So, I am trying to do some SEO for my SaaS.
I made a dev.to post a while ago. But when I run backlink checker by ahref, it never shows up.
Similarly, I added this project in Devpost yesterday. It doesn't show up either.
Are these not considered backlinks? Am I missing something?

Pardon my ignorance here. I had this idea (which might not be original, you guys probably have thought about it too), I thought it would be a good idea to run it by you before I jump off this cliff.

I was thinking of setting up a Telegram group to have different chats for different industries. The aim is just to attract people who are willing to trade backlinks with people in their niche.

I find that everyone is either selling backlinks or just randomly linking to sites that aren’t related.The channels I see on telegram is just people posting ChatGPT typed out text or scammy websites with scammy SEO services

The users who joins the group needs to understand that

1. They should do their own due diligence to check out the website that they are requesting/provide backlinks to.
2. To engage in link exchange with care and ethics. Excessive link exchange is considered a link scheme and violates Google’s Spam policies.
3. No selling of backlinks
4. Spammers across the chat will be removed
5. Incorrect sites listed in the incorrect niche will be removed. Users with repeated errors will be removed

6)The standard porn/ business ads message is no go.

I understand there are several factors that affect backlinks like Authority, relevance, Anchor text placement, follow/nofollow links, destination, so “traders” will need to do their own due diligence .

Users will need to communicate with each other on these points where they would do link exchanges.

What do you guys think of this concept?

even I don't create any backlink. Anybody can help me

Why are my impressions and # of valid snippets down over 50%

My search console shows organic impressions from product snippets have more than halved in the last 7 days, I'm wondering if this is an effect of the core update or something larger is at play.

No technical, structural or content changes would explain this decline. The number of valid snippets has decreased from ~5k to under 900 in the space of 1 week.

My free listings show a similar trajectory/decline. Any ideas?

I'm a freelance content writer looking for a content marketer role. My understanding of SEO is on-page and off-page tactics and doesn't involve the strategy part.

I'm curious to know those who work at agencies or in-house, how does your dy look like? What do you do on a day-to-day basis? Thank you!

Any good alternative that show new and lost backlinks for free?

Or is it time to bite the bullet and get a paid plan.

If semrush says something has 100% toxicity, how much should I trust that? DA scores under <10. What do you think are the appropriate cutoffs to consider disavowal.

Context: I just started working at this company in a catch all digital position. This site has over 100 image backlinks, which toxicity scores in the 80's and above with the majority of the DA scores under 5. I look at the URL structure and it's obviously some automated crawler thing.

But everyone says disavowal is a bad call. What's the workaround here? I've thought about deleting the images and uploading new versions. I've hear of a fabled way to target the IPs to not let them have access to the image (can't find specifics on this one, would love to understand).

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Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

I’m in the market to buy 1-3 niche websites with a strong foundation. Anyone have recommendations on best places to buy? Total M&A budget in the 7 figures.

Hello, I am a real estate agent in a smaller town and on my website I have different MLS areas and neighborhoods to try and boost locally. Most of the areas are places people would never look up to buy in that zone, it’s too specific and majority of people don’t know what they are called.

Am I wasting my time by putting these areas on my website? Follow up does google designate neighborhoods in their own way? How would someone find that?

I hope that makes sense! Thanks!

1. Look at high authority websites and see what kinds of content they link to.
2. Create that kind of content.

Hey Everyone -

Who am I? Product Manager, learning more about Tech SEO as its creeping into my world hard and fast.

Context: My company takes a Product Led SEO approach (iGaming) for all of its international territories. All countries live on the .com domain under country subfolders EXCEPT the USA. The game client which has SEO support built into it and services all countries is hosted in its own environment. The homepage & business pages are hosted in a different environment. Below is an example of what this looks like.

Game Lobby

Canada sports lobby - web hosting environment 1

Canada casino lobby - web hosting environment 1

Home Page & All Business Pages

ex/

contact us page - web hosting environment 2

about us page - web hosting environment 2

static home page- web hosting environment 2

Question: Would it be possible to move the US subdomain over to the .com domain under [/en-us/] and have its static home page & business pages along with paid media landing pages hosted in [web hosting environment 3] with its own CMS (say storyblok, insanity or w.e.) so that the marketing team can continue to operate on their own. Meanwhile the SEO team can have the product for NHL betting / NHL betting Odds type keywords? which will live in [web hosting environment 1] with the Game Client?

Are there any DNS things i'd need to be worried about?

Sincerly,

-Overworked/underpaid Product Manage

I just launched a catering business. I have 3 services, bartending, drop-off catering and private chef. As my title says if I google "hire a bartender + city name" (I am targeting chicago and like 8 suburbs around chicago) I get shown websites that have trash copy. There isn't even a single line on their website that mentions the city name and yet they are in google 3 pack for that city.

Second question. I am targeting as I said "chicago" and 8 suburbs/cities near by. I have read lots of posts on r/seo that say you should have a page for each combination ( private chef chicago , private chef oak park etc.) or (bartending in chicago, bartending in oak park etc.) However none of the sites that are winning for those keywords do this. Also since i have 3 services would i have 3 pages for each city or would i just have a page called "events in {city}" then list all 3 services for that city?

I was recently challenged with the task of researching the impact of using SSR and CSR and how this should affect SEO on websites. I need to have real research results from this, and since it's an interesting topic for me I want to get into it seriously. I want to use angular in the latest version for this, but I have a problem specifically how do I research this well. I'm going to create a page with the same content but a different rendering, but maybe you know what tools are best to study this? I think I would observe both sites for a month or so at first and then see the statistics. Of course, I would do all the recommended practices for on-page SEO.

TL;DR

I am looking for methods that will help me get some statistics (better than lightroom one) regarding SEO and traffic. I will create two websites using two rendering techniques - SSR and CSR.

Hello!

I made a previous post with regards to my domain as a whole and was asking for guidance on how I should go about the situation - more or less with regards to confronting the marketing agency I hired.

However, for the sake of this post, I already made up my mind and will confront them along with asking for a refund, and if they refuse ill simply file a despite with my cc company (I have mounds of evidence, proof, etc. to support my case)

But, before I confront them and go through that process, I wanted to get some more insight from other more knowledgable invidivuals that could potentially help me gather more information that I can use to my benefit.

My domain is Sourcedtickets.com

My domain auth score on SEMrush is a 3

I have had 0 organic traffic throughout the lifetime of my domain

They have utilized 0 keywords

The backlinks they implemented are from low authority, no domain traffic, sites that are filled with spam and are not relevant to my website (I sell concert tickets)

some of the backlink websites include:

Lilyscript.com,  Babelite.com, hasstrollcrashedyet.com, bhajanasampradaya.com,lionheadpub.net, and tds-esport.com

Thanks in advance!

I want to create ads on Google’s SERP and google map.

Which tools should I use? (Free and paid) Which YouTubers are good to learn about it? Any suggested websites or articles in this regard?

Please help.

I started a new niche blog targeted to a specific group of people attending a specific event in a specific place for a specific time. So I'm searching long- (I mean long) tailed keywords in Google expecting my new posts to show a decent ranking. It turns out, not many other sites (more like no sites) have posted an article just like mine, answering the very same query, about the very same thing, for the very same group of people. However, sites like NBC, Yahoo News, Wikipedia, ESPN, Daily Mail, and Conde Nast Traveler have articles very loosely connected to the search query landing on page one.

I get that authority and trust are supposedly factors in Google's algorithm. But how can anything in Google's algorithm possibly be weighted over the actual words in the search? If I were a random person searching for this topic, I'd be disappointed in the results, all whilst an intent-tailored page that answers my query goes unseen.

Why would Google not leverage natural language processing -- what made it huge, what's made ChatGPT huge -- predominantly in Google? It seems strange that they would underutilize their core power, and given the names of the big legacy sites hogging the first page results, I can't help but suspect foul play.

Any trusted website, so I can purchase seo tools package or ahref specificly?

I have been developing a business (service as a product website) from more than a month now in my part time.

In the meantime I have been reading all the crap about google update and how the traffic fluctuated and people are mad about it. I noticed the most affected people were who were already running their business or website (ofcourse) but how this whole thing affect the newcomers?

I was planning to learn basic SEO and target my niche but my question is is it still worth it if I am starting from zero?

Is it still worth doing the keyword research?

If yes, what should I care about and what not?

How do I take reddit into consideration when it comes to marketing or online presence?

TIA

I have some budget to add some backlinks to my new website

I noticed that some sellers, the backlinks they gave me, had very good monthly traffic, most of which exceeded 10K. I checked these websites on semrush, and they all grew explosively in a very short period of time.

I have also seen a lot of spam websites. What I mean is that the traffic also increased explosively in a short period of time, but after a period of time, it was punished by Google and the traffic dropped to 0. Is this type of website the same as the one mentioned above? Type?

Could I consider the first type of website mentioned above?

Hi everyone,

I'm Nour Mabrouk, an SEO Specialist with 4 years of experience, currently based in Egypt. While I'm passionate about driving organic growth, my current role leaves me feeling undervalued despite achieving impressive results.

Here's what I've accomplished:

Boosted website traffic by a staggering 283% for a medical clinic, taking them from 50,500 clicks to 194,000 clicks in just 6 months.

Increased website visibility by 79,667% for a new website, generating a massive jump from 3 clicks to 2,410 clicks within 3 months. (See more details in my case studies!)

Successfully managed and optimized websites across various industries like medical, fitness, and e-commerce.

However, in my current role, my expertise isn't fully utilized:

Limited resources and budget: Struggle to implement comprehensive SEO strategies due to resource constraints.

Lack of recognition: My achievements haven't translated into a salary that reflects my skills and value.

This is why I'm exploring remote opportunities in USA or Europe!

Is there a good chance for someone like me to find a fulfilling and well-compensated remote SEO position in USA or Europe agencies?

Are there agencies known for valuing their SEO specialists and offering competitive salaries?

gsc

I have seen three differences so far, check your website as well..

Use GSC and import the data by comparing previous 3 months vs last 3 months data.

First difference, Keywords

I noticed many of my contents completely dissappeared for specific keywords after update started to roll out

Solution: I did reupdate those contents by using competitive research, updated the keywords, and found many new keywords were pushed to the top and many competitive articles that were ranking for those previous keywords are drop dead.. So have a look at the data

Just a thought, I don't know if my SEMrush even works anymore but the Ahref shares good data related to traffic, DA/DR.

Second Difference, Backlinks

If you have noticed, the DA/DR has dropped a lot due to recent Google update, because it removed many small websites and backlinks received from it, even local citations were removed.

Solutions: Use Forums, Social Media, and Pinterest. (there are forums other than reddit that helps you with backlinks that has good DA score, however you can try reddit as long as they don't ban your account while promoting your content/website)

Just a thought, most of the search terms I found recently were mostly from forums like Reddit and Quora (definitely shitty, I know it!!), then second were Pinterest pins, threads, Facebook pages as well, sometimes LinkedIn Pulse or slide share ranks due to DR.

Third Difference, SEO

I had this strange question, so I asked AI "What will trigger a Content as AI written?" it said "SEO" (Holy Moly) then it shared why, AI is being fed with the knowledge of SEO, so whichever content has good SEO might rate as AI written with human written as 80% and 20% as AI due to keywords (frequency), and content structure.

Solutions: This M**o can't be fixed but be aware and create awareness among your clients, otherwise you will lose many in near future.

Just a thought, be aware that Google prefers quality even if its Human or AI written.

I know most of us would rather have someone who has experience in possibly all of them. And let’s say they all understand a little bit about each subject. But primarily started with one.

Who would you promote?

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The majority of people looking for an easy way out rely on ChatGPT.
I think this is a good thing for professionals as there will be less competition because ChatGPT is detectable, and I think Google will make it more difficult to write content with AI.

The majority of people looking for an easy way out rely on ChatGPT.
I think this is a good thing for professionals as there will be less competition because ChatGPT is detectable, and I think Google will make it more difficult to write content with AI.

Might be a bit abstract but can you optimize content on TikTok to be found in their searchbar with written content? I have an insurance company that puts text in their videos and minimize them until you can’t see them, just to have the keywords. Do you have any idea about how to optimize videos for the search engines of TikTok etc?

Multiple websites across multiple niches. One niche has 1 million + searches per month and ranking for many keywords but getting little to no traffic. This update is ridiculous. Most websites are ranking on first page a least.