‘Til Death Do Our Agency Part

Some partners just sign LLC paperwork. Ours signed a marriage license. Here’s what that says about the agency you’d be hiring.
How I Do Local Keyword Research

Tools tell you volume and difficulty. They can’t tell you whether your market searches “furnace repair” or “boiler repair.” Inside my local keyword research process.
How to Build Location Pages That Rank

A location page should do five jobs at once. Most I see don’t. Two templates and the depth modules that separate pages that rank from pages that don’t.
4 AI Content Marketing Workflows That Actually Work

I’m skeptical of AI. So I tested 20+ tactics across audience research, planning, and editing. Most didn’t make the cut. Four did.
AI Is Changing How Customers Find Local Businesses. Here’s What We’re Seeing.

What I Tested I asked 30 “best [service] in [city]” queries across three AI platforms: Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. These covered a wide range of local services: HVAC companies, restaurants, dentists, auto repair shops, salons, and more across 30 U.S. cities. Then I did something most people don’t do: instead of just looking […]
Journalist Outreach

Press coverage isn’t gated by who you are. It’s gated by whether you make a journalist’s job easier. The full playbook for turning outreach into a real channel.
How Local SEO Works

There’s no single trick to ranking local. It’s a system with more layers than most business owners realize, and the surface area keeps getting bigger.
Multi-Location SEO

Multi-location SEO isn’t a different game. It’s the same game, multiplied. And multiplication breaks anything that isn’t a system.
How to Get More Google Reviews

Reviews don’t just happen. You build them. The system behind businesses with hundreds of recent reviews, end to end.
Stop Choosing Sides — Here’s Why SEO and PPC Work Better Together

PPC and SEO aren’t rivals. They’re a unified strategy. Inside how the two channels compound — plus a case study where pausing PPC killed organic traffic overnight.
