Search Engine Optimization

SEO Fluff Garbage Content (and How to Avoid It)

Google ends Target CPA and Target ROAS bidding strategiesThere’s a marketing line I’m going to toss out there. It’s one that you’ve heard before, possibly – as the cliche goes – a “thousand times.” Before I just toss it out there, I think it’s important to understand that despite the fact that it feels overused, it doesn’t take away from the truth at its core.

Content is king.

Yep. There it is; I wrote it.

The problem is that small businesses are too often plagued by content that is poorly strategized, poorly structured, or poorly written. And I’m not referring to only landing pages and blog posts; I’m referring to even the smaller elements, like meta descriptions.

“Shop new Honda models or used vehicles at Saville Honda to find your next car, truck, or SUV, or schedule service with our experts. Contact us today in Pensacola!”

Oh, under 165 characters, baby! Nailed it!


How to optimize your GBP landing page

In this week’s video, I explain how to optimize your Google Business Profile landing page – the page that your GBP website button points to on your website. For single-location businesses, that’s the home page of the site. For multi-location businesses, the landing page will be the individual location page for that specific location.


Local SEO Tips from Barbados SEO

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing my entire presentation from the recent Barbados SEO conference. Learn the latest tactics to help you achieve better visibility in local search results, including writing helpful content, optimizing for local visibility, building local links, acquiring local reviews, and optimizing your Google Business Profile.


Greg’s Automotive SEO slides from Digital Dealer Las Vegas

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing my entire presentation from last week’s Digital Dealer conference in Las Vegas. Instead of doing the “normal” SEO presentation with lots of best practice tips, I share the results of a massive 2-year research project on dealership Google Business Profiles and Local SEO audits of almost 1,000 dealerships. If you know what actually works in the real world (and what doesn’t work), you can truly understand what matters with automotive SEO.


Greg’s Local SEO slides from the Agents of Change conference

In this week’s episode, Greg shares his entire presentation about Local SEO from the recent Agents of Change conference in Maine (which was an amazing conference, by the way). Learn about website content, optimizing for the local algorithm, local link building, reputation management, and Google Business Profile optimization.