r/SEO

Got 57 clicks and 5.62K impressions in 30 days.
Please tell me, is it good progress or bad?
Niche is Home improvement related, and primary traffic 99% is from the US organic.

Hey there, have been doing SEO for a decade now. lately, have been hearing a lot about how claude can help one rank website faster. I want to know how to get started. I have zero knowledge right now.

Some good links to learn shall be of great help 🙏

Hey everyone,

Curious how you’re solving this in practice.

Right now, most AI-generated content I see (and produce) still sounds… off. Not terrible, but clearly “AI-ish” repetitive phrasing, too clean, lacking real voice.

Our current workflow is basically:

• generate with AI
• then manually edit a lot
• sometimes run it through “humanizer” tools

But this doesn’t really scale well, especially when producing content at volume.

So I’m wondering:

• how are you handling this at scale?
• are you fine-tuning prompts, using specific models, or building pipelines?
• is anyone actually getting close to “publish-ready” without heavy manual editing?

Would really appreciate hearing what’s working (or not working) for you.

I've been testing Lovable for a project and the output looks great visually. But I quickly realized everything runs on client-side rendered React. The HTML shell Google receives is basically just `<div id="root"></div>` and a script tag.

I know Googlebot can render JavaScript, but I've read it's slow, inconsistent, and other crawlers (Bing, AI bots) often skip it entirely.

Has anyone actually ranked a Lovable site for competitive keywords without adding prerendering or migrating to Next.js? Was it worth it?

Not looking to bash the tool, it's genuinely fast for building UIs. Just trying to figure out if it's a realistic choice for SEO-driven projects or a hard no.

I’m facing a crawl budget issue on a large WordPress site (20K+ pages). Thousands of feed URLs are being crawled repeatedly by Google, even though I’ve already taken multiple steps to block and handle them.

Almost every blog and landing page has an associated /feed/ URL, and Google is crawling ~15K+ of these every 2–3 days. Some of these feed URLs are even getting indexed, which is something I want to completely eliminate.

Here’s what I’ve implemented so far:

• Blocked feeds via WordPress settings/plugins
• Added rules in robots.txt:Disallow: /feed Disallow: */feed/ Disallow: /?*
• Implemented conditional handling:
  • For normal users → feed URLs are 301 redirected to the canonical (non-feed) version
  • For bots → feed URLs return 410 (Gone)

Despite all this, Google continues to crawl a large volume of feed URLs consistently, which is negatively impacting my crawl efficiency for important pages.

What I need help with:

• How can I fully stop Google from crawling these feed URLs?
• Is there a better approach than 410 for bots + redirect for users?
• Any proven strategies to reclaim crawl budget from faceted/feed URLs at scale?

I’m a bit confused about my website performance and hoping to get some advice.

I built a new website about a few months ago. According to Google Search Console, my site gets around 400+ impressions every 24 hours, but the clicks are very low (only a few per day).

What can I do to improve my website’s impressions and clicks in GSC?

Any suggestions or similar experiences would really help. Thanks!

Hey, I'm in the early stages of scaling my SaaS through SEO. I try to find low KD (keyword difficulty) keywords and create content around them - whether that's blog posts, landing pages, or feature pages. I have hundreds of keywords ready to build pages for, and I want to start with low KD ones because my site currently lacks authority.

At the same time, I'm creating YouTube and LinkedIn posts related to those topics, targeting the same keywords and linking back to my site through genuinely helpful content. I'm also thinking about doing the same on Reddit, but Reddit is very strict about promotional content, so I'm still figuring out how to organically target my keywords there.

Anyway, my main question is: does this approach make sense - taking a keyword and spreading it across all your content channels, including your site?

And should I create all the pages at once and submit them together, or should I update my site daily with a few well-researched, thoroughly reviewed pages - making sure each page properly follows the keyword in the body, FAQs, and intent delivery?

Long story short, I run a small junk removal business, and lately I’ve been trying to figure out how to bring in more consistent leads.

Most of what we get right now is word of mouth and the occasional Facebook post, which is fine, but it’s kind of unpredictable. Some weeks are solid, others are dead quiet.

I started reading up on Junk removal SEO and it seems like a lot of people in this niche swear by it. Sounds like if you can rank locally, the leads just come in steadily without chasing them all the time.

I haven’t reached out to any companies yet, just doing my homework. But... I’m curious how well it actually works in real life. Is it really that effective for this kind of business, or is it one of those things that sounds better than it is?

Would love to hear from anyone who’s tried it, did it actually move the needle for you?

The 17 of March our website had been unavailable for a day due to technical maintenance, the next day due to a multiplying error our server was overloaded, the issue was fixed within 2 days, but the traffic has dropped abruptly, it stays down for over 2 weeks already, we keep falling slowly and losing keywords everyday. Technically everything seems to be working fine now, no manual action, the site has good health and speed.

Please if you have experienced a similar issue advise on what should be done ASAP to restore Google's trust , the website has good DR of 40, the content of our store is rich, but now domains with much poorer content rate higher and us almost completely out of SERP.

Will the traffic restore gradually, how to speed it up? (at the beginning of March there was a spam attack with backlinks trying to advertise to us, Ahrefs saw it as spam, so I suppose Google should as well, but maybe the Google Spam Update on March 24-25 combined with previous tech works was the main cause?) Compared to the previous 28-day period we are down: total impressions from 3m to 750k, total clicks from 22k to 8k :(

Thanks!

Most tools show volume, not momentum

Google Trends requires manual digging

Hard to spot early signals

What’s your process for catching growth keywords?

A long time ago I had an article written and cross-posted it to both Medium and my website. Well, this year I decided to delete it off Medium and just keep it on my site to drive traffic there and boost my site’s DR/DA. Why help Medium instead of my own domain.

Well, google refuses to index the article on my site. Do you think I just need to wait for the Medium link to fall off the google index first? I set the canonical url on my site to my site’s version of the post.

Does it help the user? Or is it intrusive and bad user experience? How about SEO? Or none of that matters because it improves lead conversion rates?

Hi, can anyone explain to me why my website has lost maybe 99% of its SEO traffic since late March?

I know there have been some updates very recently, but I can't understand how the drop could be so sudden.

I want to make AI content to human written content, which website or app will be good or to change manually better,if manually means what and how to change

I switched over themes a while back and did some redesign and at some point on some program (I can't remember if it was on wp or yoast or the theme) I changed all my recipes urls by taking the /recipe/ part out of site.com/recipe/actualrecipe so it's now just site.com/actualrecipe but there are urls that still work when you put the /recipe/ back in the url. I went to GSC and panicked that a bunch of my recipes weren't indexed due to a 5xx error (I think it was when my site was down for a few days). Now I've requested a bunch of them already to be recrawled, but realizing maybe google was ignoring them for a reason, like it didn't want the duplicates. Are my recrawl requests for /recipe/ urls going to confuse google who might penalize my ranking for the duplicates? Thanks!

hi everyone i am beginner SEO who wants to build a portfolio website but i want it to look good wordpress offer good templates but i want something better if you know any AI tool which can help in this at cheap price please let me know.

Took on a freelancer to help with SEO recently. It's very early days and he is no doubt still getting his head around what our current position is (though an audit was conducted prior to this).

In the first couple of weeks these are the hours that have been billed:

Redirect 404s and Indexing Issues, optimising top 30-40 pages – 7 Hours

Disavow Bad Backlinks and Other Indexing Issues - 3.5hours

Fixing Listings on Google Merchant Centre, Google My Business, Creating GA4 Events – 9 hours

It's not going to be strictly those hours for those tasks, and no doubt there have been some other things done - I've just tried to summarise what he's noted down to me.

The Optimising pages part is a bit vague as to how much has been done, we are going to meet soon on progress.

I'm not super concerned but I just want to make sure that these tasks ought to take these amount of hours. Realistically it's only two full days of billing so maybe I just need to chill out but it'd be nice to get some handle on it before we chat through progress.