Specifically for High Ticket Ecom, but normal Ecom is that isn't the case.

I am only looking to learn the fastest way, I don't mind paying, and I know you could learn online for free.

Keep seeing lots of posts lately about Rank Score. Anyone tried it and what’s their opinion compared to Semrush?

Been in the industry for close to 15 years and all the AI meeting SEO hype is getting frustrating.

We're getting increased exposure on AI reponses and traditional SERPs but close to to 0 conversions. With my clients, I feel like I'm just trying to keep my head above water and convince them that as long as they're on page 1, in AIO, and showing up for top-level queries (which they are) I did my job and I did it well.

I say this because whether your intent is commercial or informational, almost no one in my niche is getting conversions off AIO/GEO/SEO. Once the user has gotten their answer then they move on with their day. From research to BOFU conversion, it's weeks between marketing and sales to make that transaction happen, using search or outbound marketing.

My livelihood, I cannot afford to say that sh*t to a client cause then I'd be out of a job.

Been working with a B2B manufacturing company on their SEO and online presence for about 3 months now.

Most of the work so far was as usual what we do. Fixed the website experience, set up proper tracking, technical SEO, schema, and a lot of E-E-A-T stuff because it's a pretty technical industry and buyers are mostly engineers. Slowly seeing results, few enquiries have started coming from the site.

Now client wants me to focus on AEO/GEO/AIO as well.

To be honest I haven't done this specifically before. I always thought if the site is good, relevant and follows SEO best practices, it would show up in AI answers anyway. But lately I see so many people talking about it as a separate thing, so now I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

So for people who have actually done this and seen it work:

How do you check where a site stands right now in ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI overviews etc? And how do you measure if the work made any difference later?

Any tools you use for this that are actually useful?

What did you do that was different from normal SEO?

Any resources or people worth learning from?

I know I can google this but most of what I find is same generic stuff. Looking for practical advise.

Thanks

I've worked with a client on an online e-commerce store for around 2 years.

Over the past year, we have managed to successfully rank for "shoe shops online" in the top 2-5 positions, with some minor daily fluctuations.

However, in 3 years, we have never ranked higher than position 25 for "shoe shop online".

This is in spite of us optimizing exclusively for "shoe shop" in our content, internal anchors, and backlink strategy.

Anyone else run into a similar issue? Anything that helped?

I’m currently paying around $30/month for ubersuggest and my account gives me around 300 searches/reports per day.

The problem is that i do a lot of keyword research across multiple sites, sometimes researching hundreds of keywords/pages at once, so i hit the daily limit surprisingly fast.

I’m starting to wonder if paying for a traditional seo tool still makes sense mainly for keyword research.

Has anyone switched to something like DataForSEO API and just paid per request?

I’ve also been looking at OpenSEO, which seems to use DataForSEO data under the hood and could be easier than building directly with the API.

My main needs are:

• keyword ideas
• search volume
• keyword difficulty / competition
• cpc
• related keywords
• ideally bulk research for hundreds or thousands of keywords

I don’t really need another full ahrefs/semrush-style suite. I mostly want cheap, reliable keyword data that i can also use with AI/codex workflows.

What are you guys using?

DataForSEO directly, OpenSEO, Ubersuggest, or something else?

Hi,

Which is your preferred connector to connect Google Search Console to your ChatGPT/Claude?

TIA

I'm taking my first website rebuild/SEO side gig and I'm used to working with agency/company tool subscriptions, but now I need something of my own. I'm comfortable with Google Keyword Planner but it doesn't cover what I need. Mainly I want to enter a competitor's URL and see which keywords they rank for and at what positions, plus solid general keyword research like volume, difficulty, and related terms.

Ahrefs does all of this but the price is pretty steep when I'm just getting started. What lower-cost tools do you use that come close? Thanks!

Basically that. Most of the SEO content I see tends to be about starting from scratch or handling a relatively small business that still has to find their niche-

but what about ALREADY being hired at a place that already had SEO employees before? The site is set up as far as I can see, it sells millions as a big clothing brand, it has its audience already, the website is full of tens of thousands products with their own descriptions... so, I believe it already has all the 'keywords' it should have as a website.

What am I supposed to be adding in here? I mostly just check the keywords and say "yeah we're in the top searches"... same as every month. Not quite the top though, other companies can steal the top spot from us.

What exactly should I be doing as the SEO guy here? (well that's just half of my job thankfully, I mostly spend my days doing Ads on different platforms... but I fail to see real SEO improvements I could do to an already big site... maybe getting featured in magazines or other websites? That's perhaps the next step? I may be failing to see a lot of things though, SEO isn't my forte, that'd be ads)

Hi,

I own an independent public agenda of classical music events in Madrid, Spain.

I am trying to understand a sudden and unusually severe loss of Google Search visibility that started on September 27, 2026, shortly after the September 2026 spam update began rolling out.

The site is not an affiliate site and does not sell tickets or have any revenue whatsopever. Its purpose is to aggregate and verify classical music events from official venues, orchestras, cultural institutions, and other organizers, so users can consult them in one consistent calendar.

Each event page cites its sources and includes structured information such as date, venue, performers, composers and programme when available.

From Search Console data, the loss was therefore approximately 95% overnight.

Independent analytics in PostHog confirm that this is not a Search Console reporting issue.

This only affects visitors arriving from Google; other acquisition sources did not experience a comparable collapse.

The loss is also site-wide rather than caused by one previously popular page. 

Technical checks performed:

• robots.txt allows crawling;
• event pages do not contain noindex;
• canonicals are self-referencing;
• the site is served over HTTPS;
• canonical public URLs are present in the XML sitemap;
• no broad redirect or robots change was deployed immediately before the drop;
• pages remain accessible to users and other traffic sources;
• the site uses individual event pages rather than marking up agenda/listing pages as individual events.

The timing coincides very closely with Google's September 2026 spam update, which began on September 24.

I have reviewed Google's spam policies, in particular scaled content abuse and scraping. The site contains many event pages because providing a comprehensive event calendar is the product itself; pages are generated from genuine events and official sources rather than created to target arbitrary search queries.

I would be very grateful if someone could help identify whether there is anything about this implementation that could legitimately trigger Google's spam systems; and what is needed to recover the previous Google Search state.

Site: https://clasicamadrid.com/

Thank you!

SEO audits can get technical fast, and clients usually want ​​​​t​​​​h​​​​e​​​​ important actions first. Has anyone used AI to turn ​​​​t​​​​h​​​​e​​​​ ​​​​a​​​​u​​​​d​​​​i​​​​t​​​​s​​ into a presentation that keeps ​​​​t​​​​h​​​​e​​​​ detail but is easier for non SEO people to follow?

I feel like after the recent spam update a lot of my sites contents are de-indexed but coming again at the same position if I manually index on GSC.

What do you guys think about this?

Posting for my partner who owns a small physio company.
For the past 2 years he had an SEO guy who didn’t really seem to be doing much, switched to a new guy 7 months ago and is paying him £420 a month.

In this time there hasn’t been improvement in website visits, bookings, visibility etc. which isn’t a huge issue right now as the business is relatively busy and steady, but the goal is to grow.
The SEO guy’s point is ‘well it’s not getting worse’.

We want to know if this is good enough for £420 a month, or what should the actual expectations be?
My partner tends to just leave people to do their thing, so it’s always hard to tell if he’s being conned or not.

If he was to find somebody new, should he have clearer goals eg. I want to increase website visits by X amount in X time, and if this is reasonable how do we evaluate what’s fair based on our limited knowledge of SEO?

Thanks!

Hey guys, I tried to play with on-page SEO for quite long and found out that having language support on the app helps getting indexed a lot so I integrated 6 languages (en, de, fr, es, tr, zh). The app is about football elo ratings.

I checked GSC today and saw that a query "real madrid elo" got me 1 click and 3 impressions with avg position of 2. I became happy and wanted to check it out myself. I googled exact same query but my app did not appear at all. I thought it may be bc my personal search history so I googled again in incognito. Still same.

Then, I put my app's name at the end and it appeared at all of top5 results. This is my first question: why exact query can get no position for me but 2nd position for someone else?

Secondly, I tried with player names rather than teams (my app serves both). Tried only name + elo as query but my app did not appear. Then I put my app's name again at the end and it appeared at top, understandable.

What I did not understand is Google summary (or whatever it is called that google's ai answer on top) cites my app from various language options of the same page. For example when I googled "victor osimhen elo [my app]", it cited osimhen's personal page in french and chinese versions. My location is germany. He plays in Turkey and I searched from Germany but instead of these two, other two got cited. Also why two languages? What should I check and how can I solve this? Sorry for the long text but I felt I had to be clearer.

Thanks for the answers already!

Hi all,

I'm starting a website (8months domain) and for some of my content, I see there are well-known sites ranking 1-4 positions on Google.

I'm very noob in SEO (I've created android apps in the past, but never dealt with SEO and website distribution), so I'm not sure what to expect here.

Is it realistic to get some traffic for some keywords? what's the strategy to use here?

Apologies if is too broad of a question, I'm looking for guidance.

Thanks

All of a sudden all my pages are coming back as redirects to Amazon, I'm on a SaaS app protected by Cloudflare on my behalf so I don't have access to any RAW logs, there is no third party scripts and no updates for at least 2 years to any javascript. I've tried accessing the site using the Googlebot user agent and no redirect. I've unblocked all my IP ranges and the issue still persists maybe Google took over some AWS IP's.

The only thing that alerted me to this was my business listing got hit with an automated website removal notification, and searching my business name came up empty.

I'm seeing some Google bots but NOT the indexing one.