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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    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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    Is Google Ads Better Than SEO?

    Same question, different month. A Calgary roofing company calls wondering whether paid ads are worth the spend. Local trades businesses want to know if SEO still moves leads when Google Ads exist. The answer is not which one is better. It is which one matches what the business actually needs right now.

    Since 2007, To-The-TOP! has run both channels for local clients, working as an SEO agency Calgary businesses hire for dedicated organic and Google Ads campaigns. Both channels appear on the same Google search page. Different cost structures. Timelines diverge just as much. Understanding what each does before choosing one saves most owners from committing to a channel that does not fit their situation.

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    Dofollow Links in SEO: What They Pass and Why They Matter

    Dofollow links in SEO carry more weight than most site owners realize. Seventeen years of auditing backlink profiles, and the question arrives on almost every client call: are these links actually doing anything? Usually the answer is not what people want to hear. Hundreds of nofollow links from directories nobody visits, forum signatures from 2011, social media profiles that pass nothing. Then a single dofollow link appears from a relevant industry site. That one link moves things.

    Search engines follow dofollow links and pass authority along them. Nofollow links carry a tag that says stop here. That difference shows up in rankings for your site.

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    How to Analyze a PPC Competitor

    Here is the entire procedure. Look up their ads. Note which keywords they turn up on. Run an estimate of their monthly spend. Then read the page each ad points at.

    Done. You now know everything a PPC competitor was willing to let you know.

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    How to Read an SEO Report

    Monthly updates land in client inboxes and the response is usually the same. A quick scroll. Then a glance at the numbers. An email back asking what actually changed and whether any of it matters. The data is all there. Making sense of it, however, is the harder part.

    To-The-TOP! has been running SEO in Calgary since 2007. Nineteen years of sending monthly documents, fielding those questions, watching clients go from confused to confident with the same review. This is a plain-language guide to what each section means and where to start.

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    Should Your Company Name Be a Keyword for SEO?

    The question comes up in nearly every intake call. A business owner rewrites their title tags and asks: should your business name rank as a search term on its own? Short answer: no. Worth taking a moment on the fuller explanation, though.

    To-The-TOP! has been doing SEO in Calgary since 2007. Branded search confusion is one of the most common things new clients raise. Most of it comes from mixing two goals. Getting found by people who already know your business name is one goal. Reaching people who have never heard of you is the other.

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    Which Website Builder Has the Best SEO Features?

    The question comes up more than you might expect. Business owners call To-The-TOP! after six months on a new site that nobody can find. The content is usually decent. Issues usually sit deeper. The builder they chose sets a ceiling on what can be accomplished before a single keyword is even targeted.

    Since the early 2010s, client work here has covered most major builders. WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy. Different industries. Varied budgets. Very different results across platforms. The straight answer to which website builder has the best SEO features is not one name. It depends on what the site needs to accomplish.

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    Who Does the Best SEO for Medical Practices, and How to Tell

    No single agency wins every medical practice SEO award. Finding a specialist who genuinely understands healthcare’s specific compliance and patient trust requirements, that’s what actually matters here.

    HIPAA awareness. Patient privacy. Medical review standards. Generic SEO experience alone rarely covers all three properly.

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    What Is SEO Rank Tracking?

    SEO rank tracking is a service that searches your keywords on a schedule, then writes down where your page came. That is the whole definition. Which tool to buy is settled on another page. So is how often to look, and so is the argument that the movement matters more than the number.

    None of that gets repeated here. Instead, here is the part nobody names. A rank tracker never touches your website. Not once, and not ever.

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