Finding the right SEO

[max12333]

Heya BHW,

I've been running a site in the legal niche for about a year now. Growth has been steady as has organic traffic.

I've worked with a few really great sellers on BHW and I've only really had positive experiences.

Lately I've seen a slight dip in my organic traffic. I've kept up with my blogging and I seem to have a good amount of backlinks. Semrush calls some of them toxic, but I know that's only a general metric.








I feel like I'm at a bit of a cross roads in terms of site growth. I try not to rely on AI content as my niche is legal and GPT likes to make up the law. I also try not to purchase low quality links. Despite that I think Google doesn't like my backlink profile and has knocked out my top 10 spots because of it.

Should I try changing SEOS, stopping link building, focusing on PBNs? It feels like its hard to find an all in one solution that doesn't want to charge me several thousand dollars a month for what takes me a few hundred and a few hours of my time weekly.

I hate to see my competitors with laggy wordpress sites ranking above my static Svete javascript site with AMP pages and speedy load times.

 

[max12333]

I know that these images wont show my actual backlink profile or my competitors. I constantly watch theirs but I don't see much of a difference besides SEMRush rating theirs as "healthy" and mine as "toxic" with the same DA.

 

[SirLouen]

I hate to see my competitors with laggy wordpress sites ranking above my static Svete javascript site with AMP pages and speedy load times.

Firstly, AMP is useless for SEO nowadays (stated by Google, they will be deprecating it anytime soon).
Secondly, you are overcomplicating things with Svelte. WordPress will outrank you with ease with any plugin like TSF or Rankmath. Too many technical constantly updating features in HTML code I could not care less unless I worked on a full-time SEO technical job for a big corp.

 

[max12333]

Firstly, AMP is useless for SEO nowadays (stated by Google, they will be deprecating it anytime soon).
Secondly, you are overcomplicating things with Svelte. WordPress will outrank you with ease with any plugin like TSF or Rankmath. Too many technical constantly updating features in HTML code I could not care less unless I worked on a full-time SEO technical job for a big corp.

Assuming you’re right about all of that, is there an easy solution to take a static site and import into WordPress without paying somebody thousands of dollars to reverse engineer?

 

[SirLouen]

Assuming you’re right about all of that, is there an easy solution to take a static site and import into WordPress without paying somebody thousands of dollars to reverse engineer?

It depends a ton on how you designed your site. Specially the content. If you used a Content Management system behind Svelte, it will make things a lot easier.

First, analyze if you can export the content, and how so, and also be wary of the attachments (images, videos,). If you can happen to make a CSV with your content, with WP All Import is pretty straightforward.

Secondly, the design, it will probably easy to wp template it, or replicate it with any fast builder like Oxygen. If you have been using some CSS framework with Svelte, like Tailwind, there is some plugin that do this pretty easily into Oxygen.

Finally, the last touches, like redesigning URLs and all that to keep everything working with the same structure. You may probably have to do this manually unless you figure out a way to edit the DB registries.

It won't be very straight-forward, but I think with a little patience you will be able to make it happen.

 

[max12333]

It depends a ton on how you designed your site. Specially the content. If you used a Content Management system behind Svelte, it will make things a lot easier.

First, analyze if you can export the content, and how so, and also be wary of the attachments (images, videos,). If you can happen to make a CSV with your content, with WP All Import is pretty straightforward.

Secondly, the design, it will probably easy to wp template it, or replicate it with any fast builder like Oxygen. If you have been using some CSS framework with Svelte, like Tailwind, there is some plugin that do this pretty easily into Oxygen.

Finally, the last touches, like redesigning URLs and all that to keep everything working with the same structure. You may probably have to do this manually unless you figure out a way to edit the DB registries.

It won't be very straight-forward, but I think with a little patience you will be able to make it happen.

Thanks for the input. I didn't use a CMS behind svelte, but I only locally hosted text and images, no videos.

I've added a few webhooks for gathering reviews and what not, but nothing to difficult. Candidly I had a friend build most of the site so some of the actual framework.

I think it'll be something I have to hire out for. I received a few quotes from local USA SEO firms that wanted several thousand to do it. I didn't see it being worth it - but you might be right about WP and plugins.

 

[SirLouen]

Thanks for the input. I didn't use a CMS behind svelte, but I only locally hosted text and images, no videos.

Ouch, that hurt me