and how to tell a good link from a bad link.

Tune in to get up to date on backlink profiles in 2016!

Note: the Skype connection is a little funny at times, but I’ve edited it, and everything is audible despite being a little fuzzy at a few points.

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People

Show Topics

Doorway Pages

  • Remediated Doorway Pages
  • How to discover them

Journalism/SEO

  • The end user comes first

Google Penalty Box

  • Register all site variants

Link Profiles

  • Evaluating and misconceptions
  • Tools
  • Exchanging products for links
  • Definition of a good link

The Phantom Update – Does it really exist?

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006: Running A Leading Industry News Site With Jen Slegg01 Apr 201600:47:02

Jennifer Slegg takes us behind the scenes of The SEM Post, a leading news site in the Search Marketing industry. She shares insights into where she gets her story leads, why Google tested 41 shades of blue in the search results, and how she chooses guest writers. And why she spent an entire month creating a single piece of content. Whether you’re a writer, editor, SEO-fan or lover of marketing – you’ll gain a ton of knowledge from this episode!

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People

Show Topics

Jen’s Background

  • Journalism
  • Pre Google

TheSEMPost

  • What differentiates the SEM Post
  • Why do you do it
  • Why do you love SEO

Where Jen Finds Stories

  • Google testing

High Quality Sites/Content

  • Beating expectations of the user
  • Perception of users

Accepting Guest Posts

Industry Conferences

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005: Local SEO Link Building & Yelp Reviews w/Phil Rozek30 Mar 201601:03:39

If you’re a local or small business owner (or helping one with marketing), you’re going to learn a TON in this episode with local SEO expert Phil Rozek. He’ll teach you about local listings (“NAP listings”), Yelp Reviews, getting rid of bad Yelp reviews, blogging and local SEO link building. He’ll even share his advise for how to choose a local SEO vender and what tragic mistakes to avoid!

Phil has been practicing local SEO for over 7 years and can be found at www.localvisibilitysystem.com

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Don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review!

Resources

People

Topics

Who Needs Local SEO

  • not just for online businesses
  • brand name searches and reviews

Local Citations

  • what they are
  • point of diminishing return
  • resources to use

Reviews

  • nudging vs asking for a review
  • can an SEO help with reviews
  • responding to reviews
  • what to do about a negative review

Local Marketing

  • dummy links
  • blogging
  • social media

Hiring a Local SEO

  • you need them more than they need you

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004: Generating Leads & Exposure On SlideShare With Ross Simmonds25 Mar 201600:54:18

Ross Simmonds explains how to get massive exposure and leads with SlideShare. Ross has personally generated over 1 million views on his SlideShare content. He also discusses content curation tactics, Snapchat and Anchor.

Don’t forget to subscribe to Experts On The Wire on iTunes!

Now for episode 4

Links Mentioned

People

Discussion Topics

Ross’ Background

  • doo rags
  • fantasy football
  • started agency

Bragging Rights

  • slideshare
  • hustle and grind
  • freelance

Presentation Slides

  • any person can use Slideshare
  • Slideshare → LinkedIn
  • Slideshare optimization
  • repurposing content
  • distribution

Facebook Targeting

Content Curation

  • Netflix
  • business/company accounts
  • Zuckerberg’s Law

Passive Consumption

  • Anchor

Snapchat

  • what to post
  • how to get followers

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119: Jon Morrow’s Proven Formula for Growing Blog Traffic With SEO07 Jan 202100:58:37
Jon Morrow has consistently and repetitively grown the blog traffic for several sites and organizations. In the early days of CopyBlogger, he helped take them to 3.5M page views a month. He then helped KissMetrics grow from 0-130,000 visits per month. And he has grown his own site SmartBlogger to well over 140,000 monthly visits (Google US, according to SEMrush) with less than 500 pieces of content!If you are a company or an individual looking to grow your blog traffic this episode is for you!Looking for writers trained and certified in SEO? Visit Jon’s free directory at: https://writer.me/Here is the free content brief Jon mentioned: https://smartblogger.s3.amazonaws.com/freebies/content-brief-template.pdfIn this episode:
  • Jon’s overall traffic strategy
  • Just HOW different search content is vs social content 
  • How to ACTUALLY outsource content creation and get good results 
    • How to find good writers 
    • How to vet writers
    • Why Jon does NOT want to know the writer’s ideas for posts
  • Setting publication dates AND milestones 
  • How to make content better and rank worthy
  • How Jon sets up a content team
  • How Jon thinks about and classifies search “Intent”
  • When you don’t need a full content team
  • Why and when writers are getting paid $5,000-10,000 per post.
    • What is the ROI of this cost? 
  • Backlinks Strategies
  • And much more! 
Listen Now!Related Episodes You Might LikeInformation About United SearchUnited Search is a brand new Speaker Accelerator program helping especially those from underrepresented groups – learn more about them in today’s episode.To apply to be a mentor, mentee or learn more in general go to: https://www.unitedsearch.org/mentorsShow Agenda and Timestamps
  • Coming soon!
Tools Mentioned
  • Coming soon!
Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned
  • Coming soon!
Find Jon Online

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003: Backlinko’s Content Process Revealed With Brian Dean22 Mar 201601:00:06

Episode #3 Guest – Brian Dean of Backlinko

Brian Dean lifts the curtain on his content creation process for Backlinko. He reveals how many unique visits Backlinko.com gets per month (it’s a LOT), a secret project he’s working on, how to keep your email newsletters out of the promotions tab – and MUCH more.

Listen now!

Don’t forget to Subscribe On iTunes!

Links

People

Topics

Brian’s Intro

  • configuring homepage and site pages [4:20]
  • no products/services page? [4:45]
  • nothing to buy directly from blog? [5:15]
  • reduce the number of options on every page [6:00]

Potential clients skeptical of SEOs/marketers

  • the .5%? [9:50]
  • recommendations for finding a good agency [11:15]
  • you can’t fail fast enough? [16:20]

Content

  • creation process [18:45]
  • content that gets shares, comments, links [22:00]
  • Pre-outreach [28:30]

Email List

  • time/effort [31:35]
  • how to get in personal email inbox [34:15]
  • outreach tools [38:15]

Opportunity Gaps

  • frequency of publishing [41:00]
  • the ‘skyscraper technique’ and ‘prop’ words [43:45]

Diverse Group of Domain Links

  • links from smaller sites [49:00]
  • relevance vs quality [49:45]

Traveling/Nutrition

  • becoming data driven [51:30]
  • international sales [52:30]

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002: AJ Kohn on Rankings, SEO Pyschology & Five Foot Web Design18 Mar 201600:57:33

Episode 002 Guest – AJ Kohn

Summary / Dan’s Notes

If you care at all about SEO in the modern age, you definitely want to tune in to this episode. AJ is a true expert, helping such clients as Pinterest and Airbnb with their SEO.

You can find AJ on Twitter and his excellent SEO blog Blind Five Year Old.

Check out the show and leave us a review in iTunes if you are finding any value from these episodes – it will help others find them!

Links Mentioned

People Mentioned

Topics Discussed

AJ’s Background

Right Brain/Left Brain

  • detail vs big picture
  • 5-foot web design
  • David Ogilvy
  • cognitive fluency

Creating Obstacles

  • content strategy/content marketing
  • technical obstacles/mistakes
  • crawl optimization

SEO Keywords

  • active/passive intent
  • query classes
  • measured metrics
  • building/earning links

Ranking Factors

  • user metrics
  • on-page seo
  • schema

Twitter

  • formatting & consistency
  • hashtagging

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001: Marie Haynes on Google Penalties16 Mar 201600:40:30

Summary / Dan’s Comments

What a treat it was to have Marie Haynes as our first guest! Despite a few Skype troubles, we were able to get a info-packed session recorded.

If you’re someone who wants to be up to date on Google penalties and algorithms such as Panda, Penguin and more – you’re going to want to tune in and take notes. I should note the recording of this episode took place February 10th, 2016 – all info is accurate as of that date.

You can find our guest, Marie Haynes at https://www.mariehaynes.com/ and @Marie_Haynes on Twitter.

Onto the show!

PS – My audio quality during interviews does get better after the first two episodes!

PPS – Our iTunes feed is approved currently pending approval, and will be available in iTunes and other Podcast platforms shortly! Thanks for your patience while we get this up and running!

UPDATE: We’re now currently available on Stitcher! We’re on Player.fm too!

Links Mentioned

People Mentioned

Show Topics

Marie’s Background

  • Manual Penalties
  • Penguin
  • Auditing/SEO

Pure Spam

  • What it is
  • What triggers these types of penalties
  • Who gets these penalties

Penalties (Penguin, Panda, Phantom, etc)

  • Who needs to be concerned
  • Site recovery/rank atrophy
  • Frequency of future Panda updates
  • Can penalties be avoided

Starting Over After Penguin Penalty

  • Should a site ‘start over’

Women in Tech/SEO

  • Advantages/disadvantages being a woman
  • Thoughts on the industry as a whole

Humanization of Penguin

  • Penguin the gardener

About Experts On The Wire

This is a Podcast dedicated to bringing you the best digital marketing info from experts in the field! Find out more by listening to our 10-minute intro to the Experts On The Wire show!

Please subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review!

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Intro: Why This Show Exists & How To Use It w/Dan Shure15 Mar 201600:16:31


I am very excited to officially announce “Experts On The Wire”, our new Digital Marketing Podcast. Our mission is to bring expert digital marketing information to fellow marketers, business owners, startup founders, entrepreneurs and the like. Most episodes will feature me interviewing an expert from any digital marketing field – such as SEO, content marketing, social media, PR, analytics, etc.

This Podcast been a solid three months in the works of planning, recording, editing and preparation. This is no spur-of-the-moment Podcast that’ll have a 10 episode run and fizzle out (we’ve actually already recorded about 10 episodes, with more in the queue). With many episodes recorded and being edited already, this allows for a comfortable buffer to bring you new episodes at a consistent pace.

I want to thank my two team members here – Sarah (my wife) and Anthony Pensabene. Without them, this Podcast would not be happening. Sarah has played an invaluable role in keeping the business side of things running here at Evolving SEO, while I get to play with marketing stuff And  while Anthony mainly works on client accounts, he has facilitated the research of guests, questions, and show notes.

Join me in the very first episode – a short 10 minute audio introduction to “Experts On The Wire” – where I announce the first three guests and a contest.

UPDATE: After doing over 50 episodes, I re-did the introduction. It’s much better now


Experts On The Wire – FAQ’s

How Often Will Episodes Be Published?

Twice a week! Every Wednesday and Friday.

Once per week. Usually. Probably Tuesdays.

When Will The First “Real” Episode Post?

Tomorrow! March 16th, 2016.

How Long Will They Be?

Usually in the 45-60 minute range, with some a little shorter.

Some episodes have been as short as 30 mins, but we’ve been trying some long-form 90 minute shows lately. With good feedback.

Can We Subscribe on iTunes etc?

Yes! Shortly after this first episode is published, our feeds will be submitted and available via iTunes etc. Please check back or follow me on Twitter for those announcements.

Our feeds are now live across all the major Podcast feeds. Listen and subscribe on iTunes or you can find us on Stitcher, Player.fm etc.

Can We Suggest A Guest?

Suggestions are welcome, but ultimately being a guest on Experts will be invite only.

What Does The Name Mean?

Listen to the introduction

Can I Tell My Colleagues And Friends About This Podcast?

No. Don’t tell anyone. Just kidding, OF COURSE – please share this show with anyone whom you think would enjoy it. The best thing to share is this post, which will introduce new listeners to the show.

Who Is This Podcast For?

This Podcast is for not only marketers, but business owners, entrepreneurs, startup founders – anyone that can benefit from having knowledge of digital marketing. I passionately believe as a business owner, you need to educate yourself to make proper business decisions – who to hire, what direction to go in, what channels to pursue. So this show will not only help marketers market better – but help others have an understanding of the current digital landscape.


Why A Podcast?

Anthony and I here have been discussing the idea of having some sort of show – for a variety of reasons:

  • To exemplify the type of “real marketing behavior” we are recommending – begging – many of our clients to pursue.
  • To provide value to the marketing community and business communities as a whole.
  • To bring forth experts – and those that are not always put “on a pedestal” and give them a platform to share their expertise.
  • To have fun. I truly think if you align fun+value you can bring great results.


Can I Leave A Review?

Please do! Reviews will help us get discovered in iTunes. I’ll link up to iTunes once the feed is live!

Feedback of any kind is always welcome.

 

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118: How To Help Large Organizations Win at SEO w/Melanie Phung23 Nov 202001:11:44

In this episode:

  • How to work on SEO effectively with big organizations 
  • Working with both content and tech teams — and how to get them to actually execute
  • Why understanding the HISTORY of a company, organization and website is important before giving recommendations 
  • What do you do if you get push back against SEO advice?
  • How to instill SEO Education within organization
  • How to communicate SEO results inside of an organization
  • And also … does Melanie listen to what Googler’s say about ranking and SEO?
  • And much more!

Listen Now!

Information About United Search

United Search is a brand new Speaker Accelerator program helping especially those from underrepresented groups – learn more about them in today’s episode.

To apply to be a mentor, mentee or learn more in general go to: https://www.unitedsearch.org/mentors

Related Episodes You Might Like

070: How To Do Big Brand SEO w/Corey Eulas

083: How To Win At In House, Large Scale SEO w/Kevin Indig of Atlassian

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Full List Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

  • And you guessed it… coming soon!

Find Melanie Online!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniephung/

Orange Spark Digital

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117: Improve Your Rankings w/Internal Links, Automation for SEO & More w/JR Oakes20 Aug 202001:14:32

JR Oakes is the Senior Director of Technical SEO Research at Locomotive Agency and he has written for Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, spoken at SEMpdx and TechSEO Boost and is the founder of iCodeSEO. He also is an organizer with the Beer & SEO and Raleigh SEO Meetups.

In this episode:

  • How to start learning how to do code-based SEO
  • How JR Analyzes large sets of keyword data from Search Console
  • How to use automation to improve SEO
  • How to use internal linking to boost traffic on keywords not quite ranking #1
  • What is CI/CD?
  • JR’s ranking factors
  • His take on EAT
  • SEO tactics that have a diminishing return
  • The tools JR believes are missing in the SEO industry 
  • JR’s Real Name

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Full List Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find JR Online

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116: Seizing The Image Search Opportunity w/Jess Peck30 Jun 202000:55:55

In this episode:

  • How to find image SEO opportunities
  • Image traffic attribution
  • How to optimize for image SEO
  • The value of using and testing with screen readers BEYOND accessibility
  • What is visual search and how to optimize for it

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Jess Online

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115: How To Actually Do an SEO Ranking Analysis – w/Micah Fisher-Kirshner02 Feb 202001:14:37

In this episode:

  • The differences between eCommerce SEO and B2B SEO (tactics and strategies)
  • Crawl optimization on Seasonal Sites
  • Developing internal SEO documentation
  • How he helps companies needing operational expertise with SEO to help them grow – and using SEO skills to help find and vet companies to purchase and grow
  • Beyond just basic keyword search intent – for example why software keywords are not always software keywords
  • Dealing with challenges of Zero Click SERPs
  • A quick round of talking through supposed “Ranking Factors” – are they myths or real?
  • How to ACTUALLY do a raking analysis

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Micah Online

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114: Big Retailer SEO, Power BI, CTR & Rankings (Data) w/Claudia Higgins02 Feb 202001:08:26

In this episode:

  • Doing SEO for a big retailer
  • What an SEO Insight Technology Manager does
  • Using PPC to Strategize for SEO
  • Why/when/how to use Power BI
  • What is the “data hulk”?!
  • Does CTR actually impact ranking? (Based on data)
  • Strategically dealing with Holiday and Seasonal content
  • Communicating SEO value to executives.

Claudia Higgins is an SEO Insight Technology Manager for Argos, a large retailer in the UK. She has spoken about SEO at events including Brighton SEO, SearchLove, C3 New York and TechSEO Boost.

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Claudia Online

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113: Advanced Analytics for SEO: Panel from TechSEO Boost 201902 Feb 202000:47:20

This special episode was recorded live on stage at TechSEO Boost in Boston on December 5th 2019. I was honored to host a panel on Advanced Analytics for SEO with some really smart guests:

  • Aja Frost – Hubspot
  • Jim Gianoglio – Bounteous
  • Colleen Harris – CDK Global
  • Alexis Sanders – Merkle

In this episode, you will learn a ton, including:

  • Specific, advanced analytics reports you can use to improve SEO
  • How to deal with AMP issues
  • How to analyze and report on traffic drops
  • Dealing with new web standards like ITP 2.0 and ITP 3.0

*Picture (slightly edited) courtesy Eric Mandell from Twitter

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Tools and Resources

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Thanks to Anne at Timeatlas.com for creating this!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find the Panelists on Twitter!

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129: Helpful Content Update Recovery and More w/Kristine Schachinger20 Feb 202401:16:58

Kristine Schachinger is an SEO Consultant, specializing in Technical SEO, SEO Website Audits, Growth Strategies, Google Penalty Recovery, Accessibility, Usability, LLMs, & Social Media. She has been an SEO for over 15 years and helped sites like Instacart, Vice, Zappos, usa.gov and many more.

Topics In This Episode Include:

  • Why AI vs Human Content Comparison Studies are Silly
  • How AI has Changed SEO
  • How Does Google Detect “AI Content”?
  • Deep Dive Into The Helpful Content Update
  • Google’s Search Generative Experience
  • Why Core Web Vitals Is NOT a Ranking Factor Now
  • E.A.T.T. Myths and Why It’s Not a Ranking Factor, Ranking Signal or Ranking System
  • How To Learn About SEO From “The Source”
  • How To Find and Hire The Right SEO (And how to attract the right clients if you are an SEO)
  • Kristine’s Approach to Providing SEO Consulting

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Tools Mentioned

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Kristine Online

 

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112: Martin Splitt On Rendering, Crawl Budget, JS SEO, Treeshaking & More09 Dec 201901:03:50

In this episode:

  • Does Google fetch all the scripts on a page?
  • “Treeshaking” and how it can help your page’s performance
  • Queuing time vs rendering time for Google
  • When to use JS Frameworks or not
  • Exactly how and when rendering counts against “crawl budget”
  • Is “crawl budget” a problem and something that should be optimized for?
  • Why content can sometimes take a long time to be de-indexed
  • The “Shadow DOM”
  • What Martin wishes SEOs would do more of
  • LOTS of your Twitter questions answered

This interview was recorded on Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 live on location at Tech SEO Boost in Boston.

The occasional rumbling sound you may hear is the subway, which runs right below the room we were recording in.

We spend the first 10 mins or so chatting about his role at Google, and then get into all the technical stuff

Listen Now!

Related Episodes You Might Like

Show Agenda and Timestamps

  • Coming soon!

Tools Mentioned

  • Coming soon!

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Martin Online

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111: How To Tackle Advanced eCommerce and Technical SEO w/Luke Carthy03 Sep 201901:25:22


In this episode:

  • How to handle out of stock products (we get quite detailed here)
  • Crawl optimization
  • How to optimize content on product pages
  • How to optimize content on category pages
  • Internal search page optimization
  • Handling content delivered in JavaScript on product or category pages
  • Common eCommerce SEO mistakes
  • The future of eCommerce SEO
  • How canonicals help
  • and we tackled LOTS of your questions from Twitter

Listen Now!


Related Episodes You Might Like

Tools Mentioned

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Luke Online

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110: A Candid Conversation w/Barry Schwartz on His Story, Productivity, Core Updates & More13 Aug 201901:04:42


Today’s episode I think is an important one for anyone who’s a part of, or interested in, the SEO industry. Whether you’re an actual practitioner, maybe newer to the space, or just following along and love SEO – you’ll probably get something out of this discussion.

I wanted to talk with Barry and get more details around things a lot of people are curious about…

For one, he’s known for being very prolific, publishing up to 5+ articles per day, following the SEO news, sharing things via Twitter, engaging with the community … AND running a company full time (that has nothing to do with SEO).

And I wanted to get his take on the state of Google right and now, and where things might be going. Barry is often the one reporting news — but I wanted to give him the spotlight and learn more about someone who is truly invaluable in this industry.

Some of the many things covered:

  • Barry reacts to his very first blog post from 2005!
  • Why Barry started blogging to begin with
  • How Barry got a Wiki page
  • His thoughts on Danny Sullivan’s role at Google
  • The best way to send Barry SEO news tips
  • Does Google give Barry info “off the record”?
  • The recent Google Core updates
  • Zombie Clicks (?)

And more – enjoy!

Tools Mentioned

Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned

Find Barry Schwartz Online & Speaking

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