When building a niche website, should I focus on one category only? I noticed that my competitors focus only on one category/sub-topic, while I cover four categories/sub-topics on my blog. The categories are related to each other, though. Does this put me at a disadvantage? Will it take longer for me to rank compared to my competitors because each category needs its own topical authority? How does this work? Example: let's say my blog covers **strength training, nutrition, yoga, and mental health**, while my competitors focus on **just one** \- e.g. only yoga, only nutrition, or only strength training. Does focusing... 2 0 replies
Is unrelated traffic damaging for SEO? My main business is in B2B manufacturing. I have almost no domain authority and very few backlinks. Which is another story. Just for fun, I built a simple personal finance related calculator that has zero to do with my business. I had no where else to put it, so I created a page for it on my non-related website and set it to not index. Then, I mentioned it on a personal budget sub but didn’t link to it. Within 1 day, over 50 people asked for a link... 2 2 replies
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How do I get Topical Authority? Help Hi, I just found this topical authority thing so I started writing everything that comes to my mind about my niche. i'll link in the comments the map I made with all the articles I should write to really cover the entire niche. Today I wrote the first column (20 articles + 1 pillar content linking to all the other posts in the same group). So, now I'll keep writing all the other columns, but apart from this, is there anything in particular I should do to actually get... 2 3 replies
Should I Internal Link My Entire Site? I bought a big site a year ago and it was a mess - 10k posts, but was dead from a ux and ads perspective. I have turned the UX and content around and we are now the largest site traffic wise in our niche - 2.5m visitors per year, 5m page views. HOWEVER - the internal linking on the site is terrible. 8,000+ orhpaned pages. I have recently been trying all the AI internal links too - short version - mostly terrible, Kaola AI is REALLLLLY good. I... 2 0 replies
Opinions on my link outreach strategy I have two websites in the same niche. They both offer therapeutic massage/beauty services in London. One is over 10 years old with some excellent rankings and the other was launched in March 23 but is slowly starting to climb and has modest rankings. Both have active blogs. I want to get more backlinks, particularly for the newer site. My plan is to reach out to similar businesses and service providers in our industry on instagram and by email to offer them a link exchange. This is admin intensive... 2 4 replies
Google SERPs sometimes showing the difference between the original price and the sale price, instead of just the sale price Hi, I work for a retail site and we're having a weird problem, where Google sometimes displays the reduction in price, in the SERPs, as the full price of the product, instead of the sale price. e.g. a product was £50 and is now £35, Google might display £15.00 Weirdly though, my colleague sees some with this problem that are working fine on my side. So I don't know if it's just a weird sort of AI glitch or something, since the reduction isn't even recorded in a field... 1 0 replies
Why Is SEO So Hard for Small Businesses? (I Need Help!) Why Is SEO So Hard for Small Businesses? (I Need Help!) 2 0 replies
Help with tracking rankings Hello, I own a small business and I've been working on my company's google business rankings. I've been working alot over the last week or so and I was able to bring up my ranking in a number of keywords searches I was focused on. I was tracking these by Googleing the keywords and see what position my business ranked compared to other businesses. I would do these in my home offers. Last night I was at a friend's place who lives about 20 mins away and I decided... 3 4 replies
If Screaming Frog cant crawl a site does that necessarily mean it's an SPA (single page app)? If Screaming Frog cant crawl a site does that necessarily mean it's an SPA (single page app)? 3 9 replies
Advice on Focused Niche I have 3 blogs, all hit with Google. All not focused on just one subject. I make some money still and thankful but it's not enough to live properly. It's peanuts basically. And I'm unemployed so I rely on this. A friend of mine does a certain thing, he has skills in and I did some keyword research and noticed the difficulty etc was quiet low. So his basically an expert. I'm just wondering, do I do a full on focused niche site focusing only on this one subject... 4 0 replies
Difficulty Keeping All Pages Indexed ecommerce site with around 2500 Product pages as well as 100+ Collection pages. I often find dozens of pages that are not indexed. it is a lot of work getting them back on Google Search I am pretty diligent about checking GSC and finding pages in Crawled - currently not indexed or Discovered - currently not indexed, etc. I can almost always Request Indexing and get them indexed. Then for some time it is fine, then months later a new group of pages show up on the lists. I... 1 1 replies
Bought a domain, it had content years back. Built a new site. Now its not getting indexed after a few months. Whats wrong? Hi, what could be done to make the website go into index? Its just not able to index the website. The old site has pages dating back to 2014 and recently 2019 and think even 2023. Problem is, made a totally new website, but its not getting anything indexed. No manual penalty on google search console. Been waiting for 3 months now. Nothing. Tried semrush and ahrefs site tool audits and tried to fix all problems. Any help? 2 0 replies
Assuming the content is exactly the same, is a single-page or multi-page website better for SEO? The website I'm creating is for a psychotherapist. It describes the services, the therapist, contact options, etc. Is it better to split that information over multiple pages, or present them all on one page? 3 8 replies
Someone Randomly Backlink my Website...I think? Hey SEO experts, I am a new business owner with a data consulting firm, I only had my website up for barely a week, but while setting up my website I got a lot of SEO people asking to "bring my site to the top," I thought nah I do the solicitation not the other way around so I started learning SEO, and implemented new keywords on my website. However, nothing seemed to work and I became frustrated because my analytics was showing no update and while ranting to... 5 0 replies
Network graph explained Hey, I'm using SEMrush and trying to understand the network graph. I've read the blog, but I'm still not entirely sure how it works. My profile is currently marked as moderate. When I check other profiles for potential backlinks, I sometimes see a "suspicious" label. My profile states: "This is an ordinary backlink profile, so a backlink will probably not harm your domain." Could you clarify what this means and how I should interpret it? Thanks 1 0 replies
Restaurant not showing up on Uber–Any advice? Restaurant not showing up on Uber–Any advice? 1 0 replies
I'm out ranking some competitors who have a higher page authority than I do. How important is PA really? I'm publishing a lot of blog posts lately but as Google States, "people first" content and I'm starting to rise very high in the search engines. Now some of these horrible websites that we're competing against and have a million more backlinks than us are ranking lower than us. We hardly have any backlinks and these are some pretty good long tail keywords that I'm finding with both Ubersuggest and semrus, so I'm wondering what I'm actually doing right by ranking higher than my competitors who have higher page... 2 7 replies
What is the best way to keep up with googles changes? They Google Search Central blog? I just got done reading probably about 50 of Google's documents on how they rank and how their search works. My head is spinning but I do feel a lot more educated now. I'm sure a lot of you have already read those documents too on everything from how search works, indexing to crawling to spambrain to feature snippets to helpful content algorithm and everything else. I am enlightened by their search quality rater program and didn't know that they actually hire these people to rate their algorithm. What's... 5 3 replies
How much to charge for SEO work? So, I have proven strategies for Local SEO, and I've been working on ranking my site. SEO takes a long time to get great results though, so I haven't ranked super high yet. How much should I charge a client per month? I was told $500 CAN. This is for: \- Content creation (blog posts) \- Link building (guest posts) \- Citations (a one-time fee in addition) \- GMB management And how do I keep my client dedicated without a contract? I was thinking of showing rank changes, but... 5 0 replies