Greg Ichshenko

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

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greg@to-the-top.ca
1509 14 Ave SW, Calgary,
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    How to Track PPC Campaign Performance the Right Way

    Not every metric matters equally at all. A handful of core numbers genuinely reveal whether a PPC campaign actually works, the rest mostly adds noise.

    Conversions genuinely drive real decisions. Cost per conversion too. ROI as well. Everything else supports understanding why those three move.

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    How Many Types of Keywords Are There in SEO?

    We get this question more than you might expect. Not from people brand new to web marketing. From business owners who have been running search campaigns for years, sometimes with multiple agencies, and still find the terminology shifting because different guides count differently.

    The answer ranges from four to 32, depending on the framework. That is not an evasion. Different classification systems serve different purposes. Some organize keywords by what the searcher wants. Others go by length, or by function, or by match type in paid campaigns.

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    How to Optimize Old Content for SEO

    Find the page that used to bring traffic and no longer does. Update the facts. Add the section that got left out. Tighten it against the search intent, then resubmit it and wait.

    That is the method. It works, and it is covered properly elsewhere, so none of it gets repeated here. What follows is the one question the method never asks. It also decides whether your edit helps or quietly costs you.

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    What Is AIO in SEO?

    AIO stands for AI Overview. It is the block of text Google prints above the results. A machine writes it, out of pieces of other people’s pages. Some people stretch the letters to mean AI optimization instead. A few arrive here hunting for AIOSEO, a WordPress plugin. Different animal entirely. So the definition costs one line.

    The advice for getting into an overview also exists already. Put the answer near the top. Add the markup. Write plainly. All of it is sound, and this site covers it properly elsewhere, so none of it gets repeated here. Instead this page asks what kind of result an AI Overview actually is.

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    How to Stay Updated on SEO Algorithm Changes

    Read the source before anybody’s commentary. Bookmark two places. Prune the rest. That is the standard answer, and a sound one. Which sources, and how many, is a question for another page.

    So this page is about the other word in the query. Updated.

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    What Is Brand Bidding in PPC?

    A client phoned last spring, annoyed. Somebody else’s ad was sitting on top of his own company name. He wanted to know what it would cost to shove that ad off the page.

    Brand bidding usually starts with exactly that phone call. Nobody plans it. You search yourself one Tuesday. Something you did not expect turns up. Then paid search on your own name lands on the agenda.

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    What Is AEO vs SEO? The Difference Between Ranking and Getting Chosen as the Answer

    AEO stands for answer engine optimisation. SEO is search engine optimisation. Same alphabet soup, different job entirely.

    SEO gets your page ranked in Google’s results. AEO gets your content selected as the direct answer at the top. Featured snippets, AI Overviews, voice results, zero-click summaries. That gap between those two outcomes is growing. Worth understanding now, not later.

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    How to Do an SEO Migration

    You move a website. Search engines have to find it again.

    That is the mechanic. Nobody calls us about the moving, though. They call about the drop that came after it.

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    How to Find SEO Competitors and Why the Obvious Ones Are Often Wrong

    Your SEO competitors are not necessarily your business competitors. That distinction trips up almost every business owner starting a competitive analysis. A local plumber’s real-world rival might not even show up in the top ten results for the plumber’s target keywords.

    SEO competitors are whoever actually ranks for the terms that matter. Nothing more, nothing less.

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    What Is Disavow in SEO?

    Somebody bought links for your site in 2019. Maybe an agency did it without telling anyone. Disavow is how you ask Google to ignore them.

    It lives inside Google Search Console. You upload a plain text file listing the backlinks you want discounted. Google then treats those links roughly the way it treats a nofollow link.

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