SEO INSIGHTS
SEO strategies, local search tips, and digital marketing guides from the SEO Bandwagon team.
How To Use AI For Local SEO
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 […]
2020 Year In Review
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 […]
Avast Rejects Jumpshot Over Privacy Outrage
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 […]
Google Announces New Nofollow Link Attributes
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 […]
Meet Our New Intern, Kellan Thai
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 […]
Tumblr Acquired By Automattic
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 […]
Online Branding Tools & Tips
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 […]
