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Was playing around with some prompts, nothing serious.

Kept seeing the same thing though. The stuff that reads super quotable wasn’t coming from the usual top-ranking pages. At first I ignored it, but after a few runs it didn’t feel random anymore.

My guess is it might have more to do with how content is written/structured than classic ranking signals. Like super direct answers, cleaner phrasing, that kind of thing.

Could be totally off here, small sample and all that. Anyone else notice this or test something similar?

I recently used this community for some help with my website and it helped me leaps and bounds so thank you so much!

I was wondering if anyone could help me with keywords for my website, it's a beginners boxing equioment shop in the UK and im trying to rank higher on google but need to target the right keyword (achievable and volume).

I am wanting to pay for a full web redesign and seo revamp in the future, but can't afford at the moment, so replying on good people of Reddit for any help at this time.

I'm conscious of asking for favours, so if there's anything I can do for the people helping me just dm me!

Thanks again everyone!

Been working on a programmatic SEO site and noticed all the related links were showing in alphabetical order by default. Felt wrong intuitively — why would the most relevant suggestion be determined by the alphabet?

Read about Google's Reasonable Surfer patent and the 2024 API leak — both suggest semantically relevant links pass more PageRank than random ones in the same position. So I replaced alphabetical ordering with a scoring system based on topical relevance between pages.

Too early to see if it moved anything in GSC. But genuinely curious whether this is worth thinking about or if I spent time on something that doesn't matter compared to content and backlinks.

Has anyone here tested internal link ordering changes and seen measurable results? Would really value input from people who've done this at scale.

Something I’ve seen work consistently is building supporting pages before pushing the main target page.

Instead of publishing one service page and waiting, I’ll create related pages first. FAQs, supporting topics, or closely related services. Then link them into the main page.

Once those are indexed, the main page tends to move faster because Google already understands the topic depth.

This seems to work especially well for local service sites where one page alone usually isn’t enough.

I have a new website (very low authority) and next week an established site with a strong backlink profile will publish an article linking back to it. This will be my first quality backlink.

I'm trying to decide on the best strategy:

1) One link to my homepage only

2) One link to my homepage + one link to a blog post

My goal is to build authority for both my homepage and blog posts - but I don't want the link equity to be too diluted or negatively impact my SEO.

What would you recommend for a new site in this situation?