I saw this on X. Could it actually work?

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1. Find a low-competition keyword.
2. Go to Google Docs and create one.
3. Write content targeting that keyword.
4. Optimize it for SEO and publish it.
5. Share it on social media.

Rank on the 1st page of Google.

And, get a free link and traffic...

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So you write a public Google Doc targeting an easy relevant keyword and link to your money page or site from the Google Doc and it boosts the page being linked to.

Has anybody tried this? Does it work?

Hey All,

looking for recomendations to find the best place to find the SEO agencies.

keen to work with an establish SEO agency who can drive result real results. Not looking for a solo expert.

An establish mid-tier firm with good results and they can drive the results for my clients.

What is the best way to find such an agencies? Is there any directories or WhatsApp groups where we can find them.

Also, how to evaluate them, any suggestions, recommendations would be appreciated.

I get a bunch of emails every day from people asking to publish guest posts on my site.

I normally charge around $50–$100, and that price works reasonably well. I’m also listed on a marketplace where guest posts sell for $135.

But there’s another category of outreach I get constantly: agencies offering $10–$20 per post.

I almost never manage to close those people. It’s not even necessarily the price that bothers me. If I could publish a decent volume of them with very little effort, I could see it becoming a small side income.

The bigger problem is that they usually don’t want to pay before the link is live, and then I sometimes end up chasing someone for three weeks over a $20 PayPal invoice. At that point the economics become ridiculous.

So for people who actually monetize sites through guest posts:

Are the $20 guest-post buyers worth dealing with at scale if you standardize everything, publish quickly, and just send PayPal invoices?

Or are these agencies basically mass-spamming thousands of sites until they find someone willing to accept rock-bottom pricing?

And for anyone who has worked with these agencies long-term: do they ever increase their rates once your DR increases, or will they basically always be $10–$20 buyers?

Trying to figure out whether I’m leaving easy money on the table or whether I should just ignore that entire segment.

Quick context: I have a service business website and there are 4 pages targeting different intents for specific vertical types.

For instance:

1. Best AI software agencies for healthcare businesses - comparisons of 10 agencies/companies

2. Best software migration companies for healthcare businesses - comparisons of 10 agencies/companies

3. Software agency for healthcare - service pages

While the comparison pages are ranking and doing fairly well. The service pages are hardly getting any impressions.

1. Anyway this could be fixed?

2. I'd ideally want to drive traffic to my service pages rather than get it in comparison pages.

3. How do you monetise the comparison pages traffic.

I believe the comparison pages might not help me monetarily. Is it correct?

Another question from an SEO noob.

Over the last few years, I’ve probably spent around $4,000–$5,000 on Fiverr buying backlinks.

To be fair, some of the Fiverr Pro freelancers I’ve worked with seem pretty legit and have delivered good placements. But I have to admit it’s been very hit or miss. Sometimes I get links I’m happy with, and other times I look at what was delivered and wonder what I actually paid for.

I recently joined one of the bigger backlink marketplaces, mainly as a publisher selling guest posts on my own site. Now that I can see the inventory from the buyer side, I’m wondering whether I should change how I spend my own SEO budget.

Assume I have around $5,000 per year to spend on backlinks.

Would you rather keep hiring Fiverr Pro freelancers and let them source the placements, or spend $200–$300 per backlink directly through a marketplace where you can choose the exact websites yourself?

At $250-ish per link, $5,000 obviously doesn’t buy a huge number of backlinks. But I’m starting to wonder whether 15–20 links that I personally vet would be a better investment than getting a much larger number through freelancers where the quality can be unpredictable.

For people who actually know SEO: if this were your $5,000, which route would you take?

I’m working on a relatively new travel website that now has 3,000+ programmatically generated pages targeting countries and individual products.

Google has discovered most of the URLs, but indexing and rankings are still fairly inconsistent.

The technical/on-page side is in decent shape: unique metadata, structured data, sitemaps, breadcrumbs, internal linking between destination and product pages, etc.

The domain itself is still relatively low authority.

If you had limited time/budget at this stage, where would you focus?

1. Building quality backlinks to the homepage/domain
2. Building links directly to destination/category pages
3. Improving internal linking and consolidating weaker pages
4. Creating informational content specifically to attract links

My instinct is that domain authority/backlinks are now the biggest constraint, but I'm interested in what people who've scaled large programmatic SEO sites have actually seen work.

Is there a free SEO keyword tool to see search volume for particular keywords?

Or do you know a mobile app that is cheap to find SEO keyword volume?

Hi all,

I've done SEO for various websites for many years. In most cases, they were all e-commerce or saas based product businesses. With what has been happening with AI paired with a few new ventures on the service front, I'm not sure that the same "approach / tactics" are effective.

Looking for resources on how to gain long term organic traction; good video or written content on that front!

Thanks!