Grumpy SEO Guy

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

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy [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 engine 14:33 SEO is manipulation 16:01 A process to distinguish good backlinks from bad backlinks 16:50 Quick version 17:40 Good backlinks 17:46 Citations 17:52 Contextual (definition) 18:24 Spammy backlinks 18:24 Blog comments 18:46 Forum profile backlinks (definition) 19:25 Footer backlinks (definition) 20:32 Blog roll backlinks (definition) 21:17 Review 21:32 Checking the website itself 22:11 IP addresses 24:24 No links to gambling/pharma/adult 24:45 No links from pharma/adult/gambling 26:00 No backlinks from places that don't make sense 26:58 No backlinks from languages that don't make sense 28:01 IT HAS TO MAKE SENSE. 28:05 PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS CONCEPT. 29:16 Selling articles and links to whoever wants them is a big red flag 29:29 Review 29:59 Normal content 30:06 No spun content 30:31 AI content should make you rethink 32:34 Good backlinks help you 32:36 Bad backlinks harm you

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 important than the how to episodes. 11:36 Examples 4 of things that are more significant than the metric DR. 12:15 Number of backlinks is probably the least important factor that exists. 13:47 DR does not make the decision for you. 14:14 SEO is not about DR 15:00 The 4 things you need to rank again 15:28 Search engines do not use DR It's an estimate. 15:45 Higher DR does not mean a website ranks higher. 16:22 Two domains, which should you buy? 17:13 Stop buying domains and backlinks because of their DR 17:50 Better traits but lower DR = it's a better domain Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy [https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy]

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 volume and your rank 06:00 How to calculate how much traffic you get 07:45 How to calculate how much you will get in sales 08:49 SEO is what happens before a person gets to your site, once a person is on your website, SEO ends and conversion optimization starts 09:28 How to determine how much money you will make 11:02 How to make more money 11:38 The 4 things you need to rank 11:46 Conversion optimization 13:32 Once the person is on your website, SEO ends 14:15 Once the person is on your website, conversion optimization applies 15:40 The difference between an SEO problem and a conversion optimization problem 18:11 SEO is not the same as conversion optimization 21:30 You need to know why this works Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy [https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy]

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 authority 11:35 There are 4 ways to get backlinks 13:27 Are PBNs blackhat? 14:45 The purpose of a PBN 15:40 Find the websites 20:50 Find hosting 21:20 Do not use the same provider 23:50 Do not use SEO hosting companies 25:05 Content 26:36 Make a regular website 28:24 How many words? 28:54 Plugins Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy [https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy]