The Immediate Impact of Trend Style Content An interesting new report just published by Seige Media tells us a lot about the trends in content today. It relates to how fresh, relevant and immediately useful our content is. And in how we might use trending topics/info to raise search engine rankings, gain pre-eminence with visitors,…
🍁 Why Canadians Still Make a Great Choice for Outsourcing The US is undergoing a fantastic economic, cultural and business transformation launched via tariffs, deregulation, tax reduction, cheaper energy and artificial intelligence. Growth will be phenomenal. In 2026, the FED rate will drop allowing small US businesses to enter the boom times. We’ll see burgeoning…
Generative Engine Optimization Guide A slow shift to using AI search engines by consumers is underway. It means small business owners must create a different kind of content experience on their websites, this time organized for the needs of these AI-powered info sources. AI search engines offer a different experience for search users (your customers). …
Top 10 Visibility Factors for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) A wave of experimentation and immersion in AI search engines is upon us now in 2025, and although growth is flattening, generative AI is increasingly important to what is shown on Google, Bing and elsewhere in the search engine marketplace. Experts aren’t sure how big AI…
Power Up Your Site’s Internal Linking for Impressive Outcomes If your website is filled with awesome content yet suffers from low visibility on Google sarch, there might be a number of reasons including low-ranking power, few relevant backlinks from credible, authoritative websites, and poor internal linking. Linking has never gotten much respect, and Google has…
How To Optimize your Content for ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs As you’ve read in the Generative Experience/Engine Optimization post, AI search engines are creating more search engine users. They love what the AI LLMs give them — fast information and insight, even above quality. AI search engines are arriving with big impact on content…
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) It’s nothing short of a revolution in content marketing and search happening right now. A new type of search engine is growing in popularity and it’s presenting small business owners with a first-mover advantage. It’s always wise to get a jump on technology waves. Did you miss any of them in…
Search Generative Experience Optimization Google continues to lead the way in how it offers a hybrid search alternative to search engines. In its ranked search results, it may include a special search feature called AI overviews. It’s a special form of results where Google’s artificial intelligence system offers up a generalized overview of a topic,…
Tailored SEO, Content, PPC & Social Strategy for Travel Agencies Considering a new team member or to hire a versatile freelance marketer? Your first task is to visualize what you need to accomplish and find the most efficient staffing solution. I’m just a little biased, but we shouldn’t underestimate what one single talent can do…
Google is Fading? It’s Actually Rising Oh, the AI hypesters. All of them so eager to push their new Agentic AI, Chatbots, AI apps, and AI-augmented services and infrastructure. And many of these AI followers lash out with rhetoric about Google being a digital Dinosaur, whose user traffic will suddenly disappear. Much of the rancor,…
Fight the Zero Click Universe with Zero Click Marketing! As a small business owner, you’re likely aware that your free organic web traffic and social media impressions and clicks have declined over the last 5 years. Unfortunately this increasing trend is being fortified by AI, making the big web platforms an air tight container for…
🥇SEO Services Toronto It’s a new business environment for many Toronto companies in diverse industries ranging from travel to manufacturing to software development. A US business cultural trend to exclude Canada is afoot, and a good way to counter that threat is to employ effective digital marketing. A comprehensive marketing strategy that leverages high-quality content…
🏆What is Advanced SEO? Advanced Search Engine Optimization is the use of sophisticated techniques, frameworks, tactics and practices to gain an edge over competitors who only do “best practices” or general SEO work. This is a sophisticated strategy of maximizing/focusing the ranking resources your site possesses, while you promote your business to build on the…
🥬 Google Loves Fresh Content – So Do Your Visitors How do you feel about eating that 4 day old salad you left in the fridge? How about that salmon that’s still in the garbage bin after a few days? Then you understand freshness so well. And that’s not all. How about the hypnotizing aroma…
AEO Answer Engine Optimization If you’re a digital marketer, you may have caught wind of a new type of search engine optimization. They’ve dubbed it Answer Engine Optimization or AEO. You’re well aware that consumers and business users are using the Generative AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot) more recently. Instead of typing in…
Adobe™ Offers AI LLM Optimizer for AI LLM Content Optimization Adobe™ has been an innovative, graphic design software company for decades. It’s products were world class. And this year, it’s extending its brand reputation by venturing into the Generative AI realm with new some cool, new AI tools for the mid to enterprise level marketing…
It’s Not Complicated for a Pro If your first attempt at search engine optimization didn’t pan out, don’t fret about it. It’s all about strategy and hard work. You may have been duped by hype, doom talk, and “techy talk” that plagues authentic SEO. Just feel the disappointment of those poor results, so you can…
Have you Given Up On SEO? SEO has been in vogue in digital marketing for over 30 years, before I started in 1998. And for the last 15 years, the rumors of SEO is dead were part of the buzzword narrative, to sell more SEO. In reality, the doomsday phrase should have been “SEO is…
🛡️ Bulletproof Hotel Marketing While the leisure travel market has returned to surpass pre-pandemic levels and B2B travel continues to recover, there remains significant headwinds for small to mid-sized US hotels. While hotel businesses spend fortunes on physical assets and advertising, it’s wise for CEOs and marketing managers to reconsider the power of digital marketing…
How AI Tools Empower Your Key Personnel for Big Bottom-Line Impact It’s estimated that 25% of digital marketers have been replaced by AI powered software tools. In fact, companies are reorganizing and flattening their employee/freelance hierarchies given the pluses that AI is providing. Aside from the customer-side tools available (e.g., AI travel itinerary generators and…
Visibility is Everything Whether you’re in the travel business or in real estate sales, being discovered and getting your message heard is paramount. And I’m reminded of what SparkToro’s well-known CEO and co-Founder, Rand Fishkin said recently — that discovery is the next big marketing objective, ahead of clicks. Because as he puts it, being…
🍕 How do ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek LLM’s Segment User Intent? Search engines, those deliverers of eager shoppers in vast amounts are all in on AI. AI algorithms govern the pieces and the whole of a shopper’s topic search on Google or ChatGPT. Just this week, Google announced its improved Google AI Mode Search…
🔗How to Create & Pitch Content Occasionally, I come across or learn of an outstanding company and I like to mention them and relay how important their offer or business is. And I’ve discovered one that’s notable. I attended their online seminar this afternoon and enjoyed not only the insights into how they do their…
Website Traffic is Your Company’s Lifeblood Traffic is everything. Without visitors to your website, there is no impact, no content consumption, no brand building, no convincing sales pitch, no customer or sales revenue. In fact, when your site is never visited, it means your current customers are being wooed away by highly visible competitors. A…
Bing’s New AI Copilot Search Engine Microsoft is trying to keep up in the race of artificial intelligence-powered search engines by developing their new Copilot Search. This isn’t the same as their previous search engine Bing or MSN search. Ai Chatbot rival search engines powered by LLM’s include ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and Perplexity. While ChatGPT…
How Google’s Ranking Algorithm Works When I was young, I enjoyed listening to music and news shows across the vast distance to US cities far away on our family’s antique radio. As I turned the hand dial, there was no sound until I hit a broadcast frequency of a radio station. Suddenly, across thousands of…
Offsite SEO and Brand Promotion As a small business owner, you’re hoping for great rankings and strong lead generation performance with your SEO-optimized content. There’s an issue though. Typcially, owners aren’t prioritizing promotion of their business and this makes it tough to build ranking power within search engine algorithms. Without the ranking power of backlinks,…
Successful Owners Know: SEO is Still Your Best Business Asset With all the never-ending challenges pressing you as a small business owner (taxes, high interest rates, inflation, regulations, wage demands, customer stress, reputation, customer acquisition, and trade tariffs), you might find it tough to get bold, adventurous and focused about your marketing. Yet marketing is…
Los Angeles SEO Services 2025 is offering a variety of new and exciting opportunities for Los Angeles area businesses. Given California’s massive challenges (and opportunities), it’s time to expand your content strategy to reach new customers across California, North America and into Europe. It can be done affordably without hiring an LA marketing agency nor…
Vancouver BC SEO Services It might be challenging for Vancouver area companies this year. Reduced access to the US means our digital marketing becomes more important in the mix. We’ll need to be more creative, innovative, putting an accent on content excellence. I can develop the level of competitive content strategy your need and tune…
Mississauga SEO Services – Advanced Strategies This year, Canadian companies from Toronto to Calgary and Edmonton are facing some seriously challenges in 2025. Reduced access to the US means we all need to be more creative, innovative, with an accent on content excellence. This means considerably improving your content strategy and using SEO to make…
Advanced Search Engine Optimization Consulting One of the issues of being in a prosperous city with a regional population is that services sometimes lag current demand. Finding qualified talented SEO consultants and expert content creators in Calgary or Edmonton is difficult, let alone those who can weave SEO and engaging content pieces together for even…
Advanced Search Engine Optimization Consulting One of the issues of being in a prosperous city with a regional population is that services sometimes lag current demand. Finding qualified talented SEO consultants and expert content creators is difficult, let alone those who can weave SEO and engaging content pieces together for even more impressive lead generation…
Do You Really Need to Go Pro? A lot of small business owners and marketing managers sit on the fence for a long time about committing to SEO and content marketing. They dabble with amateur help and publish mundane material that doesn’t fulfill expectations. This lack of commitment to excellence in their business is a…
Expert SEO Services by the Hour Once you’re convinced of the value of expert content development and advanced SEO strategy, you’ll be more hopeful you can solve any issues you’re having with your website. Whether you hire me on contract, permanent/dedicated or by the hour, you know you’re availing yourself of the best provider possible. Having…
SEO Services for Travel Companies There’s often a lot of doubt and confusion about how SEO is done and delivered, so I’d like to present this series of steps that clarifies how I will work with your travel business. Google’s ranking algorithm looks for many strengths in content quality and relevance, and that clear signals…
Why Search Engines Are Essential for Your Travel Business Success Given the promise of the incoming Trump 2.0 government with its pro-business agenda, both personal travel and business travel will see a big boost in 2025. And with travelers using digital tools such as Google to plan their trips, its absolutely necessary to build visibility…
Content Audits for Web Content Strategy A content audit is the foundation for a powerful, cohesive, content strategy — creating crucial insights for improvements and helping all stakeholders get on the same page. Because content doesn’t happen in a vacuum – it’s influenced by many people in a company, formally or informally. Since SEO/Content Strategy…
How to De-Optimize Your Web Content Oh the dread of rewriting hundreds of content pages! But sometimes we need to hunker down and declutter, de-optimize, re-optimize, and freshen up our content pages. If your content was hit by the last Google ranking update, it’s likely Google doesn’t like your content or your SEO strategy. As…
Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness Have you wondered how a small travel company could ever compete with the big travel portals and brand names online? It is a challenge for sure, but still doable. I’ve been competing against Goliath companies for 26 years now and even today, there’s a chance to win. Google’s ranking algorithm…