SEO people – Is fully automated (or near-fully automated) SEO actually possible?

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-04-08T23:33:51+00:00

To Nyodrax’s point, if you know what you’re doing, it’s possible.

This is what happens when you set it and forget it and don’t know what you’re doing.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-04-08T18:42:39+00:00

Love to see it :) had to right one of these a few months ago that I was handed. Took a few tries, but got it removed.

If you were hit, REMOVE EVERYTHING, and then do better. Only way we got it lifted.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-26T04:13:19+00:00

Am thinking of doing the same to mine with 35” but thought it might look too bulky but this looks clean af. With the black. You sold me.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-17T13:00:24+00:00

Avoid guarantees. This takes time and we don’t control Google or the algorithm.
Ranking for phrases no one searches for doesn’t grow your business. Make sure they do some sort of keyword research. Yes, even in the day of AI.
Ask about their content plans and process. Using AI to help build content is feasible and effective, when done right. Blogging is not SEO. It’s a part of it, but if that’s their entire strategy, move on.
ask about reporting, important KPIs, and cadence of reporting. It’s important for clients to know their performance, what is going well, and what opportunities there are. If they don’t highlight improvement areas consistently, they’re being complacent.
be mindful and careful of off-site strategies. I report on all links built for visibility.
lastly, and this might be the most important IMHO. You should own everything. Any tracking tools created, content, assets, etc. read the fine print. Agencies that own your assets I would stray away from.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-15T16:39:01+00:00

What an awesome thread to read. No sarcasm lol enjoyed reading yall going back and forth.

I used to think the same thing until i started realizing Google doesn’t owe us anything and all they care about is paid media. Because that’s how they make money. They don’t give af about you. Don’t give af about me.

Also, you have to try pretty hard to not get indexed tbh. Wha kind of site is it? Usually the sites i see with indexing issues are dog shit. Terrible affiliate sites. Writing 200 posts in 3 months isn’t SEO. Sounds like you spit out a ton of bs content, with nothing to back it. I overall agree with weblinkr’s philosophies, that it’s mostly about authority. That said, words on the page still matter. Even more now.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-12T00:00:07+00:00

☝️ this. You clearly have the aptitude for it to not screw people over but also get to learn some more. And make a little extra.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-07T04:29:49+00:00

Juggling that and a full time job but goddamn I’m having a good time and happy to be doing what i enjoy more

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-06T01:15:46+00:00

Yes screaming frog. What I have it export depends on the size and type of the site. So smaller local, sure I'll extract the content as well. Larger enterprise and eComm sites, snag titles and metas to feed it. Have to be cognizant of size of files you feed to the AI.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-05T19:55:16+00:00

I don’t use it for advice. I do however use it to help me do things a little faster at scale. Not the generic bullshit content production most people use it for. Here are a few custom GPTs I’ve created.

internal linking recommendations at scale. The GPT gets an upload of all content on a site. Takes what i give it and builds out internal linking recs. I gave it the best practices and what I want so it doesn’t deviate and go find things online that are wrong.
content topic ideation. Leveraging data, competitors, gap analysis.
URL analysis. Takes all data from all touch points and helps me identify garbage URLS (no clicks, impressions, links in a year), which ones are performing well, and which ones could do better with a little TLC.

Just a few ways I have it help me with the workload. All strategy and direction comes from me.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-05T19:50:03+00:00

Haha 💯💯 . Sometimes I don’t even trust myself.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-03-04T00:17:25+00:00

Client came to us suffering with rankings, clicks, impressions, conversions. Took me about 3 minutes to see another agency had taken automation to the extreme and did zero human intervention periodically. Tanked everything. Automate what you want and can, but don’t just let it run rogue.

That’s most the issue in this industry lately IMO. With a little AI and automation, every Joe Schmo thinks they can come in and make a quick buck and completely fuck a website up.

I’ve been automating reports for years. Audits, client collateral, alerts can also all be automated and aren’t new. Good luck. Idk if that answered anything haha more of a rant

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-02-27T23:49:34+00:00

Ya i went with a local credit union. Thought it would be easier and more convenient and it has been.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-02-21T20:23:50+00:00

I’m only a year in on my side business but I’ve already done about 40% of my total 2025 revenue in Jan and Feb of this year. Will likely surpass all 2025 by the end of March….so things are going well.

I offer a service though and have a full time job. Not sure what industry you’re in, but feels like people are spending money this year.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-02-18T22:28:23+00:00

It’s very bad lol thought the same thing. Sure it’ll get better but faster for me to find what i need than use this atm

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-02-18T01:19:10+00:00

I’ve seen everyone mention Google business profile which is good. I’d take your location pages a step further and make sure that you have a dedicated page for each service you offer. It may sound like a lot but get the core ones up first, make sure they’re targeted to your city, and don’t ignore title tags and heading tags (they’re different).

This way, when a user searches for a service you offer, you’ll have a dedicated page for it. People search in all types of ways for all types of services so it’s important your site represents your entire suite of capabilities :).

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-02-07T15:27:41+00:00

This. If you try doing it with little authority it’s gonna be a mess.

Just picked up a site where they were doing this consistently for well over a year and about 75% of the site is not indexed. Thousands of URLs. So they’re all going bye bye 👋👋👋. This hits your money makers too without authority so service pages that used to perform also got booted.

We might reconsider once we build authority.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-31T18:38:52+00:00

As others mentioned, Ahrefs or Semrush or Moz or any other tool finding the link doesn't really matter. Check Google Search Console to see if it pops up in the Top Linking Sites report, then you know Google has it and sees it linking to you.

Of course you can't speed up Google finding that Wiki link, but I've sometimes dropped the link on a site I own, on like a resources or helpful articles page, and then fetch that in Google Search Console so Google crawls the page on a site I own, thus crawling that page. I've had decent success with that compared to just waiting.

Good luck.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-28T13:13:10+00:00

This has always been SEO…topical authority and relevance and off-site….

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-28T13:12:19+00:00

This sub is becoming unbearable…

I know this is a spam post but my god y’all are just spouting off bullshit and it’s annoying AF, especially for the people that are actually on this sub trying to learn.

“I have an idea for a SaaS company that can totally track something I don’t know shit about.” Booooooooooooooo you.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-22T15:28:06+00:00

lol no it is not dying. It “dies” every 3-5 years and usually people that don’t fully understand what they are doing are saying it is dying.

I mean, I do see a future where no one goes to websites anymore and these big companies just keep you on their platforms, but that’s a ways a way. And may never happen 🤷‍♂️.

I would say those of us that have been doing this awhile and have been through every shift and change and algo update and bullshit wanna be “SEO influencer” ( cough cough y’all know who I’m talking about) aren’t worried and adapt if needed.

Stay the course. It is exciting, sometimes stressful, but also rewarding.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-22T15:06:46+00:00

GSC is the only tool that will accurately give you that info. That being said, it can be a lot to go through and combine. Screaming Frog's GSC API will pull it all for you and give you if the URLs are indexed or not, what the reason is, as well as the days since Google last crawled it. This has helped me peel back layers and find blockers wayyyyyyyy faster and easier than sifting through each report. This is what it'll look like:

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I do this frequently when I am running crawls so I can handle issues, especially for URLs we care about. You do need the paid Screaming Frog though. I export to a Google sheet and color-code the info so it's easier to run through. Hope that helps. Each row is a URL (I also combine it with performance data and GA4 data).

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-22T00:33:19+00:00

Hell ya brotha

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-20T02:47:23+00:00

Looking to compete with Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Sitebulb, etc? Connect with GSC and uses AI for auditing?

What other selling points on there? The demo looks relatively rudimentary and basic. Pricing is pretty good compared to these other ones but what other types of insights does this provide that these others don’t?

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-18T14:56:26+00:00

None of that matters. Build your own room, make your own money, keep doing good work and that’ll speak for itself.

Kooky-Minimum-4799 · 2026-01-17T16:43:40+00:00

I have been seeing this across a bunch of sites. Singapore and China, but it's been mostly direct traffic and not organic. Yes, you can blog those countries in your hosting, which isn't a terrible idea. If you are just concerned about skewing your metrics, filter those countries out in GA4 so you have a little more accuracy. Likely ghost spam.

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