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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.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 Episode about SEO being a competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo8Cdt3PnI 12:06 The reason people think good content makes a website rank
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 is the main thing you need to do 6:15 A SERP chart needs to do these 3 things 7:43 Average position is a ridiculous metric that doesn't tell you anything 10:07 The way you check if you're at the top of the results is with a SERP chart 10:29 Sometimes you lose traffic because your SERPs drop The episodes that talk about why you lose position: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA&pp=0gcJCcYJAYcqIYzv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 10:47 There are 4 reasons your rank can decrease
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 competition 6:25 Why do you lose your rank? Episode 89: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA Episode 90: https://www.youtube.c:46 om/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 7:46 People do not hire us if they are already in the first place 8:14 When people get outranked they complain on SEO discussion websites about losing rank 9:10 Websites on the first page organically get backlinks The 4 ways to get backlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 The marketing backlinks episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFv70Um0gik&pp=0gcJCbIJAYcqIYzv
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 money or effort 7:51 There are 4 ways to get backlinks Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 10:06 Why are backlinks expensive? 10:36 Presume everyone is doing everything on page right 10:59 How does the search engine know which website to rank then? Link to episodes about link quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 12:50 Examples of unhelpful advice 15:00 You need to pay for authority 15:50 What to do if you do not have money for SEO 16:30 If you do not have money for SEO, do this 18:30 EEAT definition 18:50 Link to Google saying EEAT is not a ranking factor: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide 19:42 SEO is about doing better than your competition
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 backlinks which can help you rank higher 9:31 Dwell time 9:56 Low dwell time on a high quality website 10:23 High dwell time on a low quality website 11:55 Dwell time is not a ranking factor
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 A description to explain these scams 11:50 Episode 104: Doin' SEO: A Day in the Life, and a Question From Patreon, PBNs, and OBL 12:25 OBL description 12:32 Episode 105: There are 4 Things You Need to Rank. These Are What They Are With Examples 12:42 The 4 things you need to rank 13:28 Episode 106: There Are 4 Ways to Get Backlinks. Here They Are 13:41 The 4 ways to get backlinks 15:29 Episode 107: You Might Get a Penalty. Maybe. 16:23 Episode 108: What Are Those Spammy SEO Links Everyone Seems to Be Getting Constantly 17:32 It's marketing 18:58 Episode 109 Good Content is a Myth, and What UFC and SEO Have in Common 19:19 Quality of content is not a ranking factor 21:47 Episode 110: How to Track Your Progress in SEO 12:06 SEO is the process of getting your website to the top of the search engine 25:05 Episode 111: How to Make a PBN (Correctly), a Review 25:30 3 Things to know 26:16 Episode 112: SEO is NOT Conversion Optimization 26:30 Defining these 27:50 Episode 113: DR is Not the Main Thing You Should Look at 28:17 We're going to talk more about this in a while 28:30 Episode 114: Good SEO Backlinks vs Bad Backlinks - a Review 29:03 Forum profile vs sidebar vs blog comment vs contextual 29:58: Episode 115: SEO, AI, and llms.txt 30:56 How to get with AI 32:34 Episode 116: Three Reasons Your SEO Backlinks Are Not Helping You 33:03 A reason it’s not working 36:09 Episode 117: How to Increase Your DR (and an Update on My Public Challenge) 36:38 There is never a reason to increase your DR 39:50 Episode 118: The High DR Backlink Scam – EXPOSED 40:37 Here’s how the scam works 41:00 Episode 119: My SEO Advice (AI Services and AI Content) 41:59 AI Content on your site
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 is the same as regular SEO 3:52 People say things without proof. Where's the proof? 4:56 Avoid paying people to be listed in AI tools 5:20 Good AI SEO is good SEO 5:35 Avoid paying anyone for an AI audit 5:40 EEAT audits are pointless because EEAT is not a ranking factor 7:04 The reason EEAT audits are a scam 7:33 The episode about why EEAT is not a ranking factor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_gomfiJYI) 8:04 The episode about HCU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMom4V-Yag) 8:10 Search engines cannot tell the quality of content, so they rely on authority 8:46 How would they factor bias? 9:16 Avoid paying people for AI SEO 9:29 The 4 things you need to rank. 10:55 Should you use AI content? 11:38 A lot of AI content is filler content 12:24 Duplicate content is not a thing 12:35 The episode about duplicate content (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpL_cbueWLY) 12:45 When duplicate content is a problem 13:38 AI slop is placeholder content 15:26 If it's possible for search engines to detect AI content, it can get penalized 16:25 We recommend not using 100% AI content 16:42 the reason AI content might get penalized 17:40 AI blogs are low effort 18:04 AI was trained on existing content. What is it adding? 18:20 People have told me they are having trouble getting AI content indexed 20:21 The episode about How to tell if something is a ranking factor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fVqO5K_lg) 21:20 Why would an expert use AI content? 21:47 Content is not a ranking factor, but it is a conversion factor 22:28 the episode about SEO and conversion optimization (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDIThvf6hY) 24:21 What are they trying to sell you?
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 lower DR ranking over higher DR 8:12 A refersher of a good backlinks: 8:16 contextual 8:20 likely on a relevant website 8:22 on a relevant post 8:25 makes sense grammatically and syntactically 8:31 doesn't look like it was written for SEO 8:36 Episodes 37 and 39 describe more about the difference between a good and bad backlink 9:14 Here's the scam 10:05 Anything that can be automated will not help SEO 11:07 If you're buying backlinks based on DR you are probably going to get scammed 11:53 Content wrtiers dislike this podcast 12:07 Developers dislike this podcast 12:21 The 4 things that are necessary to rank 13:13 Dwell time is not a ranking factor 13:14 content quality is not a ranking factor 13:15 UX is not a ranking factor 13:32 How Impressions work 13:52 How to know how much traffic you are going to get 16:01 Quality of content is not a ranking factor 16:04 Dwell time is not a ranking factor 16:06 AI is not stealing your traffic 16:09 LLMS.txt does nothing 16:12 EEAT is not a ranking factor 16:19 Even Google admits EEAT is not a ranking factor 16:26 Anyone offering you an EEAT audit is scamming you 16:30 Anyone offering you an HCU audit is scamming you 16:32 Anyone claiming they can get you in the AI tools is probably scamming you or trying to sell you some trash that won't help you 16:39 Anyone claiming UX is a ranking factor is scamming you 16:54 Don't buy backlinks based on DR 17:00 a LEGIT DR80 backlink on a homepage would easily be $10,000 per month. 18:12 There are better ways to spend your money 18:23 Most DR80 websites are owned by companies and corporations that do not sell backlinks 18:29 DON'T BUY BACKLINKS BASED ON DR
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 How do you increase DR? 9:19 A history lesson of authority and page rank 11:59 The first reason people ask how do they raise their DR? 13:12 Clients pay us to be at the top of the search engines, not to increase their DR 13::33 The second reason people ask how do they raise their DR? 14:50 Higher DR doesn't mean more authority than less DR 15:36 The third reason people ask how do they raise their DR 16:22 Would you rather be at the top of the search engines or having 100 DR
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 authority and search engines look more closely at your site 6:50 Article I was talking about 8:50 We do not sell backlinks off a menu 11:02 The 4 things you need to rank 11:04 1 No penalties 11:06 2 Content 11:07 3 Relevancy 11:09 4 Authority 11:10 There's a reason we do it that way 11:30 When you have everything you need, THEN you need authority 13:18 We cannot "take a quick look at your website" because SEO has covers more than your website 15:50 It's impossible to do SEO without studying your competition 16:00 Review