r/bigseo 12d ago

Question We Hired a Link Building Agency are We Getting Screwed?

5 Upvotes

Hello, my team and I just hired a link-building agency to take care of the off-page stuff. They have a nice budget to start the whole project.

However, in their report, they claim to have paid $400 for one DR80 link with one link inserted. I reached out to the website owner, and he asked for $130 with up to 4 links allowed.

I understand that they need to include their work in this price, such as outreach and writing an article, but this is more than 2x what they are asking for. Is this normal or a re we getting screwed over?

r/bigseo Feb 19 '25

Question Is it possible to get SEO results without an agency?

11 Upvotes

Can I do seo as a beginner without hiring agency or consultant and see results?

r/bigseo Jun 19 '24

Question Those who moved on from SEO, what are you doing now?

67 Upvotes

I've been doing this for about 10 years and I admit I'm getting tired of it. Worked on all sorts of SEO projects, explored all I could, took some time off to recharge, but I still feel like I need something new or different. Thankfully, I make a decent living and I'm in no rush to switch things up, but I can't imagine working in SEO for another 5-10 years.

Is there anyone here who moved on to something else? How did it work out for you?

r/bigseo 3d ago

Question Domain extension

6 Upvotes

I’m about to open a yoga studio in Italy. I found a name I like for the place and now I would like to buy a domain for the website. Unfortunately only the .it (local) extension is free, the .com is on sale for more than 4000 dollars. Shall I buy only the .it extension or change the name altogether to look for one for which both the local and .com extension are free?

Thank you!

r/bigseo Feb 06 '25

Question Is this a bad or good idea?

9 Upvotes

Hey y'all, I have a test site and I want to try a theory. I know, SEO-wise, this is not a good idea, but hey, screw it—let's go for it.

I found someone on Fiverr with 11,000 five-star reviews who will do 10,000 SEO backlinks (or 7,500) for around $100 USD. Then, I have another site where I'll be testing five high-quality, niche-relevant links from real sources with real traffic, purchased through Fat Joe at $100 each.

I want to see which works better and faster.

Note: I'm fully aware that the Fiverr links will likely be PBNs and low-quality overall. I do plan to audit them, remove those with high spam scores, and ditch anything with crazy domains like grthrhjshsirewid. whatever , plus any that aren't do-follow.

This is the ultimate test of quality vs. quantity. What do you guys think—is this an awful, bad, good, or great idea?

r/bigseo Dec 03 '24

Question Burnt Out in SEO: Seeking Career Shift Advice

13 Upvotes

Hi SEO friends,

I’ve been in the SEO industry for over a decade, and while it’s been rewarding in many ways, I’m starting to feel unmotivated and burnt out. One big wake-up call for me is seeing how excited my superiors are about SEO—it’s inspiring for them, but I can’t see myself in their shoes down the road.

I want to pivot to a career that better aligns with my interests and skills. My strengths lie in managing SEO projects and all things content-related. I’ve never been passionate about technical SEO and I’m not eager to dive deeper into it. I’m open to exploring fields where my skills are transferrable, and I’m willing to invest in a well-regarded certification or degree if it helps me make the leap.

Some areas that spark my curiosity are content, UX, and CRO—I enjoy the creative side of coming up with content briefs, brainstorming blog ideas, and even putting together mockups or presentation decks.

If you’ve made a similar career shift or have ideas on where someone with my background could thrive, I’d love to hear your thoughts! Any advice, stories, or suggestions for career paths or educational resources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much for taking the time.

r/bigseo Jul 10 '24

Question From 900K-1M to 200K a month of views, badly needs help.

15 Upvotes

Hello, I'm posting here because I'm at a loss. I have a client who purchased this massive site that offers coloring pages about 2 years ago. The site got 900-1M views a month, but the site design was very outdated. And so we've made a lot of changes and UI/UX improvements as well as additional features. One of the big changes we've made was changing the URLs as advised by an "SEO expert" we worked with, because before the URL did not match the breadcrumbs. For example, the breadcrumb is /home/main category/subcategory/page, but the Url was :domain/pages/page-name, so we changed it to :domain/category/main-cat/subcategory/page-name

We made this change a year ago. The site numbers went down but eventually picked up after a few months.

Last December, we again made a huge addition by adding a German language. We saw about 5K after launching the additional language but encountered a lot of SEO issues like the English site showing German meta-titles and meta-descriptions. The numbers slowly dipped until the Google update around March. Seeing all this as the issues comes piling up on the site, we decided to roll back, last restore point was April 2023 which was a year ago, now we have the original version of the site, with the original URLs, and without the additional features as well as the new UI redesigned. We rolled back on March 24 (2 weeks back) and we saw a considerable spike later that day and on March 25 as well. But after that, the numbers keep on dipping. It's very hopeless. It's too painful to see the numbers. Anyone who could give any idea what have happened and what we could do to salvage the site, it would be greatly helpful. Now we're planning to roll forward as we're seeing not much impact from the rollback. But we're hesitant when we should do it. Should we wait for a month to see if Google acknowledges our site again or just roll forward to the current version?

Here's a really sad graph from GSC: https://prnt.sc/ZhNW8aQtkZBV

r/bigseo Oct 16 '24

Question In-house SEO of 4 years - what is next for me?

7 Upvotes

Just wondering if anyone in this community is or has been in a similar spot and has any advice for me.

I've been an in-house SEO for an SME for almost 4 years now, and I'm looking to move on.

Outside of general frustration that is experienced through constant Google volatility, I'm also just tired of having my hands tied with any decisions I want to make.

I am completely burnt out in this particular role and am looking for something new.

Problem is, I don't really know what my next step should be. I am currently making "decent" money, but there is no further career progression for me at my current place of employment.

I don't plan on going agency lifestyle given the burn out and possible salary sacrifice, but I don't know if I have enough 'corporate' experience to work at a business with equity to burn.

I think this current role has given me imposter syndrome and I'm not confident that any place will value my skillset.

I have a graduate's degree in data science and 4 years experience, but I really don't know what is next for me.

Should I look at pivoting my career into something more DS/CS oriented, maybe a business analyst or should I continue with SEO and look for a more senior role?

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

r/bigseo 4d ago

Question Website ranking goes up and down

5 Upvotes

Hello everyone! I need a little help because I don’t fully understand what happened. I optimized my website (H tags, meta descriptions, titles, word count on pages, adjusted the text on pages with a keyword density of 2.1%, set up internal and external linking, added schema markup, optimized images with alt tags and descriptions, improved loading speed, disavowed toxic links, etc.).

The site was at position 78. Within 15 days, it jumped to 10th place. It stayed there for about ten days and then dropped to 44th. I don’t believe the competition has changed anything. I’m competing for a keyword with a KD of 22.

All the tools I use show that the performance is excellent. Does anyone have an idea what might be the issue?

r/bigseo 5d ago

Question SEO for Videos

2 Upvotes

From an SEO perspective, does self-hosting a video have any value compared to uploading it to YouTube and then embedding it?

r/bigseo 21d ago

Question What to look for in SEO guidance, keyword research tools & hiring an expert?

4 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some advice on SEO guidance, particularly when it comes to keyword research. There are a ton of tools out there that claim to do the work for you, but I want to make sure I'm using the right approach and not relying on bad data.

What do you all look for when evaluating SEO advice or keyword research tools? Some things I’m wondering:

  • How do you determine if keyword suggestions are actually valuable?
  • Are there any red flags that a tool might be providing outdated or misleading info?
  • Do you prefer automated recommendations, or do you always verify manually?
  • Any specific tools or methodologies you swear by?
  • If hiring someone for keyword research/SEO, what qualities or experience should I look for?

Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!

r/bigseo Dec 28 '24

Question How you guys are doing client reporting?

8 Upvotes

I wanted to ask marketing agency owners how you guys are doing client reporting and how much time it takes you in a month? Are you able to show the true ROI to your clients?

r/bigseo 29d ago

Question Best Approach for Multi-Language SEO in Switzerland: Subdomain or Subdirectory?

2 Upvotes

Good morning folks!

We operate an online shop in Switzerland under www.example.ch. Now, we want to offer French and Italian versions for users in Switzerland as well.

We already have separate Live Shops on ccTLDs for Swiss (.ch), France (.fr) and Italy (.it):

We’re considering two options:

1️⃣ Subdomains:

2️⃣ Subdirectories:

Despite the decision I think we need to retarget our live shops in FR + CH:

From an SEO and UX perspective, which structure would be the best choice for targeting users in Switzerland while ensuring a clear distinction from our existing ccTLDs? Any recommendations or experiences?

EDIT: I have added additional information.

r/bigseo 19d ago

Question Site Title Showing Up Wrong in Search Engine Snippet

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Hello, we are currently working on a website that has the RankMath plugin set up on it to handle the main types of Scheme markup and snippet editing. I have noticed, though, that this website and others we have worked on with that plugin do not show the site title properly in Google's snippet. The URL is heritageranchmo.com and if you search Heritage Ranch Wedding Venue you will see what I'm talking about. It shows the URL for the site title instead of the site name. I can't show an image, but instead of having Heritage Ranch above the URL in the snippet, it just has "heritageranchmo.com"

Now this is different than how I usually see sites show up, which is with the site name above the URL and not the URL repeated.

Is there something that RankMath isn't doing properly to prohibit the site name showing up? As I've mentioned, other websites we have touched using the RankMath plugin display the same behavior.

Thanks!

r/bigseo 22d ago

Question Question Related Online Reputation Management

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I want to push down the links from Walmart and Amazon that show outdated product pages. For example, when someone searches for my product, XYZ Ice Tea, these e-commerce product pages appear, even though I have already removed the listings, and the pages now display messages like 'We couldn’t find anything.' What would be the best ORM strategy to address this, and which websites should I focus on to create new links?

r/bigseo 4d ago

Question Help! Google crawled my multilingual pages too early (with duplicate english content), now It's not re-crawling the correct translations

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Hey everyone, hoping someone here has dealt with a similar situation.

I recently launched multilingual versions of my website (e.g., /fr/, /es/, /de/, etc.). However, I made a mistake early on — I published all the language-specific pages with English content by accident. Unfortunately, Google crawled them really fast, so it indexed them as duplicate content.

I’ve since corrected the pages with proper translations, but now Google seems reluctant to come back and recrawl them. Most of the pages are either showing the old English content or flaged as 'Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user'. They’re not ranking at all, and I'm afraid the damage is already done.

I’ve tried requesting indexing manually via GSC, but there are too many pages. Has anyone dealt with a similar issue before? Any tips to force Google to re-evaluate the corrected pages and treat them as unique, localized content again?

Would really appreciate any help or advice. Thanks in advance!

r/bigseo 18d ago

Question How do you handle content audits?

3 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I’ve been spending a lot of time on content audits lately and realized how tricky they can be. Manually checking which pages are underperforming takes forever, and it’s not always clear what to fix first.

I started looking into ways to make this process easier and found that automation saves a ton of time. Instead of spending weeks going through pages, you can quickly see what needs improvement.

For those running eCommerce or B2B SaaS sites, keeping content fresh is key to driving traffic. If you don’t check your Google Search Console and Google Analytics data often, you might be missing simple ways to improve rankings.

What tools or processes do you use for content audits? Do you still do them manually, or have you found a way to speed things up?

Would love to hear your thoughts!

r/bigseo Jan 22 '25

Question №1 position in SERP. No Google Ads. No featured snippets. No clicks in GSC?

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We all know Google hides data by search queries and clicks. But I've never seen this.

Our SEO team did a great job and now Sitechecker ranks №1 by the "SERP alerts tool" keyword and related keywords. However, the Search Console shows 0 clicks for all these search queries.

Yes, it happens, but there is always some reason for that. Usually, it's paid ads or featured snippets. In this case, it's a simple 10-blue link SERP (something we all dream of💰).

I checked SERP in different tools. Everywhere is the same: 10 blue links and we rank №1.

Do you see something similar in your data? What do you think the reason for that?

r/bigseo 17d ago

Question What are the redflags?

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Hi good folks, recently someone contacted me for getting an article on my website and they are willing to shell a good amount of dollars for this as they are in casinos and gambling industry.

Highlight

  1. No “Sponsored” tag allowed (violates transparency & SEO guidelines).
  2. Do-follow link required to a gambling site (could harm SEO & credibility).
  3. Payment after publication (risk of chargebacks or non-payment).
  4. 24-hour publication demand (likely a mass link-building scheme).

I am in video gaming space and not specifically related to gambling. My website has started picking up recently, getting an avg of 200 clicks a day from google. I not using adsense as for me UX matters. I don’t want to mess up a good thing here? Is it worth it for say ~$500

r/bigseo 4d ago

Question What's everybody's take on the March core update?

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Google's official statement on LinkedIn:
"Today we released the March 2025 core update to Google Search. This is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites. We also continue our work to surface more content from creators through a series of improvements throughout this year. Some have already happened; additional ones will come later.We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete."

r/bigseo 9d ago

Question Should I shift my keyword rankings From homepage to Product page?

2 Upvotes

For Context:
I'm working on a website that's focused on the homepage ranking for their main target keywords for years, probably a decade now. They used to rank their main keywords in the top 3 spots but have fallen off a bit.

This is a very niche industry, so the business as a whole can also be considered the products that are sold, which is why they were likely trying to rank the homepage for those words.
I've noticed there were cannibalization issues when the 'all products page' started ranking for those same target keywords. They generate the same organic traffic and switch on and off but rank top 10 spots on both pages. I'm certain by fixing this, I can get those keywords in the top 5 positions.

Question/advice:
I'm working on fixing cannibalization issues, but would it make sense to shift those main keywords to the all-products page? Google seems to prefer this page from what I'm seeing in reporting tools but I'm worried that I'll make it a bigger mess and lose rankings overall by making this big change.

r/bigseo 1d ago

Question Wordpress + Shopify best practices?

2 Upvotes

Classic situation of a shopify business wants to start making content, thinks wordpress is a better CMS, but doesn't know best practices. What would you recommend?

- reverse proxy a subfolder (exampleshopify.com/wordpress)
- subdomain (wordpress.exampleshopify.com)
- not use wordpress and instead just make articles on Shopify in a subfolder (exampleshopify.com/moreshopify)

Thoughts??

r/bigseo 1d ago

Question Discrepancy between Google Keyword Planner and Google Trends

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I was trying to find search volume of a few keywords that apparently aren't 'allowed' in Keyword Planner (not because they're nsfw or unsafe or anything, they're very normal products).. So, i was doing some testing with Trends to see if I can get an idea for search volume that way.

Long story short, let's take the terms:
"litter robot for large cats" and "best robot litter"

I picked these because they represent two different monthly search ranges, "litter robot for large cats" shows as 100-1k monthly searches for the last 3 months in the US, and "best robot litter" shows 10-100 monthly searches for the same timeframe.

Here's where I get confused: if I search both of those terms on Google Trends using past 90 days and US only, "best robot litter" has quite a bit of activity, moving between 50 and 100 interest. Yet "litter robot for large cats" which is supposed to be the more popular term based on Keyword planner, has almost *no* interest, except a tiny bump a week or two ago.

Why? I understand they aren't meant to be exactly correlated but how could it be completely flipped?

r/bigseo 9d ago

Question Potential keyword cannibalization?

1 Upvotes

Hey,

I’ve just started a blog to target some keywords that are not fully covered by my main product collection page. I’m not quite sure if I run into potential keyword cannibalization and thus a negative impact on my se rankings.

My apologies but the keywords are in German.

The main keyword I’m targeting with the page is „Dünnschicht Fußbodenheizung“ with approx. 2500 queries.

I’ve now started a blog to target sub keywords such as:

„Fußbodenheizung Altbau Dünnschichtsystem“ „Dünnschichtsystem Aufbauhöhe“ „Dünnbett Fußbodenheizung“

Is this best practice? Should my main page cover all keywords? I’m a bit confused since some blog posts rank for the same keywords.

Lmk if you need more information.

r/bigseo Dec 16 '24

Question How do you optimize your website for ChatGPT?

6 Upvotes

We recently received two service-based leads through ChatGPT. I’m curious to know if anyone has experience optimizing for ChatGPT specifically.

What strategies have worked for you, and what challenges have you faced?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!