I spent 6 months growing 3 subreddits. Here’s the uncomfortable truth about hitting 1,000 members. It's a damn hard. You can check the results in the screenshots, but the conclusion is simple. It's hard to motivate people join your community. I was actively involved in

I disagree. Self-promotion is only one of the parameters of any listicle. There are also other parameters: - how much AI-generated content is used; - is there any evidence that other tools were used (screenshots, videos) - and so on Lily said it at the end of her research, but

Google added a Gif from a Reddit post to the Videos section in SERP. I'm curious whether this is just a test or a huge shift? I've never seen this before. Before, I saw only YouTube videos in this Videos section, and I saw only the names of YouTube channels, without the names

I'm not afraid to lose my job. We still need a human in the loop.

Bing added an AI performance report to Webmaster Tools The report gives data on your visibility in Microsoft Copilot: - total citations - avg. amount of cited pages - grounding queries (not real user queries) - amount of citations with breakdown by pages This is too little

It looks like this isn't true love, just a romance, between OpenAI & Microsoft. ChatGPT reminds you to check whether the links to the Microsoft site are safe. What's next? Will Microsoft block OpenAI bots from crawling its own sites at all? P.S. For context, I asked for an API

We just crossed 500 members in /r/seogaps in ~3 months. As promised, I start publishing a new type of content there: Ask me anything (AMA) sessions with interesting people in the SEO/AEO space. This type of interview is even better for me than video interviews: - you can

This GSC + GA4 blended report will change how you analyze landing pages. HOW IT WORKS - We import overall search performance metrics and metrics by landing page from GSC. - We import GA4 metrics for all sessions where Session source/medium = google / organic. - We enrich data

Are you comfortable waiting six months for your Reddit thread to rank in the top 10, with no guarantees? If no, don't launch your own subreddit. If you think long-term and want to build a real community, where members can even downvote your own posts, be prepared to wait. As

Have you ever dreamed of a Rank Tracker where you can track thousands of keywords 10 times cheaper? I just had an idea for it. This is based on using Average Position data by search queries from Search Console. This idea is so old, but I still haven't seen it properly

I'm launching the 2026 SEO Agency Growth Survey. The more responses we collect, the more insights you'll get. Here are the rules: 1/ There are 20 questions. 18 questions with predefined answers and 2 open questions (non-required). 5 min to fill. 2/ There is no requirement to

Are you using query grouping (keyword segments) when working with GSC data? We've already shipped page segments in GSC insights at Sitechecker, and I'm curious how important it is to add a keyword segments report. When I focus on getting more impressions and clicks by some

What is one type of content you would create for LLMs that doesn't make sense to create for SEO? My answer: Use cases pages or "for whom" pages. 4 years ago, we created such landing pages at Sitechecker: - /soultions/ecommerce/ - /solutions/governments/ - /solutions/agencies/

Have you also noticed huge changes in rankings after Jan 25-26? It looks like an unconfirmed Google Core update for me. I see changes on almost all GSC properties at Sitechecker I have access to. The biggest negative change I noticed on a couple of Favikon page segments:

60% of SEO agencies and consultants have retainers < $2,500/m I've already collected 50 responses to our Agency Growth Survey and am now preparing a fancy report. The fact from the headline is the 1st thing that surprised me. Considering that one SEO can't work with more than

SEO alerts we created just saved our own website from a huge traffic drop. Somebody added a noindex tag to valuable pages with a lot of traffic. There are 3 popular scenarios of how this mistake happens. MARKETING TEAM RELATED (most popular) 1/ Your SEO or content manager

User polls on LinkedIn generate many more votes than here on X for me. 128 votes in 1 day. Looks like a hot topic. What is your favorite project management tool for an SEO agency?

Capterra completely deleted the Sitechecker company profile with 240+ reviews from the site. If you run SaaS, check your profile too immediately! Yes, there is an option to bring back the profile, but I didn't get any emails about that. Also, on the 2nd screenshot, it's clear