I had the chance to interview a good friend of mine, Jim Armstrong, from the good ol’ days when I used to write for the Get Busy Media blog. He now resides in Chicago with his wife and works for Google (I hope he doesn’t cheer for the Bears 😉 I know you’ll find some...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve finally launched my first website to teach online marketing and SEO courses. My first online course, Hyperlocal SEO Fundamentals, covers the basics of what local SEO is and how it works, complete with eight lectures that feature quizzes to test your knowledge. I ran a round of beta testers...

This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Local SEO, and SEO in general, is a tough game. One minute you’re ranking number one with your Google My Business listing for your top keyword + city, the next minute, Google changes the number of listings they show in the local pack...

This post is going to be short and sweet and highlight the SEO tools I’ve been using for years that I can’t live without. Without further ado…here they are: SEMrush – My go to for domain/competitor research and rank tracking. Moz – I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say they didn’t use Moz’s tools...

Have you considered making your website responsive, or wondered about the impact it might have on your website’s performance? A lot of businesses still haven’t gone down the responsive web design route yet, or they’re just moving in that direction very slowly and setting it aside as a “one day” project. Well, two ecommerce sites...