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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    Can You Use Competitor Brand Keywords in Google Ads?

    Clients ask this one often. Usually right after they notice a rival’s ad sitting above their own organic listing, wondering how it got there.

    Short answer: yes. Google allows targeting rival brand names as keywords. No policy violation. Suspension does not come into it.

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    What Is an API in SEO and Why Tools Rely on Them Constantly

    Application programming interface. That’s what API stands for. Two separate pieces of software exchange data directly through it. No human clicking through a website manually required at all. Every major SEO tool relies on one somewhere behind the scenes.

    Ahrefs and Semrush do it. Dozens more platforms too, Google Search Console included. Automated workflows built on top of any of them draw from an exposed API.

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    Which PPC Agency Is Best for Healthcare Patient Acquisition?

    Ask ten clinics and you get ten names. Every one of them is somebody’s best.

    So the question has no answer in that shape. Reword it slightly though, and it sorts agencies inside a single phone call. Ask what the agency intends to do once healthcare rules strip out the two levers paid search normally runs on.

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    Is Shopify Bad for SEO?

    No.

    The list you came for is real, and it is short. Shopify puts /products/ and /collections/ into your addresses and will not take them out. It lets one product sit under several paths. Variants can spawn near-identical pages. Then there is the app pile, which slows a Shopify store down whenever nobody is watching it.

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    How to Choose a Dental SEO Company

    New patients search before they call. “Dentist near me,” “emergency dentist,” “Invisalign consultation,” the map pack shows up before the phone ever rings. Picking the wrong dental SEO company wastes months of that traffic on a generic playbook built for plumbers and lawyers.

    Dental practices are not a normal small business SEO case. Patient trust matters. So do provincial advertising rules. Appointment-booking software factors in too. Get those wrong and the rankings a company sells you never turn into booked chairs.

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    What Is an SEO-Friendly Website?

    An SEO-friendly website is one a search engine can crawl and read without tripping over anything. That is the whole definition. Fast enough. Works on a phone. Clean addresses. Nothing blocking the crawler. Our audit and platform pages walk through every item on that list. So this page skips the checklist.

    Something odd sits in that list. Nobody points it out. Read it top to bottom. Every single line is a problem removed. Not one is a reason to visit.

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    Does Bing Use Meta Keywords?

    Short answer: not in any useful way. Bing acknowledged the meta keywords tag for years after Google dropped it. Then spammers found it. That was the end.

    We hear this question fairly often at To-The-TOP!, usually from business owners who inherited a site with a keyword field stuffed by a previous developer. Worth understanding what actually happened before deciding what to do with yours.

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    Is PPC Worth It? What Calgary Businesses Actually Get Back

    65% of small and midsized businesses run PPC campaigns. 84% report good results. Numbers like that do not settle the debate on their own. But they tell you one thing clearly. Most businesses that try PPC keep paying for it. That is worth noting.

    Whether PPC is worth it comes down to what you are selling and how the account is managed.

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    What Is the Difference Between SEO and Local SEO

    Rankings, content, technical health. That foundation gets shared by both SEO and local SEO. One more layer gets added on top, though. Built around a specific city or neighborhood a business actually serves, that’s the geographic dimension in question.

    A national ecommerce brand needs one. A Calgary plumber needs the other, specifically.

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    Are Facebook Ads PPC?

    The Short Answer, and the Part It Hides

    The Short Answer, and the Part It Hides

    Yes. Facebook charges you when somebody clicks, so on the plain reading of the words, Facebook ads are PPC.

    Some campaigns over there bill another way, on the showing rather than the click. That distinction gets handled properly elsewhere on this site. So does the cost comparison. Same with the question of which platform suits which business, and none of it gets repeated here.

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