I can't wrap my head around keyword research

Hi, can anyone please help me wrap my head around the concept of short tail and long tail keyword in keyword research?

I'm doing keyword research for my future site and I hit a bit of a snag. I'm quite confused as to which keyword to choose. The short tail has high KD, volume, and CPC. On the other hand, my long tail keyword has nothing at all in semrush. No KD, volume, and CPC. Does this mean that Google doesn't like this keyword because no one or close to zero people are searching for it?

How about if there's a bit of data in there for the long tail keyword but it's too low. Say less than 100. Is it still worth it knowing that the short tail is very popular?

I'm sorry if my questions are all over the place. TIA!

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Is backlink from spammy .gov or .edu site good?

My sites does not come under the YMYL category and currently has less than DA 10.

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Best SEO tools?

Hey, I was wondering what tools are available that would help me find the best keywords to use to enhance my SEO, what are the best tools free and premium

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Multi step form affect SEO

Hey,

I'm currently working on a software app that allows my users to embed multi step forms on the websites.

I got a question from a customer a couple days ago wondering about SEO and i have to admit i don't know much about it. I told him there is no impact but I want to be sure.

Does embedding forms hinder SEO in any way? are there options that I can include that will improve my customers SEO? Obviously my goal is to help increase their conversion rate but i don't want to hinder their traffic in any way.

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Working remotely as an SEO in a different time zone?

Does anyone reading this work remotely as an SEO in a different time zone? Curious to hear some experiences and thoughts.

Of course, employers/clients prefer to have freelancers and employers in the same city/time zone - but curious to hear if anyone has any extreme time zone issues?

I'm GMT+8 and am flirting with jobs in the UK/EU hence the question - this would leave a small-ish window of meeting time where the time zones blend

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Most surprising thing you learned about SEO in 2021?

The thing I learned last year about SEO that surprised me was how content still isn't king.

The Google algorithm favors unskilled writing. Those who know how to write will not experience the same success as those who are average writers at best.I find this to be frightening.

Would it would surpise you if this was intentional on behalf of the algorithm's designers? It's a good way to dumb people down and control them. Nothing scares the machine more than a great writer.

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I purchased some competitive domain names, should I redirect or landing page?

I'm a wedding photographer/videographer and I have a website with my business name.

I recently acquired some generic domain domains that had lapsed like [countryname]weddingphotographer.com and [cityname]weddingphotographer.com

At the moment I have them on a 301 redirect to my business website.

From an SEO perspective, If I want to make good use of them, am I better off having a landing page on these domains that links (via button) to my brand website? Or am I better off keeping them as a redirect?

My idea for the landing page would be to make it a good looking landing page with some keywords and description that fits the domain name and then link to my brand website.

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How do I add Rich snippets for different location pages?

📷

Hi everyone.

I have an SEO question on localization. My business has one location but I wanna rank for different locations in my country.

I have rich snippets on most of my pages. I wanna know if I should still use my one local business location rich snippet on other different location pages or there is another better way to do it?

I hope you guys have a great weekend...

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C-Panel Primary Domain Switch and SEO

Hi there!

When I first set up my website I used a local TLD (.ca) and then later switched to a .io TLD. I didn't really know what I was doing on the c-panel side of things, so I didn't switch the .io domain to be the primary domain (which, for all intents and purposes, it is).

I have a few questions:

• Are there any benefits to making the .io domain my primary domain?
• Are there any known SEO impacts to doing this?

Thanks so much for your help!

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Good Backlinking vendor websites?

Any GoodBacklink Vendor website? I tried seoestore.net but the results are quite tepid. I want to create some good quality backlinks but I can't do it myself as I am taking care of the SEO and content part. Please let me know your experiences with backlink vendors and suggest a few!

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Looking for feedback wrt rewrite + republish of page to avoid competing on samen keywords

Hi there,

Looking for feedback and confirmation on something. Also I am new to the SEO game and some SEO stuff I am doing for the first time.

We have 2 pages (both blog posts) competing on the same keywords and thus they are both competing for the same traffic. I want to fix this (*)

This tends to get abstract quickly so please consider the following ...

Page A = topic a (considered main article for topic a)

Page B = topic a+b (short article using topic a in title but covers mostly topic b in content)

Page C = topic b++ (a small rewrite of Page B and doubling down on topic b)

I have the following idea and I am looking for feedback or confirmation ...

1. Make small content changes on page B so the topic and keyword of that page gets tilted to topic b
2. Remove the competing keyword topic a from the content in page B
3. Since the competing keyword is also part of the url of page B I will republish the changed article on a new page+url and use a 301 from page B to page C
4. Submit this newly created page C to GSC
5. Delete the old page B

Agree with this approach? I am bit hesitant on 4 and 5 because of the authority of page B I want to pass on to page C

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Cheers'

Fabrice

(*) I am also curious how you guys are handling articles competing on the same keywords? Don't you just make it too difficult for Google when you present 3 articles on the same main topic which only have small content nuances which will only show up when someone actually uses such a long and particular query? If you agree, how do you structure a blog where you are bound to write on the same topic multiple times.

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should i block slow countries from accessing my website to improve core web vitals?

Hi - my Lab scores for Mobile and Desktop are normally 98-100%. However my Field scores are in the 'Needs Improvement' or 'Poor' categories for FCP and LCP.

I cannot really optimize the site any more and I already use Cloudflare CDN.

There are some countries that are much slower than others like Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, China, Bangladesh. For example 20 second load times compared with 2 seconds in the UK and US where the most valuable traffic comes from.

They also have higher bounce rates and are very unlikely to convert. They also contribute a lot of spam to the site.

With Cloudflare you can simply block traffic from these countries and in theory improve all these metrics which should mean the site ranks higher?

What do you think are the pros and cons of doing this?

thanks for your help :)

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How to solve the Google index problem?

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Is there a tool to export reddit posts similar to how you can export SERPs?

I've used a lot of browser extensions to get domains, page titles, descritions etc. from SERPs, but I wonder if there's anything similar for reddit?

Nothing indepth, just something that can get the post title, # of upvotes, # of comments, and the post link.

I want to start a blog for my hobby which has a small but fairly active community on reddit. Hopefully I can get topic ideas by exporting posts either from reddit search results or frontpage of subreddits.

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Site: says 121 results showing but console data says only 32 pages are indexed. Is there some problem in console data ?

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How to automatic monthly export report in the new Google analytics?

I want to recieve the export of the monthly GA statistics in my email. This was very easy to do in the old GA. I just had to 'share' and select once a month as the frequency.

I for the life of me can't figure out how to do this in the new GA layout. I select 'share' but it only lets me share a link or download the report. No automated monthly exports to my email.

Can anyone help me please?

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Can't we buy links?

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Cross domain tracking, see it in analytics?

Two sites, cross domain traffic set up, but... how do you differentiate between the two in reports?

I have a smaller site I wanted included in the main one, but how would I tell the difference in the reports so that I xan see specific site related analytics for each one when I need to?

Ga4, gtm.

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Is UberSuggest worth the investment?

Hey everyone.

I have been thinking to buy a paid tool for keyword research, link building, etc. However, Ahrefs and SEMRush are way too costly for my present situation. Since the blog has just started picking up, I am thinking about Ubersuggest.

Is this tool good to go?

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Is a glossary a good idea for a blog post?

In our content plan for the upcoming year I plan on doing an article just explaining technical jargon.

The article will be about 20 h2’s saying “what is….” Followed by the definition in the paragraph.

I feel like this is a bit of a hack to get a featured snippet on Google but I haven’t seen many others do it in my competitor analysis.

Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to get in a position to become the featured snippet?

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Question about 301 redirecting and noindex

I'm managing a microsite (about 100 pages total). Recently, we decided to cut out some subfolders and reorganize file paths. The content on the pages we are keeping is exactly the same, but the sitemaster is using a new Wordpress template for all pages, so they duplicated some pages on the site.

Page A: old page that is currently indexed with Google

Page B: new page with the exact same content as Page A, but is not yet indexed with Google. I want to transfer Page A's SEO value to this new page.

I have settup a 301 redirect from Page A to Page B. I want to transfer all SEO value from Page A to Page B. My question is: should I noindex Page A? Or am I going to lose SEO value for noindexing Page A and I should not noindex the Page A and just let the 301 redirect handle everything (My thinking being to not add a noindex to Page A while SEO value is being transferred to Page B)?

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SEO Is A Long Game, Don't Rush The Process

When I began in SEO I didn't see profit till roughly my second year in the industry and even then the margins were so slim because I was trying to focus on making a name for myself and discounted my services. Now the reason I even say this is because I tend to see a lot of people join the industry looking for instant results than dropping out immediately when they don't get the results they expected.

SEO isn't for the faint of heart especially when you're doing the "Google Dance" and your website is moving up and down 20 rankings a week. It's a long-term game and needs to be treated as such I tell my clients they shouldn't even expect serious results till about 6+ months in and by laying this boundary I've created a successful business model that allows me to breathe. So for those of you who are in your first year and struggling or those on the fence about getting started please treat SEO like the business it is and not the slot machine people talk about it like. It's a long term game but if you stay the course and follow the process I promise you'll see results.

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What are the indicators of AI created content... my thoughts

AI generated content has been popping up everything. Plus with Google doing so many spam updates, it seems like sites with lower quality content are getting hit in Googles response to stop the flood of low quality, AI generated content.

To me AI generate content has the following qualities

• Shorter - not thousand of words but hundreds
• Sounds like robot - obvious duh, but if it just drools on & on & on without any tone change or flare, probably bot or just bad writer
• Low quality content- If the content just seems like C+ material then it could be AI. NOTE - I have heard (not checked) that a lot of the AI content generators run of off 2019 data.
• Large amount of low quality content - Tons of low quality content on a site could also be a sign. But again it could also just be bad writers.

These are just some of my thoughts. Anyone else have anything to add????? Any thoughts are appreciated.

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Does Post Content width have an impact on SEO?

I believe this has to do with UX and I'm curious how it impacts SEO.

Recently, I've noticed several content/blog sites (e.g. Forbes) changing the layout of their blog posts to only cover the middle third (⅓) of the grid on desktops.

While much easier to read, does this practice have any significant impact compared to the more conventional layout? (about ⅔ width) and should we do it for our company blogs?

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Is there any affordable Backlink Tool?

I have been building backlinks manually up till now. But now my workload is increased so I am planning to buy a Backlink Building tool.

Please suggest to me an affordable backlink building tool that is safe to use and a white hat.

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Can anyone tell me the new strategy of SEO?

What do you do if your product is unique enough that it has no real competitors?

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Is it extremely difficult to get on the first page of a Google search term if you are working with a Wix site?

I have a Wix website and I’ve heard from a few people that it’s going to be nearly impossible to get my site to appear on the first page of a Google search because of the code used by Wix. Is this true? Would I have better luck with a Square Space website?

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Breakpoints!?

Will changing breakpoint for tablet mess with the SEO score?

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Domain migration and subdomain

Hey everyone, I am hoping to get some light on a specific migration thing.

We recently rebranded and migrated abc.xx to xyz.xx following best practices.

But almost a year has past and in the search console we still see the status as “This site is currently moving to xyz.xx”.

Here’s the thing.

We migrated almost everything except two subdomains that we use for staging. The whole migration was mostly successful apart for losing some positions in search where we used to have top positions but fortunately sales didn’t go down.

Could that be an issue to Google and not help/mess up with the migration in general or since it’s a subdomain it shouldn’t be an issue?

Hope my question is clear and any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks

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How SEO can help us in our daily work 2022 | Buddyinformation

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Expired domains bieng 301 redirected to new domain

Recently I have been noticing websites pop up for keywords I am ranking for, these domains are new domains that have been 301 redirected from an old expired domain. They are killing the Serps with over crazy monthly visits for a site under 1 year old.

One competitor i have been tracking for over a year used an expired domain to create hundreds of affiliate and information pages and shot up to 200k monthly views in a short period of time. This website got hit with the last update and was reduced to around 40k monthly organic visits. However, they purchased a brand new domain and 301 redirected every page to a new page on the new domain. Couple of weeks later the new domain shot up to 450k monthly visit.

It's getting really hard competing fairly in this field and these people are able to make hundreds of thousands in a short period of time.

Has anyone else been noticing this trend? I thought 301 redirects where dead, apperently not.

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Duplicate Product Pages - What Would You Do?

Hey friends!

I have four identical product pages (gift cards) that the customer has built in the past and now I am working on them.

What would you recommend doing:

A. Delete all and leave only one that all the URLs (404) will direct the user to.

B. Delete everything else from stock and do a redirect to a single one.

C. Leave the products in stock and total make a reference to a single one.

Thank you Thank you Thank you

Itay

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Need a advise about SEO

Hello everyone!

I have to work on a project that's target location is India.

Let me know the difference between National SEO and Local SEO; What type of off page activities should I do to get results; Should I target different states and cities?

Waiting for your advice and Thanks in advance!

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Bulk Keyword Search Volume List

Hi All,

I was curious if anyone has any tips on performing keyword research for an extremely large amount of keywords? I have a list of products which amounts to several hundred thousand keywords that I am trying to find search volumes for. Any tips for doing this in bulk?

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Can Anyone Help Explain The Discrepancies Between Search Console Page Performance Report & Query Performance Report?

In one of the websites I'm tracking I am seeing very strange discrepancies between the Page Performance Data and the Query Performance Data.

For example, in the page tab, it says that one specific page has received 100 clicks in the past 3 months. When I click on the page itself to filter and switch to the queries tab the "Totals" data at the top still lines up and says 100 clicks, however when I look at each individual query, there are only about 20 clicks associated with the various queries.

It also looks like the total impression count at the top of the page and the actual impression count when totaling up the queries are different with the queries sum being about 2000 impressions shy of the reported total.

I'm not sure if this is just a delay in reporting, some sort of data that is missing or not shared similar to certain data in Google Analytics, or if I'm just misinterpreting something in these reports?

If anyone has any insight it would be appreciated.

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setting noarchive to more than 500 pages!

we are facing crawling and indexing issues, if I set noarchive to more than 500 pages, does it help us meaning indexing, crawling issues?

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Any free guest posting opportunity?

Hello, I am looking for a free guest posting opportunity related to daily lifestyle.

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I am in need of a few backlinks in the home improvement, fashion, or technology niche. I'm ready to write guest posts

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Looking For Contributing Authors

Hi,

I have started a blog that focuses on SEO. I am currently looking for contributing authors. Let me know if someone is interested. The blog is already live with more than 35 posts.

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Thinking about buying an established blog in my niche with the purpose of driving traffic to my main site.

Hi all, I'm looking to put this idea through the meat grinder. I run a site that sells a service. There is a blog in my niche with lots of relevant content, but this blog does not sell their own products.

It looks like the owners abandoned it since they haven't posted new content since early 2020.

Am I crazy for thinking about tracking down the owners and offer to buy the blog to drive traffic to my main site with backlinks and such? Thanks in advance.

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How often do you guys do On-Page updates & tweaks?

Just curious (and looking to compare notes a little) - how often do you guys do on-page updates and/or tweaks? Every month? Quarter? Year? As needed?

Also - what tools and guidelines do you use to decide which pages you plan to tweak? AKA, if you had a 100 page site, what criteria would you use to determine which pages to tweak?

An agency that works on one of the sites I manage sends quarterly updates in a spreadsheet - every 3 months we get a list of maybe 20-30 pages on our site with little changes to H1's, H2's, paragraphs, etc.

Just curious if this is an industry practice, or if it's per project, or if it's just that specific agency's way of doing things.

Thanks!

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Google Display Ads question

Hello everyone, I have a question about Google Display ads. I know it is unrelative but I don’t know where to ask this question. I believe this subredit has the expertise to answer this question:

Does websites have a control over display ads in their website?

Some of websites gave me a price for their banners which has ads.google… links. The price is based on CPM.

I can target these websites with Google Display Ads campaign with CPC as they are in Google Display Network.

Why are they giving me price for these banners? Can they prevent me from targeting their website with Google Display Campaign?

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How to decide on how many backlinks to acquire when ranking a keyword?

Is there some guide/guidelines to help understand how to decided how many backlinks to acquire in order to rank for TOP5, TOP3, TOP1?

In Semrush it shows competing websites but in general numbers fluctuate a lot, in some cases TOP2 has less backlinks and referring domains than TOP5. Of course DR has it's weight. But in general I am interested to learn about best practices here.

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What costs more, the SEO setup fee or the monthly retainer/maintenance fee?

I know one shoe doesn't fit all, but generally speaking which typically costs more out of the setup fee, or the monthly retainer/maintenance fee?

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Technical implementation delayed at client end

I am working with an SEO agency and one of the major challenges I face that is causing a performance roadblock is client dependency. Our agency being a marketing first agency doesn't have a strong technical department and most of our dependency is on the client when it comes to making any optimizations on-page and technical.

We create good recommendations and solutions for the client to understand and build very helpful documents, but the clients either don't agree with making the basic changes or take a lot of convincing to make the implementations. Even after that things get delayed and we lag in terms of showcasing any performance.

Have you faced similar situation and how do you deal with it?

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Why do new articles have a big amount of impressions in google searches the first couple of days and then the amount drops a lot?

I'm finding this pattern on most of the articles I post on my website that the page gets a lot of impressions on the first days and then it drops of drastically.

Is this normal? Can someone explain the reason?

My guess is that this is google giving your page a quick boost to see if it attracts clicks, if it doesn't attract enough it drops it back down in the rankings.

Maybe someone with more experience can explain why this is happening.

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What should the changefreq in sitemap be set at?

Hello,

What do you think should be the change frequency of the content pages on the Sitemap?

In my sitemap it is entered like this:

<changefreq>daily</changefreq>

<priority>0.5</priority>

that is, the page edit frequency appears daily. whereas most of the pages are edited maybe annually or monthly (content pages). I don't even remember why I set it that way, it's been a while.

Would you recommend keeping it that way or should I change it to something longer?

Can it affect the Google crawl budget?

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Does automatic post grids on blog post pages affect SEO

I have a post grid on my blog post pages that display random posts for the visitors visiting my posts, similar to "latest posts" many blogs show at the bottom of a blog post. Do these affect my SEO when they automatically change all the time?

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Backlink managing/tracking

Hi all. Wondering what information is important to track or reconcile.

This is my process so far. I’d appreciate if someone would tell me if I’m wasting my time or if I should be doing more.

Basically I just acquire the link Confirm when I see it in semrush Confirm when I see it in GSC

Anything else?

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Blackmail for baclink

Hi, yesterday I received an email that asks me to put a do follow backlink to an unrelated site or tgry will ruin my rankings. Contents below:

...If I do not seeing a backlink in one week, I am create million toxic blog comment spam and redirect backlink to codeforest.net and you can saying goodbye to your Google rankings for 1 year or more.

I trust you making correct decision...

What can I do?

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Is A <-> B links worth it?

It would be better to trade:

A -> B

C <- D

But if that's not an option, is it worth to use A <-> B links or doesn't they give your site much value?

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Delete old articles that are low value?

Hey guys,

Do you delete old articles that have little value or let them sit and publish another better article?

Im having difficulty figuring out if old articles will drop your sites total SEO in google.

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Is it a good idea to create a page about a product that has not gotten released yet? e.g. Iphone 14

I have my own Automotive parts shop and there are cars that are about to be released within a few weeks. Is it smart that I create a page for the car parts that I will be offering for the cars already? Would I grant myself an advantage over the competitors? Would google rank that particular page higher?

Since I won't have the automotive parts for the to-be-released cars yet, would it be any disadvantageous since the bounce rate would be logically higher? People visiting the page will most likely leave it immediately once noticing that the product they searched for is not available on the page they clicked at.

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How to make all external links no-opener in Wordpress ?

My Wordpress theme has option for making the external link no opener but you have to do it one by one for all links. Can I do something in the code to have all the links that I add be as no openers ?

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Bing doesnt index my website

Why does bing not index my website? I get a notification ´Explored but not crawled´. Google indexed all my pages and i connected Bing webmaster tool with GSC.

Also Bing says that the sitemap is not good. But i use the same sitemap in GSC and there it works. If you guys need more information just hit me up. I can provice screenshots.

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Want to show my portfolio in website

Hi I am seo intermediate and I want to show my seo portfolios in my website but don't know what to show and how to show Is there anyone who can help me out

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A competitor has only one Do Follow backlink worth about 60. I have 4 DF backlinks lined up worth 90 each. How long will the rankings take?

I am new to the SEO world and wanted to see if I had a competitor in the carpet cleaning industry ranking high with just one .edu backlink worth about 60 points, what chance do I have to out rank them using 4 or more 90+ DF links?

How long will it take?

Is it better to get them all at once or over time?

Any tips or advice?

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a competitor is using a Chinese web site to get a lot of backlinks , can I do anything about that ,and is that common in the SEO community ?

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How to get free guest post sites?

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