As an SEO agency, we've been using Yoast for several years for our Wordpress clients. With a wide range of free features and a paid upgrade for additional functionality, it has been our swiss-army knife for WP websites. However, there is a new tool that offers more functionality and is truly free. Enter Rank Math. Okay, so why use Rank Math instead of the tried and true Yoast? Size Matters Here's what our typical onsite SEO stack looked like with [...]
Google is rolling out a new budget planner tool for Google Ads. So far only a handful of our client accounts have access but it's only a matter of time before it's broadly available. If/once you have access, the tool will appear in the Tools menu under planning. What does the budget planner do? Essentially, the budget planner projects clicks or conversions for one or more existing campaigns based on different ad spends. You can set a target and Google [...]
Now more than ever before, Google is looking to social proof (reviews) as a component of E-A-T (Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness). Today I'll cover everything you need to know about reviews and how to get user ratings (stars) displayed in your organic results. How can reviews help? First, Google is watching! Google monitors reviews that are external to your site including review volume, recency, and rating. This includes Google My Business, Amazon, Yelp, Facebook reviews, Angie's List, BBB, and many [...]
Let's face it, AdWords is complicated. To make matters worse, the platform lacks robust version control and project management tools. While you could always go back in your history log and review changes, scant details and an inability to map changes to performance made the tool lacklustre at best. But that may be changing with some recent updates from the Big G. Today I'm going to introduce you to ad version history and the brand new AdWords notes feature. Now [...]
Maybe you manage SEO for your own business or you've been dabbling in providing SEO services. We've been doing SEO since 2002 and a lot has changed in 16 years. SEO strategy has shifted dramatically, and so have the tools available for managing SEO. In this article, I'm going to run down the state of the art SEO tools for small business. I'll list the best-paid SEO tools as well as free or low-cost alternatives where available. Tools will be [...]