Contact Marie

Contact Marie

I am doing limited consulting now. With all that is happening with Google Bard, my schedule is quite packed.

Book time with Marie

If no times are available, you can reach out via the form below and pending my availability I’ll set one up for you.

Topics that are good to cover on a call include:

• The potential impact of Google Bard and AI Chat on your business and industry.
• How you can thrive in this time of change for our industry.
• Google traffic drops and algorithm udpates.
• Improving content quality – E-E-A-T.

Other ways I can help:

1. Referrals: Fill out the form below and I can connect you with an SEO professional whom I have trained and recommend.
2. Site assessments: Join the waiting list for when I resume offering site reviews and traffic drop assessments again.
3. Submit your site for me to use as I develop my traffic drop assessment tool. (Note: Bard has changed my plans here. I will still be sending out general recovery advice to all who submit but may skip the tool and jump right to workbooks. The first workbook on improving EEAT and helpfulness is close to complete and should be out in March – hopefully.)

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If your traffic has dropped

So many sites have traffic that is declining dramatically in the last few months. Starting early November, worsening with the December 5 helpful content update, and becoming downright catastrophic for some sites at random days since then.

• My guide to assessing a drop in Google organic traffic
• Google’s Advice on assessing traffic drops
• My Youtube Videos on The September Core Update and the October Spam Update
• My book on using the information in the Quality Raters Guidelines as a checklist for improving site quality

If you were hit by the December Helpful Content or Link Spam Updates

• Added Feb 20, 2023: If your traffic is rapidly declining starting at some point since November, read this tweet thread or  my post on the December Helpful Content update with my theory on Google applying the helpful content classifier to more sites.
• I have written a LOT on the December Helpful Content Update. Mostly, pay attention to this Google document on creating helpful content.
• I have not written much yet on the December Link Spam Update. If you were hit, you likely can’t recover as Google has neutralized links built for SEO. BUT many site owners that think they were hit by the link spam update are just seeing normal seasonal changes. There’s more in Episode 269 of Search News You Can Use to help you here.
• My book on the October Spam update (although the December one is acting differently)
• If you choose to disavow, my link auditing book will help you to help you understand which links are unnatural and what and how to disavow. It’s the 2020 version so I reduced it to $20. Still very relevant today.
• An article I wrote for Moz on unnatural links. It’s 9 years old, but still relevant.
• Two articles on why you can ignore toxic links and Toxic Links and Disavows on Search Engine Land
• Google’s spam guidelines. And also their July 2021 link spam update information about guest posting.

If you really, really want to hire me to look into your traffic losses

My current fee for a traffic drop assessment is $30K USD. I am selective on which clients I take right now. I hope to open up more consulting for site reviews at a lower rate hopefully, once my course is complete. If you have the budget to pull me away from creating my course and have me focus on your site, please fill out the form below.