Greg Ichshenko

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

(403) 308-5949

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1509 14 Ave SW, Calgary,
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    How to Write SEO-Friendly Content With Long-Tail Keywords

    Say the keyword out loud before you write a word of the page. The whole string, exactly as the tool handed it over. “Same day denture repair calgary southwest.”

    Nobody has ever said that to another human being. It is not a sentence. Yet the usual advice tells you to include the phrase and keep the writing natural. Two instructions that cancel each other out.

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    Who Are the Best SEO Experts for 2026?

    That ranking gets written in 2027.

    Ask the question today and you will get names. Twenty of them, ordered. Yet every list of the best SEO experts for 2026 went live before the year finished happening.

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    How to Start a PPC Agency

    The playbook is no secret. Pick a niche. Register the business. Sort out contracts and insurance. Find the first few clients. Then set a price you can defend.

    All of it is sound. Every bit is written up properly elsewhere. None of it is specific to paid search, so this page leaves it alone. Pricing as well, since what a PPC agency should charge has its own page here.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    What Is an SEO Keywords PDF?

    An SEO keywords PDF is a downloadable file that explains what search keywords are. Nearly all of them then add a list. That is the whole genre, and there are thousands of them.

    The explaining part is short. Usually sound, too. Then the list starts. The list is where the file gets its weight.

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