The MKG Marketing Blog
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SEO Industry Monthly Overview - October
October 2026 search overview: Google's Spam Update and Deploying Gemini Argon 4 to AI Mode, Major AI Labs Establishing a Unified Crawling Protocol, and Degrading Third-Party Rank-Tracking.
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Is SEO Still Important in the AI Era?
Discover how AI Overviews and LLMs are changing search. Learn why SEO is evolving into AEO, and how to future-proof your digital visibility strategy today.
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Why a Technical SEO Foundation is Vital During the AI Boom
Discover why SEO is still important in the age of AI. Learn the importance of technical SEO for AI search visibility and small website growth in 2026.
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Helpful Content Writing Tips: How to Produce Search-Optimized Articles
Stop generating content bloat. Learn how to write helpful, search-optimized articles that earn top rankings and LLM citations.
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Fixing Content Production Workflow: How to Audit Bottlenecks
Streamline your content production process. Learn how to audit workflow bottlenecks, eliminate handoff drops, and accelerate marketing output.
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Information Gain vs. Content Bloat: Audit for AI Search
Publishing content that AI search engines ignore? Learn how to audit your content engine for information gain, eliminate bloat, and earn LLM citations.
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The Agency Audit Checklist: 6 Questions to Ask Vendors About AI Search
Evaluate B2B SEO agencies before signing. Use this 6-question checklist to cut through agency pitch jargon and test real AI search capabilities.
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How to Choose an SEO Agency: Key Vetting Questions for B2B Leaders
Evaluating B2B SEO agencies? Learn how to vet pitches, spot red flags, and ask the right questions about technical skills, reporting, and AI search.
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How to Improve Search Engine Optimization for the AI Search Engine
Learn how to optimize your website for AI search engines, Google AI Overviews, and LLMs using Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) strategies.
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SEO vs. AEO vs. GEO
The key differences between SEO, AEO and GEO, plus a step-by-step framework to future-proof organic visibility across traditional search and AI engines.
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SEO Industry Monthly Overview - September
September 2026 search overview: Google's fourth global spam update, expanding AI Overviews and the shift from traditional SEO to generative engine optimization.
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Is AI Search Eating Your Clicks? How to Diagnose Traffic vs. CTR Drops
Learn how to diagnose organic traffic drops, evaluate AI Overview CTR impact, and fix core SEO mistakes with this step-by-step framework.
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Why Is My SEO Not Working? Diagnosing Traffic Drops & SEO Issues
Organic traffic dropping? Learn how to diagnose technical issues, content decay, and algorithm updates to fix your website's SEO strategy.
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What is AI Visibility Optimization?
What is AI Visibility Optimization in SEO? Discover how combining traditional SEO with AI search strategy keeps your brand recommended and cited.
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How to Structure Content for AI Search
Want AI search engines to quote your website? Learn how to structure content using BLUF formatting, clean HTML tables, and scannable lists.
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What Are the Benefits of Using AI for SEO Strategies?
Discover the real benefits of using AI for SEO strategies. Learn how AI speeds up research, improves search intent mapping, and boosts brand visibility.
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SEO Industry Monthly Overview - August 2026
August 2026 search overview: Google's spam update volatility, expanded AI Overviews, new AI metrics in Search Console and ChatGPT Search's reliance on Bing.
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The Important AI Search Visibility KPIs You Should Know
What metrics matter in AI search? Discover the core AI search visibility KPIs to track brand mentions, LLM citation share, and referral traffic in 2026.
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What Services Does a Generative AI SEO Agency Typically Offer?
What services does a Generative AI SEO agency offer? Learn how AI audits, content architecture, and multi-platform distribution keep your brand recommended.
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Why You Should Monitor Brand Mentions in AI Search Results
Why track what ChatGPT and Google say about you? Learn why monitoring brand mentions in AI search results is vital to protect your software company's leads.
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AI Search Visibility Ranking Factors 2026 - How Machines Decide Who to Quote
How do AI engines choose which websites to quote? Discover the core AI search ranking factors for 2026 and how to get your brand cited.
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AI Search vs Traditional Search - Navigating the Shift to Search Visibility Optimization (SVO)
Traditional SEO is shifting. Learn how AI search engines are disrupting the ten blue links and how to win brand mentions in LLM responses.
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Search Visibility Optimization (SVO) Monthly Overview - July 2026
July 2026 search overview: Google's section-level Helpful Content Update, AI Overviews in about 43% of US searches and new Search Console controls for AI Mode.
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Is AI Content Bad for SEO? How to Scale Traffic Without Sacrificing Rankings
Does AI-generated content impact SEO? Discover how to safely use AI tools to build traffic and why copy-pasting generic text will hurt your rankings.
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Stop Writing Content at Midnight (and How to Scale Past Yourself)
The Series B playbook for breaking the founder bottleneck, killing random acts of marketing, and scaling the pipeline.
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Beyond Last-Click - The Board-Ready SVO Dashboard
When search engines stop sending traffic, your pipeline reporting must evolve to measure true market influence.
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Search Visibility Optimization (SVO) Monthly Overview - June 2026
Stay updated on the June 2026 search landscape: Google’s Spam Update, AI Mode’s 1-billion-user shift, GA4 AI attribution, and the rise of zero-click journeys.
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The Great Decoupling - Why SaaS SEO Is Changing in 2026
Legacy content strategies are triggering massive traffic drops as AI Overviews intercept informational search volume.
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Shifting Legacy Paid Playbooks to SaaS Pipeline Velocity
Facing a 25% drop in pipeline conversion despite great CTRs? Here is how to stop the blended inventory bleed.
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Stop Chasing Citations - Why Native LLM Mentions Are the New Baseline for B2B Tech Visibility
Working 60-hour weeks hunting backlinks for AI footnotes while your competitors steal the actual recommendations? Here is how to transition to Mention Engineering.
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The Board-Ready SVO Dashboard - How to Report Pipeline When Traffic Disappears
When organic traffic drops, legacy reports make marketing look like it is failing. Learn how to present SVO pipeline data that wins over your board.
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The Death of the Ten Blue Links - Why SVO is the Only Survival Strategy for 2026
B2B search is shifting fast. Strong visibility now means showing up across Google, AI answers, and the discovery paths buyers actually use.
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Invisible by Default - Why Your Growth Plateau is Actually an AI Visibility Debt
Explore why strong B2B content may still go unseen in AI search, and how to improve discoverability across answer engines and buyer journeys.
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Monthly Search Industry Report - May 2026
May 2026 search report: core update waves, Google I/O's shift to a conversational AI assistant, inline source citations and preparing for ChatGPT Search ads.
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The 2026 Brand Visibility Audit: Is Your ICP Finding Your Competitors in the LLM?
When your target accounts use AI search to shortlist vendors, do you exist? Here is how to audit your brand presence and reverse competitive displacement.
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Escaping the Black Box - Installing an SVO Operating System That Runs Without You
When marketing feels like a high-priced experiment you have to babysit, it's time to build a system that captures AI demand autonomously.
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The Synthesized Buyer - Mastering the 2026 Brand Visibility Audit for LLMs
If you aren’t in the training data, you aren’t on the shortlist. Here is how to master Brand Visibility Optimization (BVO) for the AI-driven buyer.
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Monthly Search Industry Report - April 2026
Stay updated with the April 2026 search landscape: core update impacts, back button crackdown, task-driven search, and the rise of agent-powered visibility.
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Agentic Procurement - Is Your Website Machine-Readable or Just Human-Centric?
Procurement is moving to AI agents. If your site isn't optimized for agent readiness, you are invisible to the new buyer.
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Google is Cracking Down on Back Button Hijacking
Google is penalizing back button hijacking. Learn what it is, why it hurts SEO, and how to keep your site compliant and user-friendly.
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Recalibrating the Lead - Bridging the 2026 Measurement Gap in Paid Social
Click-through rates are shifting as buyers change how they browse. Here is how to audit zero-party data and bridge the CRM-to-platform gap.
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The Invisibility Trap - Why Page 1 Ranking is Failing the AI-Agent Test
Your SEO metrics are green, but your pipeline is flat. Here is how to stop chasing clicks and start winning the AI Overview.
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Monthly Search Industry Report - March 2026
Stay updated with the March 2026 search landscape: AI Overviews, zero-click trends, algorithm volatility, and key SEO strategies shaping modern search visibility.
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The Trust Dividend - Why AI Governance is the New Competitive Advantage
In a world of AI-generated noise, trust is the only currency that still compounds. Here is how to institutionalize human expertise.
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The 'Franken-Stack' Failure - Why Your Disconnected Tools are Cannibalizing Your Series-B ROI
Stop committing random acts of marketing. It’s time to trade tool-bloat for a predictable system that actually compounds.
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The Rhythmic Engine - Why Your 'Big Launch' Mentality is Stalling Your Growth
Bursts feel productive. Rhythm builds momentum—especially when AI is learning your category every day.
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The Content Inflation Crisis - How to Build Brand Authority in an Era of AI Mediocrity
When everyone can publish, most content becomes noise. Here’s how to earn trust—and be cited—in 2026.
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Beyond the Attribution Mirage - Solving the 2026 'Truth' Deficit in Paid Social
If the platform claims conversions your CRM never sees, you don’t have a performance problem; you have a truth problem.
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Monthly Search Industry Report - February 2026
February 2026 search trends: Google's Discover update, Gemini 3 citation volatility, AI search monetization shifts, and why brands need SVO.
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The Ghost in the Machine - Why Your SEO Strategy Is Invisible to ChatGPT and Gemini
Ranking first isn’t the same as being chosen. The new visibility cliff is silent—and it’s already here.
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Monthly Search Industry Report - January 2026
January 2026 search trends reveal the post-query shift, 60% zero-click dominance, AI monetization, and why brands must pivot to Search Visibility Optimization.
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The Death of the MQL - Why 2026 Demands a 'Truth' Audit
If “lead volume” is still the headline metric, you’re paying for noise. 2026 is the year to split the funnel and prove what’s real.
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The Invisibility Crisis-Why Your Brand Is Missing from the AI Shortlist
Rankings alone no longer decide which brands buyers see. Learn what the AI shortlist is and what it takes to make sure your brand shows up in AI answers.
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Stop the Random Acts – How mkgOS™ Makes Every Channel Work Together
Disconnected effort looks productive but doesn't compound. See how mkgOS, a marketing operating system, makes every channel work together as one engine.
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Build a Marketing Operating System (Here is What mkgOS™ Really Means)
Stop running marketing like disconnected apps. mkgOS™️ turns strategy, execution, and reporting into one system that compounds.
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AEO Meets AI – Preparing for the Next Search Evolution
Search is shifting from ten blue links to one synthesized AI answer. Learn how answer-first content helps your brand get featured in AI-powered results.
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From Campaigns to Systems: Why AEO and GEO Are the Future of SEO
One-off search campaigns don't compound. Learn how AEO and GEO turn SEO into a predictable, repeatable system for your marketing team.
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Adapting to Google’s Latest Core Update
Discover how to adapt to Google’s latest core update and the expansion of branded search in the AI-driven search landscape.
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Adapting to AI-Driven Search Trends
Discover the top ways to adapt your cybersecurity website for AI-driven search trends as the SEO industry changes and evolves.
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Building a Cohesive Customer Journey
Discover how cybersecurity marketing leaders are pivoting to the flywheel method to develop a customer journey to better reach their target markets.
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The Future of PPC Advertising
Discover the future of PPC for cybersecurity CMOs with trends like AI and voice search, plus actionable tips to enhance your campaigns and boost results.
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Advanced PPC Strategies & Tactics
Discover advanced PPC strategies for cybersecurity vendors, including audience targeting, long-tail keywords, remarketing, and smart bidding to maximize ROI.
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Top PPC Mistakes & How to Fix Them
Discover common PPC mistakes cybersecurity vendors make & learn how to avoid them. Optimize your campaigns for better targeting & higher conversion rates.
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Analyzing PPC Campaign Performance
Discover key metrics and actionable insights to analyze and optimize your PPC campaigns for better leads and ROI in the competitive cybersecurity landscape.
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Maximizing Your PPC Budget to Drive Better Leads
Discover how to maximize your PPC budget and drive better leads without overspending. Uncover strategies that ensure every dollar counts!
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Relationship-Based Sales & Marketing Strategies
Discover how cybersecurity marketing leaders approach relationship-based sales and marketing strategies to address potential clients' pain points effectively.
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Optimizing PPC Landing Pages for Better Performance
Discover how to optimize your PPC landing pages. Learn actionable tips to improve user experience, align messaging, and increase conversions.
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Optimizing Your PPC Ads for Better Performance
Discover how to enhance your PPC ads for cybersecurity. Learn strategies to target the right audience, create effective ad copy, and maximize ROI.
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Choosing the Right PPC Keywords for Your Campaign
Discover how to choose effective PPC keywords for your cybersecurity campaign. Learn audience insights, keyword types, and strategies to optimize results.
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The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a Successful PPC Campaign
Discover how to set up successful PPC campaigns for cybersecurity agencies. Target decision-makers and optimize for maximum ROI.
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Mastering Marketing Attribution
Discover how cybersecurity marketing leaders approach comprehensive attribution and engagement with key decision-makers. Read more about MKG thought leadership.
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B2B Digital Advertising: A Comprehensive Guide
Unlock B2B PPC strategies for cybersecurity agencies. Discover how to target decision-makers and optimize campaigns for growth.
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Navigating International Teams & Content Syndication
Discover how different cybersecurity marketing leaders navigate asynchrony in managing international teams and content syndication.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Content Readability
Discover why readability is crucial for educating users and improving accessibility. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Relevant Image Use
Discover why relevant, strategic images can make your site easier to use and attractive to users. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Strategic Internal Linking
Discover how incorporating strategic internal linking can build site authority and improve user navigation. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Tailored MOFU Messaging in Cybersecurity
Discover how different cybersecurity marketing leaders have crafted ‘why’ messaging for their middle of the funnel audiences.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Captivating Introductions
Discover how to build trust and improve user experience through captivating introduction paragraphs. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Smart Headers
Discover how writing smart headers helps users and search engines consume your helpful content. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Powerful Meta Descriptions
Discover how to enhance your cybersecurity SEO through attention-grabbing meta descriptions. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Changing Funnels in Cybersecurity Marketing
Discover how different tech marketing leaders, who are a part of the MKG VIP community, are changing the traditional funnels in cybersecurity.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity - Effective Title Tags
Discover how effectively optimizing title tags will boost organic performance and entice users. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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The B2B Marketer's Powerhouse Trio
Kerry Guard, CEO of MKG Marketing, shares her transition from media planning to leading a digital marketing agency focused on B2B tech sectors.
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Building Trust & Respect Through Partnership
Kerry Guard & Mike Krass discuss their entrepreneurial journey and partnership at MKG Marketing, highlighting their roles, challenges, and shared vision.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Semantic Keyword Variation
Discover how mastering keyword variation and clustering boosts your cybersecurity marketing efforts. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity: Comprehensive Content
Discover how writing comprehensive content is crucial for bolstering your cybersecurity marketing efforts. Read more of MKG’s series on SEO best practices.
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Optimizing SEO in Cybersecurity–Creating Helpful Content
Discover how creating helpful content can boost your cybersecurity SEO efforts. This is the first in MKG’s series on SEO best practices. Read more today!
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Key Challenges & Solutions in Cybersecurity Marketing
Discover how different tech marketing leaders have navigated challenges in cybersecurity marketing such as complexity and differentiation.
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Strategic Development & Execution in Cybersecurity Marketing
Discover how different tech marketing leaders have leveraged data and pivoted to demand generation across cybersecurity brands.
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Crafting Cybersecurity Brand Strategy
Discover how different marketers deal with various branding challenges in cybersecurity companies and how CMOs can adjust in an ever-changing industry.
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B2B Cybersecurity Sales & Marketing Alignment
Discover how different marketers deal with challenges surrounding the misalignment of B2B sales teams and marketing teams in cybersecurity companies.
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The MKG Vantage: AI in the SERPs
MKG Marketing’s SEO squad weighs in on the impact of AI in the SERPs. Discover how they feel this will impact the search experience moving forward.
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How to Conduct Keyword Mapping for SEO
Discover the definition of keyword mapping, how to execute it, and how to our experts align these carefully curated phrases with existing website content.
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The Site Audit: No Longer the Way to Start Your SEO Engagement
Take a deep dive into the classic Site Audit and learn why our experts don’t always start off a new SEO engagement by recommending a technical site audit.
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What is Digital Advertising?
What is digital advertising? MKG's experts explain the paid channel ecosystem and why real-time data and a cohesive search and paid strategy matter.
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5 Marketing Analytics Trends for 2023
What are the top trends for marketing analytics in 2023? Our MKG expert breaks down the pervasive trends that will influence your analytics and impact your business.
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General Data Protection Regulation and Google Analytics 4
Is GA4 compliant with GDPR? Our analytics expert breaks down what has changed, platform compatibility and best practices for handling your data.
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5 Google Analytics Features for High-Quality Analytics
Five GA4 features that improve data quality: ID-based tracking, event-based measurement, full user journeys, predictive metrics and custom reports.
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5 GA4 Tips to Get Quality Analytics
Five practical GA4 tips: set up GA4 with Google Tag Manager, exclude internal IP addresses, segment traffic by channel, identify audiences and track goals.
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What is Google Analytics 4: A User's Guide to the New Analytics System
Take a deep dive into what Google Analytics 4 is, the differences between GA 4 and previous versions, the new advantages of GA, and more. Check it out!
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The MKG Vantage: Google’s “Helpful Content” Update
Discover what our SEO Experts’–Alicia, Nathan, and Anna–thoughts are on Google’s Helpful Content Update and the potential impact it brings…
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Cookieless Future
Third-party cookies are going away. Learn why, what first-party cookies still allow, and how marketers and advertisers can keep targeting and measuring.
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HTML5 and SEO
Discover our SEO Experts POV on HTML5 and creative ways to leverage the HTML5 code structure to impact keyword and passage rankings.
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Why Backlinks Are Not The Number 1 Criteria for Ranking Well in SEO
Are backlinks the number one criterion for ranking well in SEO? Our SEO Director explains why the answer is yes and no, and what else matters.
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How to Generate an XML Sitemap
A guide on what an XML Sitemap is, why it's important, how to generate one, and then how to implement it. Get going.
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SEO Voice Search Best Practices
How growing voice search is changing SEO, with research findings on natural language processing and optimization techniques such as featured snippets.
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GDPR and Google Analytics
Google Analytics changes for compliance with GDPR and not lose important data after May 25th?
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Search Engine User Optimization - There’s no “U” in SEO
There is no U in SEO, but there should be. Why SEO should start with the user, from keyword intent to meta descriptions that earn the click.
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Page Load Speed | How to Make Your Website Faster to Rank Higher
Page load speed affects both rankings and engagement. Learn how to make your website faster, from choosing a hosting provider to Google's recommended fixes.
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What Stops Companies from Hiring SEO Firms?
Read Some Common Objections or Obstacles that Companies Face When Deciding Whether to Invest in SEO as a Growth Channel.
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This One Exercise Will Improve Your Site Ranking Strength Now (Break the 301 Redirect Chains)
Redirect chains quietly weaken your whole domain. Learn how to find and break 301 chains on large and small sites, and how to measure the ranking gains.
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Word Counts for SEO: How Many Words Should Your Content / SEO Elements Be?
How to ensure your seo title and meta description get impressions and clicks but not exceeding word count limits.
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301 Redirect Chains, Intro to an Advanced SEO Topic
This is a little bit of a teaser post, but we wanted to go over the concept of what a 301 redirect chain is.
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How to Perform a Competitive SEO Audit for Executives
A step-by-step guide to benchmarking your search rankings against competitors and presenting the findings in an executive-level SEO conversation.
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