SEO Q&A 2024
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- cherub
So how bad is it to let google crawl your new wordpress site while it is in production? I didn't see this checkbox in wp until now.
On a scale of 1 to Potato how fucked am I?
- ********0
disable robots on install, build till approved. and hand it off to seo. good rule of thumb is to disable crawling in production but its not the end of the world.
- google naturally crawls sites in a few days to a few weeks, if you installed it yesterday and are freaking out your fine********
- you're*********
- Alright I logged in and disabled it just now.cherub
- youre fine my dude********
- google naturally crawls sites in a few days to a few weeks, if you installed it yesterday and are freaking out your fine
- trooperbill1
If the domain is new you'll be fine. just be prepared for a lot of false positives such as broken links and dead urls showing up in google search console after launch.
as you dont currently have any backlinks these dont need redirecting etc.- <********
- I was more worried about starting to rank for keywords like "testing" and the like lol.cherub
- you and a billion other testing websitestrooperbill
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- noneck1
The SEO company my client hired insisted that the dev site was password protected, in addition to having the "ask search engines not to crawl the site" option selected.
But they're a bunch of assholes. I can't fucking stand them.
- lol********
- Trooperbill is that necessary? The robots.txt is sometimes ignored I guess is the reasoning. Is it extreme tho?cherub
- robots is fine. likely theyve been burned by a test site competing with their main sitetrooperbill
- lol
- BusterBoy0
If I was launching a classifieds website with 15,000+ listings, how much should I budget to spend on SEO each month as a minimum?
- ive seen upwards of $4700/mo..do it yourself********
- that 4700/mo was also including ppc tho********
- I've budgeted $10K per mth. Don't have the time or knowledge to do it myself.BusterBoy
- make sure the URLs and html title tags be the title of the classified.hotroddy
- url structure is critical. example /automotive/carwash...hotroddy
- full-detail-red-corv...hotroddy
- ette-in-jacksonville...hotroddy
- as much as you can afford initially but after about 4 months look at the return and adjusttrooperbill
- ive seen upwards of $4700/mo..do it yourself
- cherub0
Just an FYI if anyone needs youtube SEO help I made a dedicated thread just for youtube SEO bcuz it's so different than anything else.
If you wanna rank on youtube search or suggested videos, bump the thread and I'll give you some pointers.
- youtube seo is oldskool seotrooperbill
- Thanks! Yes our URLs are structured properly...no loaction, but maybe I'll think about that.BusterBoy
- Does it matter if my <h1> tags have classes in them?
eg <h1 class="something">BusterBoy - Also...we need to have an ID in the URL. Is it ok to have something like
site.com/the-classif...BusterBoy - site.com/the-title-a...BusterBoy
- /the-title-abc123
Or does the abc123 need to be after or before the title. Eg
/abc123/the-title or /the-title/abc123BusterBoy - if the abc123 is the post id number I would say at the end of url string.hotroddy
- h1 can have classes. very commonhotroddy
- taBusterBoy
- hotroddy0
Busterboy here is an example
website.com/jobs/automotive/full...
You can acheive this with a mod-rewrite.
make sure you include the <title> <h1> name of classified title in html along with relevant info.
Make sure it's blazing fast on mobile. Speed optimization is the new SEO
- nb2
Oh shit. You are going to be very frustrated when you fail to sell any of your original products and instead get super rich selling Lorem Ipsums and Test This Should Be Body Copy Texts
- At the risk of making trooperbill cry, I forgot all about SEO. I was in the moment. Just wanted to get the site up and running asap.cherub
- hahahatrooperbill
- cherub0
TrooperBill,
These bathroom mirror selfie millenial burds are getting into your niche.
What say ye?
- Nairn1
Ah, this reminds me of that time I did a restaurant website in wordpress and completely didn't realise it was publishing to RSS through the production process, until client phoned me up and asked if the site had been a) finished and b) hacked.
Uh Oh. "er.. why?"
Turns out the expletive-laden filler content I'd used on my dev version had been found by a friend of the owner who then passed on her concerns.
d'oh.
- trooperbill0
i especially likt it when out of stock items are removed from websites meaning indexed pages bounce in and out. just take off the buy button and label out of stock, more coming soon, ot better still add a "email when back in stock" box to improve your email database lol
- trooperbill2
currently looking for a new job. after 8 years im done with my current agencies schenannigans. got a 4th interview on friday which hopefully seals the deal.
- cherub0
RE: the video I posted above
I don't think most people realize how important captions / subtitles have become. It's huge now.
Does it affect SEO?
You bet. Because now platforms like youtube and tiktok use AI to transcribe what you said in the video. The reason this is a game changer is because the AI will now use those same words you spoke, to create keywords and feed those into the algorithm. It evens creates auto chapter markers like this.
So all new videos uploaded will get their dialogue auto transcribed and added to the internet abyss.
This opens up new opportunities for non-speaking audiences as well, since now every video uploaded on youtube gets a subtitles track (albeit a clunky, auto generated one).
- i create keyword research for scripts for milwaukee toolstrooperbill
- That's a good brand. Milwaukee along with dewalt and mikita make some of the best worm drive saws and cordless drillscherub
- 'non-speaking' should read non-English speakingcherub
- imbecile4
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scroll to 3:38sted - tl;dr -Google uses site authority, clicking behavior, and chrome browser data to determine page rank, all of which it denied it used before this leak.cherub
- DO believe it. it exposed dwell time as a major ranking factor. something google has always denied but now says is true.trooperbill
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- cherub0
I'm trying to understand what "link building" is. I've built a few websites (none successful) and never once gave any thought to the anchor text. Then I see at 8:30 he's explaining the 4 most commonly used anchor phrases (strategy).
-brand name
-title of web page
-the URL you're linking to
-'click here'But he doesn't give the relative power of each. Assuming 'click here' is the weakest of the 4 (not sure if that's true)...
In what scenarios would you opt to use the other 3 methods? Like what are the pros and cons? I know it's case specific but Trooperbill (or anyone) would you care to give some general best practices when deciding what the anchor text should be?
**sends trooperbill signal**
In my specific case, I'm trying to build backlinks to my youtube videos because currently I don't rank for ANYTHING in youtube at all. If it's this hard to rank for videos I can only imagine how hard to rank for websites...
- for outreach you dont want to use brand name just make the anchor part of a sentence containing a long tail version of your keryword.trooperbill
- make sure the page linking to you is from a thematically relevant page on a thematically relevant website. use your keyword in the title tag, h1 and scatteredtrooperbill
- ...around the content.trooperbill
- Excellent... and only now did I realize that anchored h1 links will rank higher. Such an easy thing to change on my website, so refreshing...cherub
- cherub0
^Thanks trooperbill! It all makes sense now...
What is absolutely MAD is that if you do SEO correctly, building around keywords, the website writes itself. Another thing that amazes me is that if you get 1, just 1 very high quality backlink from a high authority website, that will do more than 100's of views, likes, hours of work spent, clicks, and all the other nonsense you could do. Because that website "passes" the authority thru the link to the 2nd video/webpage. Now the linked to page has some "page authority" of its own. So it will then rank.
So what's needed now, is sort of a "putting it all together" so we can see how it works for youtube video ranking. I screenshotted a relevant comment and give my take on it.
"Always use the main keyword and 2 lsi keywords as your tags" Agreed. We use the "modifier1 + modifier2 + core term = long tail" method on youtube. The core term is the most important one, the others are just supporting it.
HD has higher weight/authority so that's easy. Similar to building a website, the title of the video needs to contain your modifier1 + modifier2 + core term, hopefully at the beginning not the end. It makes sense that the URL page needs to also be the keyword phrase. "First tag" is youtube specific, and it just means the very first tag in the tag box is the most important so put your keyword phrase there. He says to reuse the title as the 1st sentence in the description box, agree. Also put a link to the URL in the description. (I have failed to do this part so far, because that requires website work)
At first it confused me that he put the URL first in the description, even before the sentence "Fat laughing Cat - Can't stop laughing" and this caused me to think... does youtube parse what's inside that URL, and all that text it contains, and then associate it with your video as if you typed that into the description? Probably.
This stuff is complicated and I can see why people would rather pay someone to do it.
- In the process of learning youtube SEO, I accidentally learned real SEO...cherub
- cherub0
I forgot to mention the most important part.
If you own website A and website B, and you use this tool to check the domain authority, and you find neither has any...
https://ahrefs.com/website-autho…
You've got...
***drumroll please***
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
because if they both score 0 no authority will be passed by doing backlinks between them. Amirite trooperbill?
- qbn.com btw, scores 51. Not too shabby.cherub
- your talking about pagerank *yes its still a thing) not any type of domain authority score. all websites have an inate authority. 3rd party tools are flawedtrooperbill
- cherub0
Trooperbill is there any way you could make an exact replica of yourself using AI so I could ask it SEO questions?
This SEO thing is like unraveling a sweater. I thought I had a grasp on it then I stumbled on this rel=dofollow thing and it's like I opened a pandora's box.
I think when I fall asleep tonight I'll be dreaming about dofollow. I can't help but think of that quote by Joshua Davis...
"I have fallen in love with machines and technology"
- HAYZ1LLLA0
It's been a really long time since I bothered looking at Google Analytics and first time using GA 4. Can anybody help? You used to be able to click on referrals title in this list to see where traffic to my site was coming from exactly. Am I on the BBC news, won an award for shittest site ever or on a sex offenders list in Poland??? How do I find out where I'm getting traffic from?
- HAYZ1LLLA0
It's been a really long time since I bothered looking at Google Analytics and first time using GA 4. Can anybody help? You used to be able to click on referrals title in this list to see where traffic to my site was coming from exactly. Am I on the BBC news, won an award for shittest site ever or on a sex offenders list in Poland??? How do I find out where I'm getting traffic from?
- Apologies for the double post. The first one disappeared then I realised I was in "Popular" view.HAYZ1LLLA
- https://measureschoo…fadein11
- you can ad a secondary dimension and use hostname to see the refering domains.trooperbill
- Thanks Fade that article was great. It's done by selecting source/medium under the search box
https://measureschoo…HAYZ1LLLA
- Continuity0
This is probably a dumb question — it may have even already been asked, but I'm too lazy to search — and I'm going to ask it anyway.
Does the use of certain Bootstrap components like Collpase (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5... or Accordion (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5... or Tabs/Tab Panes (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5... — which serve to visually hide content until triggered to show — have a negative impact on SEO?
- Christ al-fucking-mighty.
Link truncation fucking sucks, QBN.Continuity - it will have a negative impact on page speed. bootstrap is bloatedhotroddy
- you can do basic accordians and tabs with pain CSShotroddy
- Christ al-fucking-mighty.