Recent content by cynicalSEO

Shaving leads is unfortunately extremely common. But if you're seeing a consistent level of lost leads, it's more likely (in my experience) to be a technical issue. In my experience the signs of lead shaving are: 1) A "zeroed" or "off the cliff" very low commission period which follows a long...

Okay I'll bite, since it seems like there are lots of people chiming in that have good experiences with AI generated content. Survey question: What's your best, average and worst performing 100% AI generated blog doing in monthly revenue? And how long have they been running? (I mean... it...

You really don't need to do this anymore unless you have some very special case. Google zeroes the value of spammy backlinks now. Do you have a manual action against your site?

It's considered black hat because Google said it's black hat. We're all playing in their playground. If you're going to use it, do a LOT of human editing on it. My 2 cents. At work, we trained an AI to recognize 50% of AI-spun content in less than 24 hours. (This was pre GPT3 though... )...

Do some research on the "May 2022 Google Core Update". The algo changes have kept coming at a steady pace for the past 5-6 weeks. Many sites have been hit. There are a lot of theories as to why sites are getting hit: 1) Too many affiliate links -- particularly links from Amazon or major...

This. Google cares about entities. Not so much the "writing". On the sites I manage for work we got hit pretty hard on a few -- not that hard on others (50/50) -- and we improved massively on a few others. I noticed that on-page technical optimization didn't really seem to matter, but...

Slack groups are the easiest IMHO

I've tried just about every artiicle spinner and never seen one that writes "well". On that note... The day that AI can generate articles which are indistinguishable from human-written articles is absolutely coming -- but it's not here yet. The thing is -- it's nothing that any of us should...

If traffic was a ranking factor it would be way too easy to spoof.

I'm not sure why you think these subscribers are "your clients". Take this example: Let's say you have a site that sells health insurance in the UK. You have a segment of 5 million visitors a year that: * Only visit your homepage, agree to notifications, and then leave. * Are from non-UK...

No, sorry. Also, I'm pretty sure that's against forum rules.

This. Google's AI doesn't need exact matches anymore.

That'll get you part of the way there, sure. It won't hurt. A couple years back all that mattered were exact match keywords with a few longtails sprinkled in. Anchor text is just more thinking along those lines. The problem is that we never know what text 'matters most' from a contextual...

The short answer is: The exact phrase is decreasingly important. Google understands context and concepts now. Longer answer: Variations of the anchor text are certainly worth using to some degree, but RankBrain is much smarter than that. Every year, and to greater and greater extent, Google is...

Am interested. Please PM.