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

On this episode, we are joined by Chris Dayley, the VP of Testing and Site Optimization at Disruptive Advertising. He has a great background in SEO and conversion optimization with starting his own agency in 2014 which later merged with Disruptive Advertising.  In this episode, we highlight some of the news of the week and then dive deep into conversion optimation. Here are some of the topics we c...

Have you experimented with LinkedIn ads before? We haven't and we wanted to learn more, so we reached out to AJ Wilcox who is the founder of B2Linked.com. They ONLY worked with clients who are doing LinkedIn ads and are a LinkedIn certified ad partner. While LinkedIn ads have been available for almost 10 years now, LinkedIn has been slow to make updates and have been overpassed by the other social...

The "hustle and grind" lifestyle that we used to hearing and some have bought into is a lifestyle that is unsustainable leading to physical ailments, emotional burnout and a darkness in the soul. However Joel Comm, author of the new book "The Fun Formula", says he has found a better way. Who says that work can't be fun anymore? Find out more - TODAY on the EDGE.   Download our show today or subscr...

If you have listened to our show for a while, then you know how much we love the SEMrush tool. It is one of our favorite tools and it is used every day in our agency. So, we held back our excitement as we talk to Ashley Ward, the Corporate Speaker for SEMrush. Ashley, a former newspaper journalist, has spoken at conferences all over the world about content marketing and shares with us today about...

This week we're learning how to spruce up our Facebook Ads with video. Akvile DeFazio is the President of AKvertise, Inc. and she is just off her presentation at the SLCSEM Conference in Salt Lake City where she talked about the importance of using video in Facebook Ads. In this episode, we ask her: - The importance of video ads and the results she's seen - What makes a good Facebook video ad? - P...

Today we're talking about a little story that tackles the paradox of achieving what you want by focusing on the other person's interests. No, not in a way that is self-sacrificial, but rather such a way that all parties benefit greatly - which results in both immediate and long-term success. Bob Burg is the author of the new book The Go-Giver Influencer and he is joining the show to talk about his...

What can we learn from pirate gangs, buddy cops, Jewish soccer kids and a guy who tried to build a dome over a small town in Vermont? Shane Snow, the author of the upcoming book Dream Teams and founder at large of Contently, joins us on this episode to talk to us about the what he has learned from history about what it takes to work together as a team. Plus, have you heard about the impending Gmai...

It's a little bit like the movie "Inception" on today's show as we're talking about how podcasting helps SEO...on an SEO podcast. Sherry Bonelli, the founder and CEO of early bird digital marketing, has written a series of articles on Search Engine Land about the benefits of podcasting and how SEOs can use it to help improve their organic presence in the SERPs. So in this episode, we explain our p...

It's not very often we get an in-studio guest for our show, but we were lucky enough to be joined in-studio by Michelle Morgan of Clix Marketing. Michelle is the Director of Client Services of Clix Marketing and she is a regular presenter at SMX and HeroConf - speaking all things PPC. She wrote a great article on Search Engine Journal explaining audience layers and how you can improve your PPC cam...

Dan Golden is the President and Chief Search Artist at Be Found Online, which has been named as the #1 place to work according to AdAge. He's very passionate towards search and we dive deep with him in this show about paid search. He's spent a lot of time learning and testing audience layers in AdWords and has some great insight into targeting audiences with your paid ads. Also, he wrote a great a...

Here in central Indiana, we're tired of this cold. It's been a long winter and so we decided to catch up with Jeremiah Smith of SimpleTiger in Sarasota, Florida. He started his own agency in 2007 and now focuses solely on SaaS companies. He's a great SEO and has helped countless companies achieve SEO success and so we pick his brain about advice for SaaS companies, the future of search and where s...

What engagement metrics are you using in your SEO campaign? In this episode, we talk to Cyrus Shepard and get his feedback on that question plus we take audience questions! Also, have you seen that Google has begun showing search results with no organic listings or ads? What does that mean for the future of SEO? All this and more - this week on the EDGE!

A couple years ago, Google released their Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines - a training and resource document they use for the Search Quality Evaluators program. This 160-page document was updated last July and we are talking this week to Phil Singleton about what is all in this document. What pieces of juicy gold are in there that you can use to develop your new website and SEO strategy...

Fifteen years ago, Loren Baker decided to start up a website (or web journal, at the time) called Search Engine Journal and now it has become one of the most popular blogs in the SEO industry. In this episode, we talk to Loren about the backstory of Search Engine Journal and how it got its start plus we dive into the state of publishing in 2018. We also sprinkle in a little talk about Google Searc...

Results or Die – that's the philosophy of CoSchedule, an online tool for organizing all of your digital marketing. The CEO and co-founder, Garrett Moon, has authored a new book called the  10x Marketing Formula  (due out March 27th) and he joins EDGE of the Web to talk about some of the ideas and inspirations behind the new book. The basic formula we follow is this: write good content, sprinkle so...

Last year, Google released a new feature to Google My Business pages called Google Questions and Answers but most business owners have no idea it even exists. Aaron Weiche is the Chief Marketing Officer at GetFiveStars and he has some great tips and insights into how businesses can take advantage of this feature from Google. Have you checked your business's Q&A feature? You might be surprised to s...

One topic we have never covered on the show in the past six years is building a community around your brand. Companies large and small have created communities for their brands, but how do you make your brand successful and how do you motivate your community to take action? Carrie Melissa Jones, founder and CEO of Gather Community Consulting, has helped build communities since the early 2000s and...

The year of 2018 looks to be an exciting year for the search industry and in this episode, we'll talk to Will Critchlow, the Founder and CEO of Distilled. He speaks several times a year about the future of search and that's where we are going today too. Where has search been and where is the search industry going? Find out today with Will Critchlow. Plus, Will and his team at Distilled have create...

We're seeing more and more clients wanting to experiment with Facebook Advertising - but in most organizations, the PPC Manager is being asked to do the ad management. Susan Wenograd has been in this position before so we wanted to have her on to talk to you about the lessons she learned in the differences between managing a Facebook Ad campaign vs. a Google AdWords campaign. Plus we discuss the n...

"Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal" - talk about a voice command that caused all sorts of commotion and chaos. Today, however, you probably find yourself asking voice commands to Alexa, Siri, or Google about the weather or music on a regular basis. For businesses, leveraging voice search presents one of the greatest challenges yet and so we reached out to Duane Forrester, the VP of Industry Insights at...

Earlier this year, Erin and Tom were sitting at a local networking event and the presenter started talking about this concept called Radical Candor. It was a new book that had just come out and it definitely perked their interest. While we tend to focus on digital marketing topics for our show, we know that a lot of our audience are in management roles and could learn a few things from the book. S...

How do you convince your CMO or CEO to do REAL content marketing? And not only that but how do you secure enough budget so that you can produce the content your audience wants? Michael Brenner is the CEO of the Marketing Insider Group and he spoke about this subject at Content Marketing World a couple months ago. In this episode, we'll talk with Michael about how he convinces CEOs and CMOs to inve...

For the last 15 years, Tom Fishburne has been poking fun at the marketing industry and for the first time he has compiled over 200 of his favorite comics and put them into a book. "Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings" has captured so many of our industries biggest moments and brought a little humor to the situation. We talk to Tom in this e...

Podcasting is becoming the newest trend in content marketing and we wanted to talk to the host of one of our favorite podcasts, the Unthinkable podcast with Jay Acunzo. Jay was a former digital media strategist at Google before joining HubSpot as the head of content and has now become an accomplished keynote speaker and award-winning podcast host. We wanted to pick Jay's brain to learn what tips h...

Customers aren't as loyal as they used to be but that doesn't mean you can't build customer loyalty, it just means you have to work a little bit harder at it. Sujan Patel, the co-founder of Web Profits, joins us this week to talk about something he is very passionate about. No, we're not talking about his passion for Batman (although he and Erin and geeked out before our recording) - we're talking...