Grumpy SEO Guy

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Everything I've learned in 14 years of running an SEO agency. Learn how to get, and keep, websites at the top of the search engines. If you listen to this podcast you will know more about how the SEO industry works than 99% of SEO "professionals."

  1. DEC 17

    SEO Backlinks For Beginners - Episode 134

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:00 what is a backlink? 2:03 What is a link? 2:25 What is a backlink? 2:38 What is an internal link? 3:00 Why are backlinks important? 3:16 Authority comes from backlinks 3:30 Why do you need authority? 3:46 What are the 4 things you need to rank? 4:15 Episode on penalties: 5:26 How does authority work? 5:58 How is authority shared? 7:03 How do you get authority? 7:30 How authority makes you rank 7:52 Amount of backlinks vs quality 8:52 Two take aways from this episode You need backlinks to get authority and you need authority to rankThere is a difference between good and bad backlinks9:07 Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks: 9:37 How to get backlinks 9:30 Getting good backlinks is the hardest part of SEO 9:57 The 4 ways to get backlinks 11:19 Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you 12:26 Three episodes about how to build your own links 13:23 Review: what are backlinkswhy you need themgood backlinks and bad backlinkshow you get themReferenced episodes: Episode on penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&t=1s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw&pp=0gcJCTwKAYcqIYzv Three episodes about how to build your own links: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc&t=3s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4 Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI

    15 min

  2. DEC 10

    SEO FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS (and a Grumpy SEO Guy Interview) - Episode 133

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:32 What is SEO? 2:41 What are keywords? 3:17 Why do SEO? 4:00 What is the goal of SEO? 6:50 PPC (pay per click) is different than SEO 7:20 How ads (pay per click) work 9:08 The 4 variables you must manipulate to rank high in SEO 9:40 The difference between local SEO and normal SEO Local SEO vs normal SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aTU1a62wo 11:02 SEO penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A Content is not a ranking factor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE 20:05 episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks: First version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao Next version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 21:03 Review (defining SEO, why you do it, the 4 variables to manipulate, backlinks, anchortext, pay per click). 22:10 Things that do not change your position Dwell time does not affect SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE 27:51 How do you check your progress? 30:12 Interview on the Content Manager Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3K0VlSzXlT9whNp34hdD09?si=AUzRHygYTKmqfaLWY94ZRQ&nd=1&dlsi=6ae73236ce544860

    32 min

  3. NOV 28

    SEO Topical Authority, Content Structure, and Cannibalization - Episode 132

    Please help keep this podcast free: patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:54 What is topical authority? Episodes that talk about relevancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBbW69GYYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A 2:03 What is relevancy? 2:29 How do you get relevancy? 3:21 Why does this matter? 3:32 The 4 things you need to rank. Episodes that talk about the 4 things you need to rank: Complex version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg Fast version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv Episode that talks about penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A 5:14 How authority is passed 5:56 Most of your time will be used getting backlinks 6:35 Why do you need to care? 7:07 How relevancy works in ranking 7:30 Why search engines want to give good results 8:23 How authority works in ranking 9:06 Relevancy answers the question "will my website appear in the search results?" 9:37 Authority answers the question "what position will my website be in the search results?" 10:23 How should you structure the content on your site? 10:50 How to create posts 11:16 What is not ok. 11:34 Definition of cannibalization

    14 min

  4. NOV 19

    The Dangers of Public Blog Networks - Episode 131

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:01 Private blog network vs. public blog network 3:54 Things that can happen to a public blog network deindexedpenalizedlink farmEpisode that talks about link farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg3kxzfUaw 4:50 If links are public, everyone knows about them, and they lose their effectiveness 5:00 Search engines are looking for public blog networks 5:16 Where are the real backlinks? 5:40 The reason there are no forums with only good backlinks sellers 6:15 the reason I think 99% of people in the SEO industry are scammers 6:52 What you should do before buying backlinks from a forum 7:17 When something is advertised to the public, that is a public network 7:42 Episodes showing how to build a private blog portfolio. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv 8:12 The hardest part of SEO is finding good backlinks 8:51 Episodes about the difference between good and bad backlinks Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4 Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 8:59 The 4 ways to get backlinks 9:17 Episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks Old version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv New version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 10:30 Know how it works before ordering backlinks 10:50 A story about a public link network that was discovered by the search engines 11:51: Public networks get discovered 11:59 The 2 ways to use a private blog network 14:02 The reason (good) publicly available backlinks wouldn't work, anyway 16:05 When link networks are public, they eventually stop working

    18 min

  5. NOV 5

    Are SEO Link Directories Useful? - Version = 1 - Episode 130

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:51 he purpose of link directories 3:45 A main problem: they're copies of each other 5:07 Suspicious names 6:12 Same IP address Episode that explains IP addresses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA 6:54 Link farms 7:25 Description of a link directory 8:32 Can link directories help you? 9:16 Why do they have directories linking to them?

    11 min

  6. NOV 5 · BONUS

    Are SEO Link Directories Useful? - Version = 2 - Bonus Episode

    We recorded another version of this episode. This episode was recorded on my phone so the voice quality appears bad. Let me know which version you prefer! Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy/ 1:55 Why are we mentioning link directories? 2:45 The reason people build directories 3:44 Problems with directories They are all duplicates of each other On the same IP Linkfarms 5:00 Defining link farms 6:33 The exception to link directories with local SEO Details of decent link directories 7:35 Why so many sites have directory links

    10 min

  7. OCT 14

    Bonus Episode - Episode 129

    0:35 The problem with Episode 128 and why it didn't come out at the planned time 1:12 How to email me 3:30 The reasons your rank is declining and how to tell and how to fix it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 4:30 The 4 things you need to rank: (long episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ (short episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv 5:10 The 4 ways to get backlinks: (long episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao (short episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 6:15 LLMS.txt does nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8

    7 min

  8. OCT 7

    Local SEO vs. Regular SEO - Episode 128

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:08 Local SEO vs. Regular SEO 2:07 Map The episode about penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A The episodes about the 4 things you need to rank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg Documents about local SEO: https://ahrefs.com/blog/local-seo/ https://www.semrush.com/blog/what-is-local-seo/

    10 min
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Everything I've learned in 14 years of running an SEO agency. Learn how to get, and keep, websites at the top of the search engines. If you listen to this podcast you will know more about how the SEO industry works than 99% of SEO "professionals."

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