About Ash Buckles

For 15 years, Ash Buckles has worked at the forefront of branding through search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, blog marketing, social media, and ColdFusion development. As a recognized industry thought leader, he regularly speaks at search marketing events put on by organizations such as the American Marketing Association, SLCSEM, and Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum. Ash also holds a weekly #seochat on Twitter to interview experts in the online marketing space. His experience includes online marketing consulting with hundreds of enterprise clients as well as small businesses.

Under the direction of Ash, SEO.com has been ranked #1 search marketing agency in three consecutive reports by Website Magazine, most recently in February 2012. The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum also selected SEO.com as one of the Top 25 Fastest Growing companies in Utah. Ash graduated from BYU-Idaho in Information Systems and Business Management.

71 Chrome Extensions for Blogging & SEO

71 Chrome Extensions for Blogging & SEO

Editor’s note: This post is an oldie, but a goodie. It was originally published March 2010 and it warranted an update. Do you have any favorite Chrome extensions for search engine optimization or blogging? Share in the comments below! *** I’ve converted, but my first experience with Google Chrome occurred in 2009 and it was [...]

9 Ways To Organize Content Hubs Within Your Blog

9 Ways To Organize Content Hubs Within Your Blog

Blogging is an open dialog between the writer and their audience. It allows for a two-way communication through an original post and the subsequent comments and conversation. It provides fresh, unique content for the search engines to crawl and index. It exposes people within an organization to the outside world and lends itself to feedback [...]

Google+ SEO & Authorship with AJ Kohn: Mozcon Day 2 Recap

Google+ SEO & Authorship with AJ Kohn - Mozcon Day 2 Recap

This Google+ SEO & Authorship presentation was given by AJ Kohn at Mozcon 2012. Google’s secret weapon is in mobile with Android holding 52% of the smart phone market. This is a critical thing to understand for any marketing campaign. There is huge opportunity in mobile and Google. Google+ Isn’t Just for Geeks Hugo Boss [...]

35 Link Building Tips from Paddy Moogan at Mozcon

35 Link Building Tips from Paddy Moogan at Mozcon

It’s difficult to open up a conference to a bunch of advanced users in online marketing but Paddy Moogan, with Distilled, did a fantastic job.  He discussed, very quickly, 35 link building tips. But first, he pointed out that link building is not easy. He meant it. Bookbait = ego bait in real life – [...]

Why Does My Competitor’s Ugly Site Rank Above Me? [Video FAQ]

Why does my competitor's ugly site rank above me - Video FAQ

Ash Buckles answers: “If I have a nicer site than my competitor, why do they rank above me?” Video Transcription Your competitors page(s) are delivering more of the attributes the search engines are expecting to find; relevant content & page titles, unique content that references your keywords and associated words, domain credibility, incoming links to the ranking page, [...]

Links and Outings and Guidelines. Oh My!

Links and Outings and Guidelines. Oh My!

With all this discussion about paid links and outing SEOs, I don’t jump on the outcry bandwagon. I try to anticipate Google’s next move. I want to focus on future-proofing our campaigns and these are great times to reconsider what Google is going to do next. In 2005, Matt Cutts wrote about how Google considered [...]

Image SEO Ranking Tips

Image SEO Ranking Tips

Images have been published on web pages for nearly 20 years but the search engines have continued to give greater placement to images on the search engine results pages (SERPs). This may come from the fact that Facebook receives nearly 250 million picture uploads daily and Pinterest reaches 50 million blog post mentions. Take these [...]

Actionable Video SEO for Marketers

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Online video and YouTube have become synonymous for both producers and viewers. As we stop to think about other videos sites we remember all the others (Facebook, Bing, Vevo, Hulu, Ustream.tv, Daily Motion, Break.com, ESPN, Vimeo, etc. and so on) that serve up millions of videos daily. That’s a lot of time spent watching moving [...]

5 Things I Missed In Blogging Last Year

Most of my holiday vacation was spent resting, visiting with family, and reflecting on the past year. I thought about my accomplishments, failures, and intentions. I beat myself up for not blogging enough and wondered what changed from previous years. Several reasons I didn’t blog: A change in my responsibilities forced me to focus attention [...]

Why is Content Important for SEO? [Video FAQ Series]

[jwplayer mediaid="22044"] The web is comprised of information; or content. Every web page online is a living document of information that contains a specific piece of information with an intended purpose. Search engines crawl and index pages that are unique and provide value to their visitors. For example: a publisher writes content for a user (or [...]

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