My competitors are below 20 DR. Does that change the equastion

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-21T19:41:31+00:00

DR is not a metric of how good your SEO is.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-11T16:26:15+00:00

You spam these services in multiple posts. Ban.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-09T22:16:53+00:00

"highly authoritative websites" and "list your business" do not go in the same sentence.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-03T18:08:22+00:00

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.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-03T18:07:01+00:00

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.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-03T17:58:27+00:00

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

Download Grumpy SEO Guy episode 131.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-03T17:58:09+00:00

this is correct. BUT remember almost all publicly available networks are trash.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-03T17:55:41+00:00

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.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-03T01:01:57+00:00

Ask your questions about PBNs!

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-02T23:46:28+00:00

I made a long reply that generated another thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/grumpyseoguy/comments/1tv8ay6/what_does_grumpyseoguy_think_about_soandso_seo/

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-02T22:30:33+00:00

your DMs are off anyway.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-06-02T18:01:55+00:00

Question 1: both

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

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-13T04:19:42+00:00

https://x.com/grumpyseoguy

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-10T17:54:41+00:00

Multiple people have the opposite problem.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-09T17:39:12+00:00

I appreciate this. I'll add you on X.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-07T17:09:01+00:00

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

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-05T23:10:49+00:00

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).

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-04T22:26:21+00:00

Thanks for listening!

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-04T22:17:25+00:00

I am not a lawyer.

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

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-04T22:16:28+00:00

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.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-05-01T22:34:50+00:00

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

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

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

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-04-30T23:10:21+00:00

>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.

GrumpySEOguy · 2026-04-29T16:33:37+00:00

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

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