EDGE of the Web - The Best SEO Podcast for Today's Digital Marketer

In case you missed our last episode, Moz has recently announced that they are changing the way Domain Authority will be scored beginning on March 5. Russ Jones, the Principal Search Scientist at Moz, joins us on this special bonus episode to discuss how SEOs should use Domain Authority, how it will be calculated and how frequently it will update. We're diving deep into the new Domain Authority, Today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! -- Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

Last year, Google updated its Quality Rater Guidelines - what changed and what lessons are there to learn from this update? Marie Haynes, the owner of Marie Haynes Consulting, Inc., joins us on the show this week as she and her team have dove into this 160+ page document to see what changes SEOs and webmasters can glean from it. The most important feature of the guidelines seems to focus around E-A-T which stands for Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. Several of Google's recent updates have focused on this topic, so it makes it really important for us to focus on this subject! Also, Marie Haynes has spent a lot of time discussing the value of Google's Disavow Tool. Is this tool something we should still be using regularly or is it an outdated tool after Penguin 4.0? Let's cover all these topics and more, today on the EDGE.   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! --   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

There's one thing that is for certain in the marketing technology industry - change. Rather than slowing down, several big changes are accelerating across the industry but what is driving this change? Will it slow down or continue to accelerate? Scott Brinker, the editor of chiefmartec.com and VP of Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, joins us on the show this week to explore this change in marketing technology and what trends he's seeing in the MarTech Industry. All this and plenty of 301 redirect jokes, today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets! --   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

Welcome to our 300th episode (and 8th year of shows!). We've covered a lot of different topics and interviewed several 100 different people over the past 300 episodes. It's been a lot of fun and we are excited to bring you more shows in the coming years. But this episode, we wanted to catch up with Dave Gerhardt, the VP of Marketing with Drift. He is the co-author of a new book called "Conversational Marketing" and it was just released on 1/30. In this book, he discusses how businesses need to change the way they capture leads and interact with customers. We break down a lot of the theories and stories from the book in this episode of Dave Gerhardt.   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

Most of a PPC Manager's focus tends to be on Google Ads - but you could be overlooking a valuable channel for ads - and that's Bing Ads. What in store for Bing Ads in 2019? Well, we reached out to our good friend John Lee as he is the Product Learning Strategist for Bing Ads. He is on the team that helps build training materials and helps with the improvement of Bing Ads so he has a great insight for new users. We have lots of great information about Bing Ads on this episode of EDGE of the Web!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

Recent reports have said that Reddit generates more traffic than Facebook or Twitter and was the third most visited website behind Google and YouTube. So why do marketers seem to ignore this valuable channel? We will find out more about Reddit Marketing this week with Ross Simmonds. He is a big fan of Reddit and has spoken about this topic (and others!) at conferences around the country. More recently, he has been a featured speaker with MozCon and SearchLove. Learn more about Reddit and how it can help with your marketing strategy and even drive more traffic! Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

WordPress has become one of the most popular content management systems as it is running over 28% of the web. And to their credit, it is easy to use has lots of great tools you can add that make your website even powerful. But a lot of companies and developers can add so much code to your website that it is slowing down your website and frustrating your users and hurting your SEO. Jon Henshaw, the founder of Coywolf and the Senior SEO Analyst with CBS Interactive, is a big proponent of WordPress and improving your speed on your website. Join our conversation with Jon as we deep dive into plugins, code, and WordPress! All this and more, today on the EDGE!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

Everywhere we look and go we are bombarded with ads and distraction. How do you compete with that when you are marketing your businesses? Steve Woodruff, author of the new book "Clarity Wins", says that the secret weapon he uses for his clients to break through the noise and distraction is Clarity. Steve breaks down how the clarity of our strategy and clarity in our messaging can help you succeed with your business goals and get referrals for your business. Also, since it is our first episode of the new year, we share some of our marketing predictions for 2019. All this and more, today on the EDGE! Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!

We are just a few weeks from 2019 and 2018 gave us a lot of change in the SEO industry? What can we expect in 2019? Ashley Berman Hale, the Technical SEO Lead at DeepCrawl, recently interviewed John Mueller of Google about what to expect next year. SEOs need to improve their Technical SEO for 2019 to stay ahead of the curve! Also, we talk about the new Q&A Structured data, Google's new WordPress plugin, and the latest Google+ news.   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio

Have you ever read your own website and thought, "That just doesn't sound like me?" or maybe your sales copy feels too pushy? The future of SEO is natural language (Think voice search) and so we were excited to talk to Nick Usborne about his new course Conversational Copywriting. Nick Usborne has been a copywriter for 40 years and has written for some of the world's biggest brands including Apple, WebEx, Chrysler, and Citibank. He has recently launched a new online training course and blog called Conversational Copywriting where he is looking to change the way we think about content. Also, we learn more about WordPress 5.0, DuckDuckGo and their new study and find out what Amazon is doing to get advertisers to give them free advertising. All this and more on this episode of EDGE of the Web!   Sponsor EDGE of the Web is brought to you by Site Strategics and they are offering to help you find out your digital marketing ROI. The Digital Marketing ROI Report will examine your existing SEO, content, social media, and PPC to help you discover your TRUE ROI. Visit https://edgeofthewebradio.com/roi/ to get 30% off your comprehensive review of your digital assets!   Edge of the Web Radio is brought to you by Site Strategics. Site Strategics is a web design and marketing services company that not only helps business owners look good on the internet but helps ensure you come to the top positions on major search engines. Are you looking for a professional SEO firm? Site Strategics curtails its business to Indianapolis, Indiana -- but also works nationwide and globally. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.sitestrategics.com/ or http://www.edgemedia.studio