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31/12/2025 | 13 mins.
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SEO Backlinks For Beginners - Episode 134
17/12/2025 | 15 mins.
Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy2:00 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 backlinks3:30 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 rank7:52 Amount of backlinks vs quality8:52 Two take aways from this episodeYou need backlinks to get authority and you need authority to rankThere is a difference between good and bad backlinks9:07 Two episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks:9:37 How to get backlinks9:30 Getting good backlinks is the hardest part of SEO9:57 The 4 ways to get backlinks11:19 Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you12:26 Three episodes about how to build your own links13:23 Review:what are backlinkswhy you need themgood backlinks and bad backlinkshow you get themReferenced episodes:Episode on penalties:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1ATwo episodes that explain good backlinks and bad backlinks:Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4&t=1sPart 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0Episode about why most publicly available link services will not help you:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BNS-OQMNw&pp=0gcJCTwKAYcqIYzvThree episodes about how to build your own links:Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc&t=3sPart 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI

SEO FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS (and a Grumpy SEO Guy Interview) - Episode 133
10/12/2025 | 31 mins.
Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy2:32 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 SEO7:20 How ads (pay per click) work9:08 The 4 variables you must manipulate to rank high in SEO9:40 The difference between local SEO and normal SEOLocal SEO vs normal SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aTU1a62wo11:02 SEO penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1AContent is not a ranking factor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE20:05 episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks:First version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXaoNext version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt821:03 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 positionDwell time does not affect SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9EzrCZ94NE27:51 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

SEO Topical Authority, Content Structure, and Cannibalization - Episode 132
28/11/2025 | 14 mins.
Please help keep this podcast free: patreon.com/grumpyseoguy1:54 What is topical authority?Episodes that talk about relevancy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBbW69GYYshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A2:03 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=W3L7tAil0BgFast version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzvEpisode that talks about penalties:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A5:14 How authority is passed5:56 Most of your time will be used getting backlinks6:35 Why do you need to care?7:07 How relevancy works in ranking7:30 Why search engines want to give good results8:23 How authority works in ranking9:06 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 posts11:16 What is not ok.11:34 Definition of cannibalization

The Dangers of Public Blog Networks - Episode 131
19/11/2025 | 17 mins.
Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy2:01 Private blog network vs. public blog network3:54 Things that can happen to a public blog networkdeindexedpenalizedlink farmEpisode that talks about link farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg3kxzfUaw4:50 If links are public, everyone knows about them, and they lose their effectiveness5:00 Search engines are looking for public blog networks5:16 Where are the real backlinks?5:40 The reason there are no forums with only good backlinks sellers6:15 the reason I think 99% of people in the SEO industry are scammers6:52 What you should do before buying backlinks from a forum7:17 When something is advertised to the public, that is a public network7:42 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=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv8:12 The hardest part of SEO is finding good backlinks8:51 Episodes about the difference between good and bad backlinksPart 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ08:59 The 4 ways to get backlinks9:17 Episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinksOld version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzvNew version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt810:30 Know how it works before ordering backlinks10:50 A story about a public link network that was discovered by the search engines11:51: Public networks get discovered11:59 The 2 ways to use a private blog network14:02 The reason (good) publicly available backlinks wouldn't work, anyway16:05 When link networks are public, they eventually stop working



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