Grumpy SEO Guy

Understand this episode and you'll basically understand how SEO works. I'm serious. I'm really proud of this episode.

Answering your questions! From how much content you need (and how quickly you should post it), to strategies for using keywords that are too competitive for you to rank, eight SEO questions are answered in this episode.

Most SEO agencies cannot keep a client. Do you know why? It's because they can't get results. So they lock you in with long term contracts so they can keep getting your money even though they aren't getting you to the top of the search engines. Long term contracts are always a scam. If you're not at the top of the search engines, your SEO agency is wasting your time and your money. This episode wi...

Over a decade of SEO selling experience in fewer than 60 minutes. What worked (and why). What didn't work (and why). Learn how to be relaxed and confident and remove awkwardness from your being. Learn how I broke every sales rule and had amazing success. Learn why the more I tried the worse I did. This episode literally might fix the problems you can't explain.

Everybody makes a big deal of stuff that doesn't matter and that doesn't work. In this episode I will tell you how to to fix your SEO problems so you can ACTUALLY get to the top of the search engines.

This is how I would do SEO on a new website, how quickly, and why.

A look at the history of SEO. When we understand why SEO has changed the way it has, we understand how it may change in the future; when we understand how it will change in the future, we can futureproof our SEO efforts (this is why our clients have been at the top of the search engines for years). And, we'll talk again about how the disavow tool doesn't really do anything, and share a bit about A...

"Guest posting" and "link outreach" are popular methods of getting backlinks, but they can be very dangerous. This episode explains why you shouldn't rely on them, and how to do it like a real SEO agency instead.

Everyone thinks it's awesome. Are they right? Here are things no one told you about running an SEO agency. 1) You get lumped in with scammers (because most SEO agencies and consultants are scammers). 2) You will do a lot of educating. 3) Everyone wants to "pick your brain." 4) It can be pretty expensive to get started 5) Clients get mad after algorithm updates. 6) You need to be good at sales, or...

This episode talks about why SEO myths exist, such as "content is king," and why the search engines want you to believe these myths. We also give an example specifically showing that content does not matter when determining rank, and we talk about how to rank a website for any keywords you want, including keywords that do not even appear on the site (because content doesn't matter). We also talk a...

I share with you 4 things that I experienced while running my SEO agency. 1) A colleague bought 80 copies of an "SEO gurus" book to get an hour of consulting. Guess what the "guru" told him? 2) Something you need to look for when hiring an SEO person. 3) Watch as I struggle to explain to a different colleague that all SEO (excluding local) is exactly the same. 4) Learn how local SEO used to work,...

Some backlink providers offer one time payments, or lifetime backlinks (pay once and the backlinks stay online forever). This is always a scam. There is literally no such thing as a lifetime backlink and they are 100% lying to you and scamming you. In fact, most of these "lifetime backlinks" stay online for less than one year. At best, you will get a small benefit and then it will disappear. At wo...

Most SEO agencies and consultants are scammers. Here are six of the most common SEO scams, and how to identify them: 1) Actually doing nothing 2) Guaranteed results 3) Listing clients, and lying about who clients are 4) Fake case studies 5) Saying linkbuilding is worthless 6) Claiming to be Google certified in SEOThis is just the beginning of our discussion of SEO scams.

Are people saying bad stuff about you online? This episode explains how to make it so no one can find the bad stuff. We'll examine the common beliefs and then discuss how to actually do it.

Learn about the 4 things that annoy me the most about the SEO industry. Additionally, in this episode you will hear a reminder of why authority is the most important factor in ranking, a preview of the "SEO role Interview" episode, and you will learn how to tell if an agency or consultant is lying about who their clients are to try and impress you.

Learn why some clients are awesome and some are horrible, and learn from my mistakes with the biggest client we've ever gotten! We will also talk a little bit about sales, and a bunch of other stuff, too, so get ready to learn.

In the last two episodes we talked about how to get authoritative domains and how to host them. In this episode we talk about everything you need to do to manage your blogs and how to handle different situations including what NOT to do, how to prepare your sites for use before you start using them to rank clients, how to create content, how to place links on your blogs, how rapidly to build links...

You just bought a bunch of authoritative domains and are ready to host them. Make sure you do it correctly or you will get deindexed. In this episode we discuss the best way to do it, why IP address is important, why you need to avoid things like "SEO hosting," and the best way to choose hosts that won't rip you off.

If you want to rank your clients' websites, you need to build their authority. Literally 99% of people do this wrong. The only reliable way to build authority is by running your own portfolio of authoritative domains that you control. This is how my SEO agency has kept our clients at the top of page 1 for the last 10+ years. This is the reason other SEO agencies hire us to build backlinks for thei...

In this episode we look at 3 types of SEO penalties: keyword stuffing, overoptimization, and spammy backlinks. We talk about how to identify them, how to prevent them, and how to recover from them. We will also talk about negative SEO, and discuss a case study where it happened to one of my clients, and how we recovered from it.

The SEO industry is full of lies, and you have probably heard the biggest lie -- in fact, it might even be the reason you're not at the top of page 1. The biggest lie is this: "content is king." Learn why content is not king, what actually is king, and how you can leverage this to get your website to, and keep it at, the top of the search engines. Furthermore, you will start to learn how the SEO i...

I'm sharing everything I've learned in over a decade of running a successful SEO agency. I am going to tell you exactly how to get a website to, and keep it at, the top of the search engines. There will be no secrets. We are going to talk about everything related to the SEO industry, including why there are so many liars, so much bad information, and why nearly everything you know about SEO is wro...