Greg Ichshenko

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

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    How to Link Your Google Business Profile to Google Ads

    Most accounts that come under our Google Ads management arrive with the GBP never connected to Google Ads. The setup takes under five minutes. Left unlinked, your ads run without the location asset attached.

    Linking your GBP turns your business address into a location asset Google can attach directly to the ad. Customers see your address beneath the headline. Directions clicks count as conversions. That data feeds back into campaign optimization.

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    How Can a Podcast Increase SEO?

    A podcast can increase your SEO. Just never the way the question quietly assumes. The audio itself does none of the work.

    Ask around and you get a checklist. Transcribe every episode. Publish show notes. Guest on other people’s shows. Turn each recording into blog content. All of it works. Every item is covered well enough elsewhere. Yet none of it is the thing worth understanding first.

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    Which Free SEO Plugin Has the Most Tools?

    Rank Math, by the way these things get counted. It publishes a modules screen. Every feature sits there as its own labelled switch, so the total reads off cleanly.

    Then the number stops helping. A tool count measures what a plugin is willing to give away. It says nothing about how many of those switches will still be on a year from now.

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    What Is Keyword Bidding? A Practical Guide for Google Ads

    Every campaign starts with the same question the moment you have us manage your Google Ads. “Why isn’t my placement showing?” The answer is usually keyword bidding. Bid amounts too low. A relevance score not pulling its weight. Daily spend draining on the wrong terms.

    Keyword bidding is how advertisers compete for placement in paid search results. Each business sets a maximum amount they will pay per visit from a specific search phrase. The platform then weighs that amount alongside their relevance rating. Together, both numbers determine placement visibility and the actual per-visit cost.

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    What Are SEO Hashtags?

    Nothing on your website. That is the short answer. People find it disappointing.

    A hashtag files a post into a list. It never ranks a page. Google runs no such list for your site, so there is no field to fill in and no setting to switch on.

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    How Often Should You Blog for SEO?

    One kickoff call last month opened with this exact question. Wanted one number. Two posts a week, one post a month, something else nobody had told him. No single number answers it everywhere. Weekly beats monthly for most sites. Monthly still beats six months of silence.

    Volume loses to consistency, tested against real Calgary sites over and over. Ten posts in one burst, then half a year of nothing. That pattern loses every time to a slower, steady pace. It shows up constantly with businesses starting a content plan from scratch.

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    How to Pick SEO or Social Marketing for Your Business

    Go where your customers already are. That is the standard advice, and every version asks about them. Where does your audience spend its evenings. What can you afford. How fast do you need it. Whether you sell to companies or to people. All reasonable questions. Not one of them decides anything.

    They decide nothing because they ask about your market. Yet your market is not the thing standing in your way. Two piles of raw material are, and both of them sit inside your own business.

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    Are SEO AI Tools Free?

    Costs nothing. Never has. Google Search Console is the cleanest example of a genuinely free AI-adjacent SEO tool. Most software wearing the word “free,” though, runs a capped tier in disguise. Hit two projects. Or one real content push. The wall shows up fast either way. SEO Company To-The-TOP! hears this question from local business owners most weeks. Usually right after an afternoon lost comparing five pricing pages that each define “free” differently.

    A handful of options are free forever, with real utility behind them. Most AI SEO software gates the useful features behind a paid tier instead. The free version exists mainly to get a credit card on file, eventually. Both categories matter. Knowing which is which saves real money.

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    Which SEO Tool Does SERP Weakness Analysis?

    Plenty of them. Most of the big keyword suites carry a difficulty score, and a difficulty score is SERP weakness analysis wearing a shorter name. Pick any of the well-known ones. They mostly agree with each other, because they are all reading the same page you are.

    The tool question is the dull part. More interesting is what it actually looks at, and the one thing it never sees.

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    How to Conduct a Technical SEO Site Audit

    A technical SEO audit is a check of everything search engines use to access and rank your site. Not the keywords or the content strategy. The underlying machinery. Broken redirects. Pages Google cannot find. Speed that drops users before they read a sentence. That is what the audit surfaces.

    Run one without structure and you end up with five hundred issues. Six steps. High-impact findings first.

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