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,
AB T3C 0W4

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    Is GoDaddy SEO Worth It?

    For most businesses, no. Think of it as a tag manager with some local directory sync tacked on. No link building or content. Just metadata.

    Plans run $6.99 to $29.99 per month. That price ceiling also describes the ranking ceiling.

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    Does Your Domain Name Affect SEO?

    Clients raise this one early in the process. Usually it comes up when someone is registering a brand-new domain and wondering whether to put their primary keywords in the URL, or when an existing business starts questioning whether a rebrand might improve their search visibility. The short answer: yes, your domain name affects SEO. That impact is smaller and more indirect than most people expect, though.

    Your domain name is a minor ranking factor. Content quality, backlinks, and technical performance are what move your site up in search results. We have been working as an SEO company Calgary businesses rely on since 2007, and the pattern holds consistently. A keyword-rich domain does not compensate for a weak site. Clean brand names on fast, well-structured websites outrank exact-match domains on neglected pages nearly every time. Understanding what your domain name actually does for your SEO saves a lot of second-guessing.

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    How to Add a Focus Keyphrase in Yoast SEO Correctly

    The focus keyphrase field sits right below the Yoast SEO metabox on every WordPress post or page. Just one field, yet most of the plugin’s SEO analysis runs off it behind the scenes. Title checks feed from it. Meta description and content checks too.

    Type the target term into that field. Yoast checks the whole post against it instantly, across several different criteria at once.

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    How to Add Keywords to Your Google Business Profile

    Most Calgary business owners know keywords matter for local search. Fewer understand exactly where those keywords go on your Google Business Profile and which placements actually drive your ranking in local search results. That gap shows up in profiles that look complete on paper but stay invisible in local search.

    To-The-TOP! is the Calgary SEO agency businesses have relied on since 2007. The GBP keyword questions come up in almost every client conversation. Most often it happens when someone has a fully claimed profile but no traffic from it.

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    Does Core Web Vitals Affect SEO and How Much It Actually Matters

    Yes. Core Web Vitals affects SEO. Officially confirmed as a ranking signal since 2021. Not the biggest factor, by far. Content and relevance still dominate. Still, a real, measurable one worth fixing regardless.

    Three specific metrics make up the group. Loading speed, interactivity, visual stability. A different part of the actual user experience on a page gets measured by each.

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    Do Broken Links Affect SEO?

    Every site audit To-The-TOP! runs turns up broken links. Not a handful. Usually dozens, sometimes well over a hundred, sitting unnoticed while crawlers keep hitting dead ends. No alert fires. Search Console does not surface them automatically; most site owners are not looking.

    Broken links do affect SEO. Impact varies depending on the type, where those dead paths sit in the architecture, and how many there are.

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    How to Hire an SEO Company the Right Way

    Most conversations about hiring SEO start wrong. Someone searches “SEO company Calgary,” gets three cold calls from agencies promising page-one rankings in 30 days, picks the most confident pitch, and signs a 12-month contract. Six months later, nothing has moved.

    The agency is pointing at a vanity report. Rankings sit exactly where they were on day one. We have seen this pattern more times than we care to count. Getting the hire right matters. Organic traffic is the only marketing channel that compounds without a recurring ad spend. The wrong hire costs real money and gives your competitors months to build the authority you will have to catch up to.

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    Which Industry to Choose in Google Analytics for an SEO Company

    Professional Services. That is the answer. Configure a Google Analytics property for a marketing agency and the drop-down with 24 options is the first question you hit. For an SEO company, Professional Services is the one that fits.

    This setting feeds GA4’s benchmark feature. Only the benchmark comparison pool shifts. Anything GA4 collects or tracks stays the same regardless of what is selected.

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    What Is SEO Copywriting?

    Two things have to happen at once. The writing has to rank. It also has to get someone to act. Call. Sign up. Buy. Book. SEO copywriting is where those two goals meet.

    At To-The-TOP!, Calgary SEO work runs through this principle constantly. Rankings without action waste the traffic. Action without rankings means no one ever finds the page. So both matter.

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    Why Hire an SEO Company in 2026?

    Most business owners asking this question have already spent months trying SEO on their own. Rankings stayed flat. Traffic did not move. Six months in, they call.

    To-The-TOP! SEO Company has been doing this work in Calgary since 2007. Nineteen years of campaigns, algorithm updates, and phone calls from owners who already tried it themselves. The pattern still repeats: time spent doing SEO poorly costs more than the monthly retainer for someone with real experience behind every decision.

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