Greg Ichshenko

Calgary SEO expert and digital marketing specialist,
developing advertising strategies for businesses of all sizes

(403) 308-5949

greg@to-the-top.ca
1509 14 Ave SW, Calgary,
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    Do Press Releases Work for SEO?

    Since 2007, we have watched businesses send press releases through paid wire services and see no ranking movement at all. We have also seen a well-timed release about a genuine industry development picked up by three trade publications produce referral traffic for months. The difference was never the budget. It was whether the story was actually worth covering.

    Your press release does not move rankings on its own. What moves rankings is coverage earned when a journalist reads your press release and decides it deserves their readers’ attention. That gap between sending a release and earning coverage is where most distribution-based strategies fall apart. Worth understanding before spending budget on wire fees.

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    How Many Pages Should a Website Have for SEO?

    There is a real number. Nobody else can hand it to you.

    Most SEO answers arrive as a benchmark. Thirty pages. Fifty. One page per service, plus one for every city you serve. Those numbers get repeated because they sound like planning. They also come from somewhere specific. Mostly from agencies quoting a build, where page count is the billable unit.

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    What Is the Best SEO Agency for Manufacturing Companies?

    Manufacturing companies notice when a competitor ranks for the exact product search they should own. Always the same pattern. A business with 20 years of fabrication experience, invisible to buyers who are actively looking for a supplier. Most of the time, the competitor ranking is not bigger. It just has a website that answers the right questions.

    That is what manufacturing SEO is trying to fix.

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    What Is Semantic SEO?

    Semantic SEO replaced a simpler era of search. Back in 2007, every keyword got its own page. Search engines matched strings of text. Whoever repeated the target phrase most often usually had an edge.

    That stopped working. Rankings started slipping for pages technically optimized but thin on actual subject coverage. New pages with fewer keyword repetitions but broader topic depth were outranking them. What it was measuring had changed. Your content needed to change with it.

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    How to Generate SEO Leads: What Actually Works

    SEO brings traffic. Traffic does not automatically mean leads. That gap is where most campaigns quietly fail. The keyword ranks. Visitors arrive. The page never asks for anything. Different problem from the ranking problem.

    The right searcher, the right page, the right next step visible. All three need to line up. Any one can break. This article covers how to align them.

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    How to Increase Your SEO Traffic in 30 Days

    Thirty days is the window everybody asks for. That number comes from somewhere sensible. Budgets run monthly. Reports do too.

    Then the plan meets a problem nobody mentions in the pitch. The month you work is not the month you measure. Those two months overlap. They do not match.

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    How to Write Google Ads Copy That Converts

    Most copy I see wastes the first headline. Advertisers get so focused on getting the Google Ads campaign live that the ad itself becomes an afterthought, whatever fits in 30 characters. Three months in, CTR sits at 1.2% and the budget keeps climbing. That is where most new accounts land when they first reach To-The-TOP!.

    Here is what changes it.

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    How to Find Search Volume for Keywords

    How many times does someone search that phrase in a given month? That one number changes how you approach a page, a campaign, or a content calendar. Before anything else, check that number.

    This is keyword search volume: source, meaning, and the ways it misleads.

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    Will AI Replace SEO?

    We get this question on nearly every first call now. A prospect tries ChatGPT for a few months. Output is passable. They start wondering whether paying for an SEO specialist is still worth it.

    AI will not replace SEO. But AI already changed what the work looks like. Both those things are true.

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    What Is Ongoing SEO (and Why Rankings Disappear Without It)

    Almost every client asks a version of this when they start. “We had an agency build our site two years ago. Shouldn’t it still be ranking?” Sometimes it is. More often, it has slipped.

    Ongoing SEO is the continuous work that keeps your website visible in search results after the initial build. Not a one-time setup. No end date either.

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