Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast

Dale Bertrand, President of Fire&Spark, talks about technical changes that impact your SEO performance. Google’s algorithm has become alarmingly astute at understanding user intent and matching the right content to that intent. In an effort to continue driving business results as Google’s algorithm updates increase in frequency, SEOs must focus on serving customer needs first. Today, Dale disc...

Eric Ritter, CEO and Founder of Digital Neighbor, talks about social media, personal branding, and SEO. When you’re looking for ways to scale and grow your business, personal branding can increase your company’s credibility. If we can become subject matter experts outside of our companies and agencies, we can actually expand the market reach of our business’s offerings and grow the business. Today...

Eric Ritter, CEO and Founder of Digital Neighbor, talks about social media, personal branding, and SEO. While your website still remains the hub you should be driving traffic to, your SEO content strategy must include content for social platforms. Consumers are not just using social media platforms for product discovery, they’re making purchases, looking up local restaurants, and using social medi...

Steffen Hederbrandt, CMO and Co-Founder of Dreamdata.io, talks about content and revenue drivers in B2B businesses. When it comes to connecting deals and revenue attribution to SEO, it can be challenging to get a real revenue number that can be related to investment into projects. However, Dreamdata built an account-based data model that contains all of the touchpoints a business has with an accou...

Steffen Hederbrandt, CMO and Co-Founder of Dreamdata.io, talks about content and revenue drivers in B2B businesses. In B2B marketing, the buyer journey isn't linear, so it can be challenging to connect our activities to the revenue made. The value of content is often misunderstood, but Dreamdata.io is attempting to make this process a lot easier for SEOs and B2B businesses. Today, Steffen discusse...

Tom Wells, Co-Founder of Wells & Harris, talks about the changes and power of SEO data. Many early-stage startups make the mistake of focusing solely on performance marketing without investing in long-term growth strategies. However, without a holistic marketing strategy that incorporates organic search, many of these companies are unable to continue to grow and scale their businesses. Today,...

Tom Wells, Co-Founder of Wells & Harris, talks about the changes and power of SEO data. SEO is often undervalued in comparison to paid search even though the ROI from organic search can be phenomenal when it’s done well. If clickthrough rates are any indication, it’s imperative that brands invest in SEO, but it must be done strategically for positive results. Today, Tom discusses SEO spend all...

Tyson Stockton, PreVisible.io Co-Founder and Education Partner, looks at the trends behind SEO’s biggest movers, shakers, and slackers in November. Black Friday hasn’t been the same since the pandemic, and SEOs can no longer just focus on the Black Friday sale page to capture search demand. In fact, brands that took this approach to Black Friday were overshadowed by those that understood that Blac...

Erin Sparks, host of EDGE of the Web podcast and President of Site Strategics, talks about podcasting SEO and content marketing. Google's intent has always been serving consumers with the best information, not bringing traffic to websites. While that may seem at odds with our SEO goals, there is a way to build your entity’s relationship with Google by understanding the questions that people are as...

Erin Sparks, host of EDGE of the Web podcast and President of Site Strategics, talks about podcasting SEO and content marketing. We’re seeing the beginning of Google making radical changes to the SERP and an increase in the ways brands and entities can dominate the SERP. Rather than going directly into your sales funnel, consumers are looking for information about your brand on different websites,...

Austin Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Sociality Pro, discusses social media's relationship with search. When you’re looking for organic, fast and cost-effective ways to grow your brand’s visibility online, Google can no longer be the only focus. While it can take up to a year to see any significant growth results from organic SEO, social media platforms like TikTok offer great opportunities to...

Austin Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Sociality Pro, discusses social media's relationship with search. The difference between TikTok and social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook boils down to its algorithm. TikTok’s algorithm focuses on reaching new audiences, and companies that joined the platform are enjoying massive organic growth. Today, Austin talks about TikTok for SEO. ...

Steve Toth, CEO and Lead Strategist at SEO Notebook, talks about keyword verticalization. There are many different ways that people search for keywords and you want the pages on your website to rank for as many relevant keywords as possible. Because Google prioritizes topic-based content, keyword verticalization is an effective strategy to gain topical relevance around a particular topic or keywor...

Steve Toth, CEO and Lead Strategist at SEO Notebook, talks about Google Search Console API and Python. While Google Search Console is an invaluable tool for SEOs when it comes to providing data about users and diagnosing traffic and other SEO issues. While a lot of the data is not accessible from the UI, the API can be used to access this hidden data and extract all that valuable search data that...

Ryland Bacorn, Principal Product Manager of SEO at Realtor.com, discusses enterprise SEO. Traditionally, most SEO teams operated within marketing teams, and this is still an ideal structure for smaller websites. However, when it comes to SEO for large websites like those in the eCommerce or travel industry, it's important to be in the product org in order to get big-impact SEO fixes deployed. Toda...

Ryland Bacorn, Principal Product Manager of SEO at Realtor.com, discusses Core Web Vitals and performance. When you’ve optimized for Core Web Vitals, you’re not only helping your website gain more recognition in the SERPs, but you’re also providing your audience with a seamless browsing experience. But, what is our role as SEOs in diagnosing and articulating Core Web Vitals issues to dev and engin...

Farzad Rashidi, Lead innovator and Co-Founder at Respona, talks about connecting your content and linking strategies. As far as Google’s ranking factors go, backlinks could arguably be considered the most important one. Beyond building high quality pieces of content, SEOs must create and cultivate relationships that maximize domain authority for all parties involved. Today, Farzad discusses g...

Kevin Indig, Growth Advisor at Kevin_Indig.com, discusses SEO strategy, tactics, and eCommerce SEO. As Amazon continues to excel in the eCommerce and advertising space, Google has been making several changes to try and regain dominance. For eCommerce, the 10 blue links are basically dead and it’s now time to look at other ways your brand can appear on the SERP. Today, Kevin talks about where eComm...

Kevin Indig, Growth Advisor at Kevin_Indig.com, discusses SEO strategy, tactics, and eCommerce SEO. Many SEOs and agencies are often limited by their lack of understanding when it comes to SEO strategy. While many SEOs prefer to focus on tactics, it’s really the ability to develop a solid SEO strategy and get buy-in from stakeholders and executives that will get SEO the funding it needs to impleme...

Beatrice Gamba, Senior SEO Strategist at WordLift, discusses the knowledge graph. The knowledge graph is Google’s semantic database of the world, cataloging millions of entities, their relationships, and general facts about them. This means that it’s a perfect match for content optimization, the process of writing content that conveys your business goals while fulfilling user intent. Today, Beatri...

Beatrice Gamba, Senior SEO Strategist at WordLift, discusses the Knowledge Graph. The Knowledge Graph is a powerful tool for search engine optimization and can help you improve the relevance of your content by adding more meaning to it. In fact, it’s so powerful that simply submitting a Knowledge Graph can be considered an SEO strategy. Today, Beatrice talks about Knowledge Graph SEO. Show Notes C...

Jordan Koene, Co-Founder and CEO of PreVisible, discusses what’s happening in SEO news. When many think of artificial intelligence, they tend to think of humans being overtaken by machines. While AI hasn’t taken over, it has changed the way we work for the better; however, the lack of regulation of big technology companies still leaves many worried. Today, Jordan talks about the future of SEO arti...

Jordan Koene, Co-Founder and CEO of PreVisible, discusses what’s happening in SEO news. Google rolled out another update in October 2022 and it seems to be a reminder to websites to clean up their act. However, unlike the other algorithm updates, this spam update is not expected to cause major ranking changes as the other algorithm updates did. Today, Jordan talks about spam, spam, spam updates. S...

Jordan Koene, Co-Founder and CEO of PreVisible, discusses what’s happening in SEO news. Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, etc have been struggling with revenue and earnings for their core advertising businesses as the ad spending slowdown continues. In contrast, Google has been able to increase earnings for Google Ads over the last quarter, but failed to hit their revenue and profit expectations target...

Tyson Stockton, PreVisible.io Co-Founder and Education Partner, looks at the trends behind SEO’s biggest movers, shakers, and slackers in October. Google’s approach towards the misspellings of branded terms and determining intent has been advantageous to social media websites. However, rather than benefiting from this, LinkedIn has experienced a decline in SEO performance on brand-related queries....