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

Tyson Stockton, PreVisible.io Co-Founder and Education Partner, looks at the trends behind SEO’s biggest movers, shakers, and slackers in October. After Elon Musk’s recent takeover of Twitter, it’s unsurprising that the platform experienced a significant jump in its overall organic visibility. Surprisingly, a lot of this increase was due to the misspelling and variants of brand names working in th...

Dan Taylor, Head of Research and Development at SALT.agency, discusses technical SEO. Content should enable consumers to better forecast their own experience and consumption of a product or serviceFor SaaS companies especially, monthly and yearly subscriptions depend on getting consumers excited about potential user experiences. Today, Dan talks about creating a better user experience via forecast...

Dan Taylor, Head of Research and Development at SALT.agency, discusses technical SEO. Large businesses, in operation for a number of years, in the offline sphere, don't necessarily go through the ideal digital transformation stage. Typically, they end up having multiple websites on multiple platforms that still need to communicate with one another. Today, Dan talks about edge SEO and utilization o...

Dan Taylor, Head of Research and Development at SALT.agency, discusses technical SEO. Optimizing your website to rank internationally is an entirely different ballgame from usual ranking practices. It is especially important to pay attention to link building and optimize URLs and content for region intent. Today, Dan explores the process of debugging complex canonical issues.  Show Notes Conn...

Lindsay Shearer, CEO of Pins 4 Profit, talks about social media and its impact on SEO. Come next year, the cookieless era will take full effect and advertisers will lose their ability to track and target consumers on different platforms the way they once used to. To build sustainable brands, eCommerce companies will need to master the search engine game on multiple search engines and they’ll need...

Lindsay Shearer, CEO of Pins 4 Profit, talks about social media and its impact on SEO. When thinking about search engines, Google or Bing probably come to mind before Pinterest. But, What most people don’t realize is that Pinterest is a search engine and eCommerce brands should have a good SEO strategy for the platform. Today, Lindsay discusses whether Pinterest SEO is actually a thing. Show Notes...

Will Critchlow, CEO of SearchPilot, discusses a full series on SEO testing. Paid search teams are accustomed to receiving six-figure annual budgets, while SEO has historically been an underinvested channel. This tendency can be attributed to SEOs being unable to answer questions from senior management but SEO testing can help SEO teams to build those business cases. Today, Will talks about SEO tes...

Will Critchlow, CEO of SearchPilot, discusses a full series on SEO testing. It’s easy for experienced SEOs to default to SEO best practices and recommend changes that may do more harm than good. However, we now have access to tools and the ability to run positive, negative, and neutral tests to determine whether a change will produce positive, negative, or no impact at all. Today, Will talks about...

Will Critchlow, CEO of SearchPilot, discusses a full series on SEO testing. SEO is an ever-evolving field as Google’s algorithm and your competitors will always be implementing changes. As a result, there’s been a shift in mindset toward the continual evolution of websites and that is also being applied to the cadence of SEO testing. Today, Will talks about testing cadence and objectives. Show Not...

Will Critchlow, CEO of SearchPilot, discusses a full series on SEO testing. We’re living in the age of access to the enormous amount of statistical data that can help us make better business decisions. Similar to the rise of the three-point shot and the decline of the midrange in basketball, SEOs have access to data that can help them build more efficient strategies and take advantage of tactics u...

Will Critchlow, CEO of SearchPilot, discusses a full series on SEO testing. With AdWords and conversion rate tests, you can test two different landing pages by sending half your users to one and half of the users to another. That approach is not applicable to SEO, but you still have to be able to prove its value and impact on revenue, and that’s where SEO testing comes in. Today, Will talks about...

Karl Kleinschmidt, VP of SEO Strategy at Local SEO Guide, talks about local SEO. City pages are a great way to showcase your products and services to a specific audience. You can target specific keywords and phrases that are relevant to each location and this can help you attract more traffic from people searching for businesses in your area. Today, Karl discusses city-specific pages. Show Notes C...

Karl Kleinschmidt, VP of SEO Strategy at Local SEO Guide, talks about local SEO. While a national SEO strategy can be beneficial for businesses that sell products nationally, neglecting local SEO may lead to the exclusion of potential leads. So, before creating any content, it is in a business’ best interest to check whether the keywords they plan to target have local intent or national intent. To...

Adrien Menard, CEO and Co-Founder of Botify, discusses changes and emerging trends in SEO. Whether we’re talking about local or global SEO teams, the biggest challenge always boils down to finding the right talent for the SEO team. Furthermore, that could explain why there are always more SEO jobs available than there are SEOs to fill those vacancies. Today, Adrien talks about how to manage a...

Adrien Menard, CEO and Co-Founder of Botify, discusses changes and emerging trends in SEO. Though the value of SEO has been underestimated for a very long time, that is slowly changing as a result of technology and innovation. And, in an era where we cannot rely on click data anymore, companies like Botify are making it easier for clients to prove the value of their SEO efforts. Today, Adrien talk...

Adrien Menard, CEO and Co-Founder of Botify, discusses changes and emerging trends in SEO. SEO is now seen as a performance marketing channel and this has led to SEO teams needing to deliver a greater impact. In response, Botify created tools and analytics to implement organic search marketing strategies faster. Today, Adrien talks about some emerging trends in SEO. Show Notes Connect With:&n...

Kathy Brown, SEO consultant at Searchmetrics joins Ben to talk about the impact of semantic search on SEO. What is semantic search? And why is Google investing in it? Today, Ben and Kathy talk about the relationship between SEO and semantic search.  Show Notes Connect With:  Kathy Brown:  Website  //  LinkedIn The Voices of Search Podcast :  Email  //  Linke...

Jason Jackson, Co-Founder of Get Found, discusses SEO development and learning within the agency context. As an SEO agency, you’re going to get clients who may have had negative experiences with SEO previously. Rather than ignoring these feelings, it’s crucial to address them from the beginning of the relationship and teach your team to respond to these feelings with empathy. Today, Jason talks ab...

Jason Jackson, Co-Founder of Get Found, discusses SEO development and learning within the agency context. Becoming a good digital marketer and honing your SEO skills requires determination and a willingness to learn as much as possible. SEO is forever evolving and the key to advancing your SEO skills and starting your own agency is to always have a student mentality and use failure as a stepping s...

Tom Critchlow, Founder of SEO MBA, discusses how to present SEO to your CEO. SEO is not a standalone activity and buy-in for our SEO initiatives needs to come from the executive and other stakeholder groups. And, the first step to getting buy-in from these individuals is figuring out what goals they are working towards and how the goals of your SEO initiatives can align with theirs. Today, Tom tal...

Tom Critchlow, Founder of SEO MBA, discusses how to present SEO to your CEO. As SEOs, we have a tendency to obsess over the technical and complicated nature of SEO. But, getting buy-in, resources, and budget from the executive team requires that we’re able to communicate our SEO strategies in a clear, straightforward way that makes it more digestible for them. Today, Tom talks about presenting SEO...

Brandon Schakola, Sr. Director of SEO at Overstock, discusses SEO strategy. SEO is not a standalone activity and buy-in is required from several teams to get any traction on your SEO initiatives. Essentially, rather than simply pitching a strategy to the executives, it’s the responsibility of an SEO to involve the different stakeholder groups throughout the development of the SEO strategy to secur...

Brandon Schakola, Sr. Director of SEO at Overstock, discusses SEO strategy. It takes time, effort and knowledge to create a winning SEO strategy that will get executive buy-in and bring in the traffic you're looking for. As an SEO, your job is to provide specific experiences for your target audience, so before creating a strategy, you must determine what your audience needs. Today, Brandon talks a...

Brandon Schakola, Sr. Director of SEO at Overstock, discusses SEO strategy. If you want to get the most out of your SEO strategy, you need to build a strong foundation. And, rather than looking externally at your competitors first, you must understand how your organization prioritizes SEO to ensure that you’ll have the resources required to drive the SEO changes outlined in your strategy. Today, B...

Martha Van Berkel, CEO of Schema App, discusses managing structured data. When it comes to SEO, there are so many results that can be vague and do not paint a clear picture of SEO’s contribution to business results. However, schema performance and results enable you to directly correlate clicks and impressions from rich results to the work that you're doing. Today, Martha talks about how to better...