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,
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    Why Is Google My Business Important for SEO?

    The stock answer comes in three parts. It turns up in the local pack. That pack sits above everything else on the screen. Google reads the profile for relevance, so filling in every field helps.

    All of that is true. Every bit of it is covered properly elsewhere on this site. So none of it gets repeated here.

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    How to Identify Weak SERP Presence Keywords

    Export the query report. Sort by position. Scroll down to where the numbers turn ugly.

    That is how most people go hunting for weak keywords. It finds something real. Yet it walks straight past the keywords where you rank well and still barely exist on the page.

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    How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT

    Someone asks ChatGPT for a Calgary SEO company. Your business either shows up in that answer or it does not. There is no page two.

    GEO for ChatGPT comes down to one thing. Which two or three names ChatGPT actually says out loud, not the hundred it never mentions. Geo chatgpt. Chatgpt geo. GEO for ChatGPT. However it gets phrased, the mechanics behind the answer stay the same.

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    Where to Find ROAS in Google Ads

    The Short Answer, Then the Part Nobody Mentions

    It is a column. Switch it on and it appears beside the others, often labelled conversion value over cost rather than ROAS. Nothing about it is buried.

    So the finding was never the difficult part. Then it gets switched on and a zero is sitting there. Sometimes a dash. Or a figure nobody in the building recognizes.

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    What Is Topical Authority in SEO?

    Topical authority is the trust a website earns by covering one subject thoroughly rather than in a single page. That is the definition. Nobody disputes it.

    How to build topical authority is settled as well. Group the subject into pages. Cover the questions people ask about it. Then link those pages to one another. All of that has its own pages on this site, so none of it gets repeated here. Neither does the payoff, which other pages cover too. New pages arriving faster. Existing pages holding their place.

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    Can SEO Help Your Political Campaign?

    There is a standard answer, and it is a checklist. Rank for the candidate’s name. Build pages around the issues voters search. Put up a page for the riding. All of it is sound. None of it is repeated here, since it is the same advice every business gets.

    The trouble is that a campaign is not a business. That advice was written for something built to last. A campaign is not that. So answer the question from a different direction. Not whether the tactics work. Whether the thing they work on has enough time.

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    How to Beat a Large Company at SEO

    You never beat the company. You beat one page it published, on one query, on one afternoon.

    That distinction sounds like wordplay. It decides whether the SEO work is worth starting at all.

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    What Are the Mobile SEO Best Practices for Attorneys?

    Ask for the list and you get the list. Responsive layout. Compress the images. Space the tap targets. Fix the Core Web Vitals. Put a call button where a thumb reaches it without stretching.

    Real work, all of it. Also finished, at most law firms, several years ago.

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    How Many Monthly Searches Should a Keyword Have?

    People want a threshold. Fifty monthly searches. Maybe five hundred. Some number to type into the filter box so the keyword list gets shorter and the work gets smaller.

    No such number exists. Not one that holds up across two different businesses. Most guides answer with it depends, then move along quickly.

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    How Do I See Keyword Rankings in Google Analytics? The Report Does Not Exist, and Privacy Is Not Why

    Every few weeks a client asks where the rankings live. They have opened Google Analytics already. Clicked acquisition, then engagement, then every menu that sounded promising. No keyword rankings anywhere on the screen.

    Nothing is buried. That report was never built.

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