Average position on Google search console is 40

We are a REALTOR blog that is active and producing 2-3x blog posts per week, looking for people in the same space (Also active, 1-2x month posts) to backlink to. This could be, but not limited to:Interior design, personal finance, construction and renovation, property management, mortgage and lending, home staging, small business and entrepreneurship, retirement and downsizing, digital marketing, and local news and community development. DM me if interested, our blogs have gotten 1M impressions in the last 16 months submitted by /u/AdamHowsam [link] [comments]

Hi We are looking for a few recommendations for a local to poland seo either independents or seo agencies to help us with a Polish based business and digital strategy. submitted by /u/princessfucku [link] [comments]

Team, I have a small IT company, I currently visit a lot of clients for another it company weekly. How can I leverage all those local IPs to increase the ranking of my own company? submitted by /u/alamadrid19 [link] [comments]

I originally built my location and service pages using custom post types (CPTs) with ACF. The idea was to create a scalable setup with reusable fields, and it made sense at the time. The downside is it forced my URLs to be things like /location/city-name and /service/service-name. I tried removing the CPT base using a plugin, but it caused a mess. Pages ended up with broken or weird redirect paths, and internal links started pointing to versions of the URL that looked completely wrong. I’ve rolled that back, so now the structure is clean again with /location/city and /service/type. But all my competitors just use flat pages like /city-name or /service-in-city, no CPTs at all. I'm now thinking of rebuilding these as regular pages. I could still use ACF to keep it flexible, just not CPTs. Do you think switching to a flat structure makes a difference for a small or low-authority site? Impressions have improved a bit, but rankings are still all over the place. I'm wondering if this setup is part of the issue. Appreciate any thoughts from people who've dealt with similar situations. submitted by /u/Astraiks [link] [comments]

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But the content is still not ranking on the first page... Thoughts? submitted by /u/yekedero [link] [comments]

I'm not an SEO, I'm a PPC marketer. But I have one client who is desparate. They've hired 5 different SEOs who all wind up stuck in the same place. It's a Wix website (on both domains). According to every SEO hired, the migration has been correctly setup in Search Console. But it only ever manages to index a handful of pages on the ne site and then starts going backwards again and preferring to index the original rather than the new domain. When you inspect pages that have failed usually it is saying "no referring sitemaps". The sitemap is correctly loaded on the new domain with no errors and is correctly formatted. We've tried everything - deleting and re adding sitemaps, requesting reindexing a million times over, but no matter what we try Google just wants to index the old domain. I'm at the point where this looks like some kind of bug in Search Console and something is actually borked with site migration. But with Google not providing any support points for the product I'm completely stuck as to where we go next. I'd be very happy to hire any SEO who can actually solve the issue, but it just seems like the entire industry is incapable of addressing it. Every SEO hired has promised they know what's wrong and every single one has been unable to get the new domain indexed for more than about 40 pages and even then it only stays indexed for a matter of days. Has anybody actually encountered an issue like this before? Is it realistic to think this might actually be a search console bug, and if so what on earth can we do about it? submitted by /u/RattlingTram [link] [comments]

We're seeing an increase in zero click searches with AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, perplexity..) and AI overviews (like google's) which is heavily affecting websites that rank highly with top tier SEO. Seems like the goal now is to get your site to be visible by these AI chatbots at all costs, so that they mention you in their responses and perhaps link you. Important to note: AI overviews/Searches don't always use the best ranking websites in their websites, what else are they looking at? ❓ What do you guys think of companies around GEO/GEO/AI SEO? I barely check links nowadays, I either use gemini, chatgpt, or google's AI overview is more than good enough. IMO SEO is going to change massively in the next 5 years. submitted by /u/adrianooooooooooooo [link] [comments]

I ran a comparison in my Rank Tracker, and by comparing all my keyword ranks today with those from 14 days ago, I see that around 70% of my keywords have dropped to the second and third pages in the SERP. The worst performers are Google USA, Google Canada, and Google UK. Bing and DuckDuckGo are stable. Do you see it too? None of my pages are deindexed. I see no problem in GSC. submitted by /u/easyedy [link] [comments]

Do you know if the meta description is even worth filling? Bing complains about it in their console. submitted by /u/yekedero [link] [comments]

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Anyone else having this problem? I am still yet to see any results from June and we are over 2 weeks in. submitted by /u/Assist-Senior [link] [comments]

This is going to be kind of a long read, but I request you, please, listen to our story. About two and a half years ago, I launched a news website. It wasn’t my first venture into the digital space—I’d previously run a blog that helped me cut my teeth on SEO, audience engagement, and content marketing. When this new project went live, things took off almost immediately. Within the first 40 days, our stories were appearing on Google Discover. By day 60, nearly every article we published would find its way there. We were hitting numbers we hadn’t dared to imagine. Impressions soared—50 million a month by September 2023. Click-through rates hovered around 5–6%, and we were breaking records daily. It felt like the culmination of everything I’d learned and stood for: that quality content, ethical practice, and hard work could still prevail in today’s internet. And then came March 2024. On March 8th, everything changed. In the space of a few minutes, our real-time user count plummeted—from over 3,000 active users to under 30. We thought our website had crashed. It hadn’t. The site was up, functional, and perfectly crawlable. But Discover traffic? Gone. Completely. As if someone had flipped a switch and exiled us from Google's radar. No warnings. No explanations. Just silence. Impressions disappeared. Clicks followed. Our revenue also collapsed. We were following the best of the best SEO practices. No AI-generated content. No plagiarism. No shady shortcuts. We had committed ourselves to building a reputation rooted in integrity, and it had been working. Until, inexplicably, it wasn’t. In desperation, we tried starting anew. A different domain. Fresh content. New identity. Within 40 days, the new site had found its way back onto Discover. And then, five days in, it vanished again. Like clockwork. This pattern repeated, no matter what we did. Eventually, we reverted to the original site and kept posting, hoping for a breakthrough. For a while, it looked like we were getting traction again. Discover traffic picked up. Real-time users spiked past 500. We thought we’d survived the storm. Then, as suddenly as before: silence. Traffic gone. Again. But the most soul-crushing part of this whole experience? Watching our so-called “competitors” thrive unbothered, unchallenged. These are entities that use AI-generated content with reckless abandon, plagiarize shamelessly, publish outdated or poorly-written articles, and operate with all the ethical rigor of a spam bot. Yet their Discover traffic is rock-solid. Untouchable. Growing. We’ve tried to rationalize it. Wondered in moments of weakness, they could have somehow sabotaged our visibility? Is foul play even technically possible? Each time we ask those questions, we dismiss them. It seems unlikely. But the frustration doesn’t go away. The lack of transparency from Google is maddening. There's no feedback loop. No appeal. Just... disappearance. We’re not here to whine. We’re here because we’re at a breaking point. We’re journalists, writers, and marketers who believe in building something good. Something true. And we feel like we’re being punished for it, while the internet rewards the very behavior we set out to rise above. I don’t know if anyone out there has answers. Or connections. Or a sliver of insight that can help. But we’re out of options. So here we are, hoping someone sees this. Hoping someone still believes in a web where effort and ethics matter. TLDR; We built a successful, ethical news website that was thriving on Google Discover—50M impressions/month, solid CTR, no AI or plagiarized content. Then, overnight in March 2024, our Discover traffic vanished without explanation. We tried everything, even launching a new site, but kept hitting the same invisible wall. Meanwhile, competitors using unethical tactics continue to grow without issue. We’re frustrated, out of answers, and hoping someone out there can help or shed light on what’s going on. (I highly recommend reading the entire post instead of the TDLR though) submitted by /u/Turbulent-Side568 [link] [comments]

Bonjour, j'ai un blog et un site web que je développe pour le plaisir et uniquement avec des outils gratuits, consacré aux soaps télévisés des années 80 (dallas, Dynastie, Falcon Crest...) Depuis peu je m'intéresse au SEO et aux backlinks, si quelqu'un dans cette communauté à un blog dans un sujet approchant, dans n'importe quel pays, je serais ravis de procéder à un échange gracieux de liens afin de gagner en visibilité. Le lien de mon site : https://dallasodyseeewing.fr/ submitted by /u/Real_Still6087 [link] [comments]

Google Penalties is one of the most frequent topics on here, and people asking or suggesting that sites might be penalized for thin content - this is what an actual penalty notice looks like. From Jackie Chou on X (who reposted tis update from 2024): https://preview.redd.it/yickqjro3b7f1.jpg?width=2498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54571e81929bd5eae32b662f0a46b597481c5d19 submitted by /u/WebLinkr [link] [comments]

If you had to explain SEO today to your 2019 self in just one sentence What would you say? submitted by /u/Galous97 [link] [comments]

I have an old website that is using Yoast as its SEO plugin. I've made a new, improved website that is on a staging site now and will go live soon. I see that The SEO Framework is highly recommended in this sub, so I have installed that on the new site. However after reading TSF's setup and migration instructions, they imply that their AI-generated metadata is so good, you probably don't want to import past metadata. Is that true? Or is custom-written metadata always better than TSF's automatically generated metadata? And if I do decide to import my Yoast metadata into TSF, can that be done when the the pages are on a staging site and the URLs are slightly different than the existing site that I'm importing from? TIA for any advice. submitted by /u/CrispyBananaPeel [link] [comments]

Hello all, I realize free tools like Semrush and Ubersuggest help you track throughout time. However, as of today, how can i see how well I rank for a specific keyword? thank you all submitted by /u/JYanezez [link] [comments]