About Alyssa Mountz
Alyssa Mountz is an SEO and digital marketing professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, technical SEO, and paid search. She currently works at Brick & Mortar Digital, where she specializes in driving organic growth through keyword strategy, content optimization, and cross-channel campaign alignment. Alyssa holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics from Wayne State University.
Latest Articles
Performance Max for Dental Practices: When It Helps and When It Hurts
Digital Marketing
That’s the trap with Performance Max. It optimizes for whatever conversion signal you hand it, and it doesn’t care whether…
Google Business Profile Updates Dental Practices Are Missing in 2026
SEO
Most practices haven’t caught up yet. Google made several changes to Business Profile in the first half of 2026 that…
How to Write Content That AI Will Actually Quote
Digital Marketing
That distinction matters because the bar for being useful to a human reader and the bar for being useful to…
What Negative Keywords Actually Do in Google Ads (And Why They’re Not Enough)
Digital Marketing
This isn’t a knock on negative keywords. They’re necessary. An account without them is spending money on searches that will…
GEO vs. AEO: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for Your Content Strategy
SEO
This post is about what actually separates them, where they genuinely overlap, and what that means for how you should…
Core Web Vitals: What Actually Matters for Your Rankings (And What Doesn’t)
SEO
The reality is more measured. Core Web Vitals matter, but they operate as a tiebreaker more than a primary ranking…
Your Phone Call Tracking Is Probably Counting the Wrong Calls
Digital Marketing
None of those thresholds measure what the business actually cares about. A 90-second call from someone asking for directions isn’t…
Why Your Click-Through Rate Doesn’t Mean What You Think
Digital Marketing
CTR tells you what percentage of people who saw your ad clicked it. That’s it. It says nothing about whether…
How Long Should SEO Actually Take? A Realistic Timeline
SEO
What doesn’t change is the sequence. The work follows the same general order regardless of your starting point, and skipping…
What Are the Most Important SEO Ranking Factors
SEO
By incorporating the most important ranking factors. If you optimize your site according to these, it will be easier to…