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For those of you who have started using AI visibility tracking / optimization tools like Peec, Profound, etc. Have you found these tools actually helpful? What are the most helpful features you’ve noticed? Let me know if you have any recommendations submitted by /u/snowydove304 [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]

We noticed a sharp increase in blog impressions starting in February, but a significant drop in traffic and CTR. Rankings have improved, so competition or content quality doesn’t seem to be the issue. We suspect SERP cannibalization, which is possibly due to hundreds of tag pages (keywords are implemented as tags to blog posts, unique URLs were created for each keyword, and they became indexable, around the same time, 470 pages), but I want to make sure we’re not missing anything. What would you recommend checking to confirm whether the traffic drop is due to internal cannibalization, AI overviews, or something else? submitted by /u/coopersayshello [link] [comments]

Hey everyone! I’m still fairly new to SEO (about a year in), and I’m currently working on building backlinks for our hemp-focused site. We don’t have a budget for buying links, so I’m looking to connect with others in the industry for mutually beneficial link exchanges. If you manage a blog or site in the hemp, CBD, cannabis, or wellness space, I’d love to collaborate. I can share existing blog content or even write a new post tailored for your audience. Just shoot me a message if you’re open to swapping links or brainstorming ideas! Looking forward to connecting with some like-minded folks. Let’s help each other grow. submitted by /u/Jenni_Helps [link] [comments]

So a month back, I posted a question about how im new to seo and where to learn it. 50 days later, ive obtained theoretical knowledge about seo, like keyword research, on page optimization, etc. and also completed the Hubspot SEO certification. Now, I have knowledge about the concept of SEO, but im confused as to what to proceed next. These theoretical knowledge alone wont help me in cracking roles and since Im new to it, its even hard for me. Anyone that has experience/expertise in this matter, please help me out. I just wanna know what is the next best thing to do. Should I start with content writing with keyword research, or set up an individual website and try to rank them? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance :) submitted by /u/mohd-ansar [link] [comments]

I’ve already set up a 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and specified the HTTPS version as the canonical URL. Despite this, Google continues to show the HTTP version in search results. Bing, surprisingly, shows the correct HTTPS version without issue. Is there anything else I can do to get Google to properly recognize and display the HTTPS version? submitted by /u/amza10 [link] [comments]

I have figured out how Google may be finding AI content for those Copying and pasting content into their site or using an API to generate content and post on your site. AI content is leaving markers enbeded in the HTML of the content if you use one of the above mentioned ways to produce content on your site. The search engines are looking for The following markers in the code. the numbers in the data start and end are random as far as I can tell. The are also looking for excessive em dashes or "—" a tell tell sign of AI Generated content. The good news is you can strip this out of the code and remove the em dashes. I can't garentee that this will help your situation because quality of content veries with the producer but this will remove markers and redflags. Also going forward if you are copy and pasting content from AI tools like ChatGPT past text only no formating or past it in a text editor first. Also when asking gemini what these snippets were it told me the following. I asked it "what is this? data-pm-slice="1 1 []"" Its responcse was: "The HTML attribute data-pm-slice="1 1 []" is likely related to ProseMirror, a toolkit for building rich text editors. Specifically, this attribute is added to HTML content that is copied from a ProseMirror editor to indicate that the content originated from that editor. ProseMirror uses this attribute to preserve whitespace when pasting content that includes it. In essence, data-pm-slice="1 1 []" acts as a marker to help ProseMirror handle pasted content correctly, particularly regarding whitespace." These are clearly markers for copied and pasted content. Below are a sample of some of the code snippets. the way you can search for these markers is to view source of your page and control or command + F on your keyboard depending if your on a Mac or Windows. I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this nothng negitive as reddit is notorious for. Pro tip when searching your content only search for example for "data-start or data-pm-slice" as the numbers that follow are random. data-pm-slice="1 1 []" data-start="5131" data-end="5166" data-start="3758" data-end="4051" data-start="4926" data-end="5106" data-start="4929" data-end="4962" data-start="5030" data-end="5051" data-pm-slice="1 1 []" submitted by /u/robohaver [link] [comments]

As an SEO are you happy and comfortable with performing digital marketing tasks like social media management, at the same time? submitted by /u/Dapper_Big_783 [link] [comments]

Hi guys, I am looking for multiple link exchange opportunities from various websites. So, if you are looking for the same let me know. Either a mutual link exchange or a guest post sounds good to me. If you have a SaaS site it's better or at least a blog site related to it is my preference. submitted by /u/BusAlarming7488 [link] [comments]

Hello guys i have multiple domain for different countries and I have them conected with an footer drop-down to let users select their desired country, each country is region Subdomain based like London.domain.com , Manchester.domain.com etc for each country In Semrush a lot of this li ks are seen as high spam even if I used hreflang for each link they are all follow. Semrush can be right and Search engines can see them as Spam should I remove them or i can just ignore semrush. All the domains are brand new like 1/2 months old so they dont have a good backlink authority. Thank you submitted by /u/cryptogang_club [link] [comments]

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