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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. 1 DAY AGO

    Why Are There No Good Examples of PBN Sites? - 139

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy Concepts covered: Why I don't share our sites Why I don't share a generic site How to make your site Why number of words in the excerpt doesn't matter, etc. Referenced episodes: How to Build a PBN Part 1 Domain Acquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc How to Build a PBN Part 2 Hosting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv How to Build a PBN Part 3 Website Management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI

    8 min

  2. 28 JAN

    The Reason You Aren't Ranking (It's Probably Not a Problem With Your Site) - Episode 138

    Sorry the mic sounds weird. No idea what's transpiring. Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy Principles covered: Beginners don't understand that a big part of SEO has nothing to do with YOUR website. SEO is not something YOU do to YOUR website. SEO is not a checklist. The 4 things you need to rank. When two websites have perfect on page, who ranks? The one with greater authority. Website attributes are the MINIMUM to even be considered to rank. There are very few things you can do to your website to make you rank higher. PROBABLY the reason you are not ranking is because you do not have enough authority compared to your competition (assuming everything else on your site is correct). SEO is like a race. Just because you improve doesn't mean you're going to rank higher. Things that won't help you: dwell time, site loading speed, good content. Mentioned episodes: SEO Is a Competition, Not a Checklist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo8Cdt3PnI 4 Things You Need to Rank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg Is This Lower Authority Website Actually Outranking This Higher Authority Website?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWgsq9UgYBY&pp=0gcJCXwKAYcqIYzv 4 Reasons Backlinks You Built Didn't Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_6viPUeUW4 EEAT, Content, Dwell Time - not ranking factors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE

    15 min

  3. 22 JAN

    4 Reasons You Built Backlinks and They Didn't Work - Episode 137

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy The 4 reasons you build backlinks and they do not help: You have too little authorityYou built bad backlinksYou have a problem with your siteYou are not relevantMentioned episodes: the 4 Ways to Get Backlinks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8 the 4 Things You Need to Rank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg You MIGHT Get a Penalty. Maybe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcGIEPiN6I

    11 min

  4. 9 JAN

    Questions To Ask An SEO Agency To Hire Them

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy You might learn: Does the person understand SEO or do they just sound smart? Three types of SEO agencies Their goal is to impress you, your goal is not to impress them Questions to ask Are their answers logical or are they just using lines? Mentioned episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw

    20 min

  5. 31/12/2025

    New Topics

    Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy How to email me Topics for new episodes

    13 min

  6. 17/12/2025

    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

  7. 10/12/2025

    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

  8. 28/11/2025

    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
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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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    2023 - 2026
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