Most SEOs default to pointing backlinks at the homepage—but that’s not always where the real wins are. If a link comes from content that matches one of your inner pages exactly, that’s usually the smarter play. Relevance is what moves the needle, and when your internal linking is set up right, a deep link can […]
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Every few years, somebody says Google Stacks and Cloud Stacks are dead. They said it in 2015. They said it in 2020. Now it’s 2025, and we’re still using them to rank local businesses. The difference is how you build and use them. In this post, we’ll break down why these stacks keep working, how
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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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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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Have you ever noticed your new website showing up on Google’s search results, maybe on page 3, 4, or 5, and then suddenly it vanishes? You check, and the site is still indexed, but it’s nowhere to be found in the rankings. This is a frustrating problem many website owners face, and it often leaves
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