Are AI visibility tools actually helpful?

Google is less than 10% of the visits. Even Yahoo and DDG bring more traffic to the website. Screenshot in the comments. submitted by /u/ashm1987 [link] [comments]

I know ranking in the UK is tricky. Any tips to break the trand of bad ranking in the UK? For US, Canda, Australia it goes much better. submitted by /u/Edjiek1 [link] [comments]

We have a 5-year-old site with DR71 and around 20k monthly organic search traffic. There have been some talks on changing our brand name and with that, our domain. (To a brand new, freshly registered domain.) I'm concerned about the impact it'll have on our rankings and traffic, even if we do all the right things for a migration. So I'd love to hear your personal experiences with domain name changes and their impact on your rankings and traffic. Do the best practices really work and rankings bounch back in 2 months? Or is transferring an established domain to a new one too much of a risk? submitted by /u/scribocallidris [link] [comments]

Here is my site detail: appinventiv.com/blog DA- 53 DR- 72 overall Traffic - 100K+ Link exchange guidelines are as follows: 1. Appinventiv will not give a link to a competitor, Adult/Spammy/betting/casino content. 2. The DA of your website should be 40 + and the spam score should be less than 5%. Appinventiv will not give a link to the homepage/Landing page 3. No addition of content or paragraph is allowed. The link will be placed at the available anchor text. 4. We only do link Exchange and only provide no-follow links. Please let me know how you'd like to move forward. submitted by /u/404SoulNotF0und [link] [comments]

Ever since we cant apply our website for Google New through Publisher Center it has become more and more vague as to what qualifies for it. But has anyone here got it recently? Could you share your story? submitted by /u/Any_Wind9309 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I’m restarting my digital marketing career after a break and planning to use LinkedIn outreach to find international clients (US, UK, Canada, UAE). I have 5 years of solid experience in SEO, and during my break, I also upskilled in funnel building (lead magnets, landing pages, automation tools). But I not had worked in real projects for SEO funnel building just learner the told Now I’m unsure how to position myself on LinkedIn: Should I focus purely on SEO services (audits, keyword research, on-page, off-page)? Or should I pitch myself as a complete SEO + Funnel Setup expert who builds the whole lead generation engine? My goal is to start getting clients quickly — ideally small businesses or solopreneurs who value both organic growth and conversion optimization. Is it realistic to crack clients this way after a break? And which positioning is likely to attract better-paying, serious clients via LinkedIn outreach? Any insights or personal experience would mean a lot submitted by /u/Grouchy_Inspector260 [link] [comments]

Like let's say I had a guest post on a Spanish site and had the Spanish version of my keyword. Would that add to the English version of the keyword or be its own thing? submitted by /u/RegularSky6702 [link] [comments]

So I’m new at SEO so I’m still learning but I’m really confuse about something, so when I do websites for like landscaping companies or roofing companies do I need to use backlinks in those cases? submitted by /u/sebbb2457 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm managing a multilingual WordPress site using TranslatePress and AIOSEO. The site has English as the primary language, with Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese as secondary languages. Canonical tags and hreflang (including x-default) are configured per language. The site was indexed fine at first, but since February, Google Search Console frequently shows this error: Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user I’ve double-checked the canonical tags and hreflang setup, but the warning keeps popping up. I’d love to hear if anyone has experienced similar issues with multilingual SEO on WordPress, or if there are known compatibility quirks with TranslatePress + AIOSEO. Thanks in advance! And apologies if I missed anything in the rules — this is my first post here. submitted by /u/Asakijz [link] [comments]

So I’m new at SEO so I’m still learning but I’m really confuse about something, so when I do websites for like landscaping companies or roofing companies do I need to use backlinks in those cases? submitted by /u/sebbb2457 [link] [comments]

Hello! I've got some very specific questions and I'm getting a lot of mixed signal back from old blogs, posts and LLMs, so hopefully someone has been through this before. Current Situation We have a .com domain controlled by load balancers so we have some freedom to decide how things are routed. Currently our app exists at routes like this, and we noindex everything (it's all behind authentication): https://example.com/app/ and our marketing site exists at: https://www.example.com/ We currently have a .com/robots.txt and a www.example.com/robots.txt, the www one containing a link to the sitemap (it's generated by webflow that way). Questions Are there any ranking/crawling negatives to having multiple robots.txt in general? Should we link to the www sitemap in the root robots.txt? Does that provide any benefit? If we have wildcard subdomains, will each of them need some rewrite rule so they essentially get the robots.txt of the root domain? I understand www and no-www are seen as different websites, I assume this works the same way with subdomains. Would a load balancer rewrite or a 301 be more appropriate, assuming we essentially want nothing crawled/indexed but the marketing site? We also have a legacy url with some decent pagerank, lets call it oldesite.tech. All the relevant backlinks have some 301 set up to get to our .com domain, but for application reasons we can't do a domain-level 301 rule. How detrimental is this? Do bots / crawlers "care" that some old urls may not 301, does it do anything more than not passing the link value for one of those specific urls? oldsite.tech/robots.txt for example, should that be 301'd to newsite.com/robots.txt? Thank you in advance for anyone able to answer any of these, I'm an engineer and a little past my understanding of how the spider bots work. submitted by /u/blkbeard [link] [comments]

It’s been more than 24 hours, and my site’s latest posts haven’t been indexed. I tried re-indexing them in Google Search Console, but still no luck. My site is old and reputable, and usually, posts get indexed within minutes. But now, it seems like nothing is getting indexed. Has anyone else experienced this lately? submitted by /u/wapreck [link] [comments]

After removing it from one of our sites, our rankings rebounded straight to the top of Google. Some of you may remember my post from a couple of months ago, where I shared a near-perfect 98 Lighthouse performance score. It was incredible. Greatest day ever. Or was it? The consultant I hired achieved this with the Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin. It was great to get these scores, but honestly, our rankings seemed to get worse. I know that site speed isn't going to be any kind of ranking booster, but things started heading in the wrong direction after doing this speed optimization. And there were other signs that something was wrong. Using the SEO Pro extension, we could see pages flip from a 503 status to 200 shortly after page load. It looked like the server was initially returning a 503, and then it would load the page and return a 200. Weird. On a hunch, we removed the plugin on June 2nd and BOOM, rankings took off the next day. So yeah, don't use that plugin. Tell all your friends. submitted by /u/darrenshaw_ [link] [comments]

I’m in a bit of a dilemma and could really use your advice. I’m currently managing a few Google My Business (GMB) listings for a client (a small local biz group), and I’m being paid $150 per client. The job involves full GMB optimization – adding service areas, writing SEO-friendly descriptions, uploading images, keyword tagging, post scheduling, competitor research, citation corrections, and the whole shebang. It’s been about 3 weeks of pretty hands-on work across multiple listings. I’ve done everything by the book: optimized for local keywords, followed proximity-relevance-prominence principles, and submitted everything for indexing. But GMB SEO obviously takes time to show traction – especially in competitive niches. Now they’re asking me to justify whether SEO is even worth it, and if I can’t "prove" the value, ot they’ll cancel the SEO department. My questions are: Is this even a sustainable arrangement for me? What’s the best way to respond when a client wants fast results from SEO – especially local SEO? Would you continue or politely walk away? If the pay doesn’t change, is this just bad business for me? Any tips for setting expectations better next time? I'm trying to be fair, but not at the cost of being taken advantage of. Appreciate any thoughts, advice, or even a sanity check 😅 submitted by /u/MissSBlack [link] [comments]

I'm surprised I have not seen this written anywhere, but is there a golden list of the top 10 or 12 backlinks you should always get for a new domain when starting out? I always see bbb, yellow pages, yelp, and Google/Bing Business listings given as low hanging fruit, but don't you need to have an actual location to use these services? Any good ideas for online businesses only? submitted by /u/MotherTrucker76 [link] [comments]

I searched this sub and couldn't find the answer I was looking for. I have both installed. Google Site Kit shows my site tanking (even though I am constantly tweaking and adding blog posts), whereas MonsterInsights only shows growth. For example, MI shows 68 new users (580% increase vs previous period) and Sit Kit shows 11 unique visitors - and only 1 click?? Can someone help me understand what I am looking at? submitted by /u/avocadomama [link] [comments]

I won't link to it as I think it's a violation. But I've been reading this subreddit regularly and see the growing concern about AI overview and AI"s impact in general on SEO. Having just read a Semrush review of a study posted yesterday on their blog, my top level takeaway is that the speed and processing capacity of the LLMs used in AI mean that it can take advantage of a wide range of content that might often be placed lower in Google SERP. Implied (by me) is that the various LLMs in use producing AI overviews and response within AI frameworks like ChatGPT, etc., use their own rule sets and algorithms independent of Google. They might especially have different evaluations for broad concepts like "authority" and "relevance" given what they are being asked to provide. When time allows - which is often - I tend to look at at least the top 3 references if provided by AI in the answer footnotes. Sometimes more. And without doing any research, my casual impression is that often the links provides - meaning the source material used for producing results - are not always from what I would think to be "high ranking" places in past Google experiences prior to this period. For example, WebMD doesn't show up on certain medical questions I have asked, but I suspect it would've been at least a first page SERP result, say, a year or two ago. What I think this means is there will be new rules to figure out perhaps as to way LLMs value things differently than Google has to date. But "good, relevant" content will have its place. And will still show up down page and on post-page1 in Google. If you're interested in reading the full analysis, you can find it on that blog. submitted by /u/Tech4EasyLife [link] [comments]

Hello, I'm looking at starting some affiliate promotions and would like to do it the best way without hurting my site. I've got a good user base but I've been losing rankings so time to dive into the SEO world. So in my mind I would give affiliates their own URL; domain.com/affiliate1 domain.com/affiliate2 Would it be best to redirect both of these to the main page domain.com(currently single page will move to multi soon)? From what I've read online as long as I tag the redirects with a no follow and use 301s then it shouldn't have any negative effect. Can anyone see a problem with this sort of approach? Do you know of a better one? Thank you for any help :). submitted by /u/RunTimeFire [link] [comments]