Yesterday afternoon, SEO Twitter was abuzz with the news that SEMRush had filed to go public. Some great initial analysis on the numbers in this thread by Dan Barker: SEMrush, the SEO tool, has filed to go public. Here’s the S-1: https://t.co/i1meSHts4Y They spent $54 million on marketing last year, for revenue of $125 million. […]
UPDATE You’re really not an SEO blogger until @rustybrick has called bullshit on one of your posts https://t.co/Us4eajHBx9 — Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide) February 11, 2021 So I may have jumped the gun on the “passage ranking” thing, but even though this may be old news, these URLs started showing up in a lot of GSC […]
What is E-A-T? Why It’s Important for Local SEO. “E-A-T” (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) has been a trendy topic in SEO for the past few years. I love this AHREFS chart showing how each month hundreds of new articles on the topic are published. Thanks to Joshua Hardnick for the idea. A lot of the […]
When I worked at NBC in the 90’s, The Clapper spent a boatload advertising on Seinfeld, and Friends, and probably even on The Cosby Show. Of course they would spend millions in advertising on TV as would the George Foreman Grill, as would Ron Popeil and his amazing Pocket Fisherman, as would pretty much any […]
Four Seasons Total Landscaping non-brand rankings courtesy of SEMRush: # of referring domains courtesy of Ahrefs: If you need a cutting edge content marketer to round out your team, I am pretty sure Rudes will be looking for work some time in January.
Dan Leibson has been a strong advocate inside LSG and on SEO Twitter for the under-represented in the SEO community. At times his advocacy has been a bit too strong for some leading to several “WTF is up with Dan?” DMs to me. Well you know WTF is up with Dan? He has spent the […]
7:15 pm PDT update Well, things are moving right along in this election. I’m going to try to keep these short and sweet to avoid devolving into political commentary lol. First observation, people are really focusing on “battleground” states and North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin are all in focus. Also people are focusing on the Senate […]
I did not expect to open my inbox this morning to find that LSG has been voted the Top Local SEO Blog of 2020 on BrightLocal but 2020 has been throwing curve balls all year so why should today be any different? I’d like to thank the Academy, my family, and SEOTwitter, but most of […]
Hi friends, it’s me Dan. Your friendly SEO curmudgeon in training. Recently the SEO community (cough cough, SEO Twitter) has been caught up in a veritable tizzy about knowing HTML. Beyond the obvious epistemological considerations, I think there is a real ontological question raised by the primacy of HTML as a programming language in the […]
Hey everyone! It’s been a hot minute since I posted so just wanted to quickly come in here and share an update we made to a free tool. A while back we released a tool that would allow you to aggregate Lighthouse reports by template and visualize and report on assets across sites and at […]