Hey everyone,

We are launching a pet food startup in Australia and have a contract with a web design and development agency for the website which will be ready in a few months.

In the mean-time, we are looking for an SEO agency to help with making sure we are SEO ready for the launch, that the keywords used make sense, that tracking is correctly set up, website UI and UX are built in an SEO friendly way and so on.

There seem to be so many SEO agencies most of which are scammers or not offering very high-quality work, so we came across GlobalSearchAwards which announces "the best" SEO agencies each year. Is going off this list at least going to help us in finding less shady agencies or is this not a good approach?

Any advice on how to find solid SEO agencies will be appreciated.

So, in the marketing sub someone posted about how they got early access to the ChatGPT search feature and were totally blown away by it. I assume the results were actually useful to what they were looking for, but don't really know the specifics because it was all just about how "good" ChatGPT was, etc, and that their job, Google, and search was doomed, etc, etc.

I'm trying to understand what the issue is regards to SEO for product sites? Where does the data get pulled from and what's the best way to optimize content for ChatGPT? Assuming that ai will simply be pulling from the web just like Google, won't quality content be the bees knees? If ChatGPT is that good I would think content with the actual verbiage related to said topic would rank better, just like Google search claims to do? I know people are claiming to see a lot of obvious ai generated content, but the way this guy was talking ChatGPT search is in a different universe.

It seems whoever figures this out will be the new SEO king. Hoping someone can fill in the gaps, provide their thoughts, opinions, feedback.

We have been working on our e-commerce website SEO more than 5 years. We are rank 1 with over 1000 keywords. Some keywords are high volume keywords and we have been had great sales for years. I recently noticed that our traffic dropped more than half for many keywords and we are still rank 1 for thesekeywords, nothing changed.

I also noticed that google ads don't look like google ads anymore. They look so similar to serp results. And a website from China use google ads, their title is No 1. Australian Store "for this niche" If I am customer, I will definitely click their website, it doesn't say ad next to their URL and they are No 1 according to them and google ads!!!

It is so many examples there but cant tell all the cases one by one but there is no point to be number 1 on google serp anymore. It is so much work and ADS GET 80% of the traffic!! Product ads than 4 website ads, then featured products then rank 1 e-commerce website.

Serp position 1 probably get 10% and the rest of the page share the clicks, If they can find a spot after ads, product ads, featured products and images.

I really don't have the time to redesign the website, research keywords, check what competitors are doing, create backlinks and citations, optimize my GMB, etc.

I'm a sales person - that what I want to do.

How much of this could I get setup/done for me for let's say $2000 upfront? Id like to hire someone local and trustworthy and well reviewed. Is like someone what to focus on that while I do sales, manage business operations, and handle the orders that are coming in.

I found out that that I'm getting 150 impressions a month but only 7 to 15 visits and have 25 keywords. The five competitors in town get 400-800 actual visits a month and have about 1400 keywords. I need to get there too and can't do this on my own.

We run out business from our house. It's was out in the country away from any customers searching so I find when I list it we never show up in "near me" searches.

Also we don't want people coming to the house.

We tried a virtual address but people kept showing up and being upset.

What about service are business? We could offer services on more cities that way. But would we still rank on google pack? Maps? Etc?

What's are best solution here?

I have an old website that has great seo from consistent updates and work for 5+ years, this is built on the Duda platform.

We are looking to build a new website, with Wordpress and hosted elsewhere to replace this Duda site. This will be totally new, different builder, different text etc.

(Domain is with GoDaddy and will remain the same)

Is it possible to create this new site, and somehow keep my existing SEO?

From everything I’ve read online, it doesn’t seem possible due to being completely different sites and completely different builders/platforms, if this is the case how are people getting around this hurdle when updating websites?

Appreciate your help :)

Hello everyone. My website has gradually lost 60% of its traffic since October 17.

I am being outranked by low-quality sites spamming crap AI content, but that’s not the main issue here.

Yesterday, I discovered that I have lost 70% of traffic on desktop but only 10% on mobile.

I absolutely don’t understand why there is such a big difference between mobile and desktop.

Mobile represents 55% of my total traffic.

Has anyone else experienced the same thing? Or does anyone have any explanations?

What is better for SEO, changing the title and updating the URL with 301 redirect or recreating the page with updates?

A website has a bunch of articles that are getting a title and a bit of content update, for example, "how to fill this form in 2021" then an update has come so the title is changing to "how to fill this form in 2024" with few updates in the article.

Obviously, the URL should reflect the title changes so 301 redirect is used. The pages that are being updated are already ranking in SE. There's no point in keeping the old versions around as the information would be outdated, causing confusion for the end user, making them leave the site quickly and decreasing session length.

When deleting the pages the SEO monitoring tools are alerting me that there are a lot of 404 errors as the articles don't exist anymore. If I do redirect I'm now receiving alerts that there's a high amount of redicts.
Not all pages of the website are getting indexed (most but not all so there's a risk when recreating the pages), all of the traffic is coming from SEs.

What is the proper solution for this "problem" not to mess up the rankings in SE? Should I do redirects, recreating the posts or maybe something else?

I am not even showing up. On google after working for the last six months I am placing well, but bing nothing shows when you type specifics. What would cause this?

I've tried Intelliminds, Koala, Jasper, Journalist. All good, but I really want to prioritize automation; making it as easy as possible to manage SEO (keyword research, clustering etc.) and not have to do much human editing.

What are your recommendations?

Don't be fooled by their marketing tactics to lured you into their scam.

Hi, can anyone help/ tell me how to set my website up most effectively for different countries. it is a .com url based in uk but I want one url for germany, one for eu and then one for uk. Or would you recommend a different way?

Any suggestions welcome

Hello everybody,

I’ve been blogging for over three months now, and believe me, it’s not going so well. I am barely getting any traffic, and I am not seeing much of an incline. Everybody talks about backlinks and how essential they are, but in what context? Some people say, one shouldn’t buy backlinks. I am also a bit confused as to how to actually make good quality, dofollow backlinks that will help my niche.

Recently, I have also started to lose my will to write because it just seems like all the time and energy put into something is amounting to nothing. To those of you in the same shoe, how do you keep on having that willpower to continue forward? How do you guy keep yourself motivated? despite knowing that there are absolutely no returns.

It would be very nice to hear some comments or suggestions as well to this matter!

We had a simple deal: we spend thousands of hours writing useful and validated content, and Google sends traffic to us. The first hit we took from Google was when smaller blogs were no longer presented. Now another hit is coming: answers will be provided directly to users with a small annotation about our website. Users won't need to visit our site; if they have additional questions, they can simply ask the AI chat again. I predict a 90% traffic loss for all informational, data, products, and Q&A pages.

No one will invest time in producing useful content anymore. Everything will be AI-generated. There might be some large, paywalled sites remaining. The Internet will be filled with fake and AI-generated content. These AI systems will crawl AI-generated content to produce even more AI content.

Ay tips? The thing is, for example in my country lives lots of english talking people. How can i specificaly target them with my english content?

Should be domain be local, but all content in english language? what about html lang tag then? <html lang="en"> or for example <html lang="es-en"> is correct to target Espanian people with english content?

any other examples how to do it right?

I'm really thinking about ditching RankMath Pro from my WordPress SEO setup. I got the renewal notice and decided to cancel it, so now I'm checking out SEOPress Pro instead.

If you’ve switched from RM to SEOPress, I'd love to hear how it went!

Help me how to boost my Domain rating :) I'll pay you $300

Here is a list of 20 free web directories to promote a website and gain authority in search engines. I hope you find it useful.

Hey folks!

I’m working on a platform called https://fix-acum.ro (soon moving to solicita.ro), and I could really use some SEO help to get this thing off the ground. It’s pretty much 90% done and is similar to ratedpeople.com or mybuilder.com, basically connecting homeowners in Romania with skilled workers for all kinds of services.

I’m looking for someone who knows their SEO and can help me with on-page stuff, link building, and getting it optimized for Google. It’s a paid gig, but I don’t have a huge budget, so I’m hoping to find someone who can help me make a real impact without breaking the bank.

If anyone’s interested or just has some tips, shoot me a DM or comment here. Thanks in advance!

This was hand-coded and built by me - would love your thoughts!

www.omniremovals.co.uk

Whats the best way to fully take advantage of Google Search Console?

Hey all,

I'm building a website to help people with their budgeting journey (family and personal budgeting):

simplifybudget.com

I’d appreciate any insights or tips on how to improve my SEO and reach more people who could benefit from these tools.

Thanks in advance!

How many of you know anything about ai training and how to manipulate results.

I been led to believe you can train these models and if that is true this would a huge change is how seo will be in the future

after HCU our traffic was just dead. Then all new content was deranked or deindexed completely. Now old content as old as before HCU lol is not ranking anymore. New content ranking top. Sometimes the new content dies in a span of a week.

Is this a good or bad sign? Is google not sure about us or is it thinking that the website has some technical issues that makes all content dies after 7 days? I feel like we are in some kind of virality competition as random as facebook shorts

Asking because we are thinking to abandon the domain for a new one (with better authority).

PS : Our SEO agency is useless, they don't know why this is happening. We are so close to firing them

Hello Redditors

I come to you to seek assistance,

I am looking at getting into SEO, I do have some basic knowledge and would like to get in full time.

I doubt I need a degree but would like to do some courses and practicals, any tips or advice ?

Okay. Sorry to use this platform it’s just that I have been able to find answers to tech questions and feel I may get some answer to the above question.

Someone is buying google play console that are 1 year plus. What could be the use in this case for them?

And please be as nice as possible to me in advising .

Should I sell or not? I feel it’s a scam or can bring a problem. Anyway I don’t know so please help me.

If anyone has any vacancy for a content writer job plz contact me. I need it.

Has anyone seen Screaming Frog miss some Technical SEO issues? For example, I ran a crawl & Screaming Frog didn't report on broken internal links

With Chat GPT search, at most, it lists the sources below the chat. I seldom feel the need to click those references. Google too is trying to move its users to GAI-based results. I can foresee a day when links won't be required anymore in the SERPs because AI can provide satisfactory answers.

Some people are optimistic that websites will continue to prosper because GAI needs data to provide results.

• What happens to the websites and blogs that employ AdSense?
• Will there still be visitors to individual blogs?

Hi guys, I'm trying to run my website which to be honest doesn't really get much traffic.

Im autistic so it blows my brain occasionally because I just can't grasp it sometimes.

I've spent hours working through the seo and i think it's going ok

Im trying to figure out how to get backlinks, I dont have much money so I know it's going to take some hard work.

Can anyone advise me where to even begin

Thanks in advance