Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/ Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:12:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/search-engine-people-favicon-2026-66x66.png Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/ 32 32 Digital Marketing for Electricians in Canada – How to Get More High-Paying Jobs https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/digital-marketing-for-electricians-in-canada-how-to-get-more-high-paying-jobs.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:23:12 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=97238 As a licensed electrician, you know how to wire a panel, install EV chargers, and troubleshoot complex electrical issues. But when it comes to getting your phone to ring consistently with high-paying commercial and residential jobs, do you know how to build your digital presence?Many trade professionals start their businesses as skilled apprentices, break out [...]

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]]> SEP 2026 Town Hall: Looking Ahead Together https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/sep-2026-town-hall-looking-ahead-together.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:30:34 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=97203 Search Engine People recently brought our team together for our 2026 Town Hall. The Town Hall gave us an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day, connect as a team, and talk about the changing digital marketing landscape, the growing impact of AI, and how we continue evolving to better serve our clients. As [...]

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]]> Search Engine People Celebrates 25 Years in Business https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/search-engine-people-celebrates-25-years-in-business.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:34:21 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=97167 This year marks a very special milestone for Search Engine People: 25 years in business. We recently had the opportunity to celebrate our 25th anniversary with our team, friends, partners and members of our local community. We were especially honoured to welcome Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe, who joined us in recognizing this important milestone. [...]

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]]> What Makes Franchise SEO (and Digital Marketing for Franchises) Different? https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/what-makes-franchise-seo-and-digital-marketing-for-franchises-different.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:12:22 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=97122 At its core, franchise SEO isn’t fundamentally different from traditional SEO. A franchise may have one website with dedicated pages for each location or separate websites for individual franchisees. Either way, the fundamentals remain the same: technical SEO, content, authority, local optimization and a modern CMS. What makes franchise marketing different is the scale [...]

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]]> Is ChatGPT the New Digital Word of Mouth? https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/is-chatgpt-the-new-digital-word-of-mouth.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:15:46 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=96913&preview=true&preview_id=96913   At Search Engine People, we get leads from many different channels: paid search, organic search, social media, and, of course, referrals and word of mouth.  Word of mouth has always been our favourite channel.  Why?  When someone comes to us through a referral or word of mouth, we're often the only agency at the table. More importantly, trust has [...]

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]]> AI Optimization: The 4 Core Areas Brands Need to Win in AI Search https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/ai-optimization-the-4-core-areas-brands-need-to-win-in-ai-search.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:31:03 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=96900&preview=true&preview_id=96900 Search is changing. Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other AI-powered experiences increasingly answer questions directly instead of simply presenting a list of websites. That creates a new challenge for marketers: ranking well is no longer the only goal. Brands also need to be mentioned, cited, recommended, and accurately represented by [...]

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]]> Search Engine People is now offering ChatGPT Ads management services. https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/search-engine-people-is-now-offering-chatgpt-ads-management-services.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Thu, 28 May 2026 13:31:31 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=96346 The advertising platform structure feels very familiar to Google Ads users, with campaigns, ad groups, ads, products, conversion tracking, and bidding strategies already built into the platform. One of the most interesting features is the ad group setup. Similar to Google Performance Max, advertisers can target using keywords or broader topics and let the [...]

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]]> Traditional Search Engines Rank Websites. LLMs Rank Brands https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/traditional-search-engines-rank-websites-llms-rank-brands.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Mon, 25 May 2026 21:05:55 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=96338 For more than two decades, digital marketing strategies have been built around one primary objective: ranking websites in traditional search engines like Google and Bing. Success in SEO was largely determined by a familiar set of factors: Backlinks, anchor text, and domain authority (which, for a while, felt like the only factors that mattered). [...]

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]]> Introducing A New Tool to Measure AI Search Visibility Across ChatGPT and Google by Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/new-ai-search-tool.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Wed, 20 May 2026 17:31:27 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=96324 Search is changing faster than at any point in the last decade. Over the past few years, we have built reliable systems to measure SEO performance in traditional search engines. These systems track rankings, visibility across the “10 blue links,” and keyword performance at scale. With the rise of AI driven search [...]

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]]> Use ROMS (Return on Marketing Spend) Not ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/use-roms-return-on-marketing-spend-not-roas-return-on-ad-spend.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:46:38 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=95733 TL;DR ROMS (Return on Total Marketing Spend) is the single most important KPI in digital and performance marketing. ROMS = Revenue ÷ Total Marketing Cost (includes all fees, content, internal labor, tools). ROMS can also be inverted to show marketing cost as % of sales. ROAS is incomplete because it ignores critical costs and [...]

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