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I see lots of people trying to figure out why large parts of their site have become "crawled - not indexed" that were previously indexed. I also see lots of posts about how come rankings are dropping after an update? I also see lots of posts about Google not indexing new content. This is all probably because of your backlinks. It should be clear that backlinks = authority in Google. It's been that way since Google was Backrub. Sure the relative importance of links has changed over that time, but links are still foundational to Google rankings. Authority is tied to indexing/re-indexing/maintaining indexed pages. Not just rankings. Just have to read through Google's PageRank patents to figure this out. You need backlinks to ensure the authority of those pages is high enough to be considered for indexing in the first place. Those pages inherit their authority via links pointing to them both within your site and without (external links). Internal pages provide some form of authority based on their own value, or authority, to those pages they link to. Similarly, you need authority to ensure those pages remain indexed. Building links for a few months then stopping won't do it. That's because what Google considers "worthy" is always changing. Links considered valuable 6 months ago may not be so valuable now. The old rules still apply: links = authority = indexing = ranking. They are all related. If you lose one (IE links) you will lost the rest eventually. And yes, I know there will be people who say "but I can rank sites without links" - ya maybe for low search volume/low competition phrases. I can do that too. But for more competitive phrases, link building consistently is still one of the most important ranking factors. But to prove it to you here's some of my own experience. It has worked on several of my own websites repeatedly: For all our sites we do regular ongoing link building. We don't look for "highly relevant" or "highly authoritative" links. We just get links. We also get a mix of links - they aren't all keyword anchor links. Some are naked links (IE just a bare link on the URL of the page). Links also go to many different parts of the site - not just home page. Some are also just links on the phrase "about us" to our about page. Not a lot of value in some cases, but still important BECAUSE YOU WANT YOUR LINK BUILDING EFFORTS TO APPEAR NATURAL. Hence, a variety of links to many pages. The key is consistency. Set a goal for a number of links per month and try to stick to it. To supplement this, I do regular content development. I also embed keyword anchor links in every article I write. Usually I look at my current rankings to see what phrases I need work on, and try to incorporate those phrases into the article into the introduction somehow. And usually with 3 or 4 days I can see my rankings for that phrase improve. I just did this last week and the phrase I chose improved 5 spots in rankings since Thursday (it's now Monday). The phrase I targeted gets 12.100 monthly searches and my site now ranks #2 for it when it was #7 Thursday and I'm already seeing increased traffic from search due to this single phrase (not just to this article - but to the site as a whole). So this week I'm targeting another highly searched for phrase for which I am on page 1, but lower down (position 5). I already have a related topic to write about, so I will write a new article, include that phrase in the introduction as a keyword anchor link) and watch the ranking improve by the weekend, if not early next week. So if you are having problems with "crawled not indexed" or falling ranking, or lowering indexed page counts, get link building now. You may not see rankings improve as quickly as I do, but I bet by next update you'll see some pretty good improvements. submitted by /u/emuwannabe [link] [comments]

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I was hoping to connect with someone to get some feedback on my resume from other professional SEOs, hopefully someone who hires other SEOs in an in-house enterprise setting. I've been doing SEO for 15 years, currently employed, but am looking to brush up my resume. I've already had connected with my alma mater's career center and they gave some feedback, but now I'd like to get someone who's experienced in SEO to look at it as well. If anyone has that background and would be willing to take a look, I'd appreciate it. submitted by /u/ryan112ryan [link] [comments]

I just took over a client website where the previous marketing team created 600 pages of short keyword heavy blogs, tags and categories. The majority of these have been deindexed and I see no value in these pages. However my question is should I delete them all or just leave them. If I leave them can they be harmful to the overall seo in any way? submitted by /u/TheStruggleIsDefReal [link] [comments]

Hello all, I have a painting company. Should each service page be optimized as a landing page. Such that if they were it's on site, it would be enough? thank you submitted by /u/JYanezez [link] [comments]

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For the past few days I am getting thousands of hits from IP addresses that belong to Facebook. These visits are accessing different areas on my site. Each hit is from a new IP address and they all access a different page on my site. They do not dwell on the site. Each hit request only one page. The behavior look like bots. But I am not sure if I should block them. I am afraid that blocking by IP addresses would also block legitimate users. Please advise. submitted by /u/theredgiant [link] [comments]

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SEO is just one part of a much wider role for me and I'm by no means an expert, so I rarely look on this sub - apologies if the same thing has been said 1,000 times, but I need to vent. When doing some year-on-year analysis of web analytics I noticed our site had taken a fairly decent hit in organic search traffic, so I pulled a load of Search Console data and started looking at terms where the click have dropped significantly compared to the same period last year. Time and time again it showed that average position had improved and impressions had improved. So I put these terms into Google in an incognito window and my god, I hadn't realised just how insane the results pages have got. One term (a very big one for us) ranks on average in the top 4 and has had a 66% increase in impressions year-on-year, but clicks are down 50%. I looked at the SERP and this was the order of the page: AI Overview Videos People Also Ask Organic Result 1 Find Results On (no sites were sites that feature organically on the first page of the results) Businesses map/listings Organic Result 2 (our site) Organic Result 3 Organic Result 4 Images Fucking hell, the first 10 items feature 6 SERPs features and only 4 organic results. I'm by no means saying it's the entire reason organic traffic is down, but it just feels like even when we do everything right that still isn't enough. It's just so demotivating. submitted by /u/jpeach17 [link] [comments]

I've just read some horror stories from other redditors a year ago, and saw a lot of mentions about the "march spam update" from last year causing their whole 2000 posts blog site getting removed from index and losing all ranking. Does Google really remove your whole domain from its index or ranking in a way that's not recoverable? If so what are some common causes? submitted by /u/Hissam_ [link] [comments]

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Hi everyone, I thought I'd reach out and ask, as I'm having some indexing issues. Google refuses to index my service pages. It indexes top of the funnel and more commercial stuff like competitor comparisons etc. just fine. However, as soon as I try to get service landing pages, or actual product pages indexed, it refuses to even touch these pages. Normally when I request Indexing, pages get indexed overnight, but it's been few days and nothing. Oddly enough sone older service pages are Indexed fine. Live URL tests are fine of course. It seems like Google refuses to even crawl the pages, as they come up as unknown to Google. I have few theories: As soon as the word "Service" is mentioned in headings, Google immediately requires far higher site authority to index those pages. Older product pages don't use "Service" as a keyword. This is a bit more of an interesting take, but does Google refuse to index pages that look like landing pages I e. contain "Service" keyword in order to force PPC purchases. It will only allow high authority service pages organically (would be weird if Nike didn't show up for trainers). Google doesn't like landing pages. This could be the case, but then why actual product pages are affected too. The more commercial pages take longer to index? This wasn't my experience in the past, but maybe it is now. Now onto my ideas for fixes: I might try creating similar pages without the word "Service" and see if they get indexed. I might try hitting these service pages with backlinks to get Google to index the pages that way. Do you have any experience with this issue? How did you get your landing pages indexed? submitted by /u/Sirhubi007 [link] [comments]

Here's what I've been thinking. When users search in Gemini with prompts like: “I want to hire remote engineers in India. Which company should I follow?” “Top platforms to hire Indian developers remotely” …the AI overview usually suggests companies like Toptal, Deel, etc. What’s the best way to approach this? - Should I focus on entity SEO? - Would PR/mentions on high-authority sites help? - Do I need to create comparison pages or listicles mentioning competitors? - What signals does Gemini likely rely on to include a brand in summaries? Has anyone here successfully influenced AI Overviews (SGE) to include a lesser-known but legit brand? Really appreciate any insights from folks who’ve tested this. submitted by /u/Siddhesh900 [link] [comments]

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Here is how I write my blogs. Step 1. Identify a topic Step 2. Do little research by searching the keyword, answerthepublic, keyword planner etc. Step 3. Generate an outline using ChatGPT. In the prompt, I highlight queries and questions to include in the outline. Step 4. Use Claude to write the article from the ChatGPT generated prompt. Step 5. On-page SEO. Done Anything I'm missing and ways I could improve them for better SEO? submitted by /u/simply_ibrahhim [link] [comments]

Hey Guys, I started a news site and looking for people to guest post for the following topics, politics, business, technology, health, sports, entertainment, science and lifestyle. Do shoot me a message if you would like to guest post. submitted by /u/Small_Ad8870 [link] [comments]

Sup guys I’ve read some conflicting things regards to homepage content. I’m currently sitting at 1000 words and I’ve got around 300 more to go in my last section, it’s fully optimised for my top 5 keywords. It doesn’t look like that many words and it does have visuals so it doesn’t look bad at all. I use Wix and I wanted to trim it down and put half the content into different pages for faster loading speeds as Wix sucks at that. However I’ve read that 1000-1500 is optimal. So I guess what I am asking is should I keep going with content or make it less? How will this affect the Seo? Is there even a noticeable difference? I’m trying to maximise my on site Seo the best I can before I get a pro to do my off site. submitted by /u/Centrez [link] [comments]

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