Grumpy SEO Guy

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:07 Reminders 2:35 SEO is no barriers to entry 5:18 EEAT 5:44 This website from Google says EEAT is NOT a ranking factor https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide 6:06 Content is King 6:45 What I think "content is king" originally meant 9:08 Good quality content probably gets you better quality...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:41 How to set up an SEO Zoom advisory Call with me 2:22 Episode 101: SEO: The Ethics of Linkbuilding 3:05 We tell how SEO works, not the way you need to do it 3:23 The 4 ways to get backlinks 4:50 Episode 102: SEO is Simple, Not Easy 5:40 The 4 things you need to rank 8:54 Episode 103: Be Careful of This SEO Buyer Scam 9:22...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 0:54 Reminders 1:18 How to plan an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 2:25 Avoid paying anybody to do anything related to AI right now 2:43 llms.txt does not get you listed in llms 2:52 The AI and llms.txt episode ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8 ) 3:21 Don't pay people to do stuff that doesn't work 3:32 AI SEO/GEO i...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:23 How to plan a SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 2:48 Definition of dr 3:17 DR doesn't mean what people think 3;55 Low DR backlinks can be good, too 4:19 Here's the episode about Marketing SEO Spam 4:35 anchortext definition 5:44 The problems with high DR websites 7:12 Don't buy backlinks based on DR 7:29 The episode about l...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:37 Schedule an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 2:30 HCU audits are scams 3:10 RIGHT NOW AI SEO is the same as regular SEO 4:01 Zero people have shown proof that AI is stealing their traffic 4:30 No one has shown a website that ranks without backlinks (yet lying content writers still say their content will make you rank) 7:21...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:42 Schedule an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 2:06 The first reason (not enough authority) 3:45 You need enough authority compared to your competition 4:02 The second reason (they are spammy) 4:46 The third reason (other problems with your website) 6:05 You can do things wrong and they won't hurt you until you start getting...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:48 How to arrange a Zoom SEO Advisory Call with me 2:48 Is AI going to replace SEO? 3:49 Is AI really stealing your SEO traffic? 5:06 Most AI articles are clickbait 5:38 No one knows how AI works for SEO 5:57 AI services are probably scams 6:47 AI did not steal 70% of your traffic 7:21 AI problem vs SEO problem 7:40 People...

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:30 Reminders 2:06 How to arrange a Zoom SEO Advisory call with me 2:23 SEO AI Preview 4:07 We are thinking about doing videos 5:39 The 4 things you need to rank 9:17 Why you need backlinks 10:01 This is how authority works 11:57 Good backlinks and bad backlinks 12:57 YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHY 14:23 Think like a search engi...

1:56 How to do a SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me BACKGROUND 3:01 What is authority? 3:14 What are the 4 things you need to rank? 3:57 Pagerank 4:43 Different SEO tool's authority calculations THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN DOMAIN RATING 6:29 A high DR website can be bad and a low DR website can be excellent 7:41 Do you want a course about buying domains for your PBN? 9:58 Why the THEORY episodes are more...

01:14 Reminder 01:48 How to arrange an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 01:59 Question for listeners 02:35 The episodes that annoy listeners and why - Traffic is not an SEO metric, and if you're not tracking your SERPs, you're not doing SEO 04:08 Why people will get frustrated with this episode 04:16 What is SEO? 05:03 What is conversion optimization? 05:42 Traffic is a factor of monthly search volu...

1:10 New episodes 1:36 How to arrange an SEO advisory call with me on Zoom 4:38 The reason we're making this episode 5:30 The reason SEO can't be taught in 10 minutes 6:17 The difference between a private blog network and a private blog portfolio 7:24 Do NOT link your sites together 7:42 In specific order, what you need to rank 10:15 Things that do not generate authority 11:00 What transfers autho...

Reminders Announcement What is the purpose of SEO? The SERP Tracker we use. A secret bonus you can do with a SERP tracker Three things to look for in a SERP tracker

01:32 Email me 02:00 Success email from an SEO advisory client who started her own agency and is getting nice results for her clients 04:22 Quality of content is not a ranking factor 04:44 How to be smarter than everyone else in SEO 05:00 Song analogy check this one 0:700 Example of bad content that ranks 09:42 Search engines can't tell good content, so how do they evaluate? 10:02 Authority is a m...

You've seen them. Everyone has seen them. Let's talk about them. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

Do things you're not supposed to and you get a penalty. Sometimes. Maybe it's uncertainty built into the algorithm. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

There are 4 ways to get backlinks. 1) Do nothing 2) Buy 3) Guest Post and Link Outreach 4) Build Your Own Sites and Use Those Learn which one might be best for you. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

No Penalties. Why you should avoid them and different types of penalties. Content. What it does and does not do. Relevancy. What it is and how to get it. Authority. What it is and how to get it. And how they all play a role in search. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

Being an SEO Consultant: Wake up Do you need to rise at 4am? Time in email Time in meetings SEO employee vs SEO entrepreneur Backlinks, content, research. Answer to a Patreon member's question: At what point do PBN outbound links start becoming diminishing returns? Three answers: What number of OBLs from a PBN post? What number of OBLs from a PBN site overall? How about too many backlinks from a P...

How the scam goes and what you should say if you're a seller and someone asks you this. And a preview of the discussion about why free SEO audits are worth what you pay for them. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

Finding good backlinks is hard. What you need to rank. SEO is not a checklist. An economic comparison with SEO. Why you're not the CEO of a company. Why you're not ranking. SEO is a competition. $9,000 for 90 backlinks vs $10 for 100,000 backlinks. Why you can't buy $1 backlinks on a $1,000 domain. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

People say acquiring backlinks is bad. Thoughts? Topics covered: The 4 things you need to rank. The 4 ways to get backlinks and their ethics. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

All the information from each episode. Lots to share. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

There are no certifications. There are no degrees. An example of overoptimization, and a quick discussion of penalties. SEO changes. Why SEOs complain whenever there is an algorithm update (EVERY TIME). HCU audits (REALLY???). What shady agencies do. Why I do a podcast. SEO actually exists. The SEO industry has a lot of bad opinions about it. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon...

Why there are no (good) SEO certifications. The most important question you should ask.. Why you should always demand specifics. Content is not a ranking factor. DEMAND SPECIFICS. Ask them to explain SEO to you. DEMAND. SPECIFICS. Ambiguity = scam Internet marketing and SEO have a rotten reputation which makes perfect sense. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy

What is SEO? How is SEO different from conversion optimization? Why traffic is not an SEO metric (and what is)? Why content is not king. The four things you need to rank. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy