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I think looking for keywords related to your niche is old school and not working anymore. any recommendations how to rank effectively? submitted by /u/Suspicious-West-5427 [link] [comments]

Is Google able to detect hidden text? As in white font against a white back ground? I have my fake agg rating in my schema, also posted something similar in my footer to match. This is a new site, and I don’t want to take any chances. submitted by /u/Appropriate-Read-463 [link] [comments]

With AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity becoming people’s go-to for search, traditional SEO seems to be losing ground. Instead of ranking on google, it's now about being part of the AI’s response. GEO is about optimizing content so AI models pick it up in answers. No more page 1 now it’s be the answer. Anyone here shifting strategy toward this? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Let’s talk. submitted by /u/Radiant-Ad8475 [link] [comments]

I have a website based in Taiwan, and all the keywords are in Traditional Chinese. However, in Google Search Console, I see that a large portion of the search impressions are coming from the United States. At least 60% of the search volume and various long-tail keyword queries are shown as coming from the U.S. Could you please explain why this is happening? submitted by /u/WeekOrnery8235 [link] [comments]

I have a website based in Taiwan, and all the keywords are in Traditional Chinese. However, in Google Search Console, I see that a large portion of the search impressions are coming from the United States. At least 60% of the search volume and various long-tail keyword queries are shown as coming from the U.S. Could you please explain why this is happening? submitted by /u/WeekOrnery8235 [link] [comments]

I have a website in Taiwan,and my keywords is using traditional Chinese,but recently I found I have lots of impressions from USA with these keywords ,is that ok ? submitted by /u/WeekOrnery8235 [link] [comments]

Hey, I need guest post sites related to home decor having Da 50 plus and usa traffic please reply me in comments. submitted by /u/Himanshi_mahour [link] [comments]

☺️ I have applied for Adsense. May God grant me the approval of Adsense.🙏 submitted by /u/External_Look9333 [link] [comments]

Am I making my robots.txt work the way I want? I want it to index everything except: /ssear.php?keyword=%s and Disallow: /ssear.php The whole robots.txt looks like this: User-agent: * Disallow: Disallow: /ssear.php?keyword=%s Disallow: /ssear.php Sitemap: https://www.mydomain.com/sitemap_index.xml submitted by /u/N0RDICN0DE [link] [comments]

Hello, I think google penalized my website after 3 weeks in and I want to hear your thoughts about it. Here are as much details as this subreddits community guidelines allow. How I measure Manually google most critical keywords in target countries My site is targeted (server, database and storage location. Meta tag specification, other website listing mentions) for English speaking audience, primarily US and UK. Therefore, the most obvious way to check out how it's doing for your preferred keywords is to put those keywords into google search (try both via US and UK VPN as well as ask friends in those countries to do it for you). Check with google search API For those who know basic software engineering, I have google API enabled and do a simple search like params = { "key": api_key, "cx": cse_id, "q": query, "start": start } res = requests.get(url, params=params) Which then lists website for a given keyword. What I did within few days in, I started to generate some backlinks in a safest and the most legit way I could think of: Wrote an article on Medium ("Top 3 websites for XYZ" type of thing where I mentioned my website). Wrote an article on Devto ("How I built XYZ") Put my website on Hacker news Put it on free listing/PH alternatives How it went & Why I think it is penalized With around 10 days in, my website was listed (both in US and UK) on around 5th page of google search, verified couple of times, from my and my friends devices, VPN and cache cleared. After that, I started to notice that despite google search console still showing my rank as 50-60, on the same keywords, the website is not showing up in google searches (neither in US or UK). not getting listed at all (or rather not being visible on first 10 pages). Verified by all means listed above. On top of that the organic clicks dropped from 4-5 before to 0 for last few days. Suspicion That's the issue. I don't have ANY. I really tried to play it safe. Wrote few blogs were it was specifically mentioned that I am the creator of the website. Few long posts about actually useful stuff (proved by number of likes and complete strangers' comments) where I snuggled in my website but was in no way an anchor of the text or the main point. Since after those 10 days, I've done things that was only meant to boost backlinks not remove them The "Security Issues / Manual actions" page on search console says "No issues detected" and always showed this. Question Any pros here, anyone with real experience and knowledge or just about any person with better intuition than me, can you give any suggestions or potential reasoning? The niche I'm in is ai thumbnails. submitted by /u/gits97 [link] [comments]

There’s some recent industry research that analyzed how AI systems (like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews) choose what to cite. https://preview.redd.it/b7n42tcsvd6f1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e1ec5e81b3f25eaea29d4628bcee80b54429c31 Turns out, they’re pulling from the bottom half of traditional SERPs more than the top. It caught my eye because the sample size was big (500+ high-intent queries across models) Anyone shifting their strategy to include Reddit content, forum, or NLP-friendly paragraphs? I’m testing this out now, curious who else is experimenting. No links here due to subreddit rules, but it's making me rethink how I structure my content. https://preview.redd.it/ryl6iyouud6f1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fa227972780a4259cba74b1db5a711f5e26250d submitted by /u/Level_Specialist9737 [link] [comments]

I am fixing rich snippet issues from the Reviews report in GSC. I have about 30 pages that have been fixed but GSC refuses to validate the fix. Live page shows everything correct, caches have been cleared. The same pages have failed to validate for weeks now. Any thoughts or experience with this? submitted by /u/valuerockr [link] [comments]

Hello - as of a few months ago, I was ranking top 3 consistently for my main keywords. As of the past month, I have noticed that my main keyword has been incredibly volatile in my SEM Rush reporting. Some days I am in the #2 spot, then the next day I will drop to spot #33. Does anyone have any insights on why this may be happening as well what the next steps would be? Prior to this past month, I was consistently in the top 5 for my main keyword. Thanks in advance! Looking forward to reading the responses. submitted by /u/pdx216 [link] [comments]

Friends, bloggers, publishers, marketers, we are all in the same boat. Google takes our content and serves it up in its AI Overview, clicks have now become a true mirage. In the countries where AI Mode was released there is a real bloodbath. Just here to tell you, you're not alone. submitted by /u/SchemeTurbulent7279 [link] [comments]

This is a challenging issue, even for experts well-versed in GA4. Our client’s setup combines both the root domain and subdomain into one property, as reflected in both GA4 and Google Search Console. On the main website, the product page CTAs link internally to the shop page, but these links include the _gl and "_gcl_au" parameters. This suggests the issue is related to GA4 or Google Tag Manager. Initially, before identifying the cause, we had developers try to remove the parameters manually in the site code and also remove the Channel Insights and Pardot scripts. These changes had no effect. After further investigation, I discovered that the "_gl" and "_gcl_au" parameters are likely being injected by GA4 cross-domain tracking via GTM. In Google Tag Manager, I checked: > Settings > Configure Your Domains The suggested domains only show the full domain, not individual subdomains, so I can't disable tracking on just one without impacting the other. Doing so could cause session splitting. This confirms the _gl parameter is likely coming from GA4’s cross-domain tracking, possibly configured in the GA4 UI or through GTM’s linker settings. Now I’m at a crossroads: not sure where to proceed from here on out. submitted by /u/LengthinessAny7553 [link] [comments]

Try to browse on the map for "massage in Business Bay". Rank No.1 will be those with stuffed keywords. Is this even ok? submitted by /u/Away-Owl-6651 [link] [comments]

I have been trying to understand what does this "Discovered - currently not indexed" mean but I am not able to figure out what is wrong and what needs to be done. Around 17k Blog posts on my WordPress website show Page Indexing status as Discovered - currently not indexed . I also ran the validation and the Validation Passed several months back, still there is no improvement in the indexed pages. The last crawled date for all these pages is N/A. Can someone pls guide me what could be wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks in advance for your kind help submitted by /u/Bubbly-Clock7065 [link] [comments]

We do the SEO for a client with a very specific, niche business. Over time, they've eaten up their competition by buying them out. Now, they own 5-6 websites in the same niche-- websites that previously belonged to their competitors. Some of them have the same hosting/ IP addresses, but not all. I'm concerned about them getting flagged or de-indexed for having what looks like a PBN or false competition. In reality, they just own all these websites now since they bought out their competitors, so all the businesses themselves are slightly different but essentially provide the same service. Are there any risks of getting penalized or running into issues here? How could we avoid problems and maximize our results here? submitted by /u/Icy_Pace9521 [link] [comments]