Reddit ranks #1 on Google for “.” Searching for a single period (”.”) on Google ranks Reddit as the top result, linking to a post about YouTube. It’s completely irrelevant and highlights how flawed Google’s algorithm can be with the past updates. 1 4 replies
Most effective ways to measure SEO vs. Paid Lots of companies with stagnating growth decide at some point to move SEO and Paid Acquisition under the same department to make them work in tandem rather than silos. If you happen to be a SEO specialist and get moved under a Head of Growth with a past career in either Paid or Product, you realize you now need some new ways of tracking and presenting your impact. What are the most effective methods or tools to measure SEO performance in a similar way to Paid channels? 1 2 replies
Include keywords with high search volume but that contain the name of another city? I'm new to SEO, when it comes to planning keywords for a local business website, should I include high-volume keywords that mention other cities or mention competitors? 3 0 replies
Trusted pilot reviews how can i get my trusted pilot reviews to pop up when my company name is searched in google 1 0 replies
I have a website with over 60,000 visitors over 4.5 years. Is that something of value? Or should I just forget about it… Best performing article had 9.8k views Most months it has 2000 to 3000 views It costs $120 or so a year to maintain…what should I be doing to monetise it, who is the cheapest provider to get a .com domain with and host a website? 2 6 replies
Can a company have two websites? I created a website for my company focused on remodeling, but I also want to establish a separate website for roofing, which is a different niche. Should I use the same name for both websites, or would it be better to abbreviate it for SEO purposes? Is it advisable to use the same company name for two different websites? What do you advise me? 4 5 replies
Email Marketing Need Feedback I recently started a company and have been facing challenges managing customer data and finding clients. As a software engineer, I realised that gathering client data and sending cold emails isn’t as straightforward as it seems. I considered using tools like Mail chimp, it’s a bit steep for my bootstrapped startup. I only needed a few key features: * A Dashboard * Employee Records * Customer Records * Task Management System * Custom Email Templates for Newsletter , Onboard , Reach out So, I built my own system! It’s... 3 1 replies
Why AI Will Inevitably Kill Content SEO and the Only Solution With the rise of AI you can get most of your answers from AI overviews, ChatGPT, etc But where did the AI learn all of its knowledge? From the content that publishers and SEOs spent hours to learn and write In OpenAI's own documentation they have written: > OpenAI’s foundation models, including the models that power ChatGPT, are developed using three primary sources of information: (1) information that is publicly available on the internetIn OpenAI's own documentation they have written: OpenAI’s foundation models, including the models that power ChatGPT,... 2 5 replies
What Time Interval for Guest Posts? For guest blog posts on higher DA blogs, what is too many too fast? I’ve been doing a lot of organic blog outreach and have a decent list of opportunities, but don’t want it to look bad for Google by suddenly piling them on. Would 1-2 per week be too much? Also, does it change the analysis if I’m looking to backlink these to an internal location pages / internal location service page instead of the main website? 3 1 replies
Do we need to share GTM code in a thank you page of website? To track our websites contact form do we need to add our GTM code in thank you page. I have installed code on home page is it enough? Nb:I want to track it from tag manager by setting tag I don’t want to track it with analytics 4 1 replies
Do we need to share GTM code in a thank you page of website? To track our websites contact form do we need to add our GTM code in thank you page. I have installed code on home page is it enough? Nb:I want to track it from tag manager by setting tag I don’t want to track it with analytics 4 0 replies
Rankmath Set Homepage as Article Schema - is this a problem? My one site is showing an Article schema set for the home page. When I google it - it now shows a date in the meta description for the page. Problem is I set the home page to not have schema and it's still showing. Is this a problem? Does anyone know how to completely strip the schema out of a page? 2 2 replies
How to keep up? We have a website in 7 languanges. In may we added the 7th language but made a mistake with imports of products and we had all the products double. We deleted the dublicates, so we thought. We accidently deleted half of the original links. Our traffic has dropped a lot since then. We currently have gained someback, but it keeps going up and down. For the last 3 months i'm doing all the things on my own, like keeping the website up to date, orderpacking, customer support and all... 5 1 replies
Anyone hurt by December core update? **I lost more than half of my site traffic.** So I'm curious, did yours go up/down? 3 3 replies
SearchGPT vs. Google and Bing: How Search Engines Prioritize Content As OpenAI's **SearchGPT** enters the market, Semrush compared its results with **Google** and **Bing** across 5,000 queries. This study revealed how each engine highlights specific content types, domain sizes, and industries. # Search Engine Overlap: Do Results Align? **SearchGPT and Bing overlap the most**, while Google’s results remain distinct. |Search Engine Pair|Average Overlap (Domains in Top 10 Results)| |:-|:-| |SearchGPT & Bing|**3.5**| |SearchGPT & Google|**2.5**| |Bing & Google|**2.8**| SearchGPT and Bing's higher overlap reflects their shared **indexing foundations**, while Google diverges, prioritizing different content ranking factors. https://preview.redd.it/2w9gr33ypm7e1.png?width=3030&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0c67c146ffd7731622db1744be7db38c41d4ec4 # Domain Size Preferences: Large vs. Small Domains Google... 2 1 replies
High Client Turnover for SEO I work in the Local SEO industry for contractors and have noticed a shift. This year has been full of unexpected developments with marketing, especially with AI and Google core updates. There have also been outside forces like the economy, an election year, and future political paths that people are preparing for. With that being said, my agency is experiencing client turnover at a much higher rate than normal. The companies are in good places and our agency continues to deliver good results in quality of leads and growth.... 4 3 replies
Competitive research is quite fun and very helpful Hi all, I've been learning a lot on seo over the past few weeks to go with my usual saas development and really enjoying the discovery/research part of it. All through mostly semrush, poking around different sections and plugging in competitors websites. I noticed another one of my competitors has 1M+ backlinks all 'follow', crazy. Looking more into it I see they created a metric load of basically the same website with the same content, varying a little bit per website but not much and used a couple thousand... 2 0 replies
Best keyword research tool under $50/month I'm an SEO on Fiverr with about 3-5 clients monthly for my keyword research gig. Using SEM rush and Ahrefs is a bit expensive. Can you suggest the best keyword research tools out there under $50/month? Thanks 3 10 replies
Why can GSC click data and GA4 Organic Session data differ? Insights wanted. Hi everyone, I was wondering why Google Analytics Organic Sesssion data and GSC click data can deviate. GA4 session data are much lower. Timefrime is January to December October 24. My assumptions and questions so far: **Differences in measurement:** A user revisiting the site within a short time may still be part of the same session in GA4 (depending on session timeout settings). I understand that session default time is 30 minutes (without user interaction). *But aren't clicks counted as "one click" anyways, if users click the same website... 2 3 replies