Greg Ichshenko

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

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    Does Plural Affect SEO?

    Yes, sometimes. The yes is smaller than it sounds.

    Meanwhile the standard answer is sound, so it gets handed over rather than repeated. Google understands that a plumber and plumbers name the same trade. Pick whichever form carries more volume. Then write one page rather than two, since two pages aimed at one question end up competing with each other. Keyword selection and that competing-pages problem both have proper pages here already.

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    How to Change Max CPC in Google Ads

    Open the keywords table in Google Ads. Find the max CPC column. Click the number, type a new one, save it.

    That is the whole procedure. You already tried it.

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    How to Get Traffic Without SEO

    Yes, it works. People run whole businesses that way.

    The plan just gets priced in a currency nobody quotes you. Not dollars. Sends.

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    How Does Mobile Usage Influence SEO and Online Advertising Strategies?

    Mobile usage changes where the decision happens. Not what you build.

    Most answers to this hand you a checklist. Responsive layout. Faster load. Bigger tap targets. Real work, all of it. Most Calgary businesses finished that list years ago.

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    How Can I Write SEO-Friendly Content for Legal Blogs?

    The mechanics do not change for lawyers. Pick a phrase people actually type. Put it in the title. Give the post room to breathe. Link it back into the rest of the site. All of that holds for a legal blog, and this site explains each piece elsewhere.

    So none of it gets repeated below. One thing about legal writing behaves differently from every other industry. That one thing also decides whether the post ranks at all.

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    Does BBB Accreditation Help SEO?

    No. Not through anything a search engine reads.

    The confusing part sits underneath that answer. Your business almost certainly has a BBB profile already, whether you have ever paid the organization a dollar or not. BBB accreditation does not create that profile. It decorates it.

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    What Is a Keyword Theme in Google Ads?

    A keyword theme is a short phrase you hand Google to say roughly what your business sells. Google then works out which searches fall under it. You add no keywords. Instead you name a subject, and the matching happens somewhere else.

    That is the definition. Three sentences.

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    Does Alt Text on Instagram Help SEO?

    It helps something. Just not the thing you meant when you typed the word SEO.

    Two Search Bars, and Only One of Them Was the Question

    Somebody typing this question owns a website. That is the whole context. They post on Instagram. Alt text goes onto the images. Then they want to know whether the effort moves a position in Google.

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    Is PPC Inbound Marketing?

    Depends who clicked.

    That sounds like a dodge. It is the only answer that survives contact with your own account.

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    How Coronavirus Changes SEO

    Present tense. That is the first thing to fix in the question.

    Coronavirus does not change SEO in 2026. It did for roughly eighteen months. Then it stopped. Anybody still selling a pandemic SEO strategy is selling a souvenir.

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