I was going through ahrefs free training. They said reach out to an average of 20 different websites to get 1 guest blogger. I know each industry is different but what's your strategy for doing so and how successful are you and where do you find your guests? Ive been building lists off of social media and Google so far and writing blogs with low competitive keywords with high search volume

Hi all, first-time poster!

I'm looking for a tool to integrate with a custom build PHP platform that will trawl 1000s of product pages and update (or in some cases, write from scratch) their SEO meta descriptions.

Ideally we'd be able to input a set of keyphrases and terms to mix through -- any idea of a tool that does this that doesn't cost $1000 a month?

Thanks,
Michael

I have a client (expert in their field) that finally agreed to be listed as the author for content on their site.

They review everything for accuracy prior to publishing and all of the content published is based on videos he's published.

We've published nearly 100 articles over the last year+, all supporting content for his 'expert' videos.

I wanted to change the author on these articles to his name but I don't want to get dinged by Google for doing so.

The current author is just a placeholder; no name, no bio, nothing. Not even a brand author profile.

Have any of your done something like this in the past? What was the outcome?

Thank you!

So I just started a dog training business and need help with SEO stuff to actually get clicks and therefore clients. I’ve been quoted two different things, one being one time fee $700 for a rebuild of website and social media pages and some other stuff that’s over my head.

As well as $99 a month for a company to do all the directories stuff or $300 a month for directory stuff and back linking.

The $99 and $300 are from boostability, however multiple people on this Reddit have said don’t use them bc the backlinks they do aren’t actually beneficial.

My budget is around the boostabilities prices. Is it worth it to do for a few months? Are there better companies that do the same thing for about the same price?

I know you get what you pay for but just wanna get the most I can. My website is built thru Wix if that matters.

Hi.

I have a website and I created some thousands blog pages for the site. After some time, I removed those blogs because I thought the blog pages do not have good quality. It leaves a lot 404 errors in Google Search Console. I create a new subfolder and create some high quality content for the website. I submitted the sitemap of the new subfolder but Google no longer index the blogs in my new subfolder. It is strange that if I use a subdomain, it can index pages from the subdomain.

How should I handle this issue? Should I remove the domain from Google Search Console and then add it back? Or I have to use a subdomain?

Title pretty much sums it up, but to clarify, what's been going down in SEO land since the end of December?

I optimized my client's business GBP. He is a plumber.

He's ranking in the top 3 on the local map pack.

However he's barely getting leads.

According to the Google Search Console in the last 28 days:

Impressions: 640

Visitors: 26

So the average CTR is 4.1%.

I used GMBRadar to track his local ranking. It even says he's in the top 1 in several areas.

What am I missing? Why don't they click on my client's site?

Hey everyone, need some good advice

Basically, I am working on a project that is just getting started, we are working on some content and the off-page SEO. This is the first time I am doing both on and off page SEO for a product and I am a bit hesitant. What actually worked for you and your project?

Another thing that bothers me is the founder wants to write all the content with AI, since we don't have a writer and they don't want to write it themselves, I can't do it either seems I am a freelancer and work for 5-7 hours a week on this project so I have other tasks to take care of.

Will this work? I am trying very hard to convince him to write some stuff without AI, but so for no luck

Thanks!

I’m not a beginner in SEO—I’ve been in the industry for almost five years. For the first three years, I had the opportunity to work under SEO experts who helped me develop a more critical approach and taught me insights that you don’t typically find in courses or YouTube videos. However, my boss left two years ago, and instead of hiring a replacement, my coworker and I took over his clients. Since then, I feel like my growth has plateaued.

While I stay up-to-date with industry news and experiment with strategies, I’m looking for ways to elevate my knowledge beyond the basics and intermediate concepts. My coworker has 10 years of experience, but he tends to keep his "secret sauce" to himself, so I haven’t been able to learn much from him.

I’d love recommendations for advanced SEO resources—whether it’s courses, podcasts, blogs, communities, or specific discussions that go beyond surface-level strategies. This community has been great for insights, but I’m looking for something that will help me truly step up my game.

Any advice?

I've discussed this with many new SEOs, and here’s my take:

When done right, category pages can help with SEO by targeting valuable keywords, improving rankings, and making navigation easier.

But most people get it wrong by leaving them empty, using default text, or not linking properly.

I also found that adding a short 400-600 word intro, using relevant keywords, and linking to your best content can improve your category page rankings. It’s a simple but effective strategy.

If you can, please add your point to know better about category pages.

Hi guys,

There is a cryptocurrency exchange company which is a popular one over the last year or so they have started selectively scamming its users I want to create awareness and save people by whenever they search for the company on google in page 1 they see my reddit post explaining there scam how can I achieve this so I can save peoples money.

Thanks.

I have 50+ domains that are similar or competitive to my main domain. How can I use these to improve my page rank for my main site, or what should I do with them?

To identify new SEO keywords that I already rank for, but which have poor positions or can be improved.

I open my Chrome extension from one of my articles.

I filter “long tail keywords"

I select 28 days or 3 months, then sort by number of impressions.

Most of the time, I find at least 10 keywords that I can use in my H2, or to rewrite a paragraph or dedicate an article.

Hey all, I'm a total SEO beginner and have the following question: I have a website with a few pages indexed, some of them blogposts. When I published them in October, I saw impressions coming in in the search console but no clicks (probably because of bad content/titles, etc.). Now, Google basically decided to give me no more impressions at all; it's literally flat-lined. I'm wondering: if I start updating the content, make it better, and get more backlinks, is it likely that Google will give me impressions again? Or am I put on some kind of blacklist by Google?

I have a site in the beauty niche with about 30-40 pages and c.150 blog posts.

For reasons I can't go into, I need to 'mothball' / close the site for some time (likely 6-12 months).

How can I do this so as not to minimise SEO damage to my site that I have taken years to build up?

Naturally, I'd rather not do this but it is unavoidable. What would be best practice please?

Hi all,

TLDR:

• I run an agency based in Canada that generates ~$1.1MM in ARR across 20 accounts, with an additional ~$100k/year in ad-hoc consulting/project work.
• Net margins are around 38%
• Small team: operations lead (co-founder, 49% equity holder), 2 x project managers (50 hours/week total), 1 x senior SEO (25 hours/week), 1 x senior copywriter (40 hours/week), 1 x internal digital PR (35 hours/week)
• Systems in place for key workflows
• Low overhead
• Sales channel is based on my sales activity, warm market, and referrals; I am willing to stay on for a handover perid of 1-2 years for the right number
• Not interested in a firesale/quick offload; I want my clients and team to be taken care of

We've worked our ass off to have a clean book of business, reliable recurring revenue, and internal systems for critical deliverables (such as links from digital PR activities).

I've been getting conflicting advice on how/when to exit. I'm looking for insights from others that have exited at similar revenue levels.

Long story short, I had a content/blog only site that got wiped off the face of the Earth by Google in the Dec update. For perspective, even typing in the article name + the domain name returns nothing in search results for latest blog posts (they get indexed but nowhere to be seen). No AI written content, but clear on the 'content only sites no longer rank' message. The site now gets about 20 visitors a day, mostly through 1 URL with a very specific answer to a very niche question no one else is answering

No penalties in the GSC but it's clear it's an algo penalty

I was planning on launching a brand new web app on this domain ...

Should I still go ahead and launch the web app in pursuit of recovering the domain or start afresh on a new domain? Has anyone had any success in recovering their content only sites by switching to web apps instead of blog only type content?

Ideally want to keep the original domain but worried I'm going to jeopardize the new web app

I'm looking to learn SEO and was wondering if there were any recommended courses to get me started?

Pretty much the title, I have a website that has decent traffic but no social media

I honestly don't have a time to do any posts or anything really, this is just a side hobby project; and goes without saying I'm not spending money on any ads or those advanced tools that help with social media or whatever.

What I want to know with ppl that understand this domain better is if just vitrine Social Media with backlinks to my website help or not ? like I would just have the pinned post saying to go to my website and that's it ; if yes what socials work best ?

Any answer apperciated

So, basically, we had our website meetecho.io and we were ranking well on Google for ‘Echo AI’ then out of nowhere we drop off the face of the earth on Google.

We found it this was most likely due to us sending cold emails from this domain and so we bought a new domain meetecho.app and moved the landing page across to that.

We then made meetecho.io a 302 redirect to meetecho.app and for some reason this new meetecho.app isn’t ranking anywhere on ‘Echo AI’ (should be the highest ranking keyword for it) the only place I can see it ranking 1st is ‘Meet echo ai’ even then it’s the old website (meetecho.io) which is ranking there.

I’m so confused but wondering if a 302 redirect has brought over the bad rep from the old website as well. Does anyone know a way around this or how to fix?

TLDR: Fucked my first domain by cold email, switched to new one with a 302 redirect, still isn’t ranking anywhere. Is this cos of the 302 redirect?

What's the best AI internal linking tool?

I'm looking for something AI assisted but not autonomous nor automatic. I also need it in a niche language, Danish.

I read that LinkWhisper sucks with its suggestions. Linksyai, LinkStorm, Linkboss, and Linkter are all on my short list.

Beki.io is my front runner since I can have 1 site for free up to a certain size and since my site is brand new, it fits my needs for now. However, I can't find any information about supported languages. I contacted their parent company but so far, crickets.

So, any personal experiences with these tools?

Hi Guys,

One of my GMB post is removed from the GMB listing due to content policy violation. I always publish the post with proper check. What will be the cause. Can you share your ideas here?

Thanks

Me currently

DR = 0

Backlinks 27 (19% dofollow)

Linking websites 18 (22% dofollow)

Site is at least 16+ years old. It has had pics and text explaining my services and such, updated a few times. Honestly not a horrible looking site anyway. But it has never been optimized for SEO until I am working on that now. So Google hasn’t done much for indexing all these years, again, until recently.

Checking ahrefs for the stats of my competitors that rank on the first two pages for the key words I want to rank for. These are the median numbers:

DR = 14

Backlinks = 410 (61% Dofollow)

Linking websites = 104 (63% dofollow)

Looking at the linking websites, very few have anything to do with the niche specifically. Those linking websites with high DR, with only a few exceptions, its all mostly sites like directories, seo builder sites, wiki, etc. (If I am allowed to post links here, I can link them if it helps?)

Of the pages these backlinks link too of my competitors, they are usually just the companies landing page, or possibly another page describing one of their services. Almost never any blog or high value content. Just describing their service. Not much real value to anyone to want to link too.

Considering the context of what my competitors have. I’m looking for advice on the first things to do to improve my backlinks. I’m talking, before I jump in and paying a service. Happy to do that after I get the low hanging fruit to at least have learned something first. And have shown that it even matters at all, for my niche. Doesn't seam like my competitors take it too terribly seriously, but I could be missreading it.

Hey!

We're a small start-up and I'm very new to the world of web dev, so far I understand that keywords are not the be all end all, but they help with targeted searches and rankings.

I'm wondering how exact I have to be with with keywords and phrases, for context, we're an online fitness coaching/personal training brand.

A high volume search I'm looking to target is geo-targeted landing pages, so phrases like "personal trainers near me" "gyms near me" "Sydney personal trainer".

I've created a web-page template headed "Your Fitness Journey in Sydney Starts here" Followed up with "Are you living in Sydney and looking for a personal trainer?" Will google AI view these as similar enough to be showing them to people that search these terms? Or am I going too broad with it?

I'm also adding pages for each suburb of my local city to fine-tune the keywords too.

My website cianfrusaglie.net is 7 years old, with a good blog and indexed articles. It has like 3k clic/month, but if you search "cianfrusaglie" on google you can't find it, even in the second/third of result page.

What can I do? Have I to pay google ads for this keyword?

I noticed that my XML sitemap URL has a "noindex" tag, which is preventing me from submitting it for indexing. However, all of my individual pages and blog posts are indexed. Is this an issue, or will it not affect my site's visibility on search engines

My 20yr old company domain does not rank when searching for the company name.

Some days back it was giving error that it's a dangerous site and later that day it just gone from the SERP

So my company has an old website: xxx[dot]com. Then they want to create a new one, so they opened a new server and created the new website www[dot]xxx[dot]com, but they did not put it live in the first place.

Then they created the subdomain sub[dot]xxx[dot]com (for other customers) from the old website, and they made the subdomain live for a while. For few months later, they put all the 301 redirects from the old website to the new website and made it live.

Also, the subdomain and new website have 90% of the content similarity.

In the subdomain, I put the canonical tag and point to our new website.

I was thinking of putting all the noindex tags on the subdomain, but I am afraid it might hurt the new website as well...

The problem is, that some keywords on SERP, show the subdomain, not the new website.

Also for certain keywords, it shows inconsistent results between the subdomain and the new website( e.g today shows the page of the new website, and it shows the page of the subdomain the other day)...

And they don't want to differentiate the content between the subdomain and the new website....so I have no idea what to do now.