Season 1
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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 shared? 7:03 How do you get authority? 7:30 How authority makes you rank 7:52 Amount of backlinks vs quality 8:52 Two take aways from this episode You need backlinks to get authority and you need authority to rank There is a difference between good and bad backlinks 9:07 Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks: 9:37 How to get backlinks 9:30 Getting good backlinks is the hardest part of SEO 9:57 The 4 ways to get backlinks 11:19 Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you 12:26 Three episodes about how to build your own links 13:23 Review: what are backlinks why you need them good backlinks and bad backlinks how you get them Referenced episodes: Episode on penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&t=1s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw&pp=0gcJCTwKAYcqIYzv Three episodes about how to build your own links: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc&t=3s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4 Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI
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.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aTU1a62wo 11:02 SEO penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A Content is not a ranking factor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE 20:05 episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks: First version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao Next version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 21:03 Review (defining SEO, why you do it, the 4 variables to manipulate, backlinks, anchortext, pay per click). 22:10 Things that do not change your position Dwell time does not affect SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE 27:51 How do you check your progress? 30:12 Interview on the Content Manager Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3K0VlSzXlT9whNp34hdD09?si=AUzRHygYTKmqfaLWY94ZRQ&nd=1&dlsi=6ae73236ce544860
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 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg Fast version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv Episode that talks about penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A 5:14 How authority is passed 5:56 Most of your time will be used getting backlinks 6:35 Why do you need to care? 7:07 How relevancy works in ranking 7:30 Why search engines want to give good results 8:23 How authority works in ranking 9:06 Relevancy answers the question "will my website appear in the search results?" 9:37 Authority answers the question "what position will my website be in the search results?" 10:23 How should you structure the content on your site? 10:50 How to create posts 11:16 What is not ok. 11:34 Definition of cannibalization
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 looking for public blog networks 5:16 Where are the real backlinks? 5:40 The reason there are no forums with only good backlinks sellers 6:15 the reason I think 99% of people in the SEO industry are scammers 6:52 What you should do before buying backlinks from a forum 7:17 When something is advertised to the public, that is a public network 7:42 Episodes showing how to build a private blog portfolio. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv 8:12 The hardest part of SEO is finding good backlinks 8:51 Episodes about the difference between good and bad backlinks Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4 Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 8:59 The 4 ways to get backlinks 9:17 Episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks Old version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv New version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 10:30 Know how it works before ordering backlinks 10:50 A story about a public link network that was discovered by the search engines 11:51: Public networks get discovered 11:59 The 2 ways to use a private blog network 14:02 The reason (good) publicly available backlinks wouldn't work, anyway 16:05 When link networks are public, they eventually stop working
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 Why do they have directories linking to them?
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/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv 5:10 The 4 ways to get backlinks: (long episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao (short episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 6:15 LLMS.txt does nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8
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.semrush.com/blog/what-is-local-seo/
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 If you're not tracking your SERPs you're going to have no idea if you're successful 10:30 EEAT has no effect on your rank Google's own documentation says this: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide 12:23 EEAT audit = scam 12:28 People do EEAT on your website = scam 13:12 Other things that are not ranking factors 17:24 Things that are ranking factors The episode that talks about relevancy and authority and algorithms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoV09CHyGA
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 8:10 How the algorithm understands where to rank you