EDGE of the Web - The Best SEO Podcast for Today's Digital Marketer

JR Oakes is the Senior Director of Technical SEO Research at Adapt Partners and he shares a lot of great information on Twitter and GitHub about how to use Data Analysis for SEO. What is Data Analysis? According to the Office of Research Integrity, Data Analysis is the process of systematically applying statistical and/or logical techniques to describe and illustrate, condense and recap, and evaluate data. As we all know, there is so much data we have access to as SEOs, but what can you do with it and how do you use it to improve your organic traffic? Let's talk about it in the first part of a two-part series about Machine Learning and SEO. Also in this episode, we'll talk about what happened with rel=next/prev mixup, AMP is coming to your inbox, YouTube's dominance in mobile traffic, and the growth of e-commerce - all this and more, today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

8 Apr 20191h 9min

Writing case studies are hard to do well. They take a lot of time, you have to interview clients and if you don't do it right, you've completely wasted everyone's time. What's the right way to write a case study and how do you market them afterward? Joel Klettke is the Founder of Case Study Buddy and he's on the mission to help companies unleash the power of case studies. When done right, a case study can not only be a content piece to use on your website or sales, it can be that unique differentiator that closes a potential deal. We're going to learn the process of writing an effective case study and learn all the different ways a case study can be used. All this and more, today on the EDGE!

26 Mar 20191h 12min

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are going to continue to dominate the conversation in the PPC industry this year. What are the best ways to use Machine Learning and AI and what skills do you need to have to be successful? Brad Geddes joins us this week to discuss the role Machine Learning should play your PPC campaigns and how it can positively or negatively impact your campaigns. If you don't know, Brad is the co-founder of Adalysis and is one of only two Google-Approved AdWords Seminar Leaders to ever receive the recognition. He has conducted more than 100 officially supported AdWords Seminars and has spoken at more than 125 conferences around the world. Machine Learning and AI in PPC - Let's find out more, today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

15 Mar 20191h 10min

From a young age, we are taught to share. Sharing is important and sharing is caring. But, when it comes to our professional lives, teams within an organization are unwilling to share data with other departments that could be very valuable to that group. What would happen if we were sharing our data in between departments? How much better would our marketing be? Erin Acheson, the President and COO of DemandSphere, shares with us how she helps companies break down these silos and barriers to help to bridge that gap between the content marketing team and the marketing strategy team. What types of data do these departments need to know and how can things be improved? Plus, we discuss an exciting update from eCommerce websites, shoppable ads within Google Images, and what are people actually using their smart speakers for? All this and more EDGE of the Web.   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! --   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

12 Mar 20191h 5min

The fields of marketing, advertising, and PR are constantly changing. Past strategies no longer work as technology is racing ahead of us, customers are buying based on personal values, and trust in brands is at a 10-year low. We've been going through a marketing rebellion for over 100 years but marketers have been ignoring it. What are companies supposed to do to survive? Mark Schaefer, a globally-recognized author, speaker, podcaster, and business consultant, has just written his eighth book and it might be his best. "The Marketing Rebellion" was written to help marketers and businesses owners open their eyes to this rebellion and see how they can adjust their marketing to fit what their customers want. It's time for a new approach to marketing and Mark is your guide on this new journey. Plus, are we in the golden age of podcasting? Is it time to regulate social media influencers? And, the FTC has cracked down on fake Amazon reviews. Let's talk about this and more, today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

5 Mar 20191h 7min

In case you missed our last episode, Moz has recently announced that they are changing the way Domain Authority will be scored beginning on March 5. Russ Jones, the Principal Search Scientist at Moz, joins us on this special bonus episode to discuss how SEOs should use Domain Authority, how it will be calculated and how frequently it will update. We're diving deep into the new Domain Authority, Today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! -- Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

28 Feb 201954min

Last year, Google updated its Quality Rater Guidelines - what changed and what lessons are there to learn from this update? Marie Haynes, the owner of Marie Haynes Consulting, Inc., joins us on the show this week as she and her team have dove into this 160+ page document to see what changes SEOs and webmasters can glean from it. The most important feature of the guidelines seems to focus around E-A-T which stands for Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. Several of Google's recent updates have focused on this topic, so it makes it really important for us to focus on this subject! Also, Marie Haynes has spent a lot of time discussing the value of Google's Disavow Tool. Is this tool something we should still be using regularly or is it an outdated tool after Penguin 4.0? Let's cover all these topics and more, today on the EDGE.   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! --   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

19 Feb 20191h 13min

There's one thing that is for certain in the marketing technology industry - change. Rather than slowing down, several big changes are accelerating across the industry but what is driving this change? Will it slow down or continue to accelerate? Scott Brinker, the editor of chiefmartec.com and VP of Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, joins us on the show this week to explore this change in marketing technology and what trends he's seeing in the MarTech Industry. All this and plenty of 301 redirect jokes, today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! --   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

12 Feb 20191h 5min