Entries by Dubado Solutions

How to Do an SEO Audit: A Step-by-Step Website Audit Guide

Key Takeaways  An SEO audit is a comprehensive analysis of your site’s technical health, content, backlinks, and AI search visibility. It shows you what’s holding back your rankings and how to fix it.   Audit timing depends on scope: Small sites might take a few hours, while larger or more complex sites take a week or more.   A complete audit covers technical SEO […]

6 SEO priorities for AI shopping

AI shopping is changing what SEO needs to optimize. Structured data, product feeds, entity signals, and crawlable content no longer just influence rankings. They increasingly determine whether AI systems can understand, evaluate, and recommend your products. The technical foundations haven’t changed. Their role has. As AI becomes another path to product discovery and purchasing, brands […]

PPC / SEM Tips for Franchises: A Guide for Google Ads

Key Takeaways Franchise PPC campaigns must balance brand consistency with local customization to maximize ROI. Geo-targeting improves conversion rates by refining ad reach at the city, state, or neighborhood level, reducing wasted spend. A strong keyword strategy combines branded terms for brand protection and non-branded terms for customer acquisition. Budgeting and bidding strategies impact cost […]

Best Practices for Writing SEO Title Tags

Key Takeaways Google rewrites 76 percent of title tags as of Q1 2025, often when titles are too long, keyword-stuffed, or misaligned with the page’s H1. Title tags remain the second most important ranking factor in Google’s algorithm, and the HTML version still influences ranking even when Google rewrites the displayed title. The sweet spot […]

Used or cited: The two ways brands appear in AI search

Ranking within Google’s traditional search results provides diminishing returns. Ads, AI Overviews, and other search engine results page (SERP) features push organic links further down the page. As the search landscape changes, how should brands adapt to ensure they’re represented in AI-powered responses? The more you know about how AI engines use your brand’s information […]