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1:42 Schedule an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me

2:06 The first reason (not enough authority)

3:45 You need enough authority compared to your competition

4:02 The second reason (they are spammy)

4:46 The third reason (other problems with your website)

6:05 You can do things wrong and they won't hurt you until you start getting authority and search engines look more closely at your site

6:50 Article I was talking about

8:50 We do not sell backlinks off a menu

11:02 The 4 things you need to rank

11:04 1 No penalties

11:06 2 Content

11:07 3 Relevancy

11:09 4 Authority

11:10 There's a reason we do it that way

11:30 When you have everything you need, THEN you need authority

13:18 We cannot "take a quick look at your website" because SEO has covers more than your website

15:50 It's impossible to do SEO without studying your competition

16:00 Review

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1:48 How to arrange a Zoom SEO Advisory Call with me

2:48 Is AI going to replace SEO?

3:49 Is AI really stealing your SEO traffic?

5:06 Most AI articles are clickbait

5:38 No one knows how AI works for SEO

5:57 AI services are probably scams

6:47 AI did not steal 70% of your traffic

7:21 AI problem vs SEO problem

7:40 People are trying to sell you dumb nonsense because you are afraid of AI

8:26 Being listed vs. ranking

9:27 Problems with AI

10:30 AI fatigue

11:22 Is AI content ok?

12:30 Avoid buying backlinks from AI sites, AI slop

13:13 Hypothetical explanation of how search engines would penalize AI

14:22 What do search engines do?

14:54 Examples of things that are spammy

15:51 Good quality content comes form popularity, not content

16:43 The other side of the argument

17:29 Don't have an entire website that is AI

18:20 How to get your website found in AI

18:46 llms.txt

19:41 ahrefs article stating llms.txt isn't considered by LLMs

20:41 Whose traffic is actually declining?

20:03 How do people use AI?

22:28 AI is different than SEO

23:47 AI saves time

24:10 Not visiting a website isn't bad for SEO

24:36 AI is probably trained by information that is biased

25:28 Search engines are just fine.

26:04 There are only a few ways that AI can consider a website

26:59 AI will plausibly have a popularity metric like backlinks

27:24 You rank because you're popular, not because you're useful

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1:30 Reminders

2:06 How to arrange a Zoom SEO Advisory call with me

2:23 SEO AI Preview

4:07 We are thinking about doing videos

5:39 The 4 things you need to rank

9:17 Why you need backlinks

10:01 This is how authority works

11:57 Good backlinks and bad backlinks

12:57 YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHY

14:23 Think like a search engine

14:33 SEO is manipulation

16:01 A process to distinguish good backlinks from bad backlinks

16:50 Quick version

17:40 Good backlinks

17:46 Citations

17:52 Contextual (definition)

18:24 Spammy backlinks

18:24 Blog comments

18:46 Forum profile backlinks (definition)

19:25 Footer backlinks (definition)

20:32 Blog roll backlinks (definition)

21:17 Review

21:32 Checking the website itself

22:11 IP addresses

24:24 No links to gambling/pharma/adult

24:45 No links from pharma/adult/gambling

26:00 No backlinks from places that don't make sense

26:58 No backlinks from languages that don't make sense

28:01 IT HAS TO MAKE SENSE.

28:05 PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS CONCEPT.

29:16 Selling articles and links to whoever wants them is a big red flag

29:29 Review

29:59 Normal content

30:06 No spun content

30:31 AI content should make you rethink

32:34 Good backlinks help you

32:36 Bad backlinks harm you