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

How can Digital Marketing professionals leverage SEARCH and SOCIAL for maximum ROI? Why do so many digital marketers continue to focus on front-end acquisition instead of lifetime value? What are the alternatives to last-click attribution in today's integrated media environment? So many questions! Get some answers when special guest Susan Wenograd, VP of Marketing Strategy at Aimclear, joins us fo...

The best #DigitalMarketing professionals keep up with the latest trending news affecting their work. This is why every episode of the EDGE of the Web podcast features a news roundup segment, and a special guest who helps us sort through it all. Join us for episode 316 featuring Susan Wenograd, VP of Marketing Strategy at Aimclear. This week we're looking at a study on voice search, Instagram adver...

Want your websites and pages to rank better with Google? You've got to focus on E-A-T: Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness. Join us for a deep dive into E-A-T with Lily Ray, SEO Director at Path Interactive, our special guest for episode 315 of the award-winning EDGE of the Web podcast

When it's time to catch up on the latest #DigitalMarketing news, all you have to do is tune in to the latest episode of the Site Strategics EDGE of the Web podcast! This week features analysis and commentary with Lily Ray, SEO Director at Path Interactive on stories such as the Google disavow tool is not going away so just use the old version for now, starting July 1 all new sites will be indexed...

A growing number of advertisers are feeling like lab rats at the hands of the big platforms as they experiment with automation and Machine Learning. Both SEO and Digital Marketing will never be the same. Ginny Marvin, Editor-in-Chief for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, and MarTech Today will make sense of it all when she is our guest for episode 314 of the award-winning EDGE of the Web Podcast...

You can now ask Amazon Alexa to delete all your voice recordings from the day, Twitter is experimenting with showing more ads, and Roku's new Activation Insights tool is targeting viewers who have shifted to streaming. Get host's Erin Sparks take on the news along side this week's guest: Ginny Marvin from Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today.

Here's a little litmus test #DigitalMarketing professionals should apply to their messages: Would you be embarrassed to put this on a billboard? PJ Christie, Founder and CEO of Search and Convert, explains all in episode 313 of the award-winning Site Strategics EDGE of the Web podcast. From the news:  Search Engine Journal : 50% of Small Businesses Do Not Have a Marketing Plan "According to a surv...

  There are many strategies and tactics people can try when the goal is to #DoBetterWork, which just so happens to be the title of Max Yoder's book. He's the founder and CEO of Lessonly, and is our guest for episode 312 of the award-winning Site Strategics EDGE of the Web podcast. From the news:  Search Engine Journal : 72% of People Have Used Voice Search Through a Digital Assistant in 2019 ( lin...

We're diving deep into Local SEO today by debunking some common myths when it comes to editing your Google My Business. Joy Hawkins is the owner of Sterling Sky, Inc. and she recently wrote a blog called "7 Little Known Things About Google Local Guides and Editing Listings on Google Maps" and we wanted to learn more about Google Local Guides more for this show. Plus, what's with all the spam in Go...

Paying for SEO may seem like a weird thought, but when you are looking at the landscape of your competitive keywords it might make sense to pay for a few listings or directories. How do you identify the listings that are worth the investment? Garrett Mehrguth, the CEO and co-founder of Directive, joins us on this show to discuss how he finds and invests in directories for his clients to help them...

What if we could automate and use machines from some of the most mundane SEO tasks and free up our time for more strategy? Well, it is possible and we'll find out how machine learning can make our lives a little easier. Britney Muller is the Senior SEO Scientist at Moz and she has been one of the more vocal leaders in the machine learning space for SEOs. She has written and presented on the topic...

JR Oakes is the Senior Director of Technical SEO Research at Adapt Partners and he shares a lot of great information on Twitter and GitHub about how to use Data Analysis for SEO. What is Data Analysis? According to the Office of Research Integrity, Data Analysis is the process of systematically applying statistical and/or logical techniques to describe and illustrate, condense and recap, and evalu...

Writing case studies are hard to do well. They take a lot of time, you have to interview clients and if you don't do it right, you've completely wasted everyone's time. What's the right way to write a case study and how do you market them afterward? Joel Klettke is the Founder of Case Study Buddy and he's on the mission to help companies unleash the power of case studies. When done right, a case s...

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are going to continue to dominate the conversation in the PPC industry this year. What are the best ways to use Machine Learning and AI and what skills do you need to have to be successful? Brad Geddes joins us this week to discuss the role Machine Learning should play your PPC campaigns and how it can positively or negatively impact your campaigns. If...

From a young age, we are taught to share. Sharing is important and sharing is caring. But, when it comes to our professional lives, teams within an organization are unwilling to share data with other departments that could be very valuable to that group. What would happen if we were sharing our data in between departments? How much better would our marketing be? Erin Acheson, the President and COO...

The fields of marketing, advertising, and PR are constantly changing. Past strategies no longer work as technology is racing ahead of us, customers are buying based on personal values, and trust in brands is at a 10-year low. We've been going through a marketing rebellion for over 100 years but marketers have been ignoring it. What are companies supposed to do to survive? Mark Schaefer, a globally...

In case you missed our last episode, Moz has recently announced that they are changing the way Domain Authority will be scored beginning on March 5. Russ Jones, the Principal Search Scientist at Moz, joins us on this special bonus episode to discuss how SEOs should use Domain Authority, how it will be calculated and how frequently it will update. We're diving deep into the new Domain Authority, To...

Last year, Google updated its Quality Rater Guidelines - what changed and what lessons are there to learn from this update? Marie Haynes, the owner of Marie Haynes Consulting, Inc., joins us on the show this week as she and her team have dove into this 160+ page document to see what changes SEOs and webmasters can glean from it. The most important feature of the guidelines seems to focus around E-...

There's one thing that is for certain in the marketing technology industry - change. Rather than slowing down, several big changes are accelerating across the industry but what is driving this change? Will it slow down or continue to accelerate? Scott Brinker, the editor of chiefmartec.com and VP of Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, joins us on the show this week to explore this change in marketing t...

Welcome to our 300th episode (and 8th year of shows!). We've covered a lot of different topics and interviewed several 100 different people over the past 300 episodes. It's been a lot of fun and we are excited to bring you more shows in the coming years. But this episode, we wanted to catch up with Dave Gerhardt, the VP of Marketing with Drift. He is the co-author of a new book called "Conversatio...

Most of a PPC Manager's focus tends to be on Google Ads - but you could be overlooking a valuable channel for ads - and that's Bing Ads. What in store for Bing Ads in 2019? Well, we reached out to our good friend John Lee as he is the Product Learning Strategist for Bing Ads. He is on the team that helps build training materials and helps with the improvement of Bing Ads so he has a great insight...

Recent reports have said that Reddit generates more traffic than Facebook or Twitter and was the third most visited website behind Google and YouTube. So why do marketers seem to ignore this valuable channel? We will find out more about Reddit Marketing this week with Ross Simmonds. He is a big fan of Reddit and has spoken about this topic (and others!) at conferences around the country. More rece...

WordPress has become one of the most popular content management systems as it is running over 28% of the web. And to their credit, it is easy to use has lots of great tools you can add that make your website even powerful. But a lot of companies and developers can add so much code to your website that it is slowing down your website and frustrating your users and hurting your SEO. Jon Henshaw, the...

Everywhere we look and go we are bombarded with ads and distraction. How do you compete with that when you are marketing your businesses? Steve Woodruff, author of the new book "Clarity Wins", says that the secret weapon he uses for his clients to break through the noise and distraction is Clarity. Steve breaks down how the clarity of our strategy and clarity in our messaging can help you succeed...

We are just a few weeks from 2019 and 2018 gave us a lot of change in the SEO industry? What can we expect in 2019? Ashley Berman Hale, the Technical SEO Lead at DeepCrawl, recently interviewed John Mueller of Google about what to expect next year. SEOs need to improve their Technical SEO for 2019 to stay ahead of the curve! Also, we talk about the new Q&A Structured data, Google's new WordPress p...