Recent content by Sololeveling1

Same conversation keeps coming up. Positions and impressions look basically unchanged, clicks are down, and then everyone argues about whether that is AI Overviews or whether the site got worse. Usually nobody can prove either. You can settle it with Search Console and a browser. No tool...

Hi there, I run a small company that has historically done quite well with SEO. But recently I noticed organic traffic has dropped considerably (-50% YoY). I know this could be to do with AI overviews and the 'crocodile effect' but I am also thinking it could be the huge increase in referring...

Hey SEO people, I was slowly building up SEO for my website over the past couple of month and it started to work. I had around 900 impressions and 50 clicks per day. And with the recent google search update it looks my page is gone, it dropped to 100 impressions and almost no clicks. I know...

Yeah, you heard it right. GEO is just over hyped word made by marketers to sell you so called their "SEO Services". No hate to them. But, GEO is 80% SEO. These so called titles "SEO is dead GEO is the future" are also the buzz words because you can never learn GEO without understanding the SEO...

I started doing SEO for a website on both the platforms. While Google picked up in the first week itself, Bing has been weird with a few spikes with a couple of impressions on certain days and no traffic on most of the days. What can I do to get some traffic from Bing?

I’m trying to understand why a website can get more impressions but fewer clicks, and what I should look at to figure out what’s causing the drop.

Consolidating keyword cannibalization by merging weak, overlapping articles into one definitive guide and 301ing the rest gave me the biggest traffic jump of my career.

I’d much rather own 3 fully indexable language markets that actually rank and convert than offer 150 widget languages that bring zero organic hits.

Yeah, go ahead and reclaim your content—if the site is completely de-indexed, Google has dropped those pages, though giving the text a quick refresh before republishing on your own domain is good practice. As for that 301 redirect to their homepage, it’s total dead weight; once a domain loses...

Early on, I burned a bunch of money buying cheap PBN link packages, thinking volume was the secret to gaming Google. It took getting hit by a penalty and spending months disavowing garbage to realize that five solid, relevant links beat ten thousand automated backlinks every single time.

We can’t rely 100% on metrics, but nobody has time to manually audit every single site either. That’s why even a small slip-up by my team during the vetting process makes things really tough when managing sites at scale.

Honestly, BHW is always my go-to first. But sometimes I need resources that members there don't have, or I simply want to diversify my sources to improve overall quality and rankings for my site. And honestly, the price differences between providers can be pretty crazy sometimes.

Of course. Of course. That said, not every marketplace actually operates with that kind of accountability. So obviously, it’s on us to strictly vet everything right from the search stage.

Thanks for the insight! It seems like I got way too caught up in metrics, and honestly, it hasn't really moved the needle for my site. Buying on these marketplaces has been a total mixed bag. You’ve got some super legit platforms with serious sellers, but on the flip side... well, you know how...

Where are you guys actually buying reliable SEO resources? I've bought from a few marketplaces, but the quality has been pretty disappointing. Sometimes they just inflate fake metrics to trick buyers.