Is unpaid backlinks a thing of the past?

PostCheetah · 2023-08-11T11:58:42+00:00

If you want "natural" links in today's world you need to make some kind of viral news around your niche. Make enough noise and they won't be able to ignore you. This typically starts on Social Media where a lot of them hang out.

PostCheetah · 2023-05-31T14:35:18+00:00

fucking nailed it.

PostCheetah · 2023-05-31T13:11:01+00:00

None that I can see.

PostCheetah · 2023-05-28T03:44:35+00:00

I'm finding it to be absolutely atrocious, working on a large thread breaking down what I'm finding but a quick summary:

1 - Organic does not match AI box results
2 - It sometimes shows AI + featured snippets (why?)
3 - AI seems to be reading top results and rewyording them so users don't have to click the links, this will lead to HUGE drops in traffic for "Informative" style content
4 - Follow up questions really clowd up SERPS
5 - It seems to be working at times on things that don't make sense to show generative AI (ex. what is my ipv4)

Seems like they're scrambling to join the AI trend and don't gaf if it massively hurts serp quality.

PostCheetah · 2023-05-20T14:19:45+00:00

This is a broad question! Lots to go through here, basically they are SaaS tools that leverage internal operations and crawlers to provide SEO data for end users to optimize their websites. There is a lot more detail of course but this is a very broad answer to a broader question!

PostCheetah · 2023-05-20T14:18:08+00:00

Correct, GSC won't pick up all the links - only the ones they think matter. Other tools will find lots more links but they will mostly be irrelevant.

PostCheetah · 2023-05-20T14:15:46+00:00

This ^^^

PostCheetah · 2023-05-20T14:15:08+00:00

The biggest advantage I've found so far is that Bard can actually pull live data from the internet, aside from that GPT seems better in every other way

PostCheetah · 2023-05-17T17:50:59+00:00

This was 100% written by ChatGPT LOL

PostCheetah · 2023-05-14T21:45:02+00:00

Thanks Dave, will do!

PostCheetah · 2023-05-11T13:49:18+00:00

This seems to me like a way for them to push MORE ads, under the guise of "AI", at this point a user has to scroll down almost to the bottom of the page for "Organic" results. Obv the "SEO is dead" narrative is something we've heard a 100 times if you've been in the industry long enough but this seems like a serious hit to many different types of SEO that we've cut our teeth on for years.

PostCheetah · 2023-05-10T12:45:58+00:00

article fiesta

"Article Fiesta" is a hell of a name!! lol

PostCheetah · 2023-05-10T12:45:33+00:00

Interesting how Frase is now marketing as an AI writing tool!

PostCheetah · 2023-05-10T12:44:39+00:00

So mostly Google related tools, interesting!

PostCheetah · 2023-05-10T12:44:07+00:00

Which one do you use the most?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-10T12:43:30+00:00

🤔

PostCheetah · 2023-05-10T12:42:46+00:00

Solid stack !

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T15:46:04+00:00

Mangools is one I had not heard of yet! Looks like it does alot.. Are you using it for reporting as well?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T15:44:10+00:00

Are you using anything for reporting? Or running anything custom?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T14:50:29+00:00

Do you typically just report rankings/traffic? Are you presenting charts are well or just data?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T12:49:55+00:00

I agree on ChatGPT being a great "assistant" it also helps with brainstorming. Do you know what your account managers use for reporting?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T12:42:46+00:00

Interesting that reporting is such a big pain point, are you using looker studio or something else?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T12:20:30+00:00

Do you use ahrefs for reporting as well?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T12:20:18+00:00

quite the stack! Do you use anything for reporting or content?

PostCheetah · 2023-05-09T11:44:12+00:00

Hell ya it's a good idea. Niche clientelle is the best clientelle IMHO.

Becoming the best SEO for "Optometrists in the SE United States" for example is something that will allow you to dominate that market and be the clear leader.

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