Looking For a Business Partner? Forbes Featured
Looking For a Business Partner? Forbes Feature – Guardian Owl Digital In 2019 I bought out a partner and learned business principles that would be hard to replicate in an MBA program or boardroom. My experience, in particular, started out great — with two people deciding to leverage our talents, combined skills and knowledge to […]
CEO Featured on Crazy Zen Life Podcast
Meet Jenna Ahern! Jenna is the founder and CEO of Guardian Owl, a search engine optimization company (SEO for those in the know). When Jenna’s Louisville field hockey chapter ended and her professional career was on the horizon she found that her search for a new identity began as well. Having an affinity for automotive, […]
What is Google My Business & Google Maps
What is Google My Business & Google Maps A family of four is deciding on a restaurant for Sunday night dinner. The kids are having a hard time agreeing before the parents settle on a local Italian restaurant. They search the location on Google Maps and begin driving there. When they arrive, the restaurant looks […]
3 Best Ways To Find Anyone’s Email in 2019
In 2019 you can find anyone’s email if you’re willing to look hard enough. Let’s face it, people want to build an email list the easy way; buying the lists that are relevant to their product or service. In writing this I’m going to assume that you’ve already checked contact pages and “about†sections on […]
2 Free Tools for Page Speed in 2020
Why Site Speed Is an SEO Ranking Factor in 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQu6DTHbJBs&lc=z22kybm45lnpu352pacdp43bjlk2w21wqd3ytaeqwptw03c010c
Your Ads: Up for Auction?
An ad auction is the process search engine algorithms utilize to determine which ads to show based on user searches. The auction process not only dictates whether the ad will show, but in what order ads are placed. This is called your ‘ad rank.’ The ad rank consists of many factors, including your actual bid […]
Even YouTube Uses Algorithms
When is an algorithm not a rule? When a human being doesn’t set it up. Sites such as YouTube use ‘machine learning’ to make their algorithms more robust and accurate. The main concept behind machine learning is that an application becomes more intuitive the more use it gets. When the algorithm is rewarded (in a […]
Mid-Year Checkup: Your 2019 SEO Efforts So Far
Remember back on New Year’s Eve, when you made all those promises to yourself about how you’d hyper-focus on growing your business? Well, since you’re sitting at the pool right now, waiting for the fireworks show to start, today is a good day to do a mid-year checkup of those goals. Let’s assume that one […]
Image SEO is everything. And So Are Images.
You spent a lot of time thinking (and probably overthinking) which images to add to your website. But the work isn’t done once you load them. You need to add ‘alt text’ (shorthand for alternative text) to them so that search engines, such as Google, will know what the pictures are about. And you want […]
Bigger Isn’t Always Better (Sometimes Less is More)
The size of your website is not a direct indicator of where you land in search rankings. Bigger is not always better in a world of algorithms. Search engines, such as Google and Bing, don’t give extra credit for sites with more web copy. The copywriting itself must be robust and relevant in order to […]