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How can I connect free strong backlinks to my websites?

Hey guys,

I’m trying to understand what’s actually included in a professional SEO audit service these days. There are so many agencies and freelancers offering SEO audits, but the deliverables seem very different from one provider to another.orts, tools, or checks that are considered essential nowadays?

My site is almost a year old now and I’m getting impressions in Search Console, but the clicks are still really low, so I’m not sure if this is normal slow SEO growth or if I’m missing something obvious.

For the last 28 days in Search Console:

43.8K impressions
79 clicks
0.2% CTR
17.6 average position

this is a tech website review: comparigon . com

Quick background:

I recently launched a new directory-style website built with programmatic SEO pages. The pages are generated by combining data from a couple of APIs.

Current setup:

~600 pages live

Mostly “service near X location” and “service in X location” type pages

Imo the pages are genuinely more useful than the competition with slightly more info and a lot better UX/UI.

So far, Google seems to like it:

Homepage ranked page 1 for the main keyword after ~2 days. About 20 diff pages are getting clicks after a week.

But here’s where I’m unsure:

After ~7 days, Search Console only reports around 30 indexed pages out of 600. However, if I run a site: search in Google, noticeably more pages appear than what GSC reports (still far from 600).

Now I’m debating next steps. There’s another search-demand category I could launch that would add ~300 more location-based pages.

Should i launch the additional pages now and keep scaling?

Or wait until indexing stabilizes / more pages are clearly indexed first?

Curious how people here would approach this, especially anyone who’s worked with newer pSEO directory sites as this is a new niche for me.

TL;DR:

Launched a new pSEO directory site with ~600 location pages generated from APIs. Google response seems positive so far, but GSC only shows ~30 indexed after 7 days (while site: shows more). Should I keep scaling and launch another ~300 pages now, or wait for indexing to catch up first?

Hi - I am requesting some input/advice on some ideas I have been kicking around. I run a local business where we used to manufacture components (that are infrequently used now and we make from time to time as we get asked) for homes, but have pivoted into running whole projects (10+ years ago pivoted). So I have thought of rebranding to capture this, moving from [brand]manufacture to [brand]remodeling, [brand]remodel, [brand]kitchenandbath or something to that effect. To me the website is a bit of a mess that I don't think serves our customers super well, its quite thin - gives basic none answers, especially when you think of the tens of thousands of $$ they will spend if they go forward with it. We do get questions about what is with the name what do we do, do we make it?

We get little non-branded traffic, when i look at GSC it is 80% branded search, the home page is 85% of all traffic. We basically run on referrals it seems. I want to restructure it all, like I said I don't like the content, and want to run a more informative website that gives away a lot information so the customers hopefully come well informed and are aware that if you want to say remodel a kitchen it is going to cost $XX,XXX-$XXX,XXX or whatever it is.

I'd like to know your SEO thoughts, from domain change, brand change (keeping main last name brand but adding more specifically what we do), and website restructure to provide good, focused information to potential customers. Hope this makes sense, thanks!

Most keyword tools seem to be v expensive for a monthly subscription but I'm thinking that all I need is a tool to scrape results using proxies and give me the rank in a simple table

Has anyone built out an affordable keyword tracking tool? I need to track like 250 keywords so nothing too crazy at all

I’ve been using both Ahrefs and Semrush for SEO research, but I’m trying to understand how people actually decide between them long-term.

I’m curious how more experienced SEOs think about this.

For early B2B SaaS companies, SEO feels tricky because the channel takes a long time to compound, but the company itself is usually changing fast. ICP changes, positioning changes, feature set changes, and the founder often does not have a clean content process yet.

So from an SEO perspective, when is it actually worth starting?

Would you advise an early SaaS company to start publishing content as soon as possible, or wait until the category, ICP, and messaging are more stable?

And if they do start early, what would you focus on first so they do not waste months creating content that never matters?

I have been looking into ways to cut down our monthly software overhead because the enterprise pricing for the big SEO platforms is just getting ridiculous. We are basically paying for a lot of features we never touch just to get API access.

I am considering building a custom SEO dashboard with raw data API instead of staying on a fixed subscription. I noticed DataForSEO has a pay as you go option which seems like it would be much cheaper for our scale, but I have never built a reporting stack from scratch like this.

Has anyone here moved to a setup like this recently? I am curious if it is actually easy to manage the data flow or if it ends up being a nightmare to keep the dashboard updated. I would love to hear any pros or cons from people who have ditched the big tools to build their own reporting.

This is my site page speed insight data. My site was build by Framer, I don't have idea about the code and backends. Mainly total blocking time and speed index got affected, How should i take action for it.

First Contentful Paint

0.7 s

Largest Contentful Paint

0.7 s

Total Blocking Time

1,360 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift

0.001

Speed Index

3.4 s

Hello,

My website is ranking at the top in the USA, UK, France, etc.

Initially, the website was also appearing in Google India search results, but recently it’s no longer showing up there.

In Google Search Console, I see a limited number of impressions, but when I search on Google, nothing appears.

I’ve checked, and the pages are indexed - they show up when I use site:domain.com.

Could you please help me understand the possible reasons for this issue and how to fix it?

Regards,
Pankaj Jangir

I’ve been working on a website analysis tool and recently noticed something odd in Search Console.

The site has over 25k impressions but only around 60 clicks.

I’m trying to understand whether:

• the titles/meta descriptions are weak
• the keywords are irrelevant
• the site lacks trust signals
• or the UX is hurting CTR

Would appreciate honest SEO feedback from experienced people here.

Hot take from running a $21k pilot with a GEO-branded agency. 3 months. Pulled out at month 4 instead of renewing.

Their tools confirm a bot can crawl your site. Thats it. They cant tell you whether the bot will pick you over a competitor in the actual answer when somebody asks ChatGPT about your category. Nobody outside the LLM labs knows what tips that choice yet.

The dashboards looked great every month. Our citations in ChatGPT for category prompts looked the same as month zero the whole time.

Genuinely asking: has anyone in this sub seen citation lift attributable to a GEO-branded engagement? Looking for counterexamples before i lock in our 2026 budget.

I was targeting low KD keywords and managed to rank my blog posts for them, but the search volume isn't enough anymore. Now I want to rank for my main/seed keywords they don't have high KD or competition, but I'm still not seeing any impressions for them. The strange part is I'm getting impressions on low-volume queries but not on higher-volume ones, even when the KD is only 3-10.

My question is: is it actually hard to rank a landing page for those queries? because I consistently notice my blog posts ranking higher than my landing pages what's the issue? Is it the content, the authority of the main page, or do I need to create dedicated blog posts targeting those main keywords?

The thing holding me back is the fear of keyword cannibalization targeting the same keyword in both a blog post and my main landing page. what should I do?

So recently I created a service page for one of the services my Org started recently.

A year back I created a blog on the same sevice, a detailed informational blog. And it is ranking on the 2nd position for the primary keyword.

Now the problem is that the new service page is not indexing despite doing internal linking from various high authority and traffic pages and blog, Got one good backlink as well.

Google search console is also not showing anything like crawled but not indexed or discovered but not indexed.

Everyone is talking about that google has removed FAQ rich results. now audit your web pages and check where schema is valuable to put. So, need your guidance on what should be the next strategy?

I feel like I’ve reached a plateau when it comes to SEO and GEO, and honestly could use some advice.

I’m doing all the “right” things. Publishing new content consistently, refreshing older content, investing heavily in technical SEO, improving site health, internal linking, page speed, etc.

But I can’t seem to break through to the next level.

Would genuinely love to hear from people who’ve been through this stage.

What ended up moving the needle for you?
What should I be focusing on that maybe isn’t as obvious?
And with GEO becoming more important, are you changing your strategy at all?

I have an interview tomorrow for SEO position. What questions can i expect from the interviewer? What techniques or softwares should i prepare?
What are some tips that can help in the interview process?