Why is the Search Guy Butting In? One of the biggest challenges in my search career has been navigating the delicate task of influencing workstreams that negatively impact SEO performance without ruffling feathers or bruising the managers’ egos of these functional areas. SEOs often deliver KPIs that depend on multiple infrastructures they don’t directly control. […]
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Updated November 26th, 2025, to add in the challenge of the user’s browser language settings on what is presented. Since my recent PubCon presentation, I have spoken with a dozen companies that had previously or recently implemented hreflang for their global sites, and it was not working as they hoped. They often referred to it
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I am on a working vacation on the island of St John’s in the US Virgin Islands, which has a fantastic view of the Caribbean Sea. It being the Monday before Thanksgiving, I encountered a frequent problem for locals and international travelers: the dreaded IP location redirections that did not account for our location. As
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That is a question I have to wrestle with weekly with global websites trying to explain why companies need to do something only to have them point to either a larger company or a random article that is doing or advocates doing it the way they want despite significant evidence or even a written standard
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The concept of PLP Monitoring or Preferred Landing Monitoring is the action of ensuring that the page that was created and optimized to convert the best for a specific query, audience, market, or campaign is the actual page ranking the highest. I developed this concept and applied it to the rank reporting scorecards for HP to overcome
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Understanding the Root Causes of Failure My father always encouraged me to understand why something happened, not just a problem. Most managers troubleshoot the problem rather than to diagnose it to find the reasons (root causes) for the failures. To increase performance and efficiency, we must go beyond the simple problem or error and try
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This is my PubCon 2024 presentation on Minimizing the Challenges of Going Global. Video with Voice Over 45 minutes with some additional commentary that was not in session due to session starting late. Overview of the session: I started with a mini rant that too many describe what is market or language-specific SEO as International or
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Refocused on Global Web Effectiveness For the past five years, I have primarily focused on managing hreflang management as a full service and creating a world-class SAAS solution with Hreflang Builder. Now that I have sold Hreflang Builder, I want to return to doing the work that I really enjoy—solving problems and helping improve website effectiveness. These
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Are you the Authority of Your Topic Cluster? I have presented this concept several times at search marketing conferences over the past 20 years to understand the consumer’s voice, enabling clients to create significant new opportunities to capture missed opportunities. In this installment of “What is old is now new,” there is a lot of
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Selecting the Most Rewarding Clients I originally wrote this post a few years ago as How to Select the Most Rewarding Clients on my personal blog. As I mentioned then, it was a result of trying to increase opportunities and create a better work life balance. We have been doing a similar exercise over the past few
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