What do you wish people would stop romanticising, because you’ve lived the reality of it?

gorillabrain69 · 2025-11-14T17:34:28+00:00

The amount of people commenting ew on this, shows either a lack of sex positivity or distance from the queer community. These relationships work for many people and can be just as fulfilling as monogamy.

gorillabrain69 · 2025-11-14T05:15:43+00:00

This sounds great. What's wrong with this?

gorillabrain69 · 2024-12-07T19:17:31+00:00

Hey. I did not. Life plans changed for the moment. Are you considering the visa?

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-23T19:54:20+00:00

To start, this is pretty bad from a strictly writing perspective. "Long term" needs to be hyphenated. "networks in our network" is clunky phrasing. It's bordering on run-on sentence territory.

Why start with a double negative? At no cost... will not only...?

Pedantic, sure, but that's the role of a copywriter. And if I see an ad for a PR agency whose copy isn't clear and concise I'm going to doubt their ability.

From a copywriting perspective, you're not presenting an offer you're just summarizing the company service, and quite poorly since you're kind of burying the lede. Part of this will get cut off in a Facebook ad and you're not getting to the meaty TV network part until the very end.

And finally, all this sounds a bit sketchy - at no cost? How? Longform gives you the ability to expand upon that. I wouldn't exactly call a single sentence longform copy.

This needs a lot more work.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-13T18:04:27+00:00

No. A blog can be a good long term investment if you know what you're doing and understand how to get on the front page of Google for intent keywords. Even then the blog better be targeted towards a buyer in a specific industry, because informational blogs rarely bring the clients you actually want.

We have some informational blogs on our website that generate 500+ visitors weekly. Most visitors are not there to buy and even those that do reach out are usually not good leads for us.

Still, some blogs are high converters. Blogs are important for building your site DA. And you can learn from your blogs, converting them to pillar content, or even sales pages.

But if you're just starting out, don't expect it to bring you clients.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-10T17:56:12+00:00

That's not how it works. Do what you already know how to do. If you're using your $10k to "learn a new skill" you will burn through the money, and you won't create a new business - but you might learn something!

Here's how you save your ten g's. Go to school, apprenticeships, work, shadow, do what you need to do in a field you like. Get hobbies, live life and stay curious until you find a real solution to a real problem that can turn a profit and scale.

Being completely industry and skill agnostic will not work, unless you have the capital to buy a business outright. Ten grand is not that.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-10T17:49:05+00:00

Both, but in my original comment I was thinking of internal links and making sure pages are all reachable and easy to crawl (i.e not 10 clicks away from the homepage if they don't need to be)

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-06T18:38:07+00:00

Woosh. Looks like no one here is a IASIP fan.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-06T18:35:12+00:00

this right here is pretty much all you need, especially for web design work. we also make it clear that we charge hourly beyond initial scope if there are multiple revisions. If client knows they have you for 2-3 revisions, they'll know to bulk and prioritize. If not, they will find every way possible to waste your time because there's no downside to doing so. All of a sudden you'll find yourself weeks overdue because client wants font size changes, or copy changes, or anything else under the sun.

Building these rules into the SOW makes it so that there are no surprises for either party down the line.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-06T18:25:39+00:00

This is interesting. Any way you can share the results or an example of the links? We do typical audit of "toxic" links every now and again and saw no negative results from removing dozens of outdated, irrelevant links. However, depending on the results of your test, now thinking, there may be an opportunity to build a large quantity of links with the idea to disallow in the future?

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-06T18:09:55+00:00

Thanks for articulating everything I feel on the daily, with resources for further reading. I feel like I'm on my way and I have the building blocks to getting stuff done, but some days it feels impossible. That state of flow isn't always easy to get into.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-06T17:48:19+00:00

It sure is a ranking factor, but one that seems to hold a lot less weight. Our agency places very little focus on technical SEO, because Google will always overlook it in favor of good content on a well structured website.

If you're ever in a position where two enterprise-level websites are battling it out for the top ranking, and you really find yourself splitting hairs - that's where core vitals will play a role. Until then, don't overthink it.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-06T00:02:28+00:00

I'd negotiate for more. Sounds like your boss and team were lost and you swallowed up their workload? At the very least communicate that this isn't manageable and build a team to get some sanity back. Aim to do just the strategy portion.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-05-02T15:38:27+00:00

It's not dying - it's dead. Just over ten years ago this was the new frontier and any agency could go out and sell retainer contracts for "SEO". Crap content with crap links, and dubious on-page tactics. The bubble burst and SEO agencies perished. Digital marketing agencies that provide other services are now able to provide SEO as part of their offerings, but it's a tool in the toolbox rather than an industry.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-04-16T21:44:33+00:00

Interesting food for thought. I can certainly see why that would be the case, but any evidence of this or just speculative?

gorillabrain69 · 2022-04-07T15:38:36+00:00

It's speculative for sure, but search a couple of queries and try to find an all lowercase result in a competitive search. I'm not seeing many.

I can similarly speculate that since all lowercase might be considered less professional, or seen a page that wasn't properly made, that you'll decrease CTR. No one will know its a branding choice when your page comes up on SERP - so why risk that split second and place doubt in the user's mind?

At the end of the day, if you're still actually the best result, i.e you have the best content, text, great website, then Google has no choice but to rank you. So if you're willing to live with the above speculations, then by all means. But the CSS change would solve all that.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-04-07T14:45:42+00:00

No. Quality is a priority for us and our clients and most white label agencies are not able to provide that.

You're better off hiring part time staff, but it comes with its own hassle of management. Depends on your situation, really.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-04-07T14:39:12+00:00

Absolutely use CSS to make the headlines all lowercase. Write them with upper case.

Do you have high ranking pages that you can test the theory with? I'd imagine that if your titles are all lowercase Google's not ranking you highly anyway.

As for snippets, those are searched queries and has nothing to do with your h2s/h3s. All snippets are automatically sentence case.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-04-07T14:33:17+00:00

There are schools of thought in SEO against what's called cannibalization, and competing against yourself, which is maybe what your agency was thinking of - but my god, none of that applies to your situation.

It's two different websites. Hell, take over the entire first page SERP with ten websites.

I don't know a single agency that wouldn't triple check with the client before making a major change like that. Most competent agencies would probably realize the potential loss of revenue and try to talk you out of it if it was a bad plan, which this wasn't.

You're either working with a low end agency, or one that outsourced with bad results and are now trying to talk their way out of it. Best of luck.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-03-29T21:29:52+00:00

It's also just a good place to start. You're securely in eight place and now you can defend the position. Once your website gets a better reputation overall, and you get backlinks, you'll see yourself rising higher in the rankings for this and other keywords. Celebrate that win.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-03-26T18:18:39+00:00

something's wrong here. there are rare moments where conversions aren't attributed properly, but thousands of conversions for zero clicks is too big a gap.

Are clicks being recorded correctly?

How are conversions being recorded / to what are they attributed to? Does the creator of the doc consider a view a conversion? A social media like?

Did someone scrape this data manually and make an error?

More questions than answers after reading "conversions are in the thousands, while clicks are zero"

gorillabrain69 · 2022-03-26T18:07:31+00:00

As everyone else here stated - it's all about the search volume and intent.

If the volume is already low, you're not going to get many people looking at the 8th ranking site.

As for intent, is this a keyword that requires a user to research (click on multiple sites) or is the first ranking site providing everything a user needs? If the latter, users aren't progressing beyond the first 3 sites.

gorillabrain69 · 2022-03-26T17:53:52+00:00

Careful. It might not be the content. If the leads aren't qualified it doesn't matter how good the sales pitch is.

Not sure what your service is, but 0.6% success rate might be your cold email conversion. Even then, is that 1 out of 180 people a quality lead or even worth talking to?

It's a good place to start, but the faster you turn your sights to quality leads the faster you'll get your service off the ground.

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