WATCH LISTEN READ Don’t worry, you’re not alone. You’re clearly smart. You’re a successful small business owner OR an extremely intelligent marketer at an emerging brand or mid-size company, possibly the director of marketing, VP of Marketing or even VP of IT – but you don’t exactly know what Google Webmaster Tools is. It’s fine.…

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WATCH              READ I feel super-bad for so many small businesses, and even mid to large size businesses that just completely get ripped off month-after-month and year-after-year by their SEO company. I can’t tell you how many bills and invoices I’ve been asked by my clients to audit that are just full…

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READ Congratulations! You’re part of history. Welcome to the first ever “SEO WTF?” blog post. After 12 years of SEO work, I’m finally realizing that SEO is actually simple now. SEO Rule 1: Google is Confusing. SEO Rule 2: The DATA in Google Search Console is the only thing that matters. The result: My new…

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WATCH READ Many businesses buy a domain name, like datadriven.design, then at some point in time later, want to buy a different domain name – like dataoveropinions.com, but make it the primary for their preexisting website. This means that instead of simply forwarding dataoveropinions.com to datadriven.design, the business actually needs dataoveropinions.com to host the website,…

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WATCH READ If you’re like me, you’re looking for better free data from Google around how your website is doing in Organic Search (aka, where you’re ranking on Google). Specifically, which landing pages on your site are ranking for which specific keywords, phrases (queries), and how many users are clicking through after seeing your ranking.…

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WATCH READ Several years ago, Google starting hiding most organic keyword data under “not provided” in Google Analytics. If you go into Google Analytics and go to Acquisition, Channels, Organic Search, you will see that 98% of your keyword data will show under “not provided.” The way to get around this is to link Analytics…

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