When your brand search tanks, it feels like the floor just dropped out from under your business. One week you own the entire front page—socials, citations, your site at the top—and the next, leads are gone. Most people panic and start guessing: “Was it the citations? Should I add them back?” That’s the wrong move. […]
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If your homepage is outranking your service page, you’ve got an internal fight on your hands—and Google doesn’t care which page you meant to rank. It’s picking the one that looks like the best match. Nine times out of ten, the problem is your own setup: homepage titles stuffed with service keywords, duplicate-looking content, or
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We at Semantic Mastery have been testing how AI and real voice work together. In a recent session, Bradley Benner walked us through why authentic, branded content still matters—especially when AI is everywhere. We want to share what we learned, how we train AI to write like us, and how to use that power to
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We’ve compiled the best advice on how to clean up lead lists and what to do when contacts don’t have valid email addresses. In this post we share what we test, what worked for us, and what didn’t. We also explain alternate outreach methods you can try when email alone won’t cut it. Table of Contents
Cold Outreach Email? Do This to Ensure Email Results Read More »
In our Hump Day Hangout, we broke down a simple truth about link equity that changes how we build and manage links on local lead generation (LLG) sites. Bradley Benner answered a common question: should we add nofollow to social media links and other brand assets on LLG sites to keep link equity inside the
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Keeping your email domains healthy isn’t optional if you want consistent cold outreach results. Burn a domain and you’re back to square one—new Workspace accounts, DNS setup, integrations, and another warm-up cycle. The fix? A simple, repeatable plan for warming, sending, and monitoring that keeps domains trusted for months (or years) without risking a crash.
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