Position Tracking: To Track or Not to Track “Near Me” Phrases

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]

I've create many blogs from high DR website that have dofollow link to my e-commerce website but these blog didn't get listed on Google yet. So, I create a question and answer on Quora that have nofollow link to my blog, it get a lot of views but it still didn't get crawled by Google. I've also tried Ping-o-Matic but still not working. Is there anyway that I can get my blog listed on Google so it can pass SEO juice to my website? submitted by /u/Interesting_Sea_9684 [link] [comments]

We hired an SEO agency and they recommended that we move to a strategy where we try to direct all traffic to a service page on our catalog site. This feels a little wonky to me. We are a SAAS company, not an ecomm or service based business. Is there a name for this strategy? Have you seen it be effective? submitted by /u/Susan_Moeller [link] [comments]

I’ve been carving out SEO strategies for years, but there are two industries I still avoid like the plague: law firms and payment processors. Why? Because each wears a wardrobe of interchangeable titles that turn keyword research into a migraine on repeat. One minute you’re optimizing for “lawyer,” the next it’s “attorney.” Dive into payments and the chaos multiplies: “payment processing,” “credit-card processing,” “merchant services,” “merchant accounts.” Every synonym means rewriting your playbook, doubling, sometimes tripling the workload. So tell me: how do you keep your sanity when every keyword has three identical twins fighting for the spotlight? submitted by /u/LynxGeekNYC [link] [comments]

We have few websites which are witnessing way increase in impressions, sametime clicks are spiralling downwards. What do we need to do now, with search AI and AI overview on the top followed by ever-increasing sponsored posts, can we make a shot at first page of Google? Please share your thoughts? submitted by /u/EQ4C [link] [comments]

Got a notice on one of our Instagram pages that public photos (from July 10th 2025) and videos may start to show up in search results. Historically, Insta and others have tried to block some search engine surfacing. What's your play as an SEO here? How are you going to mix in Instagram to your strategy? How do you think that figures into AI SEO? submitted by /u/coalition_tech [link] [comments]

Hi everyone I am looking for a list of taks i can complete throguh AI Can you please provide me a list along with the process? submitted by /u/Dry_Loan5340 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I run a small e-commerce site called Haneul Atelier, where I sell aesthetic mugs inspired by Korean design and culture. The site is getting some organic traffic (mostly from Pinterest, Instagram, and slowly from Google), but my conversion rate is stuck around 0.5–1%. I'm trying to figure out if the issue is with the UX, product pages, CTAs, page speed, or even the layout and copy. I've optimized basic SEO elements (meta titles, image alts, structured content), but still seeing high drop-off on product and cart pages. If anyone has time to take a quick look and share any thoughts — even small things — I'd really appreciate it. Here’s the store: https://haneulatelier.com Thanks in advance for your insights 🙏 submitted by /u/Ok_Pea_3904 [link] [comments]

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Anyone know that guy who loves to shout he has 25 years of SEO Experience. I worked as a Media Buyer in 2002; a marketing director and mass emailer in 2005. All the stuff I did back then will not work today. Ive seen the internet evolve. If you took the best SEO guy from 25 years ago and put him here today he would be horrible. Experience is important but SEO and the internet in general is constantly changing. If your not evolving your falling behind. Your just another SEO company selling SEO and really just performing website management. submitted by /u/TheStruggleIsDefReal [link] [comments]

Is there anyone here who can offer guest post with do follow links for a Solar company in Connecticut? submitted by /u/Sharp-Command3450 [link] [comments]

Has anyone experienced issues with bing not adding favicon? Hasn’t updated for two months on a Wordpress site, even with adding an .ico file submitted by /u/Dozl [link] [comments]

These days I have been using a new strategy to get more backlinks, didn't test it too much but I got some results You already know HARO and how powerful it is to get backlinks from big domains. However, everyone here answers to journalists practically begging to them to include a new backlink to their sites and since this is usually free, they end up with their inbox full of emails making yours soo hard to be seen. So what I have been testing here is to do the opposite, instead of answering to journalist, be the journalist! Basically, I create a new query myself looking for sources = people looking for backlinks. Once I receive them all, I just build an article for each using their query and include a new dofollow link to their site, but here's the trick, since you don't want to hurt your domain with low DR links, all these posts will be created with robots = 'noindex' tags and the link won't be added to the typical /blog page - do not add any reference to that link in your domain, not even in the sitemap. Then we message them saying 'Congrats we liked your query so we included in one of our articles...' and send them the link- they will just look for the link to their site and check if it's dofollow, no one looks at the 'noindex' meta tag. Since you're providing value upfront to them, they're most likely will include a backlink to your site as well on one of those articles- you could politely ask them to do it as well. how does it sound? submitted by /u/Strong_Teaching8548 [link] [comments]

finally found a sub to ask this in So pretty much recently i found that, for example, if i wanted to see moskva, in russian its "москва", but like if i search up "mockba" in english, it will show up. why is this? i can search up murmansk as well, "mypmahck" or kazan, "ka3abh". Yekaterinburg, "ekatepnh6ypr", Yakutsk, "rkytck", Irkutsk, "npkytck", st peterburg, "cahkt netep6ypr", minsk, "mihck", and belgrade, "beorpad", give some searches of the city? i know things like you can search something up in korean, but in english and its just a string of letters like "asjnjbgriepl" but its actually some actor, just where the korean letters would be on the english keyboard, but like this is different? submitted by /u/yamatopanzer [link] [comments]