Live Event: February 9th at 11:30 AM TL;DR: We’re holding an SEO Office hours live event to reveal our research on how Semrush and Ahrefs don’t always accurately predict search volume. In some cases, they are both inaccurate, and in other cases, one is better than the other. Our research indicates that industry and type of keyword play a large role in their ability to accurately forecast search volume. Sign up here Organic search forecasting is not easy, and they’re all sorts of assumptions, nuances, and factors beyond our control that can make predictions nothing more than a fancy guess. If y ..read more

The SEO community has been poring through the leak of Yandex’ codebase providing some great analysis. If this is your thing, I highly recommend following Martin McDonald, Mike King, Ryan Jones, and Alex Buraks as they continue to share nuggets of how Yandex search works. I thought I would do my part by focusing on the Local Search factors that have thus far been exposed. So LSG is pleased to present this special blogging operation on the Yandex Local SEO Ranking Factors. We have identified 154 local-related factors thus far and have added our guesses at their interpretation for the first 10 ..read more

Event Date: February 15th at 10 AM PT / 1 ET Register Now Join us live on Linkedin February 15th at 10 am for the second part of our Monthly ML Madness webinars, where we’ll be talking about how ChatGPT will affect Google, the search landscape, and SEO copywriting. Jess Peck, ML engineer at Local SEO guide, will be joined by CEO and Founder of the Grey Dot Company, Tory Gray, and CDO at the Grey Dot Company, Samantha Torres, to discuss what you need to know about what tools like Chat GPT actually mean about the future of search, SEO, and SEO jobs. The panel will be asking important questions ..read more

TL;DR: Want to boost your online visibility and drive more sales for your enterprise business? Unlock the power of SEO with the help of an enterprise SEO agency. The right SEO experts can increase online visibility, improve ROI, and establish yourself as a leader in your industry with well-crafted and executed SEO strategies. Search engine optimization can be a secret weapon for enterprise businesses. It’s all about making sure your website appears at the top of search engine results, so more people can find you.  The more people who can find you, the more potential customers you have. A ..read more

TL;DR: If you were unable to attend our event, “AI Content Sucks: A Discussion,” you can find a summary or watch the full recording of the event below.   In the past few years, AI models have greatly advanced. Tools like ChatGPT and the evolution of GPT, GPT-2, and now GPT-3 make the output of AI copy a lot more human than previous iterations. How Digital Marketers Can Use AI for SEO  The ability to quickly produce large amounts of unique copy that don’t obviously read like they’re computer generated has created quite the buzz. ChatGPT can also be used to: Produce copy in different ..read more

TLDR: Andrew Shotland, CEO of Local SEO Guide, recently appeared on the podcast Voices of Search to talk about domain cannibalization. You can catch the full episode here as well as the recap below. Having multiple domains can be tricky, and there are some pitfalls and questions you have to consider when managing them from an SEO perspective. Andrew Shotland explains, “As SEOs, the majority of our time is spent figuring out what the problem is, and doing so creatively. When we are working with enterprise brands, we must consider not only how our own domains compete with each other, we must con ..read more

Event Date: January 25th at 10 AM PT / 1 ET Register Now Join us on Linkedin live January 25th at 10 am for the first part of our Monthly ML Madness webinars, where we’ll be talking about all things ML and AI. This month’s event will feature some hot takes on using AI/ML to create SEO content. Jess Peck, ML engineer at Local SEO guide, will be joined by SEO Data scientist and Founder of Content Curator, Alton Alexander, and Principal Consultant at Brightedge, Marianne Sweeny, to discuss what you need to know about AI content’s benefits and limitations. Despite all the hype about GPT3 Cha ..read more

What is Google Business Profile? Google Business Profile, previously known as Google My Business (GMB), is a feature that allows businesses to manage and provide information that is displayed to users on Google Search and Maps. With your Business Profile, you can connect with customers, post updates, list your products and services, and accept online orders. It’s an incredibly powerful tool for local SEO and should be properly optimized so enterprise brands can maximize their visibility in search results and conversion opportunities. Why is Google Business Profile important for ..read more

The Best SEO Slack Apps & Integrations Slack is one of the most effective communication tools for digital marketing agencies. Slack’s ability to group conversations into slack channels so that participants can convene in one location to exchange ideas, reach decisions, and advance work makes it a powerful tool for collaboration. It also offers a number of very useful slack integrations and apps that help with a laundry list of SEO tasks like content marketing, link building, and generating slack notifications for SEO reports and project management. It also enables teams to work more quickl ..read more

Some Cool SEO Uses For GPT3 Chat  Over the past month, there have been a number of articles about how to use GPT3 Chat’s AI to improve SEO productivity. So I figured it was my duty to pile on. Here now I present 22 cool SEO things you can do with GPT3 Chat:  1. Generate quick breadcrumb navigation HTML for web pages 2. Identify schema markup 3. Generate structured JSON-LD structured data 4. Generating Regex statements These can be useful in a few ways such as plugging them into Google search console or writing regex statements for a crawler like ScreamingFrog. We work on ..read more