How to charge for SEO research in addition to content writing? I'm a freelance writer looking to start offering SEO services as an add-on service. Mostly just keyword research and content SEO, not technical SEO or backlink stuff (I can help my clients find guest posting channels, though and write content for those, though). Now the thing is, till now I have mostly worked as just a writer - which means my clients used to provide me with the keywords. So I just used to charge them on a per word basis. So wanted to check with any SEO professionals... 3 1 replies
Client being ripped off or is it worth it? Hello everyone, My client and I are based in Western Australia and are aiming for local rankings throughout our state. We are in a highly competitive niche (financial advice) and competing against businesses that have been around for 20+ years and have 1000+ 5star google reviews. My client has been working with another local SEO agency that boasts 50 employees and has been paying them $6000AUD or $3800USD +GST (10% tax) for the past 6months ($36,000). Currently we have 8 shit backlink submissions to non credible websites (from what... 5 4 replies
Any prepopulated websites that I can download so I can practice using SEO tools with? I don't have a website but have hosting available. I would like to download a prepopulated website with static HTML, CSS and some Javascript. Ideally a website with tens or a few hundred pages that have internal linking so that I can practice using some SEO tools on it. I prefer to download a zip file of the site, unzip it at the host and it's ready to serve with my Google Analytics script. It will be hosted on Windows. I am aware of static site generators like Hugo... 2 0 replies
Help to Resolve Orphan Pages on Shopify I have a large website on Shopify and around 400+ product pages are showing as orphan pages. Can someone suggest me how I can resolve this issues in simplest way? 3 0 replies
Indexing increase after traffic surge I run a job board that has been live for about a year. While it doesn’t have many backlinks, it is indexed on Google—I can find it by searching its name. Each individual job page is structured with job posting schema. As of today, Search Console shows only 4 Valid jobs out of over 1 million pages. A couple of weeks ago, the website got a significant traffic surge, which led to a spike in indexed job postings—from around 200–300 to nearly 60,000. However, a few weeks later, the... 3 4 replies
How to find websites marketing private house listings for sale? Apologies if this isn’t the right sub. I’m seeing if you SEO folks might know how to reverse engineer for someone that is *searching* for specific types of websites, in this case home listings. For example, sometimes real estate agents (I am one) will have websites made specifically for their private listings that are not on the major websites (Zillow, Redfin, etc.) Sometimes the website is the property address (like 123mainst . Com) I am wondering if there could be a way to find these websites without knowing the... 3 2 replies
What's your "this shouldn't work but it does" SEO tactic? Let’s be real: we all have that one unconventional SEO tactic that works despite going against conventional wisdom. Maybe even despite warnings that it could backfire on you. Mine is still using exact match keywords. Not all the time, and not keyword stuffing, but I do try to use them in the page title, H1, maybe an H2, and once or twice in the text—plus getting into semantic variations. What's your "this shouldn't work but it does" tactic? 1 10 replies
Any Good SEO Communities? Hello!I run a business website that functions as both a blog and a news platform, and I’m constantly working on improving it. As I refine my SEO skills daily, I’m looking for a good SEO community where I can freely connect with others, share insights, and learn from real experiences. This subreddit is excellent, but I’d love to find a space where people actively discuss their everyday SEO achievements, share new strategies, and dive deep into industry trends. I’m particularly interested in communities that help boost SEO knowledge to... 4 2 replies
How long does it actually take a new blog post to rank and gain traction for targeted keywords? What is really the time frame to know if a blog is performing well or not? When should you expect a blog to hit top 5 on Google for your targeted terms, if it is going to at all? 1 7 replies
Search Atlas Otto TL;DR New-ish SEO for small company, unlucky with backlinking, boss wants to try Search Atlas Otto. Good idea? Bad idea? Hey folks. I've been doing SEO and front-end web dev for about a year for a small roofing company in Texas. Most of my job I've been learning as I go, which my boss knew and supported. I essentially replaced a third-party company that was doing a bad job. Every page of our site had the same title and meta description, all using stock photos. Blog posts were clearly... 1 3 replies
Law firm link exchange Hi All. Some law firms have reached out to me looking for hq backlinks. They’ve given me site access. Anyone want to do 3-way swaps? Private message me. 2 0 replies
I use SquareSpace for my website, and I added how I'd like my site to appear on Google Search, but it's not working? Help! Screenshots in comment section 3 0 replies
Best Strategy for Local SEO across Multiple Locations? What's the best strategy if you're trying to rank a specific keyword across multiple locations? i.e. life coach london, life coach dublin, life coach nyc, etc. I'm assuming you'd created localised topic clusters. If that's the case, is it OK to repeat keywords but with different locations, i.e. ways to improve life london, ways to improve life dublin, etc. Are there any risks/downsides to doing it this way? And no, I'm not Tony Robbins :) 4 4 replies
Help Tracking On-Page SEO Improvements with GA Hi everyone, I’m a web developer with some knowledge in on-page SEO, but I’m new to Google Analytics and need some guidance. Recently, my cousin’s old brochure website was transformed into a Shopify ecommerce storefront by an agency - which, unfortunately, did zero on-page SEO. They also have a freelancer who handles Google Ads conversion optimisation stuff, and this dude is also not addressing any of the SEO (which I find odd, but I don't really know this side of the industry really well). Although the new site is... 4 3 replies
Google penalty, resubmitted tons of times but nothing works Hi, I work for a company where our health website got a manual action penalty months ago and we cannot fix it. We took down all of our old articles, plus our commercial articles, and produced new content. Should we keep our old articles, too? I'm not the boss of the situation but it's getting pretty desperate. Right now our action plan includes creating a new domain and moving our articles there but I'm worried we will get a Google penalty again if we don't know what we did... 1 0 replies
Adivce on falling rankings Not sure what happened, I havent done anything differently or changed anything for a while and suddently my average position drops from 1.3 to 9.8 Anyone else experience the same? 2 2 replies
Do SEO pros do any of the courses out there to help upskill? If so, which ones? I'm an experienced SEO but am currently trying to level up what I do - specifically with link building, improving technical SEO skillset (which is kinda basic if I'm honest) and staying on top of current best practices/algorithm changes etc. Do any experienced SEO pros use courses from sites like Ahrefs, Surfer SEO, Semrush etc and if so which ones? Are they worth doing? 1 2 replies
H Titles Helps I need you to help me understand something about the hierarchy of H titles. I know there should only be one H1 per page, my questions are: Can there be a h3 for example without H2? Or a H6 without H5? What factors are used to justify that a title is h2 and not h3? Should it be used whenever it makes sense from H1 to h6? Or what are the ways to measure how to use it, thanks in advance. And to be more niche, in the real... 1 3 replies
Meta descriptions and ALT Tags process I would like to know how you manage the issue of meta descriptions and alt tags. What process do you use, or how do you manage it when there are many URLs that need to change both meta descriptions and alt tags. Do you use AI for this work? Thanks in advance 1 0 replies
What are the most useful features you use heavily in Screaming Frog? What are the most useful features you use heavily in Screaming Frog? 2 5 replies