Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we search, and in this 2026 Holiday Shopping Season, it will change the way we shop. People will be searching things like, “What is a good gift under $50 for a 54-year-old man who likes hiking and the outdoors?” What’s going to come up? Your store? Probably not.
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Local SEO begins on your website. I once did a consult for an auto repair shop in the Phoenix Valley. He had poor SEO and needed to boost the business to his local, brick-and-mortar shop. He had some social media profiles set up. But like many small business owners, he had no idea what to
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Coming up in the search results is one thing. Getting people to click over to your website is another. Here’s where the title and meta tags come in. Search engine optimization’s (SEO) job is to get your website to show in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when a human searcher is looking for what
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Endeavoring to market local brick-and-mortar businesses organically (non-paid) is actually fairly simple when you take advantage of these free tools: Instagram, Google Business Profile, and Facebook. Case Study: How one local business managed to increase Facebook reach when others were losing theirs… Due to the many algorithm changes that social networks constantly make, it is
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Google’s Core Web Vitals are still vitally important to a website’s performance! Have you tested your site recently? A lot of factors could affect it. Learn what you can to improve your score and SEO. Before I started this business in 2011, I remember Google’s major “Panda” and “Penguin” updates. That changed how websites ranked
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Just when you think you’ve figured out how Google and search engine optimization (SEO) work, Google goes and makes some changes. Besides that, now, you’ve got the AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity! The challenge for the small business owner is… “The future of organic search will be shaped by LLMs [Large Language
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There is a new challenge in Local SEO: the AI Chatbot. For a long time, the advice for getting found online was simple: write a ton of stuff on your website. To illustrate, if you sold coffee, you’d write 50 articles about “history of coffee beans” or “best mugs.” The idea was to trick search
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The number one traffic channel is organic search, and content marketing for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), or GEO (Gernerative Engine Optimization), when done right, absolutely works. On most websites, when you look at analytics, out of 1000 visitors in a month, 600-700 come from search engines. Over 80% of them are
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What would you do if I told you that taking a few seconds to do something that will improve your search engine optimization (SEO), keep visitors on your site longer, and increase your page views, you’d do it, right? I hope so. Taking just a few seconds to use categories and tags in all your
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What’s Your N-E-E-A-T-T? Wait! I thought it was E-E-A-T: Experience, Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness. Yes, but the evolution of AI Search expanded it. Getting recognized as an expert in your field is especially crucial in the age of AI Search. E-E-A-T is Google’s guideline for content credibility and getting indexed in the Search Engine Results
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