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I want to learn SEO, especially for Quora, Reddit & Google but I don't know where to start. Also I don't have enough money to buy any course or tool subscription to learn it.

Is there anyway I can learn SEO & it's services without heavily investing?

It would be really helpful, if anyone can help me with it.

Thank you so much in advance.

I found Ahrefs to offer more at the same price, almost 3 times more keywords and some AEO-GEO rather nearly nothing for semrush at 130+ dollars.

If anyone has used both can you give me a comparison between these?

I not starting from zero but also very few pages indexed and almost none in SERP under 5. So which I go forward with? I already have semrush but the plan is ending soon so thinking of buying ahrefs for a month.

What are some ways you think that engineers work on infra to keep a topic or "bad PR' harder to search?

Ive been reverse engineering the citations from the prompts I want to show up for to try get my brand mentioned more often. Its been working well but I want to scale my efforts but its getting expensive.

Basically Im taking the prompts I want to rank for and pulling all the citations. Going though these and getting my self placemats on these pages, mainly in listicles. Its really starting to improve my ai visibility.

After trying the big players like peec or otterly, Ive come to the conclusion that the price of these tools is ridiculous. Im not paying $250 to get more prompts.

One reason is that they need to use scraped AI responses instead of using the AI's API. This way you can get real responses that are localised to the target country etc. But while I was doing this research I realised that I can buy this data my self from a web scraping company.

I went on to make a small internal tool that replicates what these big companies are doing. results im getting are very similar to the big companies tools.

Thought I would give it a go and make a small ai visibility tool. Ive managed to dile in the metrics pretty well to match that of peec.

Would anyone be interested if I was to improve what I have and and release the tool open source? It would be bring your own key and a hell of a lot cheaper than using something like peec or otterly. Just trying to figure out if its worth the effort to make it presentable or if I should keep it internal.

Im currently working on the reverse engineering of citations to grow mentions and have an outreach system at a click of a button for relevant sites.

My name is quite uncommon

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I usually do B2C, but I've recently accepted a B2B client. I'd love to see an example of a well optimized site, especially in regards to content. Could anyone share their proudest work? 😅

Hi everyone. I’m new to SEO and could use some advice.

The site I manage averaged around 25k impressions for a good year and a half. After Google’s August spam update, it dropped to around 2,5k on average, and now it dropped to around 500 on average and it hasn’t recovered. There’s no manual action in GSC, but the drop lines up with the end of the update.

We think it was caused because of thin scaled content abuse, plus keyword stuffing. We read the Google SEO tips and Google Spam Policies and did these steps:

• Cut the site from about 1,100 pages to about 200, removing low-value pages and ones that were cannibalizing other pages
• Rewrote pages that were spammy or keyword-stuffed
• Set up redirects for all removed URLs, and made sure nothing links to dead pages
• Moved from WordPress to a static site, which noticeably improved mobile performance

We’re still working on it, mostly by adjusting existing pages and making sure they are good quality rather than making new ones, but there’s no sign of recovery yet, even after this September update...

My questions:

1. Are we on the right track?
2. Maybe there's something we should do differently?

For context, I only have basic SEO experience and this is the first site I’ve worked on, so any guidance is appreciated. Thanks

Hi,

I had a Google Business Profile that I permanently closed a few days ago. Since my business address has also changed, the Google team advised me to create a new profile to verify my business at the new location.

I followed their instructions and created a new profile, but Google suspended it as well. can any one please help me understand why this happened and guide me on how to resolve the issue and get my new profile verified?

If you're a software engineer and you know next to nothing about SEO, where do you start?

What's really a valuable resource for a beginner?

I always thought building something was the hard part. Now it's definitely, no contest, hands down marketing / selling it.

I need to learn these skills. From zero. Throw me a bone here, please!

It's for a web analytics and revenue attribution saas, although I suspect general advice is plenty applicable at this stage.

We're planning to move our SaaS website from a subdomain to a new domain, and I'm curious how this has gone for others.

We've been looking into redirects, backlink preservation, and what to prepare before migrating.

Some research suggests it can take around 2–8 weeks for organic traffic and Ahrefs DR to reflect the change, but I'm not sure how realistic that is.

If you've done something similar, did your traffic or DR drop? How long did it take to recover or stabilize?

Also, anything you wish you'd done differently before the move?

Would appreciate hearing some firsthand experiences!

Overlays are added back to SEO Quake in version 4.2.

I have overlays enabled but still don't see them.

Has anyone gotten them to work?

We’re working on a website redesign right now, and I’ve been looking into the SEO issues that tend to show up after launch. Obviously, redirects and broken links are the first things everyone mentions. But I’m wondering about the less obvious stuff that gets missed even when a team thinks they’ve covered everything. What’s something you’ve seen go wrong more than once?

I have a site for file format converters and data visualization, cleaning etc tools. When I inspect urls and request indexing these got indexed within seconds. but google is not sending any of impressions on it (I am talking about impressions not position). I am not mentioning site url here because it is my first post and I am sure it is allowed here on first post or not, but if some one can help and want to see the site you can check datafrog with the dot tools extention

Thanks,

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Hey everyone,

I’d love to hear your opinions based on your actual SEO experience in 2026.

Many SEO workflows still include PDF submissions, Web 2.0 backlinks, and profile creation as part of off-page SEO. However, I’m curious whether these techniques still provide any meaningful SEO value or are mostly outdated practices.

A few questions:

- Do PDF submission backlinks still help with rankings or link diversity?

- Are Web 2.0 backlinks worth building, or are they mostly a waste of time?

- Do profile creation backlinks provide any real SEO value beyond brand presence and citations?

- Have you seen measurable ranking improvements from these techniques on real websites in 2025–2026?

I’m particularly interested in real-world results rather than theoretical opinions.

If you were managing a website today, would you still invest time in these methods, or would you focus entirely on digital PR, relevant editorial backlinks, brand mentions, and other authority-building strategies?

Looking forward to hearing your experiences!

I have a set of 3-word keywords where only the last word changes, and I want to target all of them. I see two options:

- Go with an EMD for the biggest keyword and try to rank for the others later via landing pages with the variable word in the slug.
- Go with a partial match domain (the two fixed words) and add the variable word in the slug of each landing page.

I love the power of EMDs, but in this case a partial match seems more flexible and also more brandable. What I'm not sure about is whether a partial match gives a similar ranking boost to an EMD, or at least makes ranking a bit easier.

Anyone have experience with this?

Today I checked the last 28D data on GSC and saw that my website is ranking for 218 long-tail queries.

How do I know that they're AI queries -

1. These queries are quite elaborative - "how many emails can i send per day in gmail without being spam"
2. The mentioned URL in GSC data - we are not even in the top 50 for that query
3. All of those long-tail queries have ZERO clicks

Now, my dilemma -
I checked all 218 queries using DataforSEO to check which queries we are showing on AI Overviews, here's the breakdown -
- No. of queries for which we are showing on AI Overviews - 88
- No. of queries for which we are not showing on AI Overviews - 130

Now, for my action plan, here's my hypothesis -
- For the queries mentioned in AI Overviews, I would find more PAA for that query and add them to the URL for which it is ranking.
- For the queries not mentioned in AI Overviews, I would check the intent of output on AI Overviews. If my competitors are showing up, I'll cover the query in the mentioned URL, if not, I'll simply let it go.

I'm open to testing different hypotheses.

Rankings, clicks, conversions, impressions, and engagement can all tell different stories. Which one would help you make the best decisions, and why?

Hello! Around two months ago, I updated the URL structure across my entire website and implemented permanent 301 redirects from all old URLs to their corresponding new addresses.

Although the new URLs have been almost completely indexed and are up to date, the old URLs continue to appear in the “Why pages aren’t indexed” report in Google Search Console under the status “Page with redirect.”

I’ve thoroughly checked the website’s internal links and XML sitemaps, and neither contains any references to the old URLs.

I run a small family business with my dad and honestly don't know what to do anymore. Over the past two weeks we've been getting random 1 star Google reviews from people we've never dealt with. Some of the reviews don't even make sense, one complains about a service we don't offer and another describes something completely unrelated to our business.

We've spent years building our reputation and had a 4.5 star rating, which has now dropped to 3.8. I know that might not seem like a big deal, but we've noticed fewer calls lately and even had a customer mention she almost didn't come in because of our reviews. My dad's in his 60s and keeps asking me how people who've never visited us can leave reviews, and I genuinely don't know what to tell him.

I've reported every fake review to Google, but it's been almost two weeks and nothing has happened. I've searched everywhere for how to remove fake Google reviews, but all the advice just says to flag them, which I've already done. I'm worried that responding to them publicly will just make things worse.

Has anyone successfully managed to get fake Google reviews removed? Is there a way to escalate this or contact Google support directly? I'd really appreciate hearing what actually worked because this is starting to affect our business.

How can i get organic traffic on my webapp

Small site, mostly blog posts about short-form video (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels). Normal traffic is 10 to 18 visitors a day.

On Sunday, Sep 28, we had 475. 461 of them came from Google. Our weekly report called it an SEO recovery. Then we looked at what those visitors actually did.

What the 461 Google visitors looked like: - Each one loaded exactly one page. Nobody opened a second page. - Zero page-leave events. On a normal day roughly half to two-thirds of our visitors fire one (Sep 22 was 11 of 18, Oct 1 was 9 of 13). Our regular visitors that same day still fired it at the usual rate. - Zero clicks, zero signups, zero visits to the app. - Nobody came back on a later day. - Almost all Chrome desktop. Mostly US, the rest spread across the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Poland, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, Turkey and Sweden. - They landed on five posts, all in one cluster: a Shorts best practices guide, Shorts content ideas, TikTok analytics, growing a Shorts channel, tracking Shorts competitors.

Sep 29 we were back to 15 visitors. Sep 27 had a smaller version of the same thing (51 Google pageviews vs the usual 2 to 12).

I can't prove these were bots, and I'm not going to claim it. But 461 visits with no interaction of any kind is not how people read blog posts, so I'm treating the "recovery" as not real. The daily baseline didn't move.

What I'm checking going forward before I believe a spike: - share of visitors who view a second page - page-leave rate compared to normal days - how many reach the product or signup page - how many return on a later day - whether browser, device and country mix looks like normal traffic

Next step is Search Console for Sep 27 and 28, to see whether Google itself logged those clicks.

Questions for people who've seen this before: 1. If GSC shows the clicks too, what does that usually mean? If it doesn't, is that a clear sign the traffic wasn't from real Google searches? 2. Is a one-day burst landing on a single topic cluster a known pattern (scrapers, AI crawlers, some kind of referrer spam)? 3. Do you filter this kind of traffic out of reporting, or just annotate it and move on?

what's up with the NMC guidelines. what all are you changing?