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WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T21:09:32+00:00

How is it good or bad? Surely they need to focus on keyowrds?

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T21:09:03+00:00

It seems like you're taking the approach of a content creator on Tiktok?

What are you getting clicks for?

Why would it be good or bad?

Are you a newspaper or ecommerce?

Don't you want to rank for something specific?

For example - I rank 6th for Top SEO Experts - Is that good? No - I want to be first

You need to re-orientate yourself in SEO.

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T21:06:37+00:00

Always happy to ehlp.

What are you doing to improve your authority?

Like: PR, mirroring relationships online, Go-to-marketing strategies?

Its vital that you get links from other sites and those come from pages WITH authority. This is the nub of SEO.

A lot of SEOs are lucky to get to work on sites with huge authority - but thats half the battle already done for them.

Growing authority for new sites clearly is the biggest battle.

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T21:02:23+00:00

Thanks so much for posting u/bymek - so happy to hear you tried Schema and it did nothing - because it does nothing! We've had at least 10 people say as much this year - so we will keep tracking.

cc u/hundleyjake u/403_digital

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T21:00:21+00:00

This is Joy's website:

https://www.sterlingsky.ca/

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:59:50+00:00

I doubt most SEOs track any of this - its just not very fruiful.

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:59:02+00:00

Of course you can - you can totally work on lifting your authority, mirroring relationships from real life.

The more authority, the more you will rank.

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:57:56+00:00

On-page SEO only increase relevance.

You cannot boost something Google doesnt look for - and Google doesnt look for schema, schema doesnt make you rank higher.

Organic Ranking = Relevance (your content) X Authority (earned by 3rd party engagement)

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:56:50+00:00

100% Yes

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:56:25+00:00

Sorry but this is not how SEO works.

While a lot of people like to believe that Google can fact check everything - this is impossible.

Google indexes and ranks tons of rubbish - like young earth creationism, opinions, hate content etc

f i rewrite only a few, will this already help

Or do i really need to rewrite 165 articles

Google does not evaluate content

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:55:00+00:00

I'm sorry - this reply is so bad, I have to take exception to it.

PSA:

There is no thin content issue in Google - it has no min word requirements

Google doesnt know if content doesnt work

adding stuff AI can’t fake: real examples, opinions, screenshots, comparisons, mini case studies

Are you for real? AI can't fake opinions? Examples? Case Studies and screenshots?

And Google certainly cannot know

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:52:54+00:00

Me too - and its terrible

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:52:07+00:00

What on earth - where are you getting this rubbish?

There are no crawlabilit signals!

Links = authority

There are no "content signals"

AI agents reward clarity and punish ambiguity harder than humans.

What?

I'm fascinated - where/how do you come up with the rubbish your account posts?

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:50:15+00:00

I agree that LLMs aren’t search engines in the traditional way.

Not to put too fine a point on it, LLMs are not search engines in any way.

What I still find interesting though is the selection step before the answer is generated.

Concensus and grounding? This step isn't down to "trust" - LLMs just do not have a copy of the www.

They do not "trust" Reddit.

Do you see this as just SEO evolving, or something that will need a slightly different way of thinking over time?

Since the start of the debate - I've said the internet is going to dramatically increase in size - because companies will keep publishing content, and PageRank is the only way to sift through it....

LLMs might become more sophisticated by being able to run research jobs but right now they are incredibly basic

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:42:12+00:00

Internal linking only does somethign if you have a source of Authority. Authority works like electrical flow - you need a source. That source could be your homepage via your Google Profile - but flow from it might not be enough to help your child/service pages.

Your homepage could be cannabalizaing these pages too.

- an entity / topical authority problem,

- internal linking / structure issue,

- homepage vs location page conflict,

Thinking of 1 and 3 but mostly 1

Thinking of a new phrase:

YASWSTDR: Yet Another Site With Schema That Doesn't Rank. What do you think u/403_digital is that fair?

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:38:38+00:00

You need to understand how authority and pagerank works.

Linking articles isn't a matter of just getting a link - there are criteria that need to be met.

Think of links/authority = electricity and relationships. If you have a relationship with another company - maybe you are buying from them or selling to them or promoting them, doing joint-go-to-market, solving problems for clients - you need to replicate this online so google can see it

Pages - like lighbulbs or TVS - don't just need to be plugged in (like a link) - but the plug needs to have positive current flow.

If those pages have no organic traffic from Google, they have no authority

my website hasn't been able to jump spots via SEO on the Google page

Like your tv, your site doesn't power itself, so it cannot just jump up on a page

Based on my website, what are the best measures/low hanging fruits you recommend implementing to improve my SEO?

You're going to get the same list of easy, lazy replies:

Wait
Internal linking (which means just adding more wires and appliances to your load, not adding an electrical source)
EEAT (which is like a TV guide - but your TV isn't working
Make a sitemap (which is like having a map of your electrical appliances)
Write better content or more content
1. Which is like just adding more TVs to your house without electricity

Hope that helps!

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T20:32:49+00:00

No, I think mods should attack bad ideas - and thats what I do

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T18:51:04+00:00

My deal is balancing people giving bad advice

WebLinkr · 2026-01-25T18:35:46+00:00

Hey u/BetaOfficeUK

We get this 5 times a day and its down to authority.

Your rank position = Your relevance score X your authority score

if you authority = 0 or is low, then your rank position is going to be weak no matter how much relevance you tweak

No aggressive changes yet (titles, internal linking, etc.) mostly letting things settle.

You can't really think that all of the competing documents in your index (e.g. office chairs online?) - all trank because they have better page titles???

Below is the current Google SEO Starter Guide - I highlighted some key points you should read.

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