Great advice! Where do you suggest one to learn SEO if most or all other traditional methods "don't work"?
Why did you try to say that traditional methods don't work? The
method itself can definitely change. But if you were referring to the
strategy, then no—99% of strategies still work. Exact match domains work. PBNs work. Tiered link building is my favorite and the easiest for me, and it works. 301 redirects work. Doorway sites work. If you look into different niches and see the specific strategies people use to dominate them, all of those are working.
Sure, if you look strictly at the method, the way you execute it might change. If you used to create content by scraping and rewriting, now we write it using AI, humanize it, and reduce AI footprints. If we used to buy domains from one place back then, we might get them from somewhere else now. But the core strategy is exactly the same.
If you could explain what you actually meant and what you were trying to convey with "traditional methods don't work," I think we could get a much better answer. A common trap a lot of people fall into is reading old posts and assuming those strategies are outdated. In reality, strategies rarely become outdated. They almost never do.
I have a friend who strictly does churn and burn, and some of his sites are years old. I have personal sites like that too. However, my focus is heavily on tiered link building because it's so easy for me to automate. I have all the necessary tools for it like proxies , servers , fully automated GSA workflow , running llm on a headless server for free of charge content gens etc and now agentics since they are around. There are so many strategies out there. Pick what you suits and find then excute.
Some people say that faceless YouTube channels don't work, while they work perfectly fine for others. Some people say they can't rank AI content, yet others are ranking it without any issues. The reason for all of this comes down to one thing: the way they execute it. Not everything works for everyone. You need to pick a strategy and then figure out the method to actually do it. The strategy is one thing, and the method is another.
That being said, the best place to learn SEO is honestly here, Black Hat World as here everyone shares, but still there's traps since some are just saying, bot replies, trying to sell stuff, kind of things I hate it. Stay off from Reddit subs ( but use reddit as para site and works great lol) or anything run on mainstream or big names since many don't know what they are even doing.
