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What can I do to improve this, internal linking? submitted by /u/yekedero [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]

How many characters? Is 60 chars okay or too long? submitted by /u/yekedero [link] [comments]

Are backlinks from local websites instead of generic "high DA" ones better for local business directories? We have a business directory website that has pages showing up for "near me" queries. So, if you're in Arizona and search for "AC repair near me" we'll have a page "AC repair in Arizona" somewhere in the Search Results. About backlinks: The current strategy is getting backlinks from topic-related high authority websites. Even though the topic is related and these backlinks seem to improve our performance for other, general, pages (blogs, general-location pages), our location-specific authority and results might not be benefiting as much. Since we want to focus on location-specific results, I figured that backlinks from local -even small- websites should make us show up for "near me" queries better. We could reach out and try to get backlinks from news sites, business sites, etc., that are locally relevant. I've analyzed that our top impression local pages for the "near me" queries are high-impressions-low-clicks, so they show up for a broader range of keywords, but have lower authority and are ranking lower, getting extremely low CTR. My view is that they're the best ones to try and do this local backlink strategy. Am I making sense by leaning more towards local backlinks instead of "high DA"? Does anyone have experience and advice on efficient backlink strategies for this business directory type scenario? submitted by /u/julhaodosom [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, I’m managing SEO + analytics for a SaaS product, and recently noticed a weird surge in “Direct” traffic from Germany in GA4. It’s showing up under direct/none, but the volume was too high and sudden to ignore — and we’re not running any active campaigns targeting Germany. My gut says referral masking, bot traffic, or maybe some affiliate traffic, but not sure how to verify. GA4 hides IPs/ISPs, so trying to figure out how to dig deeper — Cloudflare maybe? submitted by /u/Clara_Point111 [link] [comments]

So here’s the situation: I was doing freelance SEO work for a company - no written contract, just a verbal agreement. After putting in all the work, they suddenly removed me from Google Search Console, Analytics, and every platform I helped set up. Worst part? They didn’t even pay me for my last pay. Now the question is... should I still use their SEO tools like SEMrush, FatJoe link building credits, or others I had access to? Is it wrong? Is it revenge? Or is it just fair, considering they ghosted me and never paid? Let me know what you think - because honestly, I’m still debating whether it’s crossing the line submitted by /u/AhtiQ [link] [comments]

One of my websites doesn't have server-side rendering in place. And, due to some reasons (old React framework, poorly written code & dev who worked on it unavailable) getting server-side rendering in place will be expensive (can't take up that expense + effort for now). Now, Google indexes my site alright. But, with all these AI crawlers coming into picture - I'm not sure if I should invest in using something like prerender io as a stop-gap solution? Do I need to worry about AI crawlers potentially not picking my JavaScript rendered content? I'm not an SEO but is this a concern in the SEO world? submitted by /u/xikhao [link] [comments]

Where can I buy guest posts for adult content? Most people on Fiverr don't accept that bug submitted by /u/AideNo9466 [link] [comments]

I’m working with a client who wants to rank for a nearby city that’s a bit outside the radius of their actual business address. The website is already optimized, there’s a dedicated landing page and supporting content specifically targeting that location. While I’m not expecting to show up in the local pack due to the distance, I’m also noticing it’s difficult to gain traction in the organic SERPs as well. We’re not seeing much improvement. Has anyone dealt with a similar situation? Are there some tactics or internal linking strategies that helped push rankings for a nearby but non-physical location? Would love to hear what’s worked for you. submitted by /u/Objective_Muscle128 [link] [comments]

When doing cold email outreach for local SEO services and lead gen services, should I focus on white-collar services or blue-collar services? submitted by /u/Cultural-Link255 [link] [comments]

Im always curious since you can’t study SEO. How did you guys become an SEO? submitted by /u/Ok-Consideration2955 [link] [comments]