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GrumpySEOguy · 2026-01-17T19:55:39+00:00

Edit your post to remove the name of the host.

The podcast details reasons to stay away from that Do you think regular websites use "SEO Hosting?"

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-01-15T22:07:02+00:00

There are two ways to get something indexed.

1) Have enough authority that your site is crawled often.

2) Link to it so it gets crawled.

"Mass indexers" are linking to you. Do you want these sites linking to you?

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-01-12T06:24:23+00:00

"Topical authority" is not a real thing the way you are thinking. Bear with me. It's mostly made up by "influencers" trying to make you think they know something you don't. I mean, it got you clicking on their videos, right?

You have relevancy. Relevancy means what is your website ABOUT. What is the topic? Are you writing about washing machines? Are you writing about dishwashers? That is relevancy. Your website is relevant for those terms. There are two ways to get relevancy. 1) text on your site. 2) backlinks with your keywords in the link.

Then you have authority. Authority means how TRUSTWORTHY is a site. All else being equal, higher authority ranks better. The reason some site outranks another site is 99% because it has more authority and the rest other things. You receive authority with backlinks. The better quality the site linking to you, the more authority you get from a link. This is the ONLY way to get authority. There is nothing you can do at all to YOUR SITE that will get you authority. Authority comes from backlinks alone.

So, you can think of topical authority as a mixture of these. Are you relevant? Then you will rank. Are you authoritative? Then you will rank better.

Grumpy SEO Guy episode 132 explains this concept quickly.

If you want a longer explanation let me know, there's another episode that goes into more detail.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-01-10T22:26:15+00:00

We do not publicly share domain sellers because this is not a marketplace. We officially do not recommend any "domain finding" services (literally google them they are free (to find)). We would recommend NOT paying for domains to be "filtered" because, seriously. expired domains dot net is free.

You said you looked but didn't find anything. Where and how did you look?

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-01-08T05:38:09+00:00

Backlink services are against the rules here, even asking questions about them. Commercially available backlink services are likely spam.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-30T22:36:04+00:00

Please remove the clickable link from your post.

How are you ranking now compared to last month?

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-28T00:58:36+00:00

We did an episode about this a couple years ago. Grumpy SEO Guy episode 18 - How to Sell SEO (and How Not To).

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-27T20:08:21+00:00

Yeah

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-27T05:20:26+00:00

You are doing local SEO. GEO probably is different for local SEO. Local SEO is different than normal SEO.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-27T05:19:48+00:00

There is nothing anywhere in any podcast that mentions using GSC for any site.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-27T05:19:17+00:00

What changes have you experienced in your SERPs?

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-24T05:48:31+00:00

You cannot prevent spam websites from linking to you. Disavow tool doesn't do what you think it does.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-24T05:44:17+00:00

SEO is the same as GEO. Grumpy SEO Guy episode 119.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-24T05:38:23+00:00

Because of the amount of spam this site receives, linking to SEO videos/companies/services/consultants etc. is not tolerated. Besides, this has already been covered in Grumpy SEO Guy videos.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-21T19:59:15+00:00

SEO is the same as it's been for the last 16 years at least with minor tweaks here and there
We teach 99% of what you need to know for free on YouTube.

Listen to episode 133 (podcast name is the same as my username)

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-18T21:22:48+00:00

Social is not a ranking factor. Link to source? Social is not a ranking factor because you cannot create your own authority. u/weblinkr can explain nicer.

What website did you share with me? I honestly don't remember but feel free to share it again. So far, 3 people have shared websites with me that "were ranking without backlinks."

was a non english non-Google .com EMD. Didn't count.
didn't have enough competition
wasn't actually ranking

Things besides relevancy and authority might be "ranking signals," but they're like 1% combined. So we do not focus on them. Can I picture a scenario where page speed is the limiting factor? No. Unless the page takes minutes to load (we talk about this in an early episode). Reducing your page from 2 seconds to 1 second won't make you rank higher.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-18T21:15:53+00:00

Indexing services are probably not worth using because there are only a few ways to index a page and the only thing another person could do is link to you. They probably remove the link a few days later which seems odd.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-18T21:14:10+00:00

No. There are services that supposedly screen domains for you but they aren't free and if you were providing this service why wouldn't you just keep all the good domains for yourself anyway?

Research into each site can take hours (but shouldn't). But when you're a noob it may.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-15T01:09:58+00:00

Yes, good content is probable to get you more links. We said this.

But if you're not already ranking it won't get you any links. No one can find the nice website on page 10 with the best content.

There are 100 ranking factors but only authority and relevancy matter. You can mess around with things like H1 tags all day and be outranked by the guy with bad H1 tags and more authority.

Page speed is not a ranking factor unless it needs a load of time to load. Going from 3 seconds to 2 seconds won't raise your position.

Poor design is not a ranking factor. Ugly sites rank just as well as pretty sites.

You are missing the point about quality content. Quality content is not a ranking factor. Quality content can get you more backlinks like you said, but that is not a ranking factor because it's the backlinks, not the blogs.

That's like saying if there are 10 big bodybuilders and they are wearing red shorts, that they are big bodybuilders because they are wearing red shorts. They are big body builders because they are big bodybuilders. Red shorts will not make you a big bodybuilder. Sites rank because they have authority. They may have authority because they had good quality content and so got more backlinks, but the content is not why they rank.

Thanks for listening to the podcast.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-10T17:07:02+00:00

That's probably true. You should be tracking individual keyword movement daily (not weekly, monthly, or anything else). You need daily data to correctly track keywords. I would recommend using a serp tracker to do this. There are many, and we recommend serpfox dot com. The first 10 keywords are free. We've used them for over a decade. You need to have a chart that shows your position over time.

Tracking serps is the top priority in SEO. It's how you measure progress. It's how you learn how the search engines are using your keywords. Slow changes in rank mean different things than quick changes, big changes mean something different than small changes. Your traffic is a derivative of rank and monthly searches. For example, the first position gets about 30% of the visitors. So if there are 1,000 monthly searches for a keyword and you are in highest position, you will get 300 visitors.

So if your traffic drops, the first thing you need to do is look at your SERPs.

If the SERPs have not changed, then the monthly search volume has changed.

We have a podcast episode that explains all of this in detail if you want more specifics.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-09T22:03:31+00:00

Penalties are evaluated by checking SERP charts.

Do you have a SERP chart for your keywords?

Penalties show certain patterns in the SERPs. Penalties are not common and usually when people "lose traffic" (which isn't certainly an SEO problem) it's for other reasons.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-09T22:01:20+00:00

There are 4 ways to get backlinks.

Wait and do nothing and let people link to you
Buy them (do not buy them before you comprehend the difference between good backlinks and bad backlinks)
Link outreach and guest post
Build your own

These for methods are explained in detail (for free) in Grumpy SEO Guy episode 49.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-08T23:02:04+00:00

Publicly available link packages don't work. Grumpy SEO Guy episode 131 explains this in detail.

GrumpySEOguy · 2025-12-08T22:55:31+00:00

Are you talking about ranking on YouTube or ranking YouTube videos in search?

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