Questions:

Do PBN sites need traffic?

Topical authority?

Local SEO clicks without links?

Is YMYL different than regular?

Have you seen Google penalize a site for paid links?

How do you find good link sellers?

How do you know which PBN sites are working better?

Parked domains reset authority?

New update to impression tracking?

How do you deal with competitors who sell AIO and GEO?

New local algorithm

Do websites only have a limited amount of linkjuice to offer?

Adult

Do backlinks to a certain page affect the rest of the site?

What is anchortext?

Do I have to know how to code?

What do you do to keep traffic from nonexistent traffic?

Best backlink metrics

Besides GMB what is the difference between local SEO and regular SEO?

How many links do I need?

Why can't we see a good example of a good PBN site?

Can you give examples of how to make PBN sites?

Do 301 reduce DR?

Is reusing code a footprint?

Should I use GSC on a private blog portfolio?

Hacks to find expired domains.

Ways to rank without using a PBN?

Keyword research?

Thoughts on a specific backlink method?

How to evaluate SEO providers?

Traffic drops vs. SEO problems

Favorite Wordpress Plugins?

New rules for expired domains?

How to build PBNs naturally?

Many weaker domains vs less stronger ones?

Recovering from content quality updates using new domains?

Is a well-known SEO marketplace legit? And one time payments?

Avoiding footprints via themes or builders?

Backlink decay on expired domains

Referenced episodes.

132 SEO Topical Authority, Content Structure, and Cannibalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkFLjYto1wY

30 What is the Difference Between Topical Authority (Relevancy) and Authority? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBbW69GYYs

128 Local SEO vs. Regular SEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aTU1a62wo

131 The Dangers of Public Blog Networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw

35 If Your Not Tracking Your SERPs You're Not Doing SEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01am10-OwDY

59 Traffic Is Not an SEO Metric (and What You Should Use Instead) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytNeZMCfXGU&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv

115 SEO, AI, and LLMS.txt Part 1 Probably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv

139 Why Are There No Good Examples Of PBN Sites? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5i8j4DSVRU

3 How to Build a Private Blog Portfolio Part 1: Domain Acquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc

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Concepts covered:

Why I don't share our sites

Why I don't share a generic site

How to make your site

Why number of words in the excerpt doesn't matter, etc.

Referenced episodes:

How to Build a PBN Part 1 Domain Acquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc

How to Build a PBN Part 2 Hosting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv

How to Build a PBN Part 3 Website Management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI

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Principles covered:

Beginners don't understand that a big part of SEO has nothing to do with YOUR website.

SEO is not something YOU do to YOUR website.

SEO is not a checklist.

The 4 things you need to rank.

When two websites have perfect on page, who ranks? The one with greater authority.

Website attributes are the MINIMUM to even be considered to rank.

There are very few things you can do to your website to make you rank higher.

PROBABLY the reason you are not ranking is because you do not have enough authority compared to your competition (assuming everything else on your site is correct).

SEO is like a race.

Just because you improve doesn't mean you're going to rank higher.

Things that won't help you: dwell time, site loading speed, good content.

Mentioned episodes:

SEO Is a Competition, Not a Checklist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo8Cdt3PnI

4 Things You Need to Rank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg

Is This Lower Authority Website Actually Outranking This Higher Authority Website?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWgsq9UgYBY&pp=0gcJCXwKAYcqIYzv

4 Reasons Backlinks You Built Didn't Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_6viPUeUW4

EEAT, Content, Dwell Time - not ranking factors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE

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The 4 reasons you build backlinks and they do not help:

1. You have too little authority
2. You built bad backlinks
3. You have a problem with your site
4. You are not relevant

Mentioned episodes:

the 4 Ways to Get Backlinks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8

the 4 Things You Need to Rank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg

You MIGHT Get a Penalty. Maybe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcGIEPiN6I

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You might learn:

Does the person understand SEO or do they just sound smart?

Three types of SEO agencies

Their goal is to impress you, your goal is not to impress them

Questions to ask

Are their answers logical or are they just using lines?

Mentioned episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw

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How to email me

Topics for new episodes

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2:00 what is a backlink?

2:03 What is a link?

2:25 What is a backlink?

2:38 What is an internal link?

3:00 Why are backlinks important?

3:16 Authority comes from backlinks

3:30 Why do you need authority?

3:46 What are the 4 things you need to rank?

4:15 Episode on penalties:

5:26 How does authority work?

5:58 How is authority shared?

7:03 How do you get authority?

7:30 How authority makes you rank

7:52 Amount of backlinks vs quality

8:52 Two take aways from this episode

• You need backlinks to get authority and you need authority to rank
• There is a difference between good and bad backlinks

9:07 Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks:

9:37 How to get backlinks

9:30 Getting good backlinks is the hardest part of SEO

9:57 The 4 ways to get backlinks

11:19 Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you

12:26 Three episodes about how to build your own links

13:23 Review:

• what are backlinks
• why you need them
• good backlinks and bad backlinks
• how you get them

Referenced episodes:

Episode on penalties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A

Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks:

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&t=1s

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0

Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw&pp=0gcJCTwKAYcqIYzv

Three episodes about how to build your own links:

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc&t=3s

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4

Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI

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2:32 What is SEO?

2:41 What are keywords?

3:17 Why do SEO?

4:00 What is the goal of SEO?

6:50 PPC (pay per click) is different than SEO

7:20 How ads (pay per click) work

9:08 The 4 variables you must manipulate to rank high in SEO

9:40 The difference between local SEO and normal SEO

Local SEO vs normal SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aTU1a62wo

11:02 SEO penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A

Content is not a ranking factor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE

20:05 episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks:

First version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao

Next version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8

21:03 Review (defining SEO, why you do it, the 4 variables to manipulate, backlinks, anchortext, pay per click).

22:10 Things that do not change your position

Dwell time does not affect SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE

27:51 How do you check your progress?

30:12 Interview on the Content Manager Podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3K0VlSzXlT9whNp34hdD09?si=AUzRHygYTKmqfaLWY94ZRQ&nd=1&dlsi=6ae73236ce544860

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1:54 What is topical authority?

Episodes that talk about relevancy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBbW69GYYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A

2:03 What is relevancy?

2:29 How do you get relevancy?

3:21 Why does this matter?

3:32 The 4 things you need to rank.

Episodes that talk about the 4 things you need to rank:

Complex version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg

Fast version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv

Episode that talks about penalties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A

5:14 How authority is passed

5:56 Most of your time will be used getting backlinks

6:35 Why do you need to care?

7:07 How relevancy works in ranking

7:30 Why search engines want to give good results

8:23 How authority works in ranking

9:06 Relevancy answers the question "will my website appear in the search results?"

9:37 Authority answers the question "what position will my website be in the search results?"

10:23 How should you structure the content on your site?

10:50 How to create posts

11:16 What is not ok.

11:34 Definition of cannibalization

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2:01 Private blog network vs. public blog network

3:54 Things that can happen to a public blog network

• deindexed
• penalized
• link farm

Episode that talks about link farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg3kxzfUaw

4:50 If links are public, everyone knows about them, and they lose their effectiveness

5:00 Search engines are looking for public blog networks

5:16 Where are the real backlinks?

5:40 The reason there are no forums with only good backlinks sellers

6:15 the reason I think 99% of people in the SEO industry are scammers

6:52 What you should do before buying backlinks from a forum

7:17 When something is advertised to the public, that is a public network

7:42 Episodes showing how to build a private blog portfolio. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv

8:12 The hardest part of SEO is finding good backlinks

8:51 Episodes about the difference between good and bad backlinks

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0

8:59 The 4 ways to get backlinks

9:17 Episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks

Old version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv

New version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8

10:30 Know how it works before ordering backlinks

10:50 A story about a public link network that was discovered by the search engines

11:51: Public networks get discovered

11:59 The 2 ways to use a private blog network

14:02 The reason (good) publicly available backlinks wouldn't work, anyway

16:05 When link networks are public, they eventually stop working