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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. 5 DAYS AGO

    SEO Works Like High School Popularity - Episode 125

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 0:57 Reminders (How to contact me with questions) 2:14 Authority is basically like high school popularity 3:10 What makes somebody popular in high school? 5:56 What makes a website rank? 7:15 The 4 things you need to rank Episode about good backlinks and bad backlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 Episode about SEO being a competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo8Cdt3PnI 12:06 The reason people think good content makes a website rank

    16 min

  2. 3 SEPT

    Four SEO Reasons Your Rank and Your Traffic Are Decreasing - Episode 124

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:26 Why is my traffic decreasing? 3:02 Traffic is not an SEO metric 3:13 Traffic is a function of monthly search volume and your rank 3:59 JUST BECAUSE YOUR TRAFFIC DECREASED DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE AN SEO CONCERN Episode that explains traffic and position: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01am10-OwDY 4:52 Tracking your SERPs is the main thing you need to do 6:15 A SERP chart needs to do these 3 things 7:43 Average position is a ridiculous metric that doesn't tell you anything 10:07 The way you check if you're at the top of the results is with a SERP chart 10:29 Sometimes you lose traffic because your SERPs drop The episodes that talk about why you lose position: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA&pp=0gcJCcYJAYcqIYzv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 10:47 There are 4 reasons your rank can decrease

    16 min

  3. 27 AUG

    Do You Need to Keep Buliding SEO Backlinks After You Are In First Place? - Episode 123

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 0:55 Reminders 2:44 An AI reminder AI episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw0CGhhpNeY 3:34 Authority comes from backlinks 3:58 SEO is like running in a race 4:30 There's always a website in first position, etc. 5:04 We do not start building backlinks before we spend 4 weeks looking at many things, including the competition 6:25 Why do you lose your rank? Episode 89: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA Episode 90: https://www.youtube.c:46 om/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA 7:46 People do not hire us if they are already in the first place 8:14 When people get outranked they complain on SEO discussion websites about losing rank 9:10 Websites on the first page organically get backlinks The 4 ways to get backlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 The marketing backlinks episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFv70Um0gik&pp=0gcJCbIJAYcqIYzv

    12 min

  4. 20 AUG

    SEO Is Pay to Play... Sometimes - Episode 122

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 2:26 The 4 things you need to rank 2:56 episode 2 talks about multiple types of penalties Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A 6:14 SEO is a competition, not a checklist 6:29 SEO is not about doing everything according to a checklist 6:37 A checklist presumes a standard exists 7:46 Backlinks usually either cost money or effort 7:51 There are 4 ways to get backlinks Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 10:06 Why are backlinks expensive? 10:36 Presume everyone is doing everything on page right 10:59 How does the search engine know which website to rank then? Link to episodes about link quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0 12:50 Examples of unhelpful advice 15:00 You need to pay for authority 15:50 What to do if you do not have money for SEO 16:30 If you do not have money for SEO, do this 18:30 EEAT definition 18:50 Link to Google saying EEAT is not a ranking factor: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide 19:42 SEO is about doing better than your competition

    23 min

  5. 13 AUG

    EEAT, Content, Dwell Time. NOT Ranking Factors. Here's Why - Episode 121

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:07 Reminders 2:35 SEO is no barriers to entry 5:18 EEAT 5:44 This website from Google says EEAT is NOT a ranking factor: SEO Starter Guide: The Basics | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers 6:06 Content is King 6:45 What I think "content is king" originally meant 9:08 Good quality content probably gets you better quality backlinks which can help you rank higher 9:31 Dwell time 9:56 Low dwell time on a high quality website 10:23 High dwell time on a low quality website 11:55 Dwell time is not a ranking factor

    14 min

  6. 6 AUG

    A Review of Episodes 101-119 - Episode 120

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:41 How to set up an SEO Zoom advisory Call with me 2:22 Episode 101: SEO: The Ethics of Linkbuilding 3:05 We tell how SEO works, not the way you need to do it 3:23 The 4 ways to get backlinks 4:50 Episode 102: SEO is Simple, Not Easy 5:40 The 4 things you need to rank 8:54 Episode 103: Be Careful of This SEO Buyer Scam 9:22 A description to explain these scams 11:50 Episode 104: Doin' SEO: A Day in the Life, and a Question From Patreon, PBNs, and OBL 12:25 OBL description 12:32 Episode 105: There are 4 Things You Need to Rank. These Are What They Are With Examples 12:42 The 4 things you need to rank 13:28 Episode 106: There Are 4 Ways to Get Backlinks. Here They Are 13:41 The 4 ways to get backlinks 15:29 Episode 107: You Might Get a Penalty. Maybe. 16:23 Episode 108: What Are Those Spammy SEO Links Everyone Seems to Be Getting Constantly 17:32 It's marketing 18:58 Episode 109 Good Content is a Myth, and What UFC and SEO Have in Common 19:19 Quality of content is not a ranking factor 21:47 Episode 110: How to Track Your Progress in SEO 12:06 SEO is the process of getting your website to the top of the search engine 25:05 Episode 111: How to Make a PBN (Correctly), a Review 25:30 3 Things to know 26:16 Episode 112: SEO is NOT Conversion Optimization 26:30 Defining these 27:50 Episode 113: DR is Not the Main Thing You Should Look at 28:17 We're going to talk more about this in a while 28:30 Episode 114: Good SEO Backlinks vs Bad Backlinks - a Review 29:03 Forum profile vs sidebar vs blog comment vs contextual 29:58: Episode 115: SEO, AI, and llms.txt 30:56 How to get with AI 32:34 Episode 116: Three Reasons Your SEO Backlinks Are Not Helping You 33:03 A reason it’s not working 36:09 Episode 117: How to Increase Your DR (and an Update on My Public Challenge) 36:38 There is never a reason to increase your DR 39:50 Episode 118: The High DR Backlink Scam – EXPOSED 40:37 Here’s how the scam works 41:00 Episode 119: My SEO Advice (AI Services and AI Content) 41:59 AI Content on your site

    46 min

  7. 30 JUL

    My AI SEO Advice (AI Services and AI Content) - Episode 119

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 0:54 Reminders 1:18 How to plan an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 2:25 Avoid paying anybody to do anything related to AI right now 2:43 llms.txt does not get you listed in llms 2:52 The AI and llms.txt episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8) 3:21 Don't pay people to do stuff that doesn't work 3:32 AI SEO/GEO is the same as regular SEO 3:52 People say things without proof. Where's the proof? 4:56 Avoid paying people to be listed in AI tools 5:20 Good AI SEO is good SEO 5:35 Avoid paying anyone for an AI audit 5:40 EEAT audits are pointless because EEAT is not a ranking factor 7:04 The reason EEAT audits are a scam 7:33 The episode about why EEAT is not a ranking factor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_gomfiJYI) 8:04 The episode about HCU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMom4V-Yag) 8:10 Search engines cannot tell the quality of content, so they rely on authority 8:46 How would they factor bias? 9:16 Avoid paying people for AI SEO 9:29 The 4 things you need to rank. 10:55 Should you use AI content? 11:38 A lot of AI content is filler content 12:24 Duplicate content is not a thing 12:35 The episode about duplicate content (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpL_cbueWLY) 12:45 When duplicate content is a problem 13:38 AI slop is placeholder content 15:26 If it's possible for search engines to detect AI content, it can get penalized 16:25 We recommend not using 100% AI content 16:42 the reason AI content might get penalized 17:40 AI blogs are low effort 18:04 AI was trained on existing content. What is it adding? 18:20 People have told me they are having trouble getting AI content indexed 20:21 The episode about How to tell if something is a ranking factor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fVqO5K_lg) 21:20 Why would an expert use AI content? 21:47 Content is not a ranking factor, but it is a conversion factor 22:28 the episode about SEO and conversion optimization (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDIThvf6hY) 24:21 What are they trying to sell you?

    26 min

  8. 23 JUL

    The High DR Backlink SEO Scam EXPOSED.- Episode 118

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy 1:23 How to plan a SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me 2:48 Definition of dr 3:17 DR doesn't mean what people think 3;55 Low DR backlinks can be good, too 4:19 Here's the episode about Marketing SEO Spam 4:35 anchortext definition 5:44 The problems with high DR websites 7:12 Don't buy backlinks based on DR 7:29 The episode about lower DR ranking over higher DR 8:12 A refersher of a good backlinks: 8:16 contextual 8:20 likely on a relevant website 8:22 on a relevant post 8:25 makes sense grammatically and syntactically 8:31 doesn't look like it was written for SEO 8:36 Episodes 37 and 39 describe more about the difference between a good and bad backlink 9:14 Here's the scam 10:05 Anything that can be automated will not help SEO 11:07 If you're buying backlinks based on DR you are probably going to get scammed 11:53 Content wrtiers dislike this podcast 12:07 Developers dislike this podcast 12:21 The 4 things that are necessary to rank 13:13 Dwell time is not a ranking factor 13:14 content quality is not a ranking factor 13:15 UX is not a ranking factor 13:32 How Impressions work 13:52 How to know how much traffic you are going to get 16:01 Quality of content is not a ranking factor 16:04 Dwell time is not a ranking factor 16:06 AI is not stealing your traffic 16:09 LLMS.txt does nothing 16:12 EEAT is not a ranking factor 16:19 Even Google admits EEAT is not a ranking factor 16:26 Anyone offering you an EEAT audit is scamming you 16:30 Anyone offering you an HCU audit is scamming you 16:32 Anyone claiming they can get you in the AI tools is probably scamming you or trying to sell you some trash that won't help you 16:39 Anyone claiming UX is a ranking factor is scamming you 16:54 Don't buy backlinks based on DR 17:00 a LEGIT DR80 backlink on a homepage would easily be $10,000 per month. 18:12 There are better ways to spend your money 18:23 Most DR80 websites are owned by companies and corporations that do not sell backlinks 18:29 DON'T BUY BACKLINKS BASED ON DR

    20 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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