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We are using HubSpot on our SaaS website and can currently track which page a lead originates from when they sign up or request a demo through the organic channel.

However, we want to go deeper and identify the exact keyword that brought this lead to our site. Is there a way to achieve this level of tracking, either within HubSpot or through a combination of other tools?

Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.

We never sell link from our website yer some crappy and scamming website list our site in their link selling service page.

I just noticed from Ahref backlink report.

How to remove and avoid such things? Does this affect our SEO ranking in long run?

Our company provides virtual training delivery solutions for B2B. On our site we have 2 sections one is called by roles and one By Use Case. Within these sections we have have individual pages. For By Roles we have executives, curriculum developers, instructors, training manager, government. Within use case we have 5 pages for different use cases for our product. All of these pages are very light on content, maybe just a couple of sections of information, a header with a CTA, and some customer logos. However, these pages get hardly any visitors according to Google Search. We also don't run any display ads that shuffle people to these pages. Our former marketer was pushing to consolidate these pages into just 1 each.

Does anyone with more experience have advice on this? Is consolidating these into a single page and then making sections with the content to the related use case or role might work better for SEO? Or is it more important to keep these separated and go after each individual keyword or subject? Would it be better to keep these pages and create internal linking to them? Or keep them and add way more content that's relevant?

Thanks!

EDIT: The main pages that do well on our site are under solutions and have each of our solution. Most people go to these pages. We also have an overview and tools page which get an OK amount of traffic. Also a Customer Reviews page.

Im doing SEO for a IT company in London, UK, the CEO doesn’t seem to understand why it’s very difficult to unseat some of the biggest companies on our industry for the most prime of keywords.

Despite have fairly generic and thin content, a lot of these companies seem to be deeply ingrained in search results. Some have a lot of terrible back links, others don’t even have that many at all. It doesn’t matter how much we optimise pages for our site, it really seems hard to get anywhere near the top. The DR of most sites isn’t all that high, we’re in a similar range.

For example, the term ‘IT support london’.

I’m continually building new pages and we rank for a lot of great commercial keywords, doing a lot better than 80% of our competitors, but it only really drives around 60 leads a year.

Just curious what other pros think.

Beginner questions welcome.

Post any legitimate SEO question. Ask for help with technical SEO issues you are having, career questions, anything connected to SEO.

Hopefully someone will see and answer your question.

Feel free to post feedback/ideas in this thread also!

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Hey everyone,

So, I recently managed to snag a few backlinks from some high-DA websites (yay me!), and now I’m playing the waiting game to see them pop up in SEMrush or Ahrefs.

Here’s the thing—I know these tools have their own crawlers and schedules, but I’m curious... how long did it take for your backlinks to show up? Are we talking days? Weeks? A small eternity?

Also, is there anything I can do on my end to speed things up? I’ve already tried submitting the pages to Google Search Console for indexing, but I don’t know if that helps with third-party tools.

Would love to hear your thoughts or tips. Thanks in advance!

I have a new client (3 months in). It's Local SEO work for her small biz service company. In my 12 years of providing SEO services, I know to tell clients not to expect positive improvements in traffic, rankings or leads until the 3 to 6 month mark. That being said... she was being filtered out of Google Maps for her primary target keyword and I managed to get that fixed (she's now #2 and in the snack pack). I've already improved rankings on several other keywords of hers with the highest search volume.

She runs an online business coaching course for other biz owners in her field and referred 3 clients to me (giving her 20% cut on her own rate with me per referral)

Problem: She says that the amount of calls are steadily declining. She's threatening that if the decline persists, she will cancel her services AND tell the other clients who she referred to also cancel their own services with me.

Note: she's coming to me with this because she received a couple copy/paste emails from cheap labor in India saying her SEO sucks and they can do better, blah blah.

What would you do in this situation?

I'm a single dad in an expensive city and don't want to lose 4 clients (even though I charge at least half of what other freelancers do). But I think threatening me after just 3 months like this and after helping her become visible for her main keywords is just unethical.

Hi everyone!

Basically the title

We've recently migrated from our old domain to a new domain and followed the steps described by Google regarding domain changes in their Change of Address Tool article.

We still keep our redirects from the old domain to the new one and it seems that everything went smoothly more or less. There's almost no traffic in the old GSC account, though we lost about 25% of clicks from Google in the process, but I hope that we will slowly regain it over time.

Google recommends keeping redirects for at least 180 days after the start of the migration, but I am wondering, what happens if we remove redirects earlier? Will it hurt our current traffic in any way or cancel the migration?

Casual Friday is back!

Chat about anything you like, SEO or non-SEO related.

Feel free to share what you have been working on this week, side projects, career stuff... or just whatever is on your mind.

Hey everyone. I've recently migrated my 11-year-old domain to a new domain name. Here's a summary of what I've done so far before you ask:

1. 301 Redirects: All URLs were properly redirected via 301 to the corresponding pages on the new domain.
2. Google Search Console Updates: The domain change was registered, and all necessary migration actions were completed.
3. Sitemaps Submitted: New sitemaps for the updated domain structure were submitted to Google.
4. Backlink Profile: I started updating my backlinks to reflect the new domain.

It's been 42 days since the migration, but I've encountered significant issues with my traffic and indexing. Here is the issue:

In the last 7 days, my old domain (which was fully redirected) has started receiving 546K clicks, while the new domain has only received 31K clicks. Initially, the old domain showed zero traffic (as expected after the migration). Still, it has suddenly become visible again in Google search and outperforms the new domain by over 500K clicks.

This unexpected behavior has me very concerned and confused about what might be causing it.

So here are the things that I'm wondering. If you can help me, that'd be very nice!

1. Why is the old domain receiving so much traffic despite the 301 redirects? Is this normal?
2. Could this be due to an issue with how Google processes the migration?
3. How can I fix this and ensure traffic is correctly transferred to the new domain?
4. Are there additional steps I should take to prevent the old domain from ranking again?

Thanks from now on.

Im working with a business that has the word "yorkshire" in its business name. It is opening sites outside of yorkshire in London and Manchester. Will having Yorkshire in the business name and domain affect the websites ability to rank in these locations - each location does have its own landing page and GMB profile.

thanks

Hello everyone.

recently we did a topic on a site that writes on quirky things, and it turns out it was one of the Googly topics that is a part of their Googly Campaign. Now, we observed 1000% impressions increase for that post, but no clicks. After 2 days, the impressions went back to normal. Anyone else noticed the same? Please share any insights you may have.

Thank you

I want to create a bit of a black and white rule for structuring post archives / categories and posts

Is there a gold standard here?

Ahrefs:

Follows the structure - post type / category base / post category (e.g. /blog/category/on-page-seo/)

But then the blogs are all nested under /blog/ (e.g. /blog/title-tag-seo/)

Driftbot (Now Sales Loft apparently):

Follows the structure - post type / category base / post category / post name (e.g. /resources/case-studies/bionic-wrike-chatbot-transformation)

My SE Ranking renewal is around the corner. Got it a year ago for about 370 USD, extension is for around 470 USD.

The issue, while I like to use it occassionally, and have 10 projects on it, those are not paying projects. It's just to learn, test, do some keyword research, test site audit here and there.

If you make direct money from it, there probably is no question asked.

It seems the plans have changed now and even though I am new to it (1 year) I am grandfathered already into a plan called "SE Ranking Online Essential 750"

It's a lot of money when you don't need it often. But if I exit now, I can't ever get back into it and will get even higher pricing later.

To SE Ranking users, did you look elsewhere when you are not actually an SEO pro (making enough money of it)? Which other tools compare and give better pricing and still (more or less) reliable keyword data.

Context: I am a sole proprietor and have small clients. I develop and maintain their website. They don't need SEO, or let's say they can't afford it, it doesn't make much sense to them. I only take care of the basics and try to learn/improve my own SEO skills with it, give recommendations, make the client aware about it, explain SEO to them, and so forth. Larger clients who have the budget go with proper agencies in my area

Beginner questions welcome.

Post any legitimate SEO question. Ask for help with technical SEO issues you are having, career questions, anything connected to SEO.

Hopefully someone will see and answer your question.

Feel free to post feedback/ideas in this thread also!

**

r/BigSEO rules still apply, no spam, service offerings, "DM me for help", link exchanges/link sales, or unhelpful links.

Hey Guys,

I have URLs which look like this

https://website.com/about/author/page/4/?et_blog

https://website.com/about/author/page/5/?et_blog

https://website.com/about/author/page/6/?et_blog

The "rel="next" and prev tag are in the HTML. Would you guys say that is enough or should I add something else as well?

For the sake of learning SEO, I'm trying to analyse the url https://colorhunt.co/. Thus, I decide to use the api dataforseo to be able to automize some tasks. I've heard multiple times in seo subreddits that dataforseo is great. Anyway, the important part of the python code is here.

url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/backlinks/live'
data = [dict(
    target=target,
    limit=1000,
    mode="as_is",
    filters=["dofollow", "=", True],
    order_by=["rank,desc"]
)]
response = requests.post(url, auth=(username, password), json=data)

The next lines are a section of the first 10 results.

  rank  domain_from_rank  page_from_rank                             url_from
   468               551             778             https://hao.tooopen.com/
   329               230             645             https://hao.nuanque.com/
   328               336             509           https://www.zuodaoyun.com/
   324               422             553           https://www.sxjushang.com/
   274               342             474            https://memo.miantiao.me/
   263               283             274            https://404.li/color-hunt
   183               228             333        https://minimalistwebsite.ro/
   182               422             411               https://sxjushang.com/
   177               181             407  https://www.tahlilgary.com/pbifree/
   173               323             451           https://www.sandunppt.com/

As you can see, the results are ordered by the dataforseo rank. However, when I enter any of the urls to AHREFS (which I have access to the Starter Solution). All those domains seem to have no traffic. Can anyone enlighten me about what is happening and what am I doing wrong?

Hello! We are hiring for an experienced SEO Specialist position. We are offering P45,000 salary with benefits and more! Ofcourse this is a work from home job. If interested please do reply here! Thanks!

Edit: This is only open for those who are residing in the Philippines.

I'm working on improving my website's Authority Score to rank higher in search results for a specific region. I understand that backlinks from sites in the local language are highly relevant, but I'm wondering if backlinks from high-authority sites in other languages (e.g., English) can be just as effective.

Would posting on non-native language sites improve my local SEO rankings, or should I focus primarily on backlinks in the local language? Any tips or insights on balancing international and local backlinks for SEO would be greatly appreciated!

Any gamer SEOs who would be interested in squading up with other SEOs to play Call of Duty on a regular cadence...maybe talk some shop in party chat

Casual Friday is back!

Chat about anything you like, SEO or non-SEO related.

Feel free to share what you have been working on this week, side projects, career stuff... or just whatever is on your mind.

I have a 5-6 year old healthy Google business listing for my UK-registered online business.

Since everything's online, we don't meet customers or need a physical store. So, we use a one of those London virtual addresses to get mail etc.

I tried to update our address to the virtual address that we pay for (previously it was covering regions we operate in) and now they want us to do a video verification.

Am I fudged? If not, how can I deal with this. Any help would be appreciated 🙏

So I have a business, let's say I operate this business in 50 different cities in the US. Let's say this business sells... Car washing services. I want to rank for "car washing" to people in all 50 cities. What tool can I use to track this performance in these cities?

Often for similar keywords I will see pages related to "car washes" linking to a new york specific page for all of the competitors on the first SERP - obviously Google was scraped using a new york IP, and these pages don't rank equally for searchers from everywhere.

Obviously I don't just add "car washes {city} " onto the keywords I'm tracking, because that is a different search, and there could be multiple cities with that name.

Or do I?

Hi all, I have a website that I want to rank #1. It’s a contractor website. To keep it short the criteria for the site is below:

• 15 page website, all main/service pages are targeted to keywords we want to rank for.
• Site loads fast and technical website score sits at a 95/100.
• Content and keyword layout is very good across all pages, including links, page structure, etc.
• 26 Blogs, all keyword variation ideas on questions people actually have. Follows all rules or proper tech and content SEO down.

I do realize that backlinks need to be there for the site to rank. But I want to know the best course of action.

I have someone who goes into other small local businesses in the same niche, so in this case for other contractors, and writes guest posts on all of there blogs. There is around 20ish sites, all local businesses that are meh ranked, some rank top 3 in there area, some like 20. So with probably meh amount of visitors, like anywhere from a 100-1000+ each month but are real.

On top of that I’m going to buy 1 link each month from Hoth. In about 2-3 months should I see results from this?

In an e-commerce context with many PDPs, how do you handle pagination? Self canonical on all pages? Or on the first one? Why?

I've activated WP Rocket on my WordPress website. It significantly boosted my desktop speed to 96, but my mobile speed is still stuck at 8 and hasn't improved at all. Does anyone have suggestions on how I can enhance the mobile page speed?

I have a business that offers sound healing and yoga events, etc and I have a home page that's a brief overview of what i offer that then links to the specific service pages.

My service page for sound healing is ranking much better than the home page, which makes sense, as there;s more info there and I have optimised it with surfer SEO. Thing is, it's not showing up in google results as well as i'd like and this might be due to technical SEO which i am working on, but I am worried maybe it's cause all the content isnt on a home page. Not sure how to get around this though? It doesnt really make sense for me to have all that detailed content on the home page...

Hi all,

Anyone understand how the "Shop" filter on the Organic Google Shopping tab is powered?

My client has already has tens of thousands of products live in Google Merchant Centre + visible in Google Shopping, but their business is not a filter under "Shop".

Anyone else had this issue?

My website has about 50-60 pages, and I recently redid it in September. The problem is, Google has only indexed 8 pages so far!

Here’s some backstory: I didn’t keep the same URLs from my old site because they were in the "www" format and had a bunch of other differences. I did manage to set up 301 redirects for what I could, but most of the old links weren’t salvageable.

Now, I don’t think I’m exceeding my crawl budget since my site isn’t super big, and it’s not terribly slow either. So, why is Google taking forever to index my site? I’m doing my best here, but it feels like Google’s dragging its feet. Any advice or insight would be awesome!

Wondering how they pulled this. It's a mirror of the homepage only.
Link to the SERP.