Video: A.J. Ghergich on not chasing the Google algorithm and focusing on human intentions

From scaling your agency all the way to thinking about SEO in a deeper way - check out this interview.

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I stopped by the Brado offices right near Busch Stadium in St. Louis to sit down with the man who has the @SEO Twitter handle, A.J. Ghergich. The conversation was one of the more thought provoking conversations I had with an SEO in a while.

In this interview, we talked about a number of things from how to scale your SEO agency to understanding human intent. He sold his company and is now the CTO at Brado, so he went from about 20 employees to 170+ employees. We discussed the challenges of scaling an agency through a merger.

We then got into SEO and spoke about why it is important to not chase the Google algorithm. Instead, think about where the algorithm will be in the future and go there. A lot of this he said can be attained through understanding human intent and optimizing for what humans are looking for.

Here is the interview:

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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