Dan Leibson has been a strong advocate inside LSG and on SEO Twitter for the under-represented in the SEO community. At times his advocacy has been a bit too strong for some leading to several “WTF is up with Dan?” DMs to me. Well you know WTF is up with Dan? He has spent the…
Live Blogging the 2020 Election with Scalable Google Trends
Updated at 5:17 pdt (at bottom) Wow, it’s November 3rd 2020! That means election day in the US, and what an election. I’m going to eschew politics except to say GO VOTE. We have the day of at LSG, but I figured this would be a great time to deploy a new tool and to…
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…
What Even Is An SEO? (Can We Please Stop Talking About HTML)
Hi friends, it’s me Dan. Your friendly SEO curmudgeon in training. Recently the SEO community (cough cough, SEO Twitter) has been caught up in a veritable tizzy about knowing HTML. Beyond the obvious epistemological considerations, I think there is a real ontological question raised by the primacy of HTML as a programming language in the…
Some Digital Agencies Treat SEO Like Wearing a Face Mask
LSG is hiring for a Senior Director of SEO position and I have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of great SEOs over the past week. Thanks to the growth of our industry over the past few years and COVID-19, it feels like there’s an ocean of highly skilled talent out there. But…
How to Deliver Excellent Customer Service, Every Time
If you compare a business to the human body, there’s no doubt customer service is at the heart. It’s more than just a conversation answering a client’s question, it’s the accumulation of every interaction the client has with your business – it’s the pilot smiling from the cockpit as you board the plane, the…