Greg Ichshenko

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

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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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    How to Create a Conversion Action in Google Ads

    Creating a conversion action in Google Ads takes about two minutes. Working out what you just changed takes considerably longer. Most people open the account expecting to switch measurement on. Instead they hand every automated bidding strategy in that account a fresh definition of success.

    So the click path below is the short half of this article. Everything after it covers the settings that decide whether your live campaigns notice.

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    How Often to Adjust PPC Budget Based on Performance Data

    Slightly the wrong question. The useful one is what evidence justifies a change.

    Most advertisers adjust on a schedule. Monday morning. Month end. Whenever the report lands in the inbox.

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    GEO and LLMs: Why AI Models Decide Who Gets Recommended

    A customer asks ChatGPT for a plumber tonight, water already pooling on the kitchen floor. One of three things happens next. The model names a real local business. It names a competitor three streets over. Or it names nobody at all, and the customer starts scrolling Google instead. That split-second decision sits at the centre of GEO and LLMs.

    Generative engine optimization exists because that decision now happens inside a chat window instead of a ranked list of ten blue links. SEO Company To-The-TOP!’s full breakdown of what generative engine optimization actually is lives on its own page. This one stays narrower. Why large language models decide who gets named. What changes when that decision differs from a Google ranking. Why the outcome now moves real revenue for businesses that never think to check.

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    How Do I Pick an SEO Tool? Judge What It Can See, Not What It Can Do

    Every SEO Tool Ships Roughly the Same Feature List

    Pick the one that can see your own market. That is the short answer. It holds up against most of the follow-up questions.

    Comparison charts will not get you there. Every SEO tool at every price does keyword numbers. Rank tracking too. A backlink report. Some flavour of site crawl. Screenshots differ. The job list barely does.

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    Can You Pull an SEO Report From Yoast?

    Mostly no. Not the kind of report you are picturing.

    Yoast analyzes one page at a time. It does that inside the editor, while you have the page open. Whatever overview screens or export options ship in a given version move about between releases. So check the plugin rather than this page.

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    How to Create SEO Content That Delivers Marketing KPIs

    Most SEO content gets written first and graded second. The KPI turns up afterwards, usually in a monthly report, usually as a disappointment nobody can explain.

    Reverse that order and almost everything about the work changes. The KPI stops being a grade. It becomes a targeting decision made before anyone opens a blank document.

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    How Many SEO Are There? The Count That Matters Is Smaller Than You Think

    The Acronym Names a Practice, Not a Person

    Fewer than the question implies. That is the short answer, and it survives most of the follow-ups.

    SEO stands for search engine optimization. It names a practice. Nobody registers as one, so no register exists to read off.

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    How Many SEO Ranking Signals Are There?

    You came here for a number. A round one gets quoted constantly. It has been quoted for years, often by people who never went looking for where it came from.

    Nobody here is going to hand you one either. Not out of coyness. The count has no answer, and the reason turns out to be more useful than a number would have been.

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    How to Create a PPC Account Without Locking In a Mistake

    Three minutes. That is roughly how long it takes to create a PPC account from nothing.

    Nobody flags the part that outlasts those three minutes. Two fields on that short setup form follow you for the life of the account. One never changes. The other can sometimes be nudged, though the damage to your history sticks anyway.

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