What SEO strategy are you focusing on right now?

King Gener

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Dec 19, 2007

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• Yesterday at 6:57 AM

• #41

In 2026, a lot of people keep pointing to content quality, topical authority, and technical SEO. Links still play a role, yes. But I would put more weight on relevance and real credibility than on raw link counts.

 

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abdulawal

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Dec 13, 2022

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• Yesterday at 7:07 AM

• #42

For new sites I'd go content + internal linking first. Once that's solid start pushing relevant backlinks.

 

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ViewCloak

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Jul 29, 2026

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• Yesterday at 7:31 AM

• #43

For newer sites, keep the strategy simple. Publish useful content, improve older pages, and build relevant links slowly.

 

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catalinmrm

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Jun 23, 2023

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• Yesterday at 7:33 AM

• #44

focusing most on improving existing content strengthening internal linking and building topical relevance

 

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SeoerUS

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May 21, 2026

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• Yesterday at 8:56 AM

• #45

These days, I’m focusing heavily on the quality of my website’s content and optimizing the site’s internal structure for AI-powered search to increase its visibility and reach more potential customers.

 

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crazytolearn

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Sep 3, 2026

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• Yesterday at 11:07 AM

• #46

iFreelancer said:

Right now we're focusing more on acquiring backlinks from legit sites with existing traffic. Unfortunately, right now the market is flooded with boosted sites, which have traffic but worthless.

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What do you mean by boosted sites? I think I have come across a few sites that have traffic but I never see them ranking for any keywords when I manually check. How do these sites get traffic then? Even in SEMRush traffic shows for them I think. Are these boosted sites?

 

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Auto Ai

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• Yesterday at 8:37 PM

• #47

That’s why for topical authority I have created my own in house tool. And actually this is doing great. Already crossed 500 users.

 

Luano Benz

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• Yesterday at 9:04 PM

• #48

Now for newer sites focusing a lot on programmatic or topical authority driven content along with foundational technical SEO is giving the best starting traction. Low quality backlinks in amounts are not working as well anymore so getting a few high relevance, contextual niche edits or outreach guest posts makes a much bigger difference, than just having a lot of links. Build topical clusters first before trying to build links aggressively.

 

Nikolaos

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• Today at 8:58 AM

• #49

malikfarhan7 said:

I’m curious what everyone in the community is testing lately. Are you putting more effort into content, backlinks, expired domains, technical SEO, or something else?
Would be interesting to hear what’s actually producing results in 2026, especially for newer sites.

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I'm posting consistently and only excellent content. I also try to get backlinks from highly authoritative relevant websites.