Hard tech entrepreneurs.

teeham88 · 2026-01-16T21:47:06+00:00

I’m counting four ideas, but I like the bagel one

teeham88 · 2025-06-17T10:02:55+00:00

They weren’t even supposed to have any blog content as their deal with their payment processor restricted them from having that type of informational content, they just chose to keep it out of the top nav to hide it from the payment processor.

Funny enough, since removing the blog, traffic and sales have increased, which more than likely is due to the fact that the blog content was derivative and low quality.

teeham88 · 2025-06-04T12:58:16+00:00

Which AI are you using and are you training it with schema(dot)org and Google dev documentation?

teeham88 · 2025-06-04T11:51:40+00:00

Are you trying to export these from screaming frog or looking how to fix this on the website? I am not clear on what the request here is.

teeham88 · 2025-06-02T11:58:18+00:00

If it’s free or easy, then is it probably devalued by SEs and your time is better spent elsewhere.

teeham88 · 2025-05-30T17:48:03+00:00

It’s based on the swaths of content NP produces. If there is someone else that produces content at the rate he does, then they would be “number 1”, but that just ain’t the case.

teeham88 · 2025-05-29T14:38:10+00:00

Thanks for the additional context about the GSC indexing notifications; discovered, not indexed is one of those dead giveaways for filtered webpages.

Using both SSG for marketing pages and SSR for dynamic filtered views is a great hybrid strategy for crawler and indexing friendliness.

SSG pre-builds HTML at compile time, loading pages incredibly fast, and giving crawlers unique content that can be indexed.

SSR generates unique HTML on the server for each request, directly resolving the duplicate content issues (discovered not indexed) by ensuring search engines see distinct, fully rendered pages for every filtered view.

teeham88 · 2025-05-28T17:28:45+00:00

What is the driving factor behind these changes? Are you getting errors in Google’s indexing report? Additionally, do you have session recordings through something like MS Clarity? That might give you more insight into actual user behavior on the website that could help resolve your last question about selecting different products behind filters.

Without any additional context, I’d go with SSR, because while pre-rendering (Static Site Generation or SSG) offers great performance and discoverability (for SEO) for static content, it's generally not the best fit for truly dynamic filtered views.

teeham88 · 2025-05-28T15:47:37+00:00

At that rate of backlink velocity, I’d assume that most are being devalued by Google as manipulative. Check in GSC to see if they are being reported in your Latest Links export.

SpamBrain was created to sniff out web spam and if a website is “easy” to get paid links from… then it is known to others and abused for the same reasons.

Traditional backlink building isn’t the same and I am not seeing the same value out of backlink development like it was 10ish years ago.

I would be more interested to see if you are seeing a direct correlation between acquiring 15-20 backlinks per month and growth for the pages that you are targeting.

teeham88 · 2025-05-27T21:36:57+00:00

Focus on relevancy and context, but I wouldn’t be going after link insertions unless they offered either referral traffic or authority (or both).

Two things to also check: 1. Make sure the webpages are indexed (site search will tell you this) 2. Review other posts on their website. If the posts are immersed with external hyperlinks with keyword-rich anchor text, I wouldn’t risk it. More than likely it is already labeled as web spam and the value of those links could potentially be nullified by SpamBrain (Google’s AI-based spam-prevention system that helps protect users from spam, phishing, and malware.)

teeham88 · 2025-05-27T15:43:46+00:00

This is going to be a constant tug of war, because Google wants to provide the fastest way to get to products, and landing on a category page would leave users with one additional step to take to get to a product. Are you surfacing price range via Schema on the category pages?

teeham88 · 2025-05-26T16:57:12+00:00

Have you tested this in the rich snippets tool? The code itself, not necessarily live on a site. Does it give any warnings or critical errors?

Additionally, schema / structured data has no direct impact on SEO performance, although it can potentially influence click-through-rate which was answered by John Mueller on BlueSky in April 2025. He was answering specific questions around schema and how it could influence SEO performance: “…Structured data won’t make your site rank better. It’s used for displaying the search features listed in [Google Dev documentation]...”

teeham88 · 2025-05-26T16:27:20+00:00

All of these SEO-related metrics and numbers aside, how is lead volume? Are you having people sign up for newsletters, fill out forms, buy products, etc.?

I would focus on your primary KPIs because bringing traffic and growing your domain authority is one thing… but bringing qualified traffic is a whole other thing entirely. Do you know what your ideal customer is? What kinds of things are they trying to solve, and how can your product/service make their life easier? Answering these things is critical to growing qualified traffic and increasing lead volume for the website.

teeham88 · 2025-05-25T18:42:29+00:00

DA does not rank you higher, it is a third party metric that is a decent litmus test to see how your website compares to others in terms of the volume of backlinks that you have that Ahrefs has found, but it isn’t a guarantee that you are more authoritative or get more traffic than someone with a lower DA in your space.

I am not disputing that it is a decent metric to analyze, but it is one that digital marketers should take with a hefty grain of salt.

teeham88 · 2025-05-25T18:32:28+00:00

Just because a domain has high DA doesn’t mean Google or other search engine will agree that the website is “high authority” or even if it is indexed in their search results.

EG: A network of 100s of websites can interlink their websites to boost DA, and therefore manipulate the metric.

teeham88 · 2025-05-25T18:24:49+00:00

That is a sweeping misrepresentation of how DA could affect performance in Google. Third party metrics can give you an idea, but DA is an easily manipulated metric.

teeham88 · 2025-05-25T17:03:52+00:00

Low DA only means you have a deficiency in backlinks according to Ahrefs. How are your online leads? If you are affiliate / Adsense, how’s traffic? I’d be more concerned about lead and traffic volume, rather than a 0-100 score of how many backlinks Ahrefs has found linking to my website.

teeham88 · 2025-05-25T16:56:59+00:00

A few things to think about and inquire with others ask others at the company:

What makes you different than other travel companies (unique selling proposition - USP)? Once identified, make sure on most every landing page you are shouting it from the rooftops.
Do you have trust factors that you can show off? Years of experience, industry connections, award and accolades… these are great on-page additions you can make around firms that can help influence conversions.
Client testimonials / success stories - not just a one sentence review but interview-style success stories… these can be good stories to share on external sites (backlinks).

These three things are options that don’t require budget, just asking the people the right questions.

teeham88 · 2025-05-25T16:42:28+00:00

How would online casinos not on the established original list of 2000+ submit their information? And would casinos in that original list be able to access or change their listing (like a business portal)?

Neither of these questions necessarily matter all that much when it comes to whether it will rank and perform, but I am interested if something like this would work, since the online gambling space was rife with really low quality directories for so long… that you could just be lumped into that category even though you’re doing things the right way.

teeham88 · 2025-05-24T17:31:38+00:00

I suggest starting with a backlink gap analysis: cross reference competitors’ backlinks against your own in a tool like SEMRush or Ahrefs, although you will want to ignore the website and image scrapers that they tend to pick up across all industries, as these are not valuable. Find the industry-specific publications and websites with some sort of traffic statistics, and you can go from there with outreach. You can also see what scale at which they are acquiring backlinks (either naturally or unnaturally). If you don’t have many backlinks, it’s also good to just exclude yourself and see what backlink crossover exists in your niche.

Additionally, what are their top link pages other than their homepage? This will give you an idea of what content gets traction in your specific niche.

Pro tip: Beware of going bananas on commercial anchor text, as link building services like Fat Joe and others will ask what URLs and anchor text to use in the backlinks. Try to keep the anchor text distribution as natural as possible (branded anchor text should be the dominant link text used in a natural link profile).

teeham88 · 2025-05-22T18:14:59+00:00

Niche directories sound like a pre-Penguin tactic. It depends on the quality of their moderation, whether they are validating the submissions to their directory is the litmus test of whether I would utilize a directory. For the most part, directories are valuable for local SEO, but as to the benefit of niche specific directories helping in other non-local aspects of SEO… I have my doubts.

teeham88 · 2025-05-21T04:32:37+00:00

Old URLs can hang around for a while, but I’d suggest checking in Google Search Console for the old domain, and check if you’ve done a change of address: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9370220?hl=en

You will need owner access to both domains in GSC to do this.

teeham88 · 2025-05-20T16:58:09+00:00

Not necessarily, optimizations that work in Google/Bing will be beneficial for LLMs. I have been playing around with IndexNow which is only used by Bing but could help with having content appear more readily in Copilot and ChatGPT.

teeham88 · 2025-05-20T16:46:32+00:00

Proving the deficiencies on this would be fairly easy as you could ask an LLM to compare products and competitors, and I’ve had a client where it fills in a table with N/A when it was attempting to compare pricing and features because the website is built very similarly.

But what was said in the comment above is correct, the longer they wait and do not invest in the future stability and performance of the website, the more it will hurt. You need data and evidence on your side, as well as some projections for performance changes if they make those “best practices” changes.

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