JDM Blog

Covering the latest news, trends, and insights for Paid Media, SEO, Content Marketing, and remote work.

Link Cards for Brand Queries: Are Your Listings Ready?

If AI Overviews’ link cards for brand queries weren’t enough reason for you to do a deep dive into your brand’s listings on external sites, maybe this will motivate you.

TikTok SEO: 7 Things to Know

Some truisms about the SEO landscape in June 2024:

  • Google’s AI Overviews will suppress clicks
  • ...

7 Takeaways from JDM’s SGE Webinar

The SEO world got rocked with a couple of Google-focused news drops in May. The first was the...

Galaxy-Brain SEO: the New Way to Take Command of Your Universe

If you’re paying attention, you’ve heard a lot of recent talk about “user-first” SEO – at least,...

Building Brand Authority: Rethink Your Owned Media

So you want to build your brand.You’ve done the keyword and audience research, and you’ve produced...

SGE in SEO: Early Findings

SGE – Search Generated Experience, or Google’s term for the AI-generated content that’s showing up...

Rainy-Day SEO: Brand Reputation Management

“I can’t move forward until I get feedback from {NAME}” is not something we say on the JDM SEO...

How to Nail the “Experience” Piece of E-E-A-T

Readers of the JDM blog know full well our perspective on E-E-A-T: it might not be an official...

Rainy-Day SEO: Digital PR and Content Promotion

Our Rainy-Day SEO series of initiatives you can take if you’re blocked on bigger projects continues...

Dialing in E-E-A-T in 2024: 3 Tips

If you haven’t gotten the E-E-A-T message yet, listen up: you’d better have a plan to focus on it...

E-E-A-T in 2024: How Important Is It?

It’s technically not a ranking factor, but at JDM, we regard E-E-A-T (or Experience, Expertise, A...

Rainy-Day SEO: Video Optimization

Our series on Rainy-Day SEO initiatives – essentially, projects you can always work on if you’re...

Rainy-Day SEO: Link-Building

Link-building: still a thing in SEO!

Maybe it’s not as influential a factor as it was a decade ago,...

Rainy-Day SEO: Third-Party Business Profile Optimization

Welcome back to our series on Rainy-Day SEO (otherwise known as the initiatives you can always work...

Rainy-Day SEO: What Is It?

In just about every line of work, it’s easy to get stalled by lack of feedback – from clients,...

3 SEO Takeaways from Our Recent Webinar with Compose.ly

Director of SEO Kelly Ayres had plenty to say in a recent Q&A with content writing leaders...

Constructing a Great QBR: The Fundamentals

No matter how much growth you’ve driven for a client in recent months, and no matter how clever a...

Put Digital PR into Action with Link-Building & SEO

The landscape of SEO and link-building is always changing, and building high-quality links has...

5 Under-the-Radar ChatGPT Use Cases in Marketing

The race is on for marketers to find ways to use ChatGPT to give their campaigns a leg up.

ChatGPT: The 5 Most Important Caveats

Almost every marketing practitioner I know is racing to figure out the best way to leverage ChatGPT...