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Jake Bohall

Role: Co-Founder
Dept: SEO

‘When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be’ ~ Lao Tzu

Jake Bohall is a seasoned SEO professional with 20 years of experience and the co-founder of Hive Digital, a boutique digital marketing agency dedicated to driving measurable growth for purpose-driven organizations. Over his career, Jake has built a reputation for transforming SEO from a supportive service into a critical strategic function, ensuring long-term success for his clients.

Known for his sharp strategic insight, Jake excels at identifying and implementing the most effective strategies tailored to each client’s unique needs. His deep expertise, combined with practical wisdom, allows him to know precisely when and how to execute for maximum impact. Jake has a proven track record of guiding businesses — both large enterprises and medium-sized companies — toward sustainable growth, always honing in on what will truly drive results. Clients value his ability to deliver solutions that are both strategic and actionable, making every effort count.

Currently, Jake is focused on projects involving the collection and interpretation of user behavior data to develop and execute technical marketing strategies for a global leader in electronic design systems. He also dedicates time to assisting high-potential startups and SMBs with product development and marketing strategies, helping them lay the groundwork and execute for significant growth.

Acknowledgements

  • Botify Certification
  • SEMRush Certification
  • ContentKing
  • SEMRush Contributor
  • Moz Contributor
  • Search Engine Journal Contributor
  • Instrutor ASPE ROI (SEO Bootcamp)

Speaking Engagements

  • Pubcon (Vegas, New Orleans, Florida, Austin)
  • Search Love
  • Conversion Conference
  • Raleigh SEO Conference
  • Digital Marketing for Business
  • Click-It Summit
  • Triangle Entrepreneurship Week
  • Search Exchange
  • Raleigh SEO Meetups
  • Transportation Marketing Association
  • Hive Global Leadership Conference
  • High Five Conference
  • SEMRush Live Audits

Personal Favs

  • Peanut M&Ms
  • Playing Music
  • Carpentry / Building
  • Puzzles
  • Debating Something
  • Trivia

When he isn’t busy with work, Jake spends his time with his wife and 3 children, woodworking, doing puzzles, or playing guitar.

Jake Bohall

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Content Contributor

Jake Bohall, Vice President of Hive Digital, is recognized as an online columnist, entrepreneur, board member of an educational non-profit, and philanthropist. Over his career, Jake has been instrumental in managing large in-house teams and consulting with publicly traded companies. His expertise lies in transforming SEO from an add-on service into a critical, strategic function within organizations, ensuring sustainable growth and long-term success.

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Latest Articles by Jake Bohall

What does indexifembedded really do? … pdf edition

Google announced a new robots tag, indexifembedded on the developers blog, but it isn't fully clear exactly what this tag does for various types of ...

Where Should We Place Responsibility for Link Schemes?

Google announced yesterday there will be a link spam update rolling out over the next two weeks.  In reading through the article announcing this update ...
Canonical and HREFLANG Tags

General Rules for Canonical Tags and HREFLANG Tags

We are commonly asked for best practice recommendations regarding canonical tags and hreflang tags. Here is a quick summary of how these tags should be ...
CloudFlare

Redirects Using CloudFlare Workers

If you are trying to figure out how to do redirects with Vanilla JS or through a Cloudflare Worker, this should at least (hopefully) get ...
A Moment to Reflect

A Moment To Reflect

The recent tragedies involving SEOs has sparked some much needed discussion on the importance of honest communication, community, and ways we can be more healthy ...
GDPR and SEO

Does GDPR Affect SEO?

We've been doing some basic research for a financial institution as to how NerdWallet.com is seeing such rapid growth in the organic search space over ...
NerdWallet SEO

Hat Tip to NerdWallet SEO Team

We’ve been doing some basic research for a financial institution as to how NerdWallet.com is seeing such rapid growth in the organic search space over ...
Moz Links Beta

Big and Useful – A First Look at Moz Links Beta

TechSEO

Take-Aways from AMA with John Mueller on /r/TechSEO

John Mueller of Google participated in an AMA on /r/TechSEO, and gave some great information and tips regarding technical SEO. This is a roundup of ...
Live Site Audit with Jake Bohall

Site Audit with SEMRush SEO Audit Tool

Last week I had the privilege of being invited by SEMRush to perform a live site audit using the SEMRush platform.  In case you missed ...
PANDA!

Panda Risk

After careful consideration, we've decided to decommission PandaRisk.com as a self-serve tool, and give away the insights! The Google Panda update targets low-quality websites identified ...
Redirects

5 Quick Reminders When Changing URL Structures and Migrating Sites

I’m often asked to provide some quick advice for clients that are changing site structure, and there are a few things (other than the normal ...
Canonical Wordpress Plugin

Canonical Attachments in WordPress

While working on a client project, I realized they had a significant number of PDF files that they had uploaded into wordpress, and this was ...
Expires Headers in .htaccess for Fonts and Images

TWIL: Expires Headers in .htaccess for Fonts and Images

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