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 My SEO Not Working? The Real Reasons Rankings Stall

    Months of effort. Blog posts published. Target keywords chosen carefully. Still no movement in rankings. Frustrating, and usually explainable by one of a handful of common culprits.

    Time or technical issues. Content quality or backlinks. Almost always one of these four.

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    How PPC Boosts Dental SEO Performance

    The Standard Answer, and Where It Stops Being True

    There is a standard answer, and it is good. Paid search hands your SEO a keyword list that came from real buyers rather than a tool. It tests a headline before you commit a page of content to it. Then it covers the results page while organic work has not arrived. All of that holds for a dental practice, same as for anybody. It is covered elsewhere on this site.

    So none of it gets repeated here.

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    What Are Entities in SEO?

    Distinct, identifiable concepts that search engines recognize regardless of how a user phrases a query. That is the working definition of entities in SEO. Not text strings. No keyword matches either. Things with meaning that exist independently of whatever words describe them. Google moved to entity-based understanding in 2012 when it launched the Knowledge Graph. How rankings work shifted with it.

    For a business planning content today, understanding entities in SEO matters. Google does not just read keywords anymore. It maps concepts and recognizes topic relationships. Authority goes to sites that cover a recognized concept completely. Keyword frequency remains a signal. Entity authority is a different layer on top of it, and an increasingly decisive one.

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    What Is a Google Penalty in SEO?

    A Google penalty is what happens when Google decides your website broke its rules and marks it down for it. That is the definition, and the last one this page will hand you. What triggers a penalty. How the manual kind differs from the algorithmic kind. Cleaning up afterward. Writing a reconsideration request. All of it sits elsewhere on this site, covered properly. So none of it gets repeated here.

    Instead, one fact about the word itself.

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    How Important Is Readability to SEO?

    Readability matters. Not as much as the plugin panel suggests, though. Rarely in the way people assume, either.

    The standard answer is settled and this site covers it elsewhere. Shorter sentences. Paragraphs of two to four lines. Fewer passive constructions. More transition words. Subheadings often enough that nothing runs on forever. All sound advice. Worth following, too. None of it repeated here.

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    How Many Types of Schema Are There in SEO?

    Ask four sources how many types of schema in SEO exist. Expect four numbers back.

    Ten, says one guide. Thirty-five, says the next. Sixty from a third. Somewhere past eight hundred from the vocabulary itself. Nobody in that group is lying to you.

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    How User Experience Affects SEO

    We pulled a site audit for a Calgary client last year. Good backlinks. Keywords targeted correctly. Content covered the topic. Organic traffic had been declining for eight months.

    The problem was not the SEO work. It was the site. Pages took nine seconds to load on mobile devices. The navigation had eleven top-level items. Visitors who found the page had no idea where to go next. Behaviour data captured all of it.

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    What Is the Difference Between On-Site and Off-Site SEO? The Quizlet Answer

    On-site SEO covers work on your own website. Off-site SEO covers work on everybody else’s. Two columns. That is the whole card. It passes.

    The card sorts by address. Not by who holds the password. Those two came apart years ago, which is where this gets interesting.

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    How to Link My YouTube Channel to Google Ads

    Linking your YouTube channel to Google Ads takes about two minutes once both accounts exist. The connection allows you to run video ad campaigns using your channel’s content, track audience interactions between your ads and your organic videos, and retarget viewers who have already engaged with your YouTube channel.

    Two paths exist: you can initiate the link from inside your Google Ads account, or from YouTube Studio settings. Both end up in the same place. The Google Ads side is more commonly used for advertisers who manage campaigns actively.

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    How to Do SEO for Gemini

    Clients started asking this one about a year ago. Usually it arrives as a budget line. What do we spend on Gemini optimization?

    The question has a hole in it. Gemini is a model. Models do not crawl the web. They hold no index of their own. Something else decides which pages get quoted. That something is where your money does anything at all.

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