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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    How SEO Compares to Direct Marketing

    Direct marketing knows how many people ignored it. SEO never will.

    That single gap explains most of what separates the two. It also runs the opposite direction from what owners expect.

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    How to Improve Salon SEO Ranking

    Most of the salon SEO checklist is right. Claim the Google Business Profile. Fill in every field it offers. Load the gallery with your own work rather than stock photos. Keep the name and address identical across every directory. Ask for reviews, steadily, forever.

    All of it moves a salon up. Each piece already has its own article on this site, so none of them get repeated below.

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    What Is Spam Score in SEO?

    A spam score is a number a handful of SEO tools put beside a website. It is meant to say how likely that site is to be the sort of thing a search engine acts against. Moz publishes the best known one.

    Where the thresholds sit, whether Google reads any of it, how the false positives pile up on perfectly ordinary sites. All of that is answered elsewhere on this site, and the short version on Google is no.

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    How to Conduct an Effective Ecommerce SEO Audit

    A store audit lands as a spreadsheet. Four thousand rows in it. Sorted by issue type. Somebody exports it on a Tuesday, then somebody else starts at the top.

    The method behind it is sound. What to crawl. How to measure it. Which checks belong in an ecommerce SEO audit at all. None of that gets repeated here.

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    How to Improve Website Loading Speed for SEO

    Compress the images. Delete the scripts you stopped using two redesigns ago. Put a cache in front of the server. Move static files onto a CDN. Pay for hosting that answers faster.

    That is the answer. It has been the answer for about a decade, and you can already find it on a thousand pages.

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    What Are Google Stacks for SEO?

    A Google stack is a set of Google-owned properties, made by you, wired to each other and then out to your website. One public Drive folder, shared to anybody with the link. Then a document sitting inside it. Maybe a spreadsheet. A slide deck. Some custom map with your address dropped onto it. Often a Google Sites page holding the whole arrangement together.

    Owners land on this question two ways. Somebody sold them a package of properties and now they want to know what they bought. Or a forum thread promised that links from Google’s own domains are the SEO shortcut nobody discusses. So here is what the tactic is. Then the one thing about it that never gets examined.

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    Do Facebook Likes Help SEO?

    No. Not one of them.

    There is a better question sitting underneath, though. What is a like actually measuring? Answer that and you find out where the number belongs. Somewhere well away from your ranking report.

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    How to Increase Google Ad Rank

    Raise the bid. Tighten the match between the keyword and the ad you show for it. Fix the page behind the click. Add every asset the campaign can carry.

    Those are the levers. All of them work. This site writes each one out properly elsewhere. So none of them get repeated here.

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    How Can I Use SEO to Support My Recruitment Efforts?

    The usual SEO answer arrives fast. Optimize the careers page. Add JobPosting schema. Get listed in Google for Jobs. Write something warm about culture.

    None of that advice is wrong, exactly. It aims at the wrong object.

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    How to Buy PPC the Way It Is Actually Sold

    The literal answer takes about forty minutes. Open an advertiser account on Google Ads or Microsoft Advertising. Add a card. Pick keywords. Set a bid. Money leaves the account after somebody clicks, never before.

    No contract. No minimum spend. Nothing sits in inventory waiting to be used up. Anyone can buy PPC on a Tuesday afternoon with a debit card and a business email.

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