SEO strategies, local search tips, and digital marketing guides from the SEO Bandwagon team.
A documented case study on what happened when a small business tried to leave VMS Data — and what we built from the wreckage in 90 days. Includes timestamped Google Search Console evidence.
A year-end autopsy of digital publishing, streaming dominance, and why your traffic numbers look like they went through a paper shredder. Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat this: 2025 was the year the internet’s economic model went from “questionable” to “actively on fire.” If you spent the year watching your organic traffic nosedive while your […]
Stuffing more keywords into your homepage won’t help when AI is reading your profiles, not your meta tags. The local SEO playbook has fundamentally changed. If you’re still optimizing the way you did in 2023—or even early 2025—you’re likely leaving rankings, visibility, and leads on the table. Why? Because AI has entered the local search […]
Content Syndication for link building, driving traffic, and improving search rankings. Use this guide to write and distribute your content across the Internet.
If you haven’t heard the news about Lastpass there is a reason, and it’s time to switch password managers.
For the humans that are still with us, in this foul year of our lord, two thousand and twenty, was probably one of the most challenging years of your life and worth every bit of hindsight and self-congratulations you can muster. It’s been tough. Professionally, there have been a lot of successes at SEO Bandwagon […]
In a direct response to Vice and PCMag’s article on Avast Antivirus, Avast’s Corporate Board and CEO Ondrej Vlcek ceased operation of their data subsidiary Jumpshot. It seems that core mission of Avast cannot be uncorrupted by the sale of their user’s data. “I realize the recent news about Jumpshot has hurt the feelings of […]
In a move that confused many in the SEO community, Google expanded upon the rel=”nofollow” attribute to include: sponsored content, user generated content, and good old fashioned nofollow. Danny Sullivan, Search Liaison at Google, has stated that this will help Google better identify paid content across the web. Presumably, the more sites that identify sponsored […]
A recent graduate from Mercer Island HS, and currently enrolled at Bellevue College, Kellan Thai has done digital marketing for a local dentist managing their AdWords account, and a few other digital marketing tasks as assigned. Kellan has been with us for about a month helping out with WordPress development and developing campaigns for Google […]
In a move that seemed to catch everyone by surprise, Automattic/WordPress acquired WordPress yesterday. A merger that was quite the opposite of an incredibly hyped acquisition by Yahoo. It was only 2014 when Tumblr was acquired by Yahoo and newly hired CEO Marissa Mayer at a valuation of $1.1B. At the time the deal looked […]
Branding is how you distinguish yourself in a crowded and competitive marketplace. It’s not just your business name, and/or your logo, but it’s a collection of all of the sensory elements that make up your business and how your customers respond, interact, and remember their experience. Branding is certainly its own skillset within marketing, and […]
Thanks for inviting me to present at your class, it was truly an honor, and I hope I was able to deliver some value, or at least be interesting to the class. If you ever want me back, I’d be more than happy to follow up with the group. If there is anything I forgot […]