People want to embed YouTube videos on their website, but don’t want competitor videos showing in “Recommended Videos” at the end of the video play. YouTube changed embeds in 2018, to where you can no longer disable recommended videos from appearing after a video finishes playing. They want people to keep watching videos as much […]
Embed YouTube Videos Without Competitor Videos At The End
Why Google Rewrites Your Titles and Descriptions in Search Results
Updated March 11th, 2021
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In certain cases, Google will rewrite your title tags and meta descriptions in search results. We look at some reasons the Google algorithm will choose to do this.
“How Much SEO Boost Does a Mobile-Friendly Site Give You?”
I want to talk about a thread I saw in one of the Reddit SEO channels, a question about the ROI of a mobile-friendly website. This is a paraphrase of what the original poster asked, but it went something like this. “Our website is not mobile-friendly right now. If we make our website mobile-friendly, how […]
Three Things That Make Client SEO Easy
For the past couple of years, we’ve been working closely with manufacturing, industrial, and blue-collar SEO clients. There are three factors which don’t get talked about, which help determine the success of any SEO campaign. Now, these aren’t factors like quality content, incoming back links, or user experience design — what we call the three […]
2018 Year in Review
Each year, I do a year in review post, so I can document the progress of my business, and look back and reflect on what’s happened. As a marketer, I feel it is important to chronicle what is working, and what isn’t. But this also lines up with one of our Core Values — transparency. […]
A Tale of Two Companies
Today, I’m going to tell you the story of two companies. Company A and Company B were both founded in the same year, and sold a similar product line. Both companies went trade shows, built a distributor network, and were making sales calls every day. Each company had a decent looking website when they launched, […]
Using HARO for SEO Backlinks
Google has said publicly that two of the most important SEO ranking factors are the content of your website and the link profile of your website. Links from other websites to yours have been as a proxy for site authority and relevance by search engines for many years. In order for incoming links to have […]
What To Do When Your Best Content Isn’t Ranking
It’s frustrating when you create great content, but the SEO gods aren’t smiling on your website. Here’s a guide of what to look for when your best content isn’t ranking.
Presentation: Deep Dive on SEO (for Nevada County Online)
Recently, I had a chance to do a presentation for the Nevada County Online Meetup. This was a deep dive on SEO, which included a presentation, and answering questions from the audience, during a lunch and learn. Fortunately, this presentation was videotaped for posterity, and is available on the NCO YouTube channel. What I wanted […]
Searcher Intent and SEO: The Invisible Ranking Factor
What is searcher intent? Searcher intent is the task that a user wants to accomplish at the end of a Google search. By pattern matching what’s already ranking, we increase the probability a given page will rank higher.