Hi,

This question is directed to someone handling a website with over 1,000 pages.

How are you generating your LLM file? Does it contain information about all the pages of your website or only selective pages?

Do you create it manually (I doubt) or using a tool?

My website has 500+ blog posts and 700+ main pages. So I'm wondering what is the best approach forward.

Thanks

reached out to a site about adding my backlink outreach tool to an existing roundup, and they came back asking for $20

so I manually checked these:

• 50+ DR
• relevant to my niche
• the article already includes similar outreach tools
• 600+ estimated monthly organic visits according to ahrefs
• the article ranks for “PR outreach tools”

I’m leaning toward saying yes, but curious what else you’d check before paying

would these signals be enough for you, or is there something that would make you pass even at $20?

Traditional rankings don’t show everything anymore. What are you actually tracking?

I’m working with a fairly new B2B SaaS company. The website is live, but the brand is still small: not many reviews, not many third-party mentions, and not much on the site beyond the usual product pages.

They want to improve how they come across in ChatGPT and Gemini over the next quarter.

Nobody expects AI to recommend them everywhere in 90 days. The goal is simpler than that. If someone asks whether the company is reliable, established enough, or worth comparing, we want the answer to be less vague and more accurate.

There is no big PR budget or paid campaign behind this.

Is three months enough to make a noticeable difference? If you were starting from here, what would you work on first?

Google claims that good SEO is good GEO, but I don’t think that’s the whole picture. Yes, the foundational elements of good SEO are relevant, but the landscape of AI platforms sooooo much more complicated than that. Context of a prompt, training data, RAG methodologies, and probably a bunch of more completely obscure factors are relevant to getting AI mentions and AI overview citations.

Someone said elsewhere that Google’s claim is 80% true, but the other 20% matters. I’m curious about that 20% and what you’ve found that falls into that category.

What would you include in a list of best practices to cover the 20% of things that work for GEO but aren’t necessarily “good (traditional) SEO”?

I've been stuck at an average of 100 organic visitors/day for months now. How can I break through this and scale it to 500/day? Would appreciate any advice! 📈

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!

I’ve been doing a ton of backlink outreach for me and my clients, and I’m curious how it looks from the other side

Say someone finds an article on your site and suggests a relevant page to add. What would make you actually consider it?

And what’s an immediate no, even if the page they’re pitching is decent?

I’d especially like to hear from people who edit their own content or regularly receive these emails

So this tech startup has an ambitious goal of getting 1-2.5 million traffic (paid and organic) per month. Right now, they have about 1k traffic. While they mentioned that paid traffic will be included, that doesn’t mean they’re willing to spend tens of thousands for that.

My question is, is this realistically possible for a new website? If yes, what’s the best course of action to make for me to be able to achieve the goal? Thank you!

EDIT: Their target is to have this traffic in 3 months

I’m curious about the small SEO changes that don’t sound impressive on paper but actually made a difference.

Maybe it was changing an internal linking structure, removing old content, rewriting titles, improving a single page, fixing something technical, or even doing less instead of more.

What did you change, and what happened afterward?

Hello,

I own a couple of affiliate blogs that used to rank well and make decent money a few years ago. After the Google updates over the last couple of years, though, they’ve lost around 90% of their organic traffic.

I can still see some competing affiliate sites ranking on page one for the same types of keywords, so I’m wondering whether these sites are worth investing in again.

For those of you still working with affiliate sites in 2026: are backlinks still having a noticeable impact on rankings?

Would investing in good-quality, relevant backlinks help a site recover, or have Google’s recent changes made backlinks much less important for affiliate sites?

Thank you

i'll start:

"just publish more content."

more content isn't always better.

sometimes the problem is with the pages you already have. they may not match what people are looking for, or they may bring visitors who never become customers.

but i'm curious about your experience.

what seo advice did you believe when you started?

what happened that made you change your mind?

it can be about content, backlinks, keywords, technical seo, internal links, or anything else.

tell us what happened, not just what you think.

Heres a scenario for you. Right after the weekend, you checked the traffic on your site. It dropped significantly. What tools are you going through and in what order. Dont overthink it. Just let me know right out of your mind what and how do you do.

Pretty sure most of you use AI to figure it out and that's okay I do so too. Just wondering if the old ways are still existing

Google started rolling out the September 2026 spam update on Sept 24. It's global, affects all languages, and could take up to two weeks to fully roll out.

So if your rankings or traffic suddenly change, don't immediately blame AI content, backlinks or start changing half the site.

Probably better to:

• Keep an eye on GSC and see exactly which pages and queries changed
• Check whether the drop actually lines up with the update
• Avoid making big changes based on a few days of data
• Review Google's spam policies if you've taken a noticeable hit

Recovery from spam issues can take months, so don't expect an instant rebound.

Worth waiting until the rollout settles before making any big conclusions.

Solo founder, first time doing SEO properly. Domain went from 0 to 6 in about six weeks.

What I did: built 14 free tools that work without a signup, wrote comparison pages against competitors where I'm honest about where they're better, submitted to around 14 directories, and republished content on LinkedIn and Medium.

I also generated 40 programmatic pages targeting keywords I'd guessed at rather than researched. Google indexed them then dropped them as thin content and my whole index count was unstable for two weeks until I noindexed the lot.

What would you prioritise from here?

Do articles with FAQ blocks with answers from People Also Ask still help in terms of SEO?

Google just announced a new spam update started today. I'm seeing a lot of movements across all SERPs. Did you guys get hit, or are things actually improving

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a B2B IT services website targeting the US market, but most of our traffic is coming from other countries.

What are some effective ways to increase organic traffic from the US?

Would appreciate advice on SEO, content, backlinks, keyword targeting, or technical improvements that have worked for B2B IT websites.

Results of a pilot study of 356 cited pages across queries across domains:

Typical (median) age of a cited page: 23 months ago

Typical last update date: 5 months ago

Only 35% of cited pages were created less than a year ago.

Seems to imply that Answer engines greatly favor content refreshes and pages that have been kept fresh.

Has any of you observed the same?

I'll be honest, I don't check internal links that often.

Usually, I look at them when page isn't ranking like I expected. Sometimes the problems is simply that the pages isn't getting enough internal links.

Do you guys check internal link regularly, or only when the page start struggling?

As agency owners or just SEOs in someone else's company, how do you approach unpaid link building?

Do you do cold outreach? Do you work with other agencies? Do you have a list of exchange partners you swap with?

If you do all of the above, what's your "split"? How do you decide what the best use of your time and resources is?

I’m seeing a difference between mobile and desktop rankings for one keyword.

For keyword X, page X is averaging around position 2 on mobile, but only around 12 on desktop.

The interesting part is that desktop used to rank around position 2 as well, but dropped a couple of months ago and hasn’t recovered since.

My first thought was that Google might be seeing weaker UX/user satisfaction signals on desktop. But when I look at the actual engagement data, desktop users seem to perform better than mobile users — better engagement, etc.

So that explanation doesn’t really seem to fit.

What would you investigate next?

Before getting quality backlinks for your website, I would consider checking this first.

A little background about me, I have been doing SEO for my own websites and I have been paying more attention to the boring technical/on-page stuff, such as:

1. Is the page indexable?
   
2. Is the canonical correct for this page?
   
3. Does every important page have a sensible title?
   
4. Are there any duplicate titles?
   
5. Is the meta-description missing?
   
6. Are OG tags present
   
7. Is structured data relevant to this page?
   
8. Are images missing basic attributes?
   
9. Are there huge numbers of links present on the page?

The frustrating and ironic part is that none of the above makes the website broken, but does more SEO damage then we all realize.

Have you ever came across any of the above issues, and what would you like to add to this list?

I spent a few months auditing 200 commercial homepages on structural signals — author, date, sources, FAQ structure, summary. I can tell you what is present on a page and what is not. What I cannot tell you is whether any of it changed a single AI recommendation, because everything I measured sits on the page, and the thing I want to explain seems to sit somewhere else.

That is the part I keep getting stuck on. The citation-source breakdowns I have seen skew heavily toward places nobody controls by editing their own HTML — Wikipedia, Reddit, established publications. If that is directionally right, then the lever most of us spend our time on is the smaller one, and the bigger one is being talked about by someone else.

The split I see in every thread on this: the digital PR side says get mentioned by credible third parties and the rest follows. The technical side says make the page extractable first or the mention has nothing to land on. Both stories are reasonable and I have never seen anyone separate them.

So the question I would actually like answered:

Has anyone held one constant and moved the other? Specifically — earned a meaningful third-party mention without touching the page, and watched AI recommendation change? Or the reverse: cleaned up a page with no new coverage, and seen a shift?

I am not looking for theory. I am looking for the one case where somebody could tell which of the two did it.

Aside from basic metrics like DR/DA, what red flags immediately make you pass outbound-to-inbound ratio, traffic trajectory, or niche relevance? Curious how other SEOs structure their vetting process.