Grumpy SEO Guy

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy Should you use AI content? What people have told me. What I do. Search engine land article: https://searchengineland.com/ai-generated-content-google-search-experiment-472234 ahrefs article: https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-generated-content-does-not-hurt-your-google-rankings/

4 cases where people say they can rank without backlinks. Is this correct? Do you actually need backlinks? Penalty episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy It's not "what can I do to my website?" It's "how does my SEO compare to my competitors?" There is very little you can do to your new websites to improve your SEO. Because that's not how SEO works. Luckily for you, we explain what that is in this episode.

Learn how to identify linkfarms and why they are bad. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

We might do a part 2. Patreon What is negative SEO? What is the purpose of negative SEO? Referenced Episodes: The Difference Between Good Backlinks And Bad Backlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4 The Difference Between Good Backlinks And Bad Backlinks Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 Spammy Marketing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFv70Um0gik SEO Penalties https:/...

Questions: Do PBN sites need traffic? Topical authority? Local SEO clicks without links? Is YMYL different than regular? Have you seen Google penalize a site for paid links? How do you find good link sellers? How do you know which PBN sites are working better? Parked domains reset authority? New update to impression tracking? How do you deal with competitors who sell AIO and GEO? New local algorit...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy Concepts covered: Why I don't share our sites Why I don't share a generic site How to make your site Why number of words in the excerpt doesn't matter, etc. Referenced episodes: How to Build a PBN Part 1 Domain Acquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc How to Build a PBN Part 2 Hosting: https://www.youtube.com/...

Sorry the mic sounds weird. No idea what's transpiring. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy Principles covered: Beginners don't understand that a big part of SEO has nothing to do with YOUR website. SEO is not something YOU do to YOUR website. SEO is not a checklist. The 4 things you need to rank. When two websites have perfect on page, who ranks? The one with...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy The 4 reasons you build backlinks and they do not help: You have too little authority You built bad backlinks You have a problem with your site You are not relevant Mentioned episodes: the 4 Ways to Get Backlinks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 the 4 Things You Need to Rank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy You might learn: Does the person understand SEO or do they just sound smart? Three types of SEO agencies Their goal is to impress you, your goal is not to impress them Questions to ask Are their answers logical or are they just using lines? Mentioned episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw

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Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:00 what is a backlink? 2:03 What is a link? 2:25 What is a backlink? 2:38 What is an internal link? 3:00 Why are backlinks important? 3:16 Authority comes from backlinks 3:30 Why do you need authority? 3:46 What are the 4 things you need to rank? 4:15 Episode on penalties: 5:26 How does authority work? 5:58 How is authority...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:32 What is SEO? 2:41 What are keywords? 3:17 Why do SEO? 4:00 What is the goal of SEO? 6:50 PPC (pay per click) is different than SEO 7:20 How ads (pay per click) work 9:08 The 4 variables you must manipulate to rank high in SEO 9:40 The difference between local SEO and normal SEO Local SEO vs normal SEO: https://www.youtub...

Please help keep this podcast free: patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:54 What is topical authority? Episodes that talk about relevancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBbW69GYYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A 2:03 What is relevancy? 2:29 How do you get relevancy? 3:21 Why does this matter? 3:32 The 4 things you need to rank. Episodes that talk about the 4 things you need to rank: Complex v...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:01 Private blog network vs. public blog network 3:54 Things that can happen to a public blog network deindexed penalized link farm Episode that talks about link farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg3kxzfUaw 4:50 If links are public, everyone knows about them, and they lose their effectiveness 5:00 Search engines are lo...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:51 he purpose of link directories 3:45 A main problem: they're copies of each other 5:07 Suspicious names 6:12 Same IP address Episode that explains IP addresses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA 6:54 Link farms 7:25 Description of a link directory 8:32 Can link directories help you? 9:16...

We recorded another version of this episode. This episode was recorded on my phone so the voice quality appears bad. Let me know which version you prefer! Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy/ 1:55 Why are we mentioning link directories? 2:45 The reason people build directories 3:44 Problems with directories They are all duplicates of each other On the same IP L...

0:35 The problem with Episode 128 and why it didn't come out at the planned time 1:12 How to email me 3:30 The reasons your rank is declining and how to tell and how to fix it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 4:30 The 4 things you need to rank: (long episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ (short episode) https://www.youtube.com/...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:08 Local SEO vs. Regular SEO 2:07 Map The episode about penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A The episodes about the 4 things you need to rank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg Documents about local SEO: https://ahrefs.com/blog/local-seo/ https://www.se...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:09 What is a ranking factor 2:34 Why do you do SEO? 3:55 Many of the things people do are not SEO 4:16 Why did your impressions fall? 4:45 Definition of impressions 6:51 Why did your traffic fall? Episodes that answer this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 9:38...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:22 Announcements 2:19 The four things you need to rank Episode talking about types of penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A 4:28 Relevancy Episode covering anchortext: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A 6:24 Authority Episode on helpful or harmful inks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7_DM7fj4Yg 8:...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 0:57 Reminders (How to contact me with questions) 2:14 Authority is basically like high school popularity 3:10 What makes somebody popular in high school? 5:56 What makes a website rank? 7:15 The 4 things you need to rank Episode about good backlinks and bad backlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4 https://www.y...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:26 Why is my traffic decreasing? 3:02 Traffic is not an SEO metric 3:13 Traffic is a function of monthly search volume and your rank 3:59 JUST BECAUSE YOUR TRAFFIC DECREASED DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE AN SEO CONCERN Episode that explains traffic and position: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01am10-OwDY 4:52 Tracking your SERPs i...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 0:55 Reminders 2:44 An AI reminder AI episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw0CGhhpNeY 3:34 Authority comes from backlinks 3:58 SEO is like running in a race 4:30 There's always a website in first position, etc. 5:04 We do not start building backlinks before we spend 4 weeks looking at many things, including the competiti...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:26 The 4 things you need to rank 2:56 episode 2 talks about multiple types of penalties Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A 6:14 SEO is a competition, not a checklist 6:29 SEO is not about doing everything according to a checklist 6:37 A checklist presumes a standard exists 7:46 Backlinks usually either cost m...