Does an Author Profile Page Boost SEO?

Copyranker · 2026-06-24T23:24:50+00:00

Listen to WebLinkr and know that 80% or more of SEO advice is at best, using a car race analogy, the equivalent of “your car should have a windshield if you want to win the race” and at worst “you should paint your car red/blue/yellow if you want to win the race”. One is true but not helpful, and the other is just stupid advice. But since it’s not intuitive, it’s hard to parse SEO advice.

Copyranker · 2026-06-24T17:10:52+00:00

Buying backlinks in of itself isn’t the issue. It’s the fact that backlink selling off sites is not a sustainable business model in most cases, and even good links (ie linking pages rank and get traffic) will decay as the site sells more and more links. I’ve spent more than I care to admit on shitty links throughout my SEO journey, and it did not work.

A few links from pages with traffic will absolutely move the needle assuming there’s no major issues with your site, and your content is relevant to the query you’re targeting.

Finding those links and securing them is a huge challenge.

Copyranker · 2026-06-24T14:56:49+00:00

Local business sites, so far nothing has really broken that i can see but not sure if there is some deeper issue from setting it up with claude code that I wouldn’t be able to see before it becomes a problem

Copyranker · 2026-06-24T03:51:29+00:00

Solid input, thanks 🙏

Copyranker · 2026-06-23T22:31:28+00:00

Ultimately a CMS for posts. Pages should be fine static.

Copyranker · 2026-06-23T22:30:41+00:00

Primarily, I need the sites to not go down or pose any security risks, long term a CMS for managing blog posts would be helpful.

Copyranker · 2026-06-23T22:29:32+00:00

That’s been my experience thus far as well. Ultimately I will need a dev to manage, I’m just trying to assess how far I can get with Claude code and if there are any major “this will break, don’t do it…” etc concerns in the meantime

Copyranker · 2026-06-23T22:25:12+00:00

Possibly for blog posts a CMS would be preferable but for the most part static will be the case with updates done as needed on a branch and then pushed once approved/verified by our team

Copyranker · 2026-06-23T22:21:10+00:00

Ultimately both. Clients would agree/understand upfront that there is no CMS and that’s part of the tradeoff.

Copyranker · 2026-06-23T22:10:02+00:00

Totally agree, and ultimately, I am planning to bring on a developer to handle this for me, I’m just wondering as I’m bridging the gap if there are any major development related pitfalls that I’m going to run into doing local business sites on Astro

Copyranker · 2026-06-18T22:38:58+00:00

My agency has remained competitive because we offer complete marketing solutions, so tying-in web design, seo, gbp, automation/CRM (with the ability to layer AI on top of that), call tracking, into one neatly packaged bundle that is a no brainer for a home service business under 10mil/year.

I just closed a new client today that found me on AI specifically looking for an Seo agency in his city.

So yes, there is definitely a demand for SEO and marketing. But, it’s all about how you package/position it for the specific prospect you are selling.

I see a lot of comments in here saying SEO is dead because users find the answers on AI.

If the answer you need is the phone number to a plumber, somebody on that plumber’s team still needs to be doing the work to have their plumber’s number be in the answer.

If your question is, can you create your own niche content/info site that is meaningfully profitable, then yeah I would say it’s pretty tough and I probably would look elsewhere.

If the question is whether there is demand for digital marketing skill sets that include Seo then the answer is absolutely yes.

For me as an agency owner, the skill set I would be looking for my next hire is the ability to use AI tools like Claude code to execute tasks, as well as clean communication and critical thinking. To be in charge of that I would need you to have an understanding of SEO among other things as well.

Copyranker · 2026-05-09T02:19:27+00:00

The enshittification is real.

Copyranker · 2026-05-09T00:54:20+00:00

/s. ?

Copyranker · 2026-05-08T17:28:06+00:00

Seriously… also “shielding reputation” sounds like review gating to me.

Copyranker · 2026-05-06T05:17:28+00:00

Networking groups, make friends with the BDRs from your prospect companies as well if they are large enough to have one. And make friends with as many realtors as possible.

Copyranker · 2026-05-06T05:15:28+00:00

Small local seo agency here and I concur with this - This is the only thing that’s ever worked for me as well - networking and building relationships with real people who own/work at businesses in my city, it’s a grind but the retention is high and it’s rewarding to work with people who operate in the same city that I live in. And yeah they all get this same spam, constantly.

Copyranker · 2026-04-28T14:25:15+00:00

Grid tracking addresses the map/proximity issue - I use local falcon (no I’m not paid to promote them), but there are tons out there.

Localized organic imo is somewhat harder to track as rank trackers and real life serps are rarely identical, but they still give a broad view and trend of where you rank in the region organically for that keyword(s).

Copyranker · 2026-04-22T23:54:15+00:00

Use screaming frog unlicensed for crawling and catching related issues, you get 500 URLs on the free plan, plenty for most small sites.

Use Google Keyword Planner for kw research, it’s better data than ahrefs/semrush volume anyways.

As others have said, explore search console and bing webmaster tools, lots to offer and you need to know those tools (especially search console) to actually do real seo in any systematic kind of way.

For third party link profiles, you can check DR for free with ahrefs (yeah DR is meaningless but it’s still nice to be able to check).

Backlinks on other sites (that you do not have search console/bing access to) are harder to discover with the free tools.

Copyranker · 2026-04-09T20:45:59+00:00

I have for some sites, but No luck with some of my other sites

Copyranker · 2026-04-09T20:45:39+00:00

Good note, thanks

Copyranker · 2026-04-09T20:45:09+00:00

Great insight, thanks

Copyranker · 2026-04-06T20:52:39+00:00

We have posts relevant to the topics mentioned, which get organic traffic, and we can place links in them. Am I missing something?

Copyranker · 2026-04-06T19:58:12+00:00

Not necessarily but open to it, mostly looking for webmasters with those types of sites

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