Recent content by Keells

For a new site I would not start in the marketplace at all, and not because the sellers are bad :suspicious:. A placement is one page you rent on someone else's domain, it gets crawled less every month, and a good share of what I bought last year is out of the index now. On a site with no...

It is still a business. The part that is shrinking is the one you sell: single placements priced by DR. AI answers are put together from pages that already rank, so the links that pay are the ones that keep a client's pages in the top ten, and that comes from what sits under those pages. A home...

Fresh for the money site, every time. Expired domains carry a history you cannot fully see and I have had two go sideways months later for reasons baked in before I bought them. Where expired makes sense is as a supporting site, where a bad surprise costs you one buffer instead of the project...

Without buying, yes, twice. Without building, no, and that difference is the whole answer. Both were fresh domains in mid competition affiliate niches. Content and internal linking got them impressions and nothing else, page 3 for months. What moved them was building my own supporting layer...

I spent more than $10,000 on APIs, and last year it was around $5,000. It's not that they're getting expensive .. it's because a lot of new features are coming in that we'll eventually need to use, and that's driving up the price.

The type mattered less to me than where it sits. Guest posts and niche edits at the money site, a handful a month, and the rest of the budget goes to keeping those alive. That second part is what nobody has mentioned yet. A niche edit on a page that drops out of the index in three months is a...

Been in adult on and off since 2019 and I stopped buying links for it entirely. What you can buy in that niche is either a marketplace page that also links to 400 other adult sites or a PBN someone runs for 50 clients, and neither did anything for me I could measure. What worked was owning the...

The search side of that stack is the part agencies leave out until a client asks why the cloaked page has no traffic. Adspower and cloaking cover the accounts. For anything that has to rank, what I run alongside is a set of buffer sites in front of every client property, EMDs or web 2.0s with...

Clutch is what it found, not why it decided. Run "best local SEO company [your city]" through Bing and you'll see the pages it actually read, usually two or three directories and a couple of "top 10" posts. The fix is to be on those pages, whichever they are, not to fight Clutch. I got a client...

You stop when the page stops moving, but I'd be careful about reading "no movement" as "links don't matter anymore". Ran into this in July: a page stuck at 6 for two months, added 20 more of the same kind of link, nothing. Changed what the links pointed at instead, pushed a few at the pages...

fresh domain for the money site, every time now. an aged domain with a clean travel profile still gives a head start, but you are buying history you cant fully see, and if it goes wrong you lose the site you spent a year on. what i do instead is keep the brandable fresh domain as the main site...

the ones that stick are never one signal. a page pushed by a single tactic bounces the moment google re evaluates, like said above. what i see hold is when the push sits a step away from the page, links going at tier 1 properties and buffer sites, not at the url you want to rank. when a batch...

forums were always valuable for one job, getting a tier 1 page crawled. a profile or a post that links to your web 2.0 gets that page fetched inside a day, i have run thousands of them for that with GSA SER /Xrummer AI and never once cared about the link itself. if the AI engines now read the...

Still matters, the percentages never did. What I see is that exact match from a page that is itself linked and crawled works, and exact match from a page nothing points at does nothing either way. So people running aggressive anchors on real placements see results and people copying the same...

everyone says content first and they are right for the money site, but there is one thing i'd start on day one that nobody here mentioned. register two or three extra domains in the same niche and put real content on those too. by the time the main site has its cluster written the buffer sites...