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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    Is SEO Writing AI Free?

    Mostly, yes. That answer is smaller than it sounds.

    Generating the words costs almost nothing now. So the free plans are real ones. What none of them include is the decision about which page to write.

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    Does the Number of Elementor Containers Affect SEO?

    No. Nothing at Google counts them.

    There is a better question underneath, though. The number of Elementor containers is a figure inside your editor. Google reads a completely different figure. Those two move apart more often than anybody expects, sometimes in opposite directions.

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    What Is the Difference Between Organic and Inorganic Keywords?

    Organic keywords earn their position. Inorganic keywords get bought. That answer is correct, and it takes four seconds to deliver.

    It is also written out already. Cost per click against cost in months, what a paid position holds between searches, why one of them compounds. Our SEO blog covers all of that. None of it gets repeated here.

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    What Does an SEO Team Do?

    An SEO team does roughly what you would expect. One person keeps the website fast and reachable. Another writes. A third works on links. Somebody else reads the numbers at the end of the month. That answer is accurate, and other pages here set out each role properly, so none of it gets repeated.

    What the list never explains is why the team has that shape at all. And that shape is not neutral. It decides things, and it decides them long before anybody opens a plan. The calendar does it too, and that is the trouble with running SEO in two-week sprints.

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    What to Expect From a Web Design Company’s SEO

    A file. That is what the SEO line on a web design quote actually buys.

    Nothing wrong with the file, either. Properly written title tags. Headings in sensible order. Images compressed down. A sitemap that submits without throwing errors. Real work, and it has to happen sometime.

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    How Much Does an SEO Company Charge Per Hour?

    A freelancer still building a track record charges $75 to $150 an hour. That climbs to $100 to $250 once the freelancer becomes an established solo consultant. Inside a small or mid-size agency, plan on $150 to $300. Enterprise firms send invoices at $250 and climbing. Hourly SEO pricing spans that whole range. Who holds the account decides where a given quote lands.

    Rate alone answers nothing on its own though. Scope decides more than the number printed on the invoice. Twelve focused hours at $250 often beats forty scattered ones at $90.

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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 a Good Conversion Rate for Google Ads?

    We pull monthly Google Ads reports for clients across Calgary. One question surfaces every time: is this number good. Straight answer depends on context. Not on a single industry benchmark.

    Industry matters. Campaign type matters. What counts as a conversion matters most of all.

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    Does Domain Forwarding Affect SEO?

    Yes. Rarely in the direction people expect, though.

    The stock answer is a walkthrough of forward types. Use a permanent redirect. Avoid the sort that masks the address in the bar. Check what your registrar reaches for by default. All of that is sound, and the mechanics are covered properly elsewhere on this site, so none of it gets repeated here.

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    How to Create SEO Content That Delivers Marketing KPIs

    Most SEO content gets written first and graded second. The KPI turns up afterwards, usually in a monthly report, usually as a disappointment nobody can explain.

    Reverse that order and almost everything about the work changes. The KPI stops being a grade. It becomes a targeting decision made before anyone opens a blank document.

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