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1:37 Schedule an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me

2:30 HCU audits are scams

3:10 RIGHT NOW AI SEO is the same as regular SEO

4:01 Zero people have shown proof that AI is stealing their traffic

4:30 No one has shown a website that ranks without backlinks (yet lying content writers still say their content will make you rank)

7:21 How do you increase DR?

9:19 A history lesson of authority and page rank

11:59 The first reason people ask how do they raise their DR?

13:12 Clients pay us to be at the top of the search engines, not to increase their DR

13::33 The second reason people ask how do they raise their DR?

14:50 Higher DR doesn't mean more authority than less DR

15:36 The third reason people ask how do they raise their DR

16:22 Would you rather be at the top of the search engines or having 100 DR

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1:42 Schedule an SEO Zoom Advisory Call with me

2:06 The first reason (not enough authority)

3:45 You need enough authority compared to your competition

4:02 The second reason (they are spammy)

4:46 The third reason (other problems with your website)

6:05 You can do things wrong and they won't hurt you until you start getting authority and search engines look more closely at your site

6:50 Article I was talking about

8:50 We do not sell backlinks off a menu

11:02 The 4 things you need to rank

11:04 1 No penalties

11:06 2 Content

11:07 3 Relevancy

11:09 4 Authority

11:10 There's a reason we do it that way

11:30 When you have everything you need, THEN you need authority

13:18 We cannot "take a quick look at your website" because SEO has covers more than your website

15:50 It's impossible to do SEO without studying your competition

16:00 Review

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1:48 How to arrange a Zoom SEO Advisory Call with me

2:48 Is AI going to replace SEO?

3:49 Is AI really stealing your SEO traffic?

5:06 Most AI articles are clickbait

5:38 No one knows how AI works for SEO

5:57 AI services are probably scams

6:47 AI did not steal 70% of your traffic

7:21 AI problem vs SEO problem

7:40 People are trying to sell you dumb nonsense because you are afraid of AI

8:26 Being listed vs. ranking

9:27 Problems with AI

10:30 AI fatigue

11:22 Is AI content ok?

12:30 Avoid buying backlinks from AI sites, AI slop

13:13 Hypothetical explanation of how search engines would penalize AI

14:22 What do search engines do?

14:54 Examples of things that are spammy

15:51 Good quality content comes form popularity, not content

16:43 The other side of the argument

17:29 Don't have an entire website that is AI

18:20 How to get your website found in AI

18:46 llms.txt

19:41 ahrefs article stating llms.txt isn't considered by LLMs

20:41 Whose traffic is actually declining?

20:03 How do people use AI?

22:28 AI is different than SEO

23:47 AI saves time

24:10 Not visiting a website isn't bad for SEO

24:36 AI is probably trained by information that is biased

25:28 Search engines are just fine.

26:04 There are only a few ways that AI can consider a website

26:59 AI will plausibly have a popularity metric like backlinks

27:24 You rank because you're popular, not because you're useful