Grumpy SEO Guy

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy [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] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8 [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] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_gomfiJYI [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_gomfiJYI]) 8:04 The episode about HCU [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMom4V-Yag] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMom4V-Yag [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] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpL_cbueWLY [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] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fVqO5K_lg [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] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDIThvf6hY [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 [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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFv70Um0gik] 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWgsq9UgYBY] 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&pp=0gcJCcwJAYcqIYzv] and 39 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0&pp=0gcJCcwJAYcqIYzv] 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 [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 [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 [https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-shows-why-rankings-collapsed-after-domain-migration/548787/] 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

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy [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 are trying to sell you dumb nonsense because you are afraid of AI 8:26 Being listed vs. ranking 9:27 Problems with AI 10:30 AI fatigue 11:22 Is AI content ok? 12:30 Avoid buying backlinks from AI sites, AI slop 13:13 Hypothetical explanation of how search engines would penalize AI 14:22 What do search engines do? 14:54 Examples of things that are spammy 15:51 Good quality content comes form popularity, not content 16:43 The other side of the argument 17:29 Don't have an entire website that is AI 18:20 How to get your website found in AI 18:46 llms.txt 19:41 ahrefs article stating llms.txt isn't considered by LLMs 20:41 Whose traffic is actually declining? 20:03 How do people use AI? 22:28 AI is different than SEO 23:47 AI saves time 24:10 Not visiting a website isn't bad for SEO 24:36 AI is probably trained by information that is biased 25:28 Search engines are just fine. 26:04 There are only a few ways that AI can consider a website 26:59 AI will plausibly have a popularity metric like backlinks 27:24 You rank because you're popular, not because you're useful