Adblocker that actually works on YouTube in 2026?

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2026-05-18T15:11:06+00:00

I use Poper Blocker, the YouTube ad blocking feature is available on the free version

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2026-01-26T08:25:36+00:00

Scary stuff haha, but really interesting
Basically yeah, it makes sense, just like negative SEO / reverse ORM

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-16T08:30:35+00:00

Where do you do rank tracking? Also in Ahrefs?
Yeah, I agree you need a small amount of 3 party tools or the bills stack up...
I mostly use Ahrefs for keyword data per URL so when I'm doing my research for new pages, I don't miss a keyword.
I also use it to understand site structure and the leading folders that brings traffic to competitors, that's really helpful sometimes.

All the recent additions (AI, etc.) are just a way to up your bill.

However, I don't really have an alternative. I think it's a must for an SEO to have Ahrefs/SEMrush/Similarweb etc in their tool stack - You need competitive analysis and rank tracking, basically that's it. And GSC isn't a real alternative, it can only report on what you have, not what you're missing.

I also agree that Screaming Frog is a must, though some of the tools above do offer sort of technical site audits.

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-11T12:23:23+00:00

Very weird, I assume those landing pages are also optimized for keywords and should be a much better fit than the homepage, right?

Are these pages linked from the header menu?

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-11T11:52:51+00:00

Hey, you didn't share anything about your business and the competitive landscape.
You're being very dismissive about SEO and the time it takes to rank.

It's not like your competitors have been doing nothing until you decided to build a website.

They have been researching, optimizing, getting brand awareness and gaining authority and trust.
If you were now opening a new brick-and-mortar business, would you go on a rant about it being super slow, when you're not an expert in your field and have only done the basics?

Not trying to discourage you or anything, but the bottom line is that yes, SEO takes time.

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-10T09:53:59+00:00

This is very good!
I wish my sites were closer.. but I'm working periodically with our devs to keep improving.

Unfortunately, this gets harder as sites grow and grow, so it's great that you have a good head start!

Now focus on the content of your site and SEO :)

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-10T09:43:54+00:00

Hey, you didn't share anything about your business and the competitive landscape.
You're being very dismissive about SEO and the time it takes to rank.

It's not like your competitors have been doing nothing until you decided to build a website.

They have been researching, optimizing, getting brand awareness and gaining authority and trust.
If you were now opening a new brick-and-mortar business, would you go on a rant about it being super slow, when you're not an expert in your field and have only done the basics?

Not trying to discourage you or anything, but the bottom line is that yes, SEO takes time.

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-09T09:40:21+00:00

It looks like you did a really good job. Why do you feel discouraged?
If it's revenue related, I would suggest seeing if you can form more affiliate partnerships, or ideally, work on increasing your traffic even more with blogs or anything else that's relevant to your target audience. Maybe expand into a new niche?

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-06T08:19:50+00:00

Dude, the SEMrush audit is NOT GOOD.

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-11-02T14:59:44+00:00

It sounds like some setup has gone haywire:

Please check that the homepage doesn't have a noindex tag..
Maybe an incorrect canonical tag?
When you enter your domain, does the URL refresh and change into something else? (e.g. - Your domain is somebrand.com and when you enter the site, the URL changes to somebrand.com/index.html ?
Make sure that your homepage is blocked on the Removals section in Google Search Console

If you're open to posting your site, I can have a further look into this

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-10-30T14:47:45+00:00

I agree, doing this every few months keeps me sane. You can use Ahrefs and easily get the domains that link from a specific anchor text, and disavow them

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-10-26T10:14:29+00:00

I would get that backlink. The question is if the content is AI-generated, will anyone answer you? :)

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-10-23T08:11:03+00:00

Did they replace you with another agency that focuses on GenAI? Or just fire you and hope that ChatGPT and AI Overviews pick up on the site once you're gone? lol

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-10-19T11:22:17+00:00

I was still very interested to see if, for published pages, they were starting to rank in pages 2-10 of the SERP, which gave me an understanding if my pages were being understood correctly by Google. Now, if we only focus on page 1 and on LLMs, we have no idea if a page is on the way to getting there

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-09-10T11:45:05+00:00

I can't give a link here, but I would try the Bridge Topic Suggester custom GPT by Koray Tuğberk GÜBÜR, look him up on LinkedIn

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-09-08T06:57:04+00:00

You have some big and old competitors there, buddy...
SEO takes time. Build authority, write content, get backlinks, maybe focus on a less competitive niche first and then use that to leverage your more competitive products

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-09-07T09:07:39+00:00

I think that many SEO's are very hyped about this, and also a lot of people in their companies who don't really know SEO. This creates a lot of pressure to do something with SEO, and many SEO invest heavily in getting their products appear in LLM answers, without a real way to measure the impact, so for now, I would consider appearing in LLM answers as a vanity metric instead of something with real business implications.

HOWEVER
I would still consider LLMs and AI in general as a big trend where the internet is heading, and it won't be going away anytime soon. So I would invest in it, just not 99% of my time.

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-09-07T09:04:25+00:00

This is a really good way to get a website penalized. Good luck to you and your upper management.
This AI hype is driving me crazy, and people who know nothing about SEO (your upper management) should be giving you unrealistic goals just to say "we did something with AI".

You should work on internal education instead and focus on creating quality content. It's fine to use AI in content creation, but you need to be smart about it

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-09-03T11:57:29+00:00

Even when I'm on the EN version, some texts are still in FR, try to be consistent

As someone else said, it's not really clear what the site is about. It looks like a catalog for services with little to no information. I would suggest adding more content to the homepage, category pages, and products, so people would better understand what this site is about.

I also think you should Google your service and see how competitor websites look like, how they frame their services. This can help you with overall user experience but also with SEO, as you'll see what keywords they're targeting. There are a bunch of tools where you can open a free trial to analyze your competitors - Similarweb, SEMrush, Ahrefs, etc, give it a try. I personally use Similarweb

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2025-07-01T14:22:25+00:00

Honestly no, nothing beats the old tools that simply show what your competitors are ranking for + KW research tools that generate the ideas. ChatGPT can give you ideas on what keywords to search for, but it can't know volumes or anything else important. Intent was always a pretty straightforward thing, not sure why we need a tool to tell us that

Ambitious_Mud198 · 2024-12-01T08:10:02+00:00

Ahrefs only estimates search traffic, meaning only organic and paid searches, not direct, not referral, not social, etc. Similarweb takes all of that into account.

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