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

Episode Overview: In order to take a confidently informed step forward with your SEO plans and goals for the next year, it’s important to take a retrospective look back to ensure your plan starts off on the right foot. Join Ben and Jordan as they examine the best method to formulating a SEO strategy for next year, explain the benefits of inter-departmental goal setting and the different ways you can develop new career paths within SEO in 2020. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Speculation and uncertainty surround Google’s sudden BERT algorithm update, raising questions among experts in the industry on how big of an impact it will have on search and marketing strategies. Join host Ben and Searchmetrics’ Jordan Koene as they discuss BERT’s initial impact, how it’s changing the way Google analyzes context behind user search queries and how companies should avoid making abrupt, reactionary changes to their marketing strategies. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The last series of Google algorithm updates, including the latest BERT update, are flying like a flurry of boxing jabs, with BERT being the most recent surprise jab from the tech giant. Some companies are successfully dodging the latest punches and coming out on top, while other companies have been taking them square on the chin. Join Ben and Tyson as they discuss some of the early SEO winners and which companies got KO’ed by BERT in the latest Google algorithm update round. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Flowers can’t truly bloom and stand out amongst the foliage without a little pruning – the same can be said for content on your website. Trimming excess content may sound harmful to your content strategy, but pruning excess content to enhance your high-performing content can significantly improve your content marketing efforts. Join Ben as he welcomes back Eric Enge, general manager for digital marketing at Perficient Digital, to discuss successful approaches to content trimming and how to prevent trimming too much. Show Notes Connect With: Eric Enge: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Content collateral are like bricks – a single brick doesn’t hold much value but assembling thousands together provide a foundation and create a superstructure that can take your content marketing efforts to new heights. Join Ben as he concludes his interview with Robert Rose, chief strategy advisor at the Content Marketing Institute, as they discuss how to develop and grow a powerful content portfolio and how to evaluate a single piece of content’s worth in relation to your greater content collection. Show NotesConnect With:Robert Rose: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The modern digital landscape provides robust tools and abundant resources that any business can use to easily create their own content, but it takes an efficiently structured content team to truly achieve your business’ content marketing goals. Join Ben as he continues his Content Optimization Month discussion with Content Marketing Institute’s Robert Rose as he explains the pros and cons of different content marketing team organizational structures and the best way to create and structure your own powerhouse content marketing team. Show Notes Connect With:Robert Rose: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Ineffective content marketing strategies are plaguing the competitive marketing landscape, obscuring and limiting the reach of content for everyone striving for visibility in their respective industries. Join host Ben as he welcomes back content expert Robert Rose from the Content Marketing Institute as he leads a discussion on the current state of content marketing and clarifies the essential content strategies companies need to practice to elevate and separate their content from the chaff. Show NotesConnect With:Robert Rose: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In the fast-paced, ever changing world of SEO quick decision making matters. Time is a valuable currency; spend too much of it on content optimization and you stand to lose gains in other aspects of your content strategy. Join our host Ben as he concludes High Value Content Week with a final discussion on how to best prioritize your time when evaluating and optimizing content with Searchmetrics’ Content Lead Marlon Glover. Show Notes Connect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Syndicating high value content on various channels like social media, email and video outlets is a powerful method to expand your content’s reach, but a poorly executed content syndication plan can pose a significant risk to your ranking endeavors. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ Content Lead Marlon Glover as they continue their High Value Content Week discussion by evaluating content syndication benefits, reviewing useful tools to aid your syndication efforts and why customer engagement is crucial to a successful plan. Show Notes Connect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: A plethora of tools and techniques exist in SEO to help elevate, extend and maximize the reach of your content, but it can be difficult to decide which methods best suit you and your business. Join Ben as he continues High Value Content Week with Searchmetrics’ very own Content Lead Marlon Glover as they discuss tips and strategies to boost and maximize the reach of your best and non-performing content. Show NotesConnect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode overview: Jockeying for the top ranking spot, known as position zero, on Google is no easy feat and requires a level of content optimization finesse to realistically achieve. Although securing the top spot is ideal, there's no guarantee it can surpass the traffic numbers competitors ranked in spots two and three can gain. Join Ben and Searchmetrics' Content Lead Marlon Glover as they continue their High Value Content Week discussion on how to edge past the competition with your existing high-value content to secure the coveted top ranking spot on Google and the different ways you can optimize your current valuable content to competitively draw traffic to your site without achieving position zero. Show NotesConnect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In a vast sea of content, it’s easy for high-value content to get lost and sink below the waves. Join Ben as he kicks off high value content week with Searchmetrics’ very own Content Lead Marlon Glover to discuss how to identify and elevate your high-potential content with essential strategies and how to seize key opportunities to separate your content from the competition. Show NotesConnect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: There’s no guarantee taking a big risk in SEO will pay off. Blush Digital CEO Jim Christian’s leap of faith from aerospace engineering into the ever-changing sea of SEO is one exceptional story, whose career change led him to found Blush Digital and the burgeoning Advanced Search Summit for SEOs. Ben interviewed Christian to learn more about his exciting career transition from the complex field of aerospace engineering to SEO. Show NotesConnect With:Jim Christian: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Overview: How does a brand successfully leverage organic content utilizing paid content? The separation between organic and paid content used to be much like the separation of Church and State until brands began using paid channels to boost organic search rankings to much success. On this episode of Voices of Search Ben Shapiro spoke with expert Amine Bentahar from Advantix Digital on how brands successfully optimize their organic content using paid channels and what key strategies and data acquisition processes contribute to their success. Show NotesConnect With: Amine Bentahar: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode overview: Industry heavyweights Amazon and Walmart are already experiencing success after Google’s September 2019 core algorithm update went live less than a month ago, despite the lack of data available. Initial impressions suggest the update is placing a greater focus on user expectations and a need to fulfill EAT and YMYL principles. Ben Shapiro spoke with Jordan Koene on a special edition episode of Voices of Search to discuss immediate update takeaways, what companies are already benefitting or falling behind after the update and how their own practices and organizational structures are impacting their progress. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Why do many companies with great reputations over-optimize their content, which hinders their users’ experience? Excellent content needs a combination of outstanding content quality combined with a stellar user experience to truly gain the loyalty and dedication of your customers. Join Ben and Jordan Koene as they break down the essentials of content optimization and how to avoid common pitfalls that sabotage many successful brands. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: With a little more than a week to determine the impact of the latest Google core update and the Real News update, some early winners are emerging with BuzzFeed as the biggest surprise followed by Spotify while YouTube continues to dominate the entertainment category. Join Tyson Stockton and Ben as they suss out the post-update landscape. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Ben and Jordan tackle the rapid-fire series of Google algorithm updates that began on September 10th with no-follow attribution changes (and additions), September 12th with original news reporting and the 18th with rich results clarifications. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Learn about the audacious site migration that allowed Dan Petrovic and Dejan marketing to escape and correct a severe manual Google penalty while dropping his link profile from 13,000 to 77 links. Show NotesConnect With:Dan Petrovic: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: What could lead a well-known Australian SEO agency to delete its entire website and publish a new one? Join Dan Petrovic of Dejan Marketing and learn how a brilliant bit of link building turned into disaster (and how they recovered). Show NotesConnect With:Dan Petrovic: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In the final episode of Grey Hat Week, we take a look at the how to diagnose, define and adjust to the full range of penalties doled out by Google as they catch up to Grey Hat tactics over time. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: When viewed through the right lens, hyper-personalization, user testing and conversion rate optimization are tactics that savvy SEO’s can use to boost performance. Learn how with Joe Sinkwitz from Digital Heretix. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: We’re joined again by Joe Sinkwitz, principal of Digtial Heretix and CEO and co-founder of Intellifluence. Listen in as Ben and Joe dig into grey hat strategies for key word stuffing and content hacks as well as slipping into the dark side with content stripping and republishing. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Despite rumours to the contrary, purchasing backlinks remains a popular grey hat tactic for increasing domain authority. In this episode, Ben and Joe dig into the art of purchasing backlinks while remaining in the fuzzy grey zone. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Join us for the kick-off of grey hat week with Joe Sinkowitz of Digital Heretix as he and Ben explore the landscape of back linking, keyword stuffing and cloaking with a little brand reputation management thrown in for good measure. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Grey Hat SEO is an ill defined practice as much as it is a danger zone for marketers. Join Jordan and Ben to understand the boundaries and risks of operating in the Grey zone. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Black Hat SEO. It’s easy to dismiss it as a set of tactics long overcome by Google guidelines. But as link farms die, cloaking tactics become more sophisticated. And in the case of our host Ben, a misunderstanding of Google guidelines let to black hat penalties that torpedoed an acquisition. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Navigating the waters of Google compliance. It used to be an art form, now it’s just good SEO practice to hue to ‘white hat’ SEO practices. In this episode, Ben and Jordan discuss the guidelines and requirements and how to understand them to follow great Google SEO practices and hygiene. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: August saw Facebook rebound, Twitter slide and Netsuite soften while YouTube continues to dominate SEO visibility. Will Twitter correct their slide? Does Sling have a chance? And, how much the long tails of the Game of Thrones benefit HBO as the summer comes to an end? Travel There’s good news for Travelocity who made up lost ground after the horror show of late 2018. Booking.com stabilized after a rough spring while Expedia and Kayak lost ground after 24-month highs. Streaming Services Though not roughly tossed into the loser category, Netsuite visibility softened over the summer with the collection of HBO properties benefiting and also rans like sling continue to shrink; was HBO’s gain a Game of Thrones bump or just Raider Nation lining up to see Chucky at training camp? And of course, YouTube is the big winner here with yet another set of week-over-week gains. Social Facebook is creeping back into the winner’s column as they eclipse the sixteen million SEO visibility mark. Twitter continues to experience trouble, dropping from SEO visibility of eight million to six million. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Google’s search algorithms must consider the users context: their location, language, custom settings and inherent personalization attributes. Optimal search results depend on it. On the flip side, SEO’s must consider the very same signals and their limited ability to customize their content and settings to reach niche audiences. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Do you know whether your website is sending poor usability signals to Google? Identifying and avoiding the pain points that users encounter and ensuring that your website is not throwing off the signals that cause Google to deprecate otherwise outstanding content is the focus of today’s episode. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Content quality, it’s more than what’s on a single page – it’s everything that surrounds your content, the way that people navigate to it and the performance of your site. Eloquently captured by the acronym E-A-T, and an important recent Google update, SEOs need to consider the relative authority of their content, how Google would measure their expertise and the trust they’ve built around a specific topic. In this episode we dig into the what and how of optimizing for content quality elements. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The relevancy of your online content and its success in the SERPs depends on sending quantifiable, measurable signals that squarely match the core topic and intent of a given page (aka, the science of SEO). In this episode, Ben and Jordan talk about balancing keywords and page-level assets to send the correct content relevancy signals to Google. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Google’s rise to dominance in the global digital ad market is built on understanding what end users are trying to accomplish. Better known as user intent, Google’s ability to diagnose and parse informational, transactional and navigational queries is a key element of their search algorithms and our starting point for Algorithm Week. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Understanding the nuances and relationships between Google Guidelines and their supporting policies is a mainstay of the SEO community. In the 111th episode of Voices of Search, Jordan returns to give a crash course on Google Guidelines and Policies, how to interpret them and where source the information you’ll need to stay on top. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Are ranking factors the Rosetta Stone of the Google Algorithm or just Pig Latin for SEOs? Ben and Jordan draw distinct lines between the two to help our loyal listeners understand the difference. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Google's search algorithm has defined the search marketing landscape for the better part of two decades and created an entire cottage industry of SEO alchemists, but what exactly is it, and, how does it work? In this opening episode of algorithm month, Jordan and Ben set the table by defining the rules and structure that govern Google search algorithm. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A successful holiday season is a process that starts far in advance for SEOs. This week Tyson Stockton, Searchmetrics’ Director of Services, walks us through the five steps to executing a successful holiday campaign. In today’s episode, Tyson walks us through how to understand and scale your holiday campaign performance. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A successful holiday season is a process that starts far in advance for SEOs. This week Tyson Stockton, Searchmetrics’ Director of Services, walks us through the five steps to executing a successful holiday campaign. In today’s episode, Tyson walks us through how to launch and optimize your holiday campaigns. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A successful holiday season is a process that starts far in advance for SEOs. This week Tyson Stockton, Searchmetrics’ Director of Services, walks us through the five steps to executing a successful holiday campaign. In today’s episode, Tyson walks us through his holiday-specific content production process. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A successful holiday season is a process that starts far in advance for SEOs. This week Tyson Stockton, Searchmetrics’ Director of Services, walks us through the five steps to executing a successful holiday campaign. In today’s episode, Tyson walks us through how to build a roadmap for your holiday SEO campaigns. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A successful holiday season is a process that starts far in advance for SEOs. This week Tyson Stockton, Searchmetrics’ Director of Services, walks us through the five steps to executing a successful holiday campaign. In today’s episode, Tyson walks us through how to conduct your seasonal research. Show Notes Connect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Choosing between working at an agency or an in-house role is a challenge for most SEOs. In some cases, you can have the best of both worlds. In today's Career Day episode of the Voices of Search podcast, Micah Fisher-Kirshner, Director of SEO & Content at Turn/River Capital shares his experience going from an agency, to in-house SEO, to managing SEO for a portfolio of companies for a private equity firm. Show NotesConnect With: Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The summer is here and it’s a great time for SEO’s to sweat out some of the bigger projects on their to-do lists. While families and most eCommerce businesses take a holiday, this is one of the busiest times of the year for technical SEO’s. Hear Jeff Preston, News Corp’s Director of SEO responsible for Realator.com, share his thoughts, strategies, and tactics related to preparing to make the most of the summer season. Topics tackled: Why summer decrease eCommerce and travel site visibility? Why media companies love the kids being out of school? How to fill downtime with technical optimization? Show NotesConnect With:Jeffrey Preston: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Q2 is unique because there isn’t a singular event that reaches the whole population. From religious holidays like Passover & Easter to family-oriented events like Mother’s & Father’s Day, the spring is all about picking and strategically choosing the targeted events that reach your customers. Hear Jordan Koene, Searchmetrics Inc’s Lead SEO Strategist and CEO, share his thoughts, strategies, and tactics related to preparing to make the most of the spring SEO bloom. Topics tackled: How to optimize for religious & family-oriented holidays? Why the Sports Media SEO’s are working overtime in Q2? How should work with cross-functional partners? Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Finding your career path as an SEO isn't always a linear journey. In today's Career Day episode of the Voices of Search podcast, Wil Reynolds, Founder & Director of Strategy at SEER Interactive shares the story of his transition from being a high school economics teacher in Philadelphia to launching and scaling a Search agency to produce $25MM in annual recurring revenue. Topics Include: How to know when it's time to make a career transition? What skills can you take from your previous careers? How to turn local relationships into a scaled business? Show NotesConnect With:Wil Reynolds: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For most of us, Q1 is about getting the year started on the right foot. If you happen to work in the sports media world, winter is Super Bowl season and the kickoff to the busiest time of the year. Hear Carolyn Shelby, Walt Disney Company's Manager of SEO responsible for ESPN properties, share her timelines, strategies, and tactics related to preparing for the big game. Topics tackled: When does ESPN start planning for the Super Bowl? How does the brand term "Super Bowl" effects ESPN's strategy? How ESPN's SEO team works with editorial to optimize for visibility. Why ESPN prioritizes Google News stories on game-day. Who are the Patriots are going to play in next year's Super Bowl? Show NotesConnect With:Carolyn Shelby: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whether you’re in eCommerce planning for the holidays, in media anticipating elections, or a music venue booking your summer acts—many businesses are dependent on key times of the year. How do you plan for seasonality and develop a SEO playbook to navigate the highs and lows and ensure a profitable year? Jordan Koene shares his search strategies so you can maximize each season for SEO success: Tips for establishing a seasonality calendar that identifies all key times. How is CPC impacted by the Q4 “trickle over” effect? How to use the key indicators like business KPIs, sales trends, traffic trends, and holistic aggregate data like Google Trends? How to manage the content assets most relevant to your category of business and season? What’s the importance of maintaining a key URL and strategies for keeping that content alive throughout the year? What do you do when there is an SEO emergency and content that must go live without the proper planning? What are the risks of taking immediate action? Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the wake of Google’s “Fake News” core algorithm update, we examine which domain’s SEO visibility were affected. Tyson Stockton explains how the landscape has shifted for media, ecommerce and healthcare companies. Media & Publishing: Who is the most visible player in the publishing industry: CNN or NYT? How did CBS mitigate the decrease in visibility of its core domain? How US News continues to pile up incremental wins while it’s competitors are seeing significant fluctuations. Ecommerce: Did Google slap Wayfare’s hand for submitting SERPs into their index? Are the changes in ecommerce a rollback of the September core algorithm update? Healthcare: How did Healthline recover from being hurt by the last core update? Which domain was hurt the most by the core update? Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Michael Bonfils is an early innovator with internationalization for the vast Asian marketplace. He has witnessed firsthand Asia's remarkable digital evolution. With its wealth, booming middle class, and sheer number of people, how do SEOs navigate the complexity and opportunities of China, Russia, and the Asian markets? What are the strategies for Taiwan, where they speak Mandarin, and Hong Kong, where they speak Cantonese -- when both write in traditional Chinese? How do you obtain hosting and a Chinese URL? What are the strategies for internationalizing when you're expanding into Asia broadly, and not just China? What are the challenges of working with Naver and the opportunities in the Korean market? What is the impact on SEO of mobile use in Asia? How does one consider other markets like Pakistan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Turkey, Iran, and Thailand and determine their potential opportunities? Show NotesConnect With:Michael Bonfils: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.