What to do with a $2m/year Ecommerce website? I I had a pretty successful ecom website from 2010-2020. Its best year did $2m gross sales. Around 100k products listed on my site. 2020/covid hit and all my suppliers had no inventory. I was canceling 75/100 orders every day. I ended up putting every single item out of stock. I was kind of ready to move on with this business anyway. The business was dying. Covid just killed it. Now amazon seller just kills my margins. I threw up a bunch of ads...completely cannibalized the website to just earn... 3 6 replies
Do Profile Backlinks Work for SEO? Not Showing in Ahrefs/SEMrush As a beginner in SEO, I've been trying to build some authority for my site by creating profile backlinks through social media profiles and forum profiles. However, when I check these backlinks in tools like Ahrefs and SEMrush, I can't seem to find them listed. Do profile backlinks actually work for building authority? And if they do, why aren't they showing up in these SEO tools? I want to make sure I'm not wasting my time on ineffective link building strategies. Thx 1 1 replies
What does the future of SEO look like? With the rapid advancements in AI and changes in how search engines operate, I’ve been wondering about the future of SEO as a career. While it’s still going strong now, there’s always a chance that the industry might shift dramatically or even fade away in the next five years. 4 6 replies
Struggles with Google recommended results Hi all, not sure if this is the place to ask but I’ve run into a problem that needs resolving. When I Google a family members business, Google frequently recommends a different spelling and company all together. The problem though is that the name of their business IS spelled correctly. For example, let’s say the business name is Minnesota Beers Co. Google will automatically recommend Minnesota Bears Co, a completely different company that was established prior to my family’s company. Even if you make a typo in the first... 4 6 replies
Backlink Monitor tool ? Which is the best and most affordable tool to track all the backlinks you built? To monitor 401/404 and dropped etc - with somehow automated emails to notify if Webmaster drop the backlinks you’ve built? Shill me some tips! I want to have a scalable solution - that is somewhat affordable and don’t overcharge. Tried a few but not satisfied 5 1 replies
Local SEO: Monthly Report? Would you send your customer the reporting every month? or every quarter year? And why? I am using a mass managing local seo tool, its easy to share reporting (I put them into a template for email) but I dont know if I do too much work and the difference is too small? 3 4 replies
YardBBQ.com vs CottageBBQ.com Hi, i have two pretty good domains, but will sell one and going to make another bbq appliance e-shop. Which one would be stronger SEO wise? 2 1 replies
Ecomm with No Content vs. Info Site So - I've got a client that sells equipment. They've got an aged domain, good basic seo set up. lots of optimized content and some solid product pages - not ecomm. Out top 3 competition for search rank are all standard ecommerce stores with a few hundred words on the page. Backlinks are comparable. Is google really preferring straight "buy this" sites over info and education? 2 1 replies
Changing domain was a perfect decision, it's going perfect If your website got hit and you have made necessary changes, the best thing you can do is to change the domain as well. Otherwise, you might need to wait for months to years. Check comments for screenshots. 2 5 replies
Best text -> infographic product you've seen for blog posts? ideally one that has an API. looking for ways to create better infographics for our content at scale. I've seen these guys (outline.ninja ), but anything anyone likes more? 1 1 replies
Got de-indexed by Google - what to do? Heya, My few months old website privatemarkets.world went from c. 1000 impressions per weekday to 15 after Google released its algo update in December (update on 19-Dec, drop in impressions from 20-Dec). I cant even find my articles on google anymore, which previously ranked top 10. What would you recommend doing? Cheers 1 8 replies
Where are the SEO jobs? I have almost 10 yrs experience working with large pharma agencies and in-house for a major pharma brand. In the past, my specific pharma experience and networking got me 100% of my jobs, but I've reached out to every former colleague I know and they have nothing right now. My unemployment is running out soon and I don't know what to do. I've applied to close to 100 Linkedin jobs - which of course all have hundreds of applicants, and I've gotten almost no replies. I'm also not getting... 5 15 replies
Increase KW difficulty Hey all, I increased my DA from 10 to 20 in 2024. I have a health domain authority overview and according to SEMrush a link on my site would be good for related authors. Anywho, I’m wondering if I can start tackling a higher KW difficulty. At the moment I’m ranking for anything between 20-45 KW difficulty (SEMrush) but would like to start going for 50 and higher as well. Am I ready or do I need to keep increasing my DA score? Thanks! 2 1 replies
Help with Google Index Hello there, My website is [www.carsrave.com](http://www.carsrave.com) \- I've had like 40-50 links indexed on google, but now I have only 4 links on google and tried everything but did not work, I did the sitemaps and all other stuff I found on google as a solution but yet doesn't work, can I reset somehow or do something about this. Help Please. Have a good day 1 0 replies
Critiques on my method to find all live URLs on a large site Hello, can anyone please critique my method for locating every live page on a large website? I am working on a site with more than 3,000 pages, including product pages. There has been little to no governance prior. There is no way to export a list of pages from our headless CMS. Therefore, I am pulling every page that GA found over the past year; every page GSC logged; every page that shows up in a comprehensive Screaming Frog crawl that uses GA4 and GSC API's . I am... 4 0 replies
AIO? How does it works in together with SEO? Many AI chatbots utilize publicly available online resources, including websites and social media platforms like Reddit. How can I optimize my content to increase the likelihood of using it as a source by these AI systems when responding to user prompts? 5 0 replies
Do the things that impact SEO organic also impact Google Business Profile rankings? Things like backlinks, relevant content etc, do they matter when it comes to ranking in Google Business profile for maps? Or are the primary factors: - Reviews - Categories - Distance ??? 3 2 replies
Why did my referring domains decrease after the December 2024 code update? I've noticed a significant drop in the number of referring domains to my website after the December 2024 code update. Is this due to search engine algorithm changes, technical SEO issues, or could it be related to backlinks being lost? How can I identify and fix this issue to recover the lost referring domains? 3 0 replies
In Dec 2024 I generated 1.5k views on Medium doing parasite SEO Here is how I did it and why I continue to post there. My approach to posting on Medium: * review my LinkedIn posts and think about by which keywords I can rank such content; * publish the same LinkedIn post with more images and details. * sometimes I make a big guide aggregating 2-3 posts. **Why I do this** 1/ Copying information is always easier than creating a new one, so with one piece of content, I get organic traffic from LinkedIn in 1 week and will get... 1 4 replies