I've done 100's of SEO projects and have written 100's of articles now and not once have I been asked for a screen share of how I do my process, research, write my content, what tools I use, etc.
A new contact that wants to contract me out, wants to "see if I know my stuff", what do you all think? Does this sound normal?
I have been doing a lot of research for specific key word phrases across various cities in my state ( weed delivery being the main one) and for every city I am searching; it’s popping up as ZERO. Some of these cities have 1 million+ population and I’m having a very difficult time believing that 0 people are searching for weed delivery…. How accurate is that 0 volume figure 🧐
I'm building backlinks for a software company. When I look at their backlink profile on Majestics I see that the top 4 categories of their topical trustflow are 1. Sports 2. Media & entertainment 3. Recreation
The categories that should be there -in my opinion- are Computers / Software / Internet.
Do you think it would be beneficial to make an effort in changing these categories to the correct ones by making the sports/recreation backlinks no-follow & adding more backlinks from software blogs?
Hello Mates
Need Some Suggestions on below topic
Link Building through Outreach, Guest Post, Ego Bait, Sky Scraper Strategies
Thanks in advance
Hey folks, I'm planning to put adsense on my website next month. Any pointers I should keep in mind before doing this? Like making the site visually appealing or something like that?
Guest post and link placement available for business, finance, tech, and real estate.
Site Metrics - Traffic: 3,939 DR: 51 DA: 61 PA: 48 CF: 46 TF: 13
I am working on a client’s website but struggling to find the right keywords.
Their business is food exports and imports. It’s general food products like edible oils, pulses and grains, diary products and more general food items. (They sell directly to wholesalers)
When I did the keyword research, most of the keywords used are broad and the ranked websites mostly belongs to organizations and governments.
I looked into their competitors but their sites are not optimized for SEO. (The client provided me with a competitor list. It’s very hard to find them without the list) It’s like SEO is not important for them.
What is your suggestion for finding the right keywords?
website - [website](white2labelmanufacturing.com)
Looking for some feedback on our SEO efforts so far. Recently re-launched the site so we’re trying to get as much feedback as possible
I have a discussion with a person from another agency who feels the need to pile on more and more articles that are related to the same subject.
I feel there is no point to it. If all the articles compet for same KW, what is the point in cretaing 3 articles about it, from ranking and SEO stand point?
Anyone here can sahre their opinion?
I'd rather have one or two really good articles the 4 good ones. Again, they all have the same purpose, ranking for a specific KW?
Guest post and link placement available for Casino, Crypto, CBD, Cannabis. Also, include Business, Technology, Entertainment niches. Site Metrics: Traffic: 29,284 DR: 73 DA: 64 PA: 54 CF: 36 TF: 15 TLD: .com
Hi everyone!
I made a post earlier about taking on SEO for a cryptocurrency website to practice my skills. A commenter suggested I start my site instead, since crypto is a competitive niche and results could take time.
I felt I needed actual experience of running a business's SEO to really learn. But I think I may be wrong. When I came in, the founder promised that the WordPress site was running, which meant more control over SEO.
Apparently, that's a lie—the business uses Medium to publish posts, even though they have a functional website. Now, I'm not jumping ship immediately, but I want to practice before they move the blog to WordPress.
I have an Hashnode page where I post articles. It's an alternative to Medium, but for tech-related content. I like it because it's free and promises infinite customisability. I can add widgets, track SEO analytics, and create multiple pages.
My question is: are these hosted platforms good for learning SEO? Would their domain rating influence how well my posts perform online? I'd like to hear from those who've grown their Medium/Hashnode/Ghost pages significantly through SEO. Thanks!
This is a common question in SEO: how much time is required to rank on the first page of Google SERP. I can say there could be several factors at play that determine when your content will rank. For myself, as a test case, my page ranked on the first page (9th position) right after 3 months. It started appearing in results from 100th position to 9th position (today). Let me also tell you that I had better content than the competitors and I have correct on-page SEO. My site is not HTTPS.
What are your findings?
We have millions of location lists around the Globe. Each location consist of map directions, phone number, full address, and reviews(about the location/store). We want something useful for users to do with this data. How it can be manipulated or arranged in a useful way? Keeping in mind the user intent how could it be used? Your suggestions will be appreciated.
We are devising a new strategy for our company's blog. We need to target the businesses or firms that are looking for software development, mobile app development or web development.
Can you suggest some of the topics for the blog?
I work for a firm that maintains a government website, call it Site A, that is primarily about Topic A. It has excellent ranking and has been around for many years. On this site we have a page about Topic B, which has been around a while and is one of the top viewed pages on the site. We recently launched a new website, Site B, that is all about Topic B. The problem is when people search for Topic B that one page on Site A still shows up at the top, followed by several news outlets talking about Topic B. Site B is still low in the rankings. It has been up for only a month but Topic B is getting a lot of local media attention. I added a link to Site B on the page on Site A but that isn’t doing enough. Do you recommend deleting the page on Site A? Setting up a redirect on just that page? Just waiting it out? “Topic B” is about to become very important to our city and we want people to find all the information from us, not the media. Also I cannot delete Site A or 301 redirect it to Site B because Topic A still has relevance.
Thanks for any guidance!
Hey, everyone.
Is it possible to boost the DR from 20 to 40 (per Ahrefs) in a month?
Any tips are appreciated.
How do I find relevant outreach for backlink without any paid SEO tool? And finally how to choose which one should I link to?
Hey friends,
I have a word press site with about 700 posts and about 1000 visitors a day (30K a month)...
...there are a lot of articles focusing on the same keyword and some of the content is duplicate but with a slight variation.
For instance:
I have a recipe for lets say "coffee with chocolate and strawberries" and the owner of the site decided to copy that exact same recipe and just change out the word "strawberries" for something like "apples" or "kumquat".
The way I went about attempting to fix this is two fold:
Now.
Here's where I get a little confused --
What next?
Trash or Draft? That is the question.
P.S - I love you.
Every search I do on Ahrefs, at least half of my results are keywords where the KD is less than 6 but the websites on the SERP are all >50 DR. Surely this is obvious to their algorithm, how can they be assigned a KD < 6?
Also, why can't they just design a metric where it checks the serp for low DR/UR sites? Is there any other tool that is better for looking for under-served keywords that would be easy to rank?
I have a website which is on top 100 of Google page I am thinking of doing CTR manipulation to increase my ranking so what are good method s is micro worker good is there any survice available or can it be done manually
Suggestion plz 😁
Hi guys,
I am in a process of hiring a team of 3 SEO's. Do you have any advice on what to ask and what to test ?
I requested indexing for a new page on my site about 3 weeks ago, and this has still not been indexed. Previously, new posts would be indexed in a matter of minutes after submitting the request in Search Console. Is my post still likely to be indexed at some point in future, or has Google added new criteria for indexing?
Has anyone achieved to rank on Google by primarily posting content on their own website & building very few backlinks? Do you of websites that have taken this approach to success with SERP?
Thanks
Hello
I'm a graphic designer, and I'd want to create a website. I'd want to have the design for free from that website. I'd want to make money with Google AdSense.
my question is that
Did I create a standard website (wordpress) and provide a download link?
Or should I install woocommerce and anyone download the design for free
(sorry my english not good)
This story began two weeks before Christmas when I sent over one of my digital marketing attack plans to a potential client. The video was only 10-15 minutes but I thought it did a really great job outlining what that business missed as far as SEO goes and even more so it did a great job highlighting their competitors and what their current strategies were. The client seemed to think so too as they emailed me back saying "Wow that was better than what I've received from any agency I've worked within the past" and from there we set a time to meet for a zoom call and follow up meeting.
Now fast forward to the weekend before Christmas and I had gotten really excited for this meeting and about 10 minutes before the meeting the business owner jumps on and I can sense that something seems a little off the moment he sees me, but we continue forward throughout the meeting without any problems. I felt that it went almost perfectly I answered all the questions well, the conversation really flowed, and most importantly I felt that he really was involved throughout the entire meeting, but then he ask me "Hey so how old are you?" and not really thinking anything about it I said "23, but I've been doing marketing for a while now as that was my major in college and I've owned this business for over two years." After I gave the answer I could really sense a feeling of doubt creep onto his face as he followed that up by saying "So how do you know you'll stay in this business? I mean when I was 23 I tried so many different things in life and ended up in a completely different career" and while this seemed like a valid point as many people tend to switch fields throughout their life I've always felt marketing was just something that interested me so I responded with essentially that response telling him "Marketing has always just been something that interests me and I like helping business owners". Again not the response he was quite looking for but we closed off the meeting and said our goodbyes.
Now the day before Christmas I get an email from him informing me that he won't be moving forward with me as his SEO service, and while that hurt me a little bit I decided to ask why and he said that he would just feel more comfortable with a more established company. Which to me felt as though he was trying to avoid saying the age problem without really saying it but maybe I'm looking too much into it. But is there really a too young to be an entrepreneur type of age? I always looked at it as starting young gave you more freedom to make mistakes as you didn't have kids to pay for and had more time to recover.
Hey yall
Im wondering if anyone who started a blog or a website of any niche ranked 1st without using paid tools?
Would be a huge motivation to hear some stories and how it worked.
So, I've been working on SEO for a crypto startup. The site is pretty new, with no content, so DA is ridiculously low. I've been targeting low-difficulty since the low DA puts high-difficulty keywords out of reach.
That said, I discovered some country-specific search terms with low difficulty and wondered if I should go after them. An example: "How to buy cryptocurrency in the US".
What do you think of this strategy? Is it good, or should I focus on ranking for the general keyword itself?
Hello SEOs,
Today I had a heated discussion with one of my colleague (developer) the reason behind that he often create URLs for testing any other project's pages on a live project for which I do SEO.
I asked him to do it on any demo server but he said that he create and delete those pages so it won't be any issue.
So, now I'm not sure how to make him understand and whether I'm right or wrong.
What is your suggestion on this?
I'm releasing a suite of free B2B tools and I'm looking to work with a backlinker. Someone who can contact webmasters, post to communities, add some contextual and profile backlinks - that sort of thing.
I'll do the blog and guest posting work myself most likely.
I don't have a big budget and the job isn't exactly rocket science. However it would help if the person had some SEO experience. They'd need to have excellent English also.
Where should I look for this person? Does anyone have any experience hiring backlinkers?
Now there are lot of tools that can help you to rank site with SEO. But not all the sites ranks even with the help of these SEO Tools .
So , What are some problems that are still faced by people and making them difficult to rank their site?
Hey all,
I work on a site that has a very regular fluctuation in average position (in GSC) - peaks on Fridays and valleys on Mon/Tues. Does anyone else notice a similar pattern? It makes sense for the nature of the site (cannabis), but while I expected the volume to change on days of the week, I never expected actual rank position to change. Is the algo advanced enough to assume people want different content on different days? Thanks y’all
I know there are three types of queries or intent in Google search.
But nowadays, many tools are showing the fourth query or intent that is commercial.
Can anyone tell me the difference between commercial and transactional query?
It looks like Google is taking months to find new pages (especially if the website/blog is new) and index them. It's been over 2 months since I wrote a few pieces but they haven't been indexed yet.
But yeah, if it is zero KD keyword (in Ahrefs), then it is indexing/ranking pretty fast. Not sure how Google bots are working these days. 🤷🏻♀
A solicitor's website is very outdated + the only on page seo they have is really title & h1 tags. The best thing going for them is the content on the website.
They rank very high however due to being established for a long time & good reviews.
My main question is, for a well established company that ranks high, but has very bad technical/on page seo, has anyone seen results by improving it? I'd like to reach out to them, but not if I can't deliver results.
This would include structured data tied to their business, meta tags, better on page seo, not just one h1 tag & then a title tag. Also, since I do web design, I'd redo the website, better call to actions & better mobile experience.
Forgive me, I've only done seo & keyword research for new websites, not well established ones.
Hello there.
I've recently started working for a digital marketing agency and they've dumped a load of half-abandoned SEO projects on me and no training or support whatsoever. The onboarding process was more or less a pat on the back and an email that contained SEMRush credentials.
I have a rich copywriting background and my content-related SEO skills are fairly decent, but when it comes to the more technical stuff I'm at a loss.
At this point, it's obvious that it falls to me to figure out everything on my own - there's nobody in the agency I can turn to, and I really can't afford to mess this up. I kinda have to go from SEO zero to SEO hero as quickly as possible.
What would you have me do?
I hear mixed opinions. Have any of you ever gotten a good ranking with a React app without SSR?
When you've been hired to write SEO for a company, will they make you sign an NDA?
Hi, I'm new to SEO and wanted to know everyone's views on this tool I came across.
It seems to give out multiple search operators used in google search, but I'm not sure if I should use this tool or not.
Its link building tool by seoreviewtools
What do you guys think? Also, would you suggest a better way if any, I'm new so just trying to figure out how to start getting good backlinks?
Thanks
Hi, I am from India and I bought a domain name keyword research.in how do I make money from this domain. I was thinking to make a small keyword research tool but don't know how do I make it or how much investment is needed.
Any suggestion will be helpful.
Hey, I am currently trying to rank for multiple keywords that require very similar content. 1. Let's say for example, I am trying to expand into the promo codes for video games keywords. The problem is all my competitors have very similar content to me. How do I make myself standout, and make google not think that I'm copying ( which I somewhat am, but adding alot of value to readers)
Thanks SEO experts, tell me if my explanations was clear or not. Happy to give live examples if needed...
I just added code in htaccess to redirect all pages from the old domain to the new domain.
Works flawlessly for all equivalent pages now.
Is there anything I need to do in google search management console so that the indexed sites of the old domain shows the new domain name?
I can see the tool already has a change of address function in settings of google search management console. Is there anything else I need to do?
Should I test out my different domain names which gets more views? The thing is that one of them is 3 letter ccTLD and other one is 7 letter gTLD. I am not really sure which is better one.
I've redirected my website to a new domain name a week back.
Google hasn't yet replaced my indexed articles with the new domain name. And my main domain has lost its rankings. What can I do?
Note: I have tested the redirect via redirect checkers and everything looks fine. Manually checking also looks good.
I'm looking for the ONE most effective metric to make sure my SEO efforts are paying off.
In your experience, what is the best SEO metric? (another way to think of this is the most important ranking factor)
I ask because I originally thought it was backlinks, so all my efforts were spent in trying to get more.This worked well initially (it gives you a short-term boost), but over the long-term our traffic decreased because we ignored other things like page optimization (one example, our website got slower which led to less traffic).
So I wonder where I should focus instead?
A few notes:- It has to be one metric. I know most people will read this and think "you should focus on everything!" but we're following pareto's principle and it's easier to work as a team if we're all rowing in one direction.- This could be anything from referring domains, page speed score, organic traffic, or even some tool's score like Moz score or Ahrefs rank, etc... I'm just looking for what has been the most effective focus based on people's experience.
Please help I have already tried many keyword tools that can just spit out meaningless variation of same keyword or just gives an endless list of keywords which contains the main topic's kws. For ex- in the supply chain example - it will only give keywords like "supply chain management", "supply chain gifts" "supply chain for dummies". I would like to receive related topic to the main topic not variation keywords. I hope that makes sense. If you are a seasoned SEO professional then please share your tips. Many Many thanks in advance.
I would be fine if I never heard or saw the word "aesthetically" ever again.
Here are a few high-ranking examples courtesy of Semrush's Keyword Magic Tool:
Dark grunge aesthetic wallpaper
Dark aesthetic canine wallpaper
Dark academia aesthetic outfits
It's silly, isn't it? Why are Americans in love with this word? I cringe when I see used in a headline.
Since you first started using Google, how often have you typed the word "aesthetically" in the search bar? Me? Zero.
Give it a break. There's a good chance most people don't know what it means.
Source : ActionTakersHub.com
I’m on webflow but my main domain is changing another time.
1st - .to 2nd - .com 3rd - .com (current)
My second one was ranking high for several terms. I recently got my premium domain and transferred to the 3rd one yesterday. What should I do to ensure the least impact for the domain?
How do search engines index blog posts saved on the backend?
Hi,
I have a doubt! I have a new website and I am adding some posts to the blog section. These posts are retrieved (with pagination) through a REST API when the user goes to the /blog page of my website.
I don't understand how Google can retrieve them and possibly index those posts.
Thank you,
I'm fairly new with SEO having done a lot of self-teaching and some traditional learning. I have a client who lives in HK with both English and Cantonese as their main languages. This got me thinking right away, are there best practices for doing SEO for clients in non-english speaking countries?
Let's say I only speak English. How do I do a business's SEO in their native language? (Hire an SEO person who knows the language? Or is there an actual way to do it without having to speak their language?)
Thoughts?
so im using free yoast plugin and it only allow me to add one focus keyphrase. Apart from that I don't know how to add more keywords and where to add them.I am really amateur regarding this (sorry for that)
pls suggest me how to rank my website properly with complete process.
On the 24th of November half of my website links showed up with 'pages with errors' on the Google Search Console, when I never had any errors before.
On the 6th of December I noted a Google information link located at the bottom of the 'Coverage' section in the Console. In this link Google stated that "December 6-14 - An internal issue caused an increase of redirect errors during indexing, and associated email notifications. This was not due to any website issues, but was due to an internal Google issue. Pages that were dropped from the index have been scheduled for recrawling."
The traffic for my website is now almost non-existent and is stressing me out. The pages have not been recrawled yet, even after various attempts to do so. My sitemap is very well managed and updated regularly as it reflects in the Google Search Console.
All of my links show up on DuckDuckGo and Bing, with Bing being pretty much perfect.
Any advice?
Something free or with a good price
On a site, X pages r not allowed to be indexed, but users can access them Many other sites are linking to these X pages If we set 301 redirect for Googlebot for these X pages to relevant pages, will it be considerd -ve? Users will still be able to access all X
It's in my client's GA but I have never heard of it and its website is a login, so doesn't tell me anything. Can't find much about it anywhere. Has anyone used this service?
Hello, First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year's Eve. Question can be silly but I would like to know please, when I have found some niche keywords, is it better to put them all in the same article (only if they have a logical link I would say)? if so is there a limit of keywords per page (I use yoast seo premium which offers a maximum of 5 keywords), or should you only put one keyword per article? Please do not hesitate to guide me and give me tips. ps: for info I am from Western Europe. Thanks in advance to all
Hello everybody! I really hope that I will not be banned for this post. I have been working as a SEO specialist for over 2 years. I have good experience in promoting sites of almost any topic.
Are there people here who have their own website and want to promote it to the top with the help of seo? I am asking about this because I want to sell this service for 2 years for $ 4500 I ask about this because I am in trouble and before the new year I need to find this money. Asking someone for money is not an option.
Therefore, if anyone needs the service of a good SEO specialist, contact me. For 2 years, I will be promoting your site with a guarantee of reaching the top 3
Regarding readability scores and other stats, the grade level is the one I look at more than the others.
I aim for a 4th grade reading level.
With passive sentences, under 5% is my goal when editing previously published blog posts.
no exchanges on landing pages, loading speed is normal.
I have a blog for "Top 10 ..... for 2021" and it has pretty good ranking on google and a decent traffic. Since, 2021 is coming to end, Should I change the URL slug to 2022 instead of 2021, also the Article title too. Would this affect my SEO? Or should I write a separate article on 2022? Please advice, I'm confused on what should I do.
I manage a small website for a local cleaning business. Just a homepage, and about us page and a single page for every service that they provide.
I wrote all the texts, and even got the page to rank at TOP3 for my main keyword for a while. But now I'm hopelessly stuck at place 6-7.
I now hired another company to write and publish a bunch of relevant articles, as we had little to no dofollow backlinks.
But what else can I do? Do i have to keep rewriting the service pages to keep it fresh for Google? Seems like busy work to me. How can a local business page stay on top??
It was a really tricky set of puzzzles that really had me stumped on the last few...
How can I stop it from happening again Like -ve review on Google my business and Yelp
Be free to use the below mentioned tactics and do not stop trying new avenues.
For a detailed list you guys can ping me, we can discuss more on it
I intend on opening up an online shop and I plan on doing everything myself since I’m in Africa and I currently can’t afford to hire a team. I intend to use Wordpress and my keyword difficulty is currently around 22-40. What would be the best place to begin from? This includes both Wordpress setup and SEO. I will appreciate any help I can get on this since I’m green in the entire field.
Another question from my side but this one is about a content strategy to increase organic traffic. I have this collection page (Product X) which is the main keyword (12k volume). But Product X has many types and colors, and I do not want to create individual collection pages with content to target those smaller keywords for Product XA XB XC because in my opinion the website needs to be clear and clean as possible without being it an obvious marketing/seo machine.
So I was thinking to just write blogs about all those types and colors (volume around 200 each, so very small) and then have internal links to my main collection, and some product links.
Questions:
Looks something like this
Main Keyword: 12k searches (Collection Page with 2000 words of content to target main keyword)
---Color A: 200 (Blog + Links to Collection + Product)
---Color B: 240 (Blog + Links to Collection + Product)
---Color C: 450 (Blog + Links to Collection + Product)
---Color D: 150 (Blog + Links to Collection + Product)
Does it matter where I purchase my domain name?
I'm looking to enrich my website with relevant, engaging and seo-friendly content.
I've contacted an SEO agency but pricing is an issue. However, I found an individual who brands as an SEO copywriter.
I'm wondering if he'd be able to fulfill my needs.
My goal is to rank higher on SERPs... I'm going with organic content creation rather than PPC.
Thoughts please???
Ok so I've come across some information that only Yoast ouputs schema the correct way, and everything else including Rank Math does it in a wrong way someow.
The only info I've found that talks about it as a blog called blog aid.
Will using a different tool for schema really mess up your SEO?
I have tried Copyscape Premium for a page, but for some reason, other free plagiarism checkers detect much more than Copyscape?
I am a little frustrated because I paid for Copyscape and it doesn't detect a thing, but these free ones are detected from 5-10%.
Also, is 10% fine to leave on a page or do I need 0% plagiarism, I know 0% would be better, but the time it takes for me to remove plagiarism is too much since I am blogging on a personal level only.
Those free ones are :
paperrater
searchenginereports
papersowl
We were using a widget to embed the reviews from Google to our Wordpress website. The SEO team we are hiring took it off and suggest us to manual replicate each review to put on our website. This is doable but seems very time consuming and inefficient. I was wondering what tools or methods could be used to accomplish this without slowing our site. Thank you!
I was looking on my Ahrefs account to start doing SEO and making a good backlink profile, and I saw that since this month, weird backlinks are added on daily base. Luckily they are all nofollow, but still this doesn't seem right. How is that possible? I did not pay anyone to do a backlink campaign or anything. I am managing everything myself. Could these links be bad for my ranking?
The links are all nofollow from Indian Domains
This isnt a moral question, I just dont understand the distinction here.
Scenario 1: A group of 5 people all put $100 in the hat for a $500 course/software. One of the 5 guys takes everyones $100, buys the product, and then shares it with all 5 people. This is a group buy. It is apparently legal, but generally against TOS.
Scenario 2: One guy puts forth his own $500 to buy the same course/software. He uploads it to a warez site and shares it with a bunch of people. This is piracy and it is illegal.
Its the exact same thing. One guy is legally buying a single unit of product and sharing it with multiple people. What is it that allows group buys to legally exist?
Hello everyone. I have been working as a SEO specialist in an agency for about 2 years. Now I feel that I can additionally work as a freelancer. Can you give some advice on this?
Anyone facing issues with indexing since start of December. No post is indexed on 3 completely different sites in different niches.
No robots blocking, all pages in sitemap, all pages accessible at max depth of 2 page crawl from homepage, mostly at 1.
Don't know what's going on. Sites are new.
Old sites are being crawled on regular basis.
This is weird.
So posts are being indexed on bing, ecosia etc and not Google. Does this mean everything is ok with my website it's just Google taking ages to index?
Like a lot of people I'm having problems getting me posts indexed at the moment. I'm new to this and it may be I have made a mistake somewhere. I haven't had a post indexed for over a month. I was going to pay someone on fiver or similar to have a look at my website and see if there are any problems. Is this sensible have people found this works are there any horror stories I should be aware of? (One guy is saying he can get my posts indexed in 24hrs)
Shows that there are porn sites in my Shred Host ip addresses. Will hosting my websites at that ip address have a bad effect for SEO ?
I recently came back to play with cloud pages, and it seems Google has implemented something funny
Wheneber I get a AmazonS3 page indexed, it ranks for precisely 3 days, and then I dissappears. It can still ne found with site: but no rankings.
Anyone tried that, and has an idea of how to keep them in the index?
So, unrelated to me, but my company botched a website migration by not following SEO best practice.
However, it was a relatively simple redesign on the same domain on Wordpress, the only change was to hosting.
Some third party SEO guy for our client trashed our company into oblivion for launching this way. And I used to work in SEO, I get it can affect rankings. However, this wasn't the deal he made it up to be. We had a website backup, reversed everything and began doing the SEO best practice (again, I had no idea the web team had done this without that in place, wasn't my department). To my knowledge, reacting quickly like this won't harm the website, it's only waiting weeks that can hurt rankings.
I then got curious and checked the new website we'd done for the client - it didn't have any Google Analytics or Search Console etc. installed because this third party SEO guy didn't even have access to the new website yet.
I ran a SEMrush check and it looks like the organic traffic hasn't tanked at all - it's exactly the same.
My questions are:
1) How could this guy know the website "tanked" their SEO? It was mostly the same content and URLs on a redesign. I'm not saying it didn't affect them, but how would he know this without installing GA or SC tags first? Do you think he's misinterpreting the cease in that feed to Google as a dropout of traffic?
2) He and the client all refused to share SC or GA logins with us when we asked - why would someone hide that? What do they have to gain? I just wanted to call the guy out on his theatrics for trashing us, to be honest, given SEMrush told a different story (of course SEMrush is less reliable, that's why I wanted access to the actual data). Also, is it reasonable to expect us to handle the launch when we don't have access to search console?
Thanks for any insights and opinions - I can't see straight on this one anymore.
Hi everyone, we are redesigning my company’s website. The UX designer we hired came with an idea of show more button on blog archive page. Namely after visiting the blog archive you will see 6 mos recent blog posts, and to load more posts you have to click on show more button (it is not a pagination link). We realised that the google robots will be able to index only the first 6 blog posts. Right now we’re trying to figure out how to solve this problem. One of the options would be probably replacing the button with pagination, but I wonder is there any other way to make all the blog posts visible for the robots?
Hello,
Everyone as I have been assigned for outreaching email for backlinking.
But I don't how to find the email address for outreaching.
Please anyone suggest me!
Title says it all y’all!
I’m new to WordPress (only used to Shopify), trying to figure out how to add titles, meta descriptions, h1s and h2s, blah blah etc etc to specific blog posts.
I heard AIO SEO was great, but I’d also like to hear more of your favorite ones :)
Thank you!!!
Exactly what the title says. I just need someone who can write 4 blogs a month, and then occasional site content as needed.
I would also need this person to be able to perform keyword research to come up with article ideas, and write a meta description.
If anyone is looking for side work and interested, message me!
Hey guys, one of our websites completely disappeared from the SERPs. When I check the click and impression number for the name of our brand which should lead to our homepage, it dropped to 0 overnight and has been 0 since… There are no removal request or Security & Manual actions. The homepage is indexed, but it’s completely gone with basic and straightforward queries. We’re looking at the right property on GSC, and no change was made between before the drop and now… Any idea of what could’ve happened?
One of my friends has a healthcare website. The platform is for registered practitioners. It's a single-page website and not thinking to post any blog right now. Without posting blogs how can we increase website traffic?
Hello,
Everyone can anyone please tell me how to do broken link building?
A while back I read about this SEO strategy where this guy bought old domains with some authority on them and then used those to create a variety of different backlinks to his site. It seemed like a solid strategy especially in the long run as you could always add additional links to those sites as well, and long story short I figured I'd try it out for one of my lead generation sites I was planning on creating.
I started my search on Godaddy as they have their own domain auction; however, I found many of the sites had absolutely no power on them, and the ones that did cost thousands of dollars so I decided maybe I would try and search elsewhere. After looking for about an hour I came across a site that had a very limited selection but the pricing was rather solid from what I had seen elsewhere so I decided I would take a further look. I plugged them into my backlink tools and it seemed as though the sites had a solid amount of strength and a high number of backlinks; however, the lost amount of organic traffic should've raised a red flag. Despite my better judgment, I decided to buy a plumbing related backlink and boy did I regret that,
I built a rather nice website around that domain and optimized it to rank for my local area, but after 3 months I noticed there was no real traction not even local impressions just from people searching and seeing our GMB. It really made me question my SEO strategy as I've had clients rank who ranked on the first or second page at that point in time in much more competitive industries, and even the ones who didn't still saw a solid number of impressions. I decided to ask one of my other SEO friends about it and he said it could be blacklisted you should check and if it is see what for. I thought to myself "Blacklisted, no way I haven't even done anything major on this site that would cause such a thing"; however, I decided I would give it a shot and find a tool to see if it is.
I ended up finding some free site online that checks for blacklist penalties or any Google infractions that a website has committed and you guessed it the website had been blacklisted or rather shadowbanned and wasn't appearing for most if not all of the keywords I had targeted. I took a further look into it and found thousand of spammy links from foreign sites that were unprotected and immediately knew that something was up. See originally I had just checked the power of the site and never ventured further, but now I was going to have to check every single link and disavow those that hurt the site.
After 3 days and over 16 hours, I finally finished disavowing every harmful link and for those of you wondering the website is well on its way to a positive ranking. We currently sit outside of the first page, and most often on the third page but this was a major improvement from a few months ago where we found ourselves with a penalty and not appearing at all. For those of you interested in this strategy really make sure to do your research as there's no shortcuts to SEO.
Hi everyone, I'm not sure where I registered but I have been approached by a lot of review sellers who can improve my App rating on play store? I just wanted to know if it's worth trying. What are the pros and cons of this?
I'm currently using Google search console and bing webmaster tools, but also there is Yandex... should I give it a try with Yandex? Will there be any US traffic from that Search engine rather than RU, because it can lead to lower RPM in the future. What do you think?
I am creating an affiliate travel website in various languages. Should I create a .com domain or domains for each individual region I plan on promoting in. So If I am promoting France in the UK should I stick with the .com domain or use .co.uk?
I'm looking for a service that'd be able to generate a sitemap automatically with a crawler, for as many sites as possible (my clients for example), keep them updated, and use Google's APIs to notify of any change.
Did anybody hear about such a service? In case you didn't, I'm willing to build it. Anyone else with such a need?
Looking for a website or a supplier to buy links that accepting crypto.
except of blackhatlinks
This is a black hat niche
I have a client with huge index and deals in auto parts. Now they have so many parts that goes with almost a couple hundred vechiles and it uses the same name, description and the only difference is the price and part number. Let's say we have many parts with the same name, which one of them will be the canonical?
I have been working on this website since 2015. It used to get 400K UVs monthly until 2020, but it started sliding down in the SERPs slowly after that, and in a few months I had a manual penalty show up on the Google search console. Traffic was 60-90K/M then. I removed some links, (and spam pages on my website that bots were able to create because registration was open), sent a reconsideration request and it was accepted (7 months ago), but it never gained the rankings back. Currently, it gets 70K UVs per month, but it's slowly declining.
I am not sure what to do? Once penalized, is the domain always on Google's radar? Should I keep working on this website? Or should I create a completely new website on the same niche and start everything from scratch?
