EDGE of the Web - The Best SEO Podcast for Today's Digital Marketer

Mordy's back in the second chair to discuss Google's SearchOn event from last week and join Erin in basking in all of the great reveals that Google had in store for us.  We cover articles from Search Engine Land and The Verge, deep diving into the challenge that Google has as it tries to move users away from the Ten Blue Links. [00:06:26] MuM's the word at Google's SearchOn event last week [00:17:...

George Nguyen of Search Engine Land joined Erin on the show this week to cover the news this week in Mordy's absence. We always love George's take on the digital marketing fronts. This show focused on an article that PPC marketers need to pay very close attention to. Check your match types, everyone, things are changing. [00:03:15] Ad Transparency from Google Ads by way of the "About This Advertis...

Mordy gave the 450 episode his own 450 response code (yes, check out server codes all of you SEO geeks)!  He's away on holiday and we brought it to the pre-eminent SEO auditor, Andy Drinkwater to come alone side Erin to discuss the news of the week.  We're talking Title tags yet again, but there's much more in this episode.  450 episodes and still going strong! [00:06:14] Google speaks out about r...

Olga Zarzeczna appears on the EDGE for her second segment as we discuss her recent articles, a list of 52 SEO tools from Google and 79 Best Chrome Extensions for SEO as well as the incredible success she has had with your consultancy, being that her site has only been indexed for a year.  This is how you do content, folks!  Providing value every step of the way, here on the EDGE.   [00:07:28] What...

Let's regroup. Erin Sparks, Mordy Oberstein and Andrew "Optimisey" Cock-Starkey hold the first EDGE of the Web SCRUM to discuss the growing concern of Google Search dominance and content aggregation overreach.  Is Google taking too much of our own content for its uses?  Where do we, as content providers, stand when it comes to our goals of visits to our websites as opposed to data purveyors to Goo...

Olga Zarzeczna appeared on the SEO radar in August of 2020 with an incredible series of contributions to the community.  With incredibly crafted posts such as "Technical SEO Audit (188+ Steps)" and "SEO Audit Tools: 65 Tools For SEO auditing" and spending upwards of 40 - 60 hours of meticulous writing, Olga is clearly defining herself as a thought leader in our digital marketing community.  Give a...

Mordy and Erin tear into the topics this week (except for the Google Algorithm changes this weekend...missed that). We even got Mordy to pipe in about Google Ads, great info about impression-only data from your ads.  The State of SEO 2021 from Search Engine Journal was The guys cut up again, so dive in today! [00:03:23] Twitter's Communities might be different - and have better context [00:08:37]...

We continue our conversation with Kristina Azarenko, educating people through her SEO Challenge (#SEOChallenge). We break down some of the learning blocks when it comes to SEO and how to navigate your continued education inside of the organization you work for.  Improving the value or your own SEO skill sets is just as important as the SEO talent you bring to your company. [00:03:08] The John Muel...

Carolyn Lyden drops in on the EDGE team to discuss her recent article that has the SEO industry looking at our relationship with Google. We're part of the business model, right? We continue to talk about the Google SERP Title debacle as well as other news items of the week. [00:02:36] GMB posts can actually now appear on third party sites without your knowledge. [00:04:17] Google dropped HTML titl...

In this episode, of which the SERP Title is yet to be determined by Google, we have a special guest with us to interpret the hot mess of Title replacements by Google.  Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research at Amsive Digital reviews her recent article, her observations and the SEO climate at hand.  This is NEW, folks. And it is an Earthquake. [00:02:55] Holy Jumbled Titles, Batm...

With Kristina Azarenko educating people through her SEO Challenge (#SEOChallenge), we thought it would be great to get her and Erin Sparks together to talk about how SEOs can stop chasing perfection. Plus, any of our listeners can use the code EDGE at her course's checkout to receive a special surprise—she didn't pay us to promote; we just love it and want to pass it along.   [00:07:54] Starting S...

Prater & Martinez are back! This time around, we talk about brand perception shifts throughout the Pandemic, inclusive marketing and how audiences are way smarter than everyone thinks.   [00:07:28] Examples that Joe and JD have seen of permanent brand perception and buying choice of consumers we've experienced through the pandemic [00:14:52] How Big Tech's efforts to flag socially offending accoun...

In this week's news coverage, Erin Sparks and Mordy Oberstein are keeping an eye on Facebook and Google. Facebook is trying to work user privacy into their ads, ahead of regulatory worries. And, if you want your podcast featured on Google, you need to meet new requirements. [00:05:07] Podcasts featured on Google have new requirements [00:11:33] Pages are dropping and re-appearing in Google's index...

Erin and Mordy talk COVID and tech SEO. Proof of vaccination on Yelp, Google's structured data testing tool is gone, potential rumblings of an unmentioned update on the 6th and a new Schema recommendation. There's no slowdown for marketing opportunities or technical SEO in August; try to keep up! [00:03:31] Yelp is Adding Searchable Covid related attributes [00:07:56] Recommendation from Google: A...

We're joined by two experts in this interview! JD Prater and Joe Martinez join us to discuss relationship-marketing, client fears and the hot, hot topic of data collection. Marketing is changing fast, and it's time we start to unpack what the heck is going on.   [00:07:00] What does JD and Joe see evolving in the digital marketing space, taking in consideration the year and a half we have been thr...

Erin Sparks chats with a stateside Mordy Oberstein, co-hosting from his hotel room. From Google Ads Editor, LinkedIn's new acquisition to Wordpress and Universal Search, this week's episode touches topics that affect all marketers—not just SEOs. [00:08:05] New version of Google Ads Editor brings Hotel ads and lead form extensions [00:10:36] LinkedIn expanding their creator tools and Learning platf...

Erin Sparks is back at the mic with Mordy Oberstein to tackle some recent developments in SEO from Google. Today's news update covers the gamut—another unexpected algorithm update, a recommendation for redirects from Illyes and a new feature that tells end users why a page is ranking in their search results.  [00:06:54] Google hits us with another spam update [00:12:16] Gary Illyes recommends keep...

Mordy Oberstein is joined by the great Barry Schwartz this week as they analyze July's Core Update, a new GoDaddy integration for merchants, and the definition that Google added to job postings. Get your schemas ready! [00:03:43] Glenn Gabe's Rapid-fire Insights on Google's Core Update [00:13:00] New Integration from GoDaddy allows Merchants to show Inventory across Google [00:21:24] New Search Ed...

Garrett Sussman, Demand Generation Manager at iPullRank, continues his talk with Erin Sparks as they focus in on subject matter knowledge and meeting user, and client, behavioral needs. We explore the signals clients send when they're looking elsewhere, and talk about his experience with Agency Ahead. [00:04:59] Garret's experience in mining subject matter knowledge from clients to flesh out the B...

In this week's news roundup, Erin Sparks and Mordy Oberstein talk about Clubhouse's partnership with TED, Google's Pandu Nayak's roadmap for MUM and a few important perspectives that Google's John Mueller recently shared. [00:04:10] Clubhouse partners with TED to bring more thought leadership to the platform [00:09:04] The roadmap for MUM [00:19:26] Why some sites rank for unusual keywords [00:27:...

Garrett Sussman, Demand Generation Manager at iPullRank, talks to us about his experience in developing tools to help connect agencies to clients and helps us understand the factors of that success. We also discuss the pitfalls of an Agency/Client relationship and when it is best to walk away. Learning the "Love Language" of your client is always the most important aspect.  Listen to Segment 1 of...

On this week's roundup of News from the EDGE, Erin Sparks and Mordy Oberstein discuss Core Updates, recent opinions from Google's John Mueller and the future of SEO work.   [00:05:39] Google's July Core Update is rolling out, following a flurry of prior updates throughout June [00:14:57] How long does Mueller think SEO takes for new pages? Loaded question, and "it depends" [00:22:23] Mueller doesn...

We went through the Bill Slawski-looking glass in this second part of our interview with the Gandalf of SEO. SEO strategy starts with knowledge of the entity you are wanting to market for as well as understanding the gaps that can be exploited.  Bill provides a continued history of the entity-understanding journey Google is on, with the recent additions of BERT and Google's Multitask Unified Model...

While Erin's away, Mordy Oberstein and Carolyn Lyden take the mic and cover four new developments in the Google ecosystem. We cover Fake News sites, journalist bios, FAQs in snippets and, drum roll, the Core Web Vitals algorithm update! [00:05:44] Study asserts a ton of Google's ad traffic is coming from fake news sites [00:12:14] Google wants to bridge the gap between content and writer [00:17:44...

We speak with one of our favorite minds in search today, Bill Slawski of Go Fish Digital. Bill studies patents the way a librarian studies books. In this interview, we muse about the direction Google is heading and discuss the next evolution of understanding entity relationships. [00:03:59] When Bill got started in patent sleuthing [00:07:27] Tracking the authors of the patents, like authors of go...