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Travis Godec
Travis Godec is the founder of RedFlame Digital, a Roanoke, Virginia agency that builds and ranks websites for law firms, med spas, and home service companies. Before RedFlame he directed SEO campaigns in some of the most competitive legal markets in the country. He writes the way he works: specific, sourced, and allergic to marketing hype.
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Written by Travis Godec
Bing SEO: The 20-Minute Checklist That Gets Local Businesses Into ChatGPT
Bing SEO used to be the thing you skipped without consequences. Then ChatGPT wired its web search to Bing's index, and skipping it started costing money: 87% of ChatGPT's search citations match Bing's ...
How to Know If Your SEO Is Actually Working: The 5-Minute Check on Your SEO Company
Here's how to know if SEO is working without logging into a single tool: confirm you have owner access to your own Google accounts, ask your provider for last month's shipped-work list, search your ser...
SEO Pricing: What Local Businesses Actually Pay (and When a Quote Is Fleecing You)
Most local businesses pay between $500 and $2,500 a month for SEO, with a broad industry average around $1,500 a month for local work. Hourly help typically runs $75 to $200. If a quote lands far outsi...
Answer Engine Optimization: What's Real, What's a Rebrand, and How to Tell Before You Pay
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the work of getting your business named and cited when people ask questions through AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews instead of scrolling...
How to Rank in ChatGPT: The Local Business Owner's Playbook
To rank in ChatGPT, make your business easy to verify across the sources AI actually reads: a complete Google Business Profile with a steady flow of reviews, the same name, address, and phone everywher...