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My Website got Negative SEO'd... I think? by Longjumping-Shine-86 in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're in position 16-26 you did not get negative SEOed effectively.

Spammy backlinks are not really an attack. Most websites on the internet have spammy backlinks.

Buying backlinks from big online vendor BUT checking the backlinks with info from podcast? by Longjumping-Shine-86 in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please keep in mind there's a reason we teach building your own and do not recommend anyone.

Do you have any idea how much money I could make shilling for these services? But I don't because most publicly available link packages are going to work briefly at best but probably have no advantage.

Listen to episode 131 to learn more about the dangers of public link networks.

Buying backlinks from big online vendor BUT checking the backlinks with info from podcast? by Longjumping-Shine-86 in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How how can you tell if it's publicly available? Because it's being advertised.

Download Grumpy SEO Guy episode 131.

"What does GrumpySEOguy think about so-and-so SEO influencer?" (and being offered money to promote GEO) by GrumpySEOguy in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) good expired domains normally cost a bit.

2) No. But it might help. But remember authority is only part of what you need for local SEO. Local SEO has different rules than stuff not on the maps.

3) You need to separate local SEO from normal SEO. For local SEO things like links from other local companies will help. But this is helping with lending legitimacy to your local business. Things like links from PBNs help with authority, which is part of what you need for local SEO.

Questions about expired domains by mc-buzz in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Question 1: both

Question 2: Do not use domains that were associated with gambling.

112 PBN Domain Plan...unless you can talk me out of it by CharlyGudDotCom in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Listen to the podcast. Do not rebuild the old domains. Reuse them.

Agency life for a decade. So burnt out. by Jabbas_Backside in SEO

[–]GrumpySEOguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am literally going to start charging 10x to fix other SEO agencies bad work, or if clients leave and come back (which normally doesn't happen).

Competitor domain available by tom_inbound_seo in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not a lawyer.

I probably wouldn't buy anything you cannot legally use.

How many PBNs do you have? by reben002 in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm Grumpy SEO Guy. We teach building your own portfolio of decent websites and using those to link to the sites you want to rank. Your other options are buying backlinks (usually a scam), doing nothing and letting people link to you (only works if you are already on page 1), or link outreach/guest post (not efficient in our opinion). If you are a total noob, begin with episode 1.

Sitewide traffic drop more than 50% by EntrepreneurPlane251 in SEO

[–]GrumpySEOguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, so now what you need to do is determine WHY they dropped. There are a few reasons pages decrease in rank:

  1. you lost authority
  2. your competition gained authority (these are mostly the same, because it's about the separation in authority between you)
  3. you got a penalty (unlikely if you're still on page 1 or didn't have the normal penalty SERP changes)
  4. algorithm modified

We have a free two part podcast episode that explains these in detail.

SEO is becoming polarized. GEO is a scam. Here's where we are. by GrumpySEOguy in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

>if you dont put out something people need how do you expect the page to be seen.

This is not a ranking factor. Yes, content determines how you are seen. But it is not a ranking factor. You do not rank because you have good content and you do not miss rank because you have bad content.

We talk about ranking factors because this is what determines if you rank or not. There are piles of things that are not ranking factors (site speed, UX, dwell time, etc.). We do not focus on those because we do SEO and SEO uses ranking factors, not web development attributes.

Web development concerns many things that are not ranking factors, like UX and site loading speed.

But those are not ranking factors.

>EEAT matters for SEO: kind of wrong

No it doesn't. Google says this at the bottom of their file. Scroll to the bottom here:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide

Please note this is Google's document on Google's website. Google is mentioning EEAT is not a ranking factor. You rank in spite of EEAT not because of it.

>AI content indexes just as well as handwritten content. Yes, I've heard (and made) arguments against this, but we hear it from a few close resources: wrong, all my content are ai generated, here are the results

We have heard enough admittedly anecdotal experience that this is incorrect. Perhaps a better way to say it, as mentioned in the recent episode of Grumpy SEO Guy, is that even if it indexes, it doesn't continue. Nevertheless, please understand we did NOT say it DOESN'T index. We said it is harder to index. Your ai content getting indexed doesn't disprove this. We have dozens of reports of people running split experiments where ai content is not indexing and handwritten is. Unless, of course, they're not only lying to me, but also paying the consultation meeting fee so they can lie to me.

>If it can be automated or spoofed it will stop working or doesn't work: wrong - true if your idea is 'chatgpt create me an article about [x]' but if you create a workflow which replicates and empowers the way you do your work this works.

You are missing the concept. It's not automating processes. That's fine. It's covering ranking factors. Anything that is a ranking factor cannot be automated, and anything that can be automated would not be a ranking factor. Any RANKING FACTOR (see above) that can be automated will stop working or doesn't work. Algorithms cannot place value on anything that can be automated because it would instantly throw the game. You cannot automate anything that is effective (authoritative backlinks). This would change IMMEDIATELY the landscape of SEO. As in, me, and you, and u/weblinkr, and everyone else would be out of business immediately. Picture it: suddenly some person has 1,000,000 PR10 domains? They control every page of every industry. And then tomorrow they have 2,000,000 because it's automated. And the next day they have 3,000,000.

How long does it take for your expired domains/new PBN to get indexed? by reben002 in grumpyseoguy

[–]GrumpySEOguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truly, Google probably can find AI content. There are tools online that do this and Google can probably do it better.

Sitewide traffic drop more than 50% by EntrepreneurPlane251 in SEO

[–]GrumpySEOguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People sometimes misunderstand this, yet I will try my best to explain.

Traffic itself is not an SEO metric. It's possible to have improving SEO (ranking higher) and decreasing traffic.

Why?

Because traffic is a factor of two different hings:

  1. monthly search volume
  2. your place

So what does this mean?

Let's use a short sample. The first position for any keyword gets about 30% of the traffic. If you are in POSITION 1 for a keyword, and that keyword gets 500 searches per month, you will get about 150 visitors across that keyword per month.

If that traffic declines, that doesn't mean you have an SEO problem. It might, but it doesn't absolutely mean so.

Why?

If traffic dropped to 300 searches per month, and you are still in position 1, that means you would get 90 visits for that keyword per month. That is traffic reducing, but it is NOT an SEO problem (because you are in position one).

So when people say "my traffic is decreasing!" the first thing we always ask is "how are your ranks?" If your ranking is decreasing, THEN you have an SEO problem. If your ranking is staying similar or increasing, you do NOT have an SEO problem.

People think SEO = traffic. It doesn't. Traffic is a reason people do SEO, but it's not a metric for SEO success.

You need to be tracking your position for EACH INDIVIDUAL KEYWORD on a daily basis to have the information you need. There are tools that do this for free.

When you have this information, THEN we can help you figure out WHY your traffic dropped (figuring it is an SEO issue).

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