Over the past year there has been an absolute explosion in the demand for SEO, and for digital marketing services in general. Here’s what I think is going on. When COVID hit around March 2020, many businesses shut down their paid acquisition and suddenly realized how over-reliant/exposed they were on paid. Most businesses had either…
SEO The LSG Way: Cognitive Bias and False Precision in our SERP Mental Model
DAN THAT IS A MOUTHFUL! In another life I was an academic random internet person, deal with it and move on. So a couple of members of the team have been pushing me to document the Local SEO Guide approach to SEO and a topic came up internally over the past few weeks that I…
Should SEOs Regret Focusing on Featured Snippets?
Remember when Google finagled with their system to make it so that you couldn’t double dip on Featured Snippets/Instant Answers (Get a Featured Snippet and rank on page 1 in 10 blue links). Well, there are a lot of people who have been skeptical about the value of this particular search feature in this new…
(Google Search Console + Regex)|(GSC API)?
Hey @methode any chance regex filters coming to the GSC Search Analytics report any time soon? — Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide) August 15, 2015 Well it finally happened. Google Search Console’s Search Performance report now supports regular expressions. So this is great because you can now do cool searches like: But while we waited six…
Should An SEO Agency Have Salespeople?
We have never had salespeople. And yet we have grown from one guy working out of his bedroom to almost 20 men and women working out of their bedrooms. We want to keep growing; to support the innovative tools and services the team has created, to give our people more opportunities for career growth,…
Your SEO Fire Drill Is Not Our Problem & You Don’t Want It To Be
This is a bit of a self-serving post, but this is an SEO blog so that’s kind of baked into the cake anyhow. I am not saying your SEO agency, or even your in-house SEO team, shouldn’t jump all over a site when it’s SEO is disintegrating in your hands. The team should have a…
The SEMRush IPO #SEOSTONK!
Yesterday afternoon, SEO Twitter was abuzz with the news that SEMRush had filed to go public. Some great initial analysis on the numbers in this thread by Dan Barker: SEMrush, the SEO tool, has filed to go public. Here’s the S-1: https://t.co/i1meSHts4Y They spent $54 million on marketing last year, for revenue of $125 million….
The Best Top Local SEO Blog Near You 2020!
I did not expect to open my inbox this morning to find that LSG has been voted the Top Local SEO Blog of 2020 on BrightLocal but 2020 has been throwing curve balls all year so why should today be any different? I’d like to thank the Academy, my family, and SEOTwitter, but most of…