Why Do My New Sites Lose Traffic & Crawls After an Initial Boost? Hey SEO experts, I’ve noticed a pattern with the **new sites** I’ve launched recently, and I’m struggling to understand what’s happening. Here’s the issue: * After publishing, my sites get **indexed quickly** and experience a strong **traffic surge** for a few days or weeks. * Then, both **Google’s crawl rate and organic traffic drop significantly**, almost like Google is losing interest in the site. * Meanwhile, **older sites in the same niche (with similar content structure) continue to perform well** without this kind of fluctuation. # What I’ve Considered:... 4 0 replies
I'm so baffled - Any suggestions on why my site won't rank for this search term? I don't wanna give away my niche, but I'll replace it with another. So, I have a website that posts, for example, pictures of actors. That's all it does. I'm trying to rank for the term pictures of actors - just to be extra clear, I don't have this site I'm just using this as an example. The SERP for the query 'pictures of actors' has a site, all written in French, that posts pictures of actors, and that ranks top. The rest of the results are blog posts... 5 0 replies
Tips On Journalist Outreach Do any of you have tips on reaching out to journalists for the main purpose to get a link? Any methods that worked for you? 1 0 replies
How can I know that I got shadow our panda penalty by google Iam facing sharp down zero visitors without recommendation 😭 I can't see any traffic iam scared 3 0 replies
Semrush says I went from 1800 backlinks in March 2024 to 90 Is this standard? Ahrefs never showed this volume but I recently started using semrush. Semrush said I have 1800 backlinks a year ago, is this common? Is it spam? 3 0 replies
New to seo Hey guys! I'm about to launch my app, landing page, and blog. I'm curious if you guys have a good resource for reliable SEO information, any specific applications you use for your blog to improve SEO, or tips for getting more traffic to my app. This is a process I am wanting to learn ony own, I'm not wanting to hire anyone right now. Send me your tips or resources, as well as software you've personally used and you would recommend using. 4 0 replies
The blogs I write are not even in the top 100 on Google. I have an e-commerce site for about more than 1 year. I am constantly doing seo optimisations, I get ideas from people who are dealing in this field, I do my own research. In the last few days, I started writing blogs on Shopify. These blogs are very long and seo-compatible, whether it is meta title and description, the photos I added and alt tags, I tried a lot. When I publish these blogs, I instantly index them via search console. But even though days have passed, they have... 4 10 replies
Linkbuilding discussion with clients I work at an agency, and we’ve been doing link building for a client for over 5 years. Given the long-term nature of our relationship, it has become increasingly difficult to secure new link-building deals. To address this, we’ve started working with publishers we’ve collaborated with in the past. What are your thoughts on this approach? Personally, I believe that securing 3-4 high-quality links is more beneficial than focusing on quantity, such as doing 8 deals where some links may have subpar statistics. ( the client wants more deals)... 1 1 replies
How to stabilize baseline traffic through SEO My site traffic still has a downtrend. Going up to around 1.5K/DAY page views when social media posts are made, and down to less than 100 over the next week or so. Not all posts generate 1.5 K traffic though. Only some. Trying to do the following: 1. Analyze why some posts perform much better than others. 2. Raise the traffic baseline without constant posting. I have the basics of Google Analytics and GTM set up, as well as the target web pages indexed by Google and lit up... 4 0 replies
Networking Groups Two years ago I left the agency I worked for and started my own. I really miss the aspect of having a team and bouncing ideas off of. Are there US based SEO networking or mastermind groups that anyone would recommend? My goal is create relationships, learn from other people, and also contract out when needed. 2 0 replies
Invest in the second search engine worldwide You are lost because SEO is too hard (it’s not dead and it’s not more complicated)? Second search engine worldwide is YouTube. YouTube is the number one content hub you can bet on long term. Turnover is constant on YouTube. New and small channels have a chance to grab attention. It’s a no brainer to figure out where you should invest. Note: podcast stands at the top of content creators pyramid. YT is pushing podcasts and long form content. Grab a mic and a camera and begin to share... 1 0 replies
Best SEO practices for Shopify? Meta robots, sitemaps, structured data and best plugins? Hey everyone, I’m an SEO specialist working on a Shopify store, and I’d love to get some insights from the community on how to optimize SEO for Shopify sites. Coming from a WordPress background, I’ve noticed that some things work differently here, especially when it comes to technical SEO. A few key areas where I’d love to get your thoughts: * **Meta robots & indexing control** – Shopify doesn’t always include a meta robots tag in the HTML. What’s the best way to manage it? Are there any apps... 5 2 replies
How to set up Google My Business for events company I recently took over a company that runs social events across a major city and surrounding areas. We don’t have a physical home office—I run everything remotely—and our events take place in over 20 different venues. What’s the best way to set up a Google My Business profile in this situation? Do I need to create separate profiles for each location where we host events? And if so, should I use the address of the venue as my business address, or would that cause confusion? Any advice would be... 5 1 replies
Anyone do SEO for Bing shopping (organic)? I know this sub is mainly for beginner questions on Google but I have some struggles with Bing Shopping. My site gets over 100k organic search traffic mainly from Google but Bing too. Also Google Shopping ranks too. I have Bing merchant center setup in Microsoft advertising but my site is not showing at all for Bing Shopping organic. It’s highly optimized and has huge authority, so something has to be wrongly configured for this to be the only channel we are blank on. Ideas? 3 0 replies
We just made the decision to bail on SEO. We built topical authority to the point where I can pretty much guarantee top five in SERPs, but I can see which way the wind is blowing. People Also Ask going to AI is a sign to get out. We are going to go an arbitraged traffic model. My team will still write great articles and they'll pick up some incidental SEO, but we're going to ignore that. Once I get proof of concept up and running, I expect advertisers will pay for 100% of my traffic buying needs... 1 7 replies
Any solution if Google is showing the wrong logo for a company in search results? For some reason Google is scraping the wrong image for a company logo. In one case it's scraping a random social media post and another it's replacing it with a different company's logo. Has anyone dealt with something similar and how did you fix it? What's the best way to contact Google for such an error or is there not much that can be done? 3 0 replies
Some questions about SEO for my new website I recently launched my company's website and want people to find my business online. I've set up meta tags for each page and made the website multilingual. However, Google Search Console isn't indexing the pages in other languages for some reason. My pages still haven't been indexed, even after using the Indexing API. I also created a Google Business profile (not sure if that helps). How can I improve my SEO and get my website to rank higher on search results? I'd like to see my site appear at... 3 0 replies
Advice on how to link different SEO assets? I want some advice on my how to build a web of SEO. For hypothetical situation, let's say the domain is coffeedrinkers\[dot\]com The coffeedrinkers empire contains: * A main website (coffeedrinkers\[dot\]com) that sells products and has blog posts. * A youtube channel with ranking videos. * A community forum as a subdomain of my website. community\[dot\]coffeedrinkers\[dot\]com. This is fairly active and has a lot of user-generated-content. * An unrelated wordpress site called caffeinejunkie\[dot\]com What is the best way to interlink these in a complimentary way? Currently, I do this:... 4 1 replies
Advice Needed I have been working in SEO for 10 years, and have just began helping a client flush out their marketing strategy because they are going into a growth phase and basically need an overhaul. The team they are working with has quite a few issues, but one I am not sure if its an issue or just an approach I haven't seen before (though I have an idea of which way it goes). They are creating backlinks by posting long articles and comments to free sites. These sites have... 1 0 replies
How do you optimize a page for both Cyrillic and Latin letters? Hi, so personal case here. I'm from a country that uses a cyrillic alphabet, but most people still use latin on the keytboard. How can I optimize pages for latin SEO, while keeping the content of the page in cyrillic? Thought about the meta description (include both latin and cyrilic there), but it's not long enouigh. 2 0 replies