Day 10 #BuildInPublic - I'm getting really frustrated with my SEO. I put a lot of effort into creating new LP's that initially performed well. However, for the past few days, I've been experiencing a sharp drop in impressions. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Sharp drops after initial traction usually mean Google is testing where you belong. Quick question - are the impressions dropping on the same queries, or is it showing you for completely different ones now?
Initial spike then drop is classic sandbox behaviour. Google gave you a taste, now it's watching if people actually engage. The fix isn't more content - it's doubling down on whichever queries got clicks.
My SaaS is stuck at $5k/month. I struggle with scaling @mediafa_st in the last 120 days. Working on conversions, SEO, affiliates, DR improvement, LinkedIn.
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DR is a vanity metric at this stage. Real question: when someone asks ChatGPT for tools in your category, does it mention you? That's where zero-click traffic lives now - and it's completely separate from traditional SEO.
Everyone stuck at $5k/mo is optimising for Google rankings while their ICP asks AI assistants for recommendations. DR won't save you if ChatGPT doesn't know you exist.
Struggling to understand why our blog posts aren't ranking despite following all the 'best practices'. 6 months in and barely any organic traffic. What are we missing?
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Best practices work when everyone isn't doing the same thing. Quick diagnostic: are you writing for the queries people actually search, or the topics you think they should care about? Big difference.
6 months of best practices = 6 months of doing what everyone else does. The sites ranking above you probably broke a few 'rules' and focused on being genuinely useful instead of technically correct.
Honest question: is SEO even worth the effort anymore with AI taking over search? Feels like we're optimising for a dying channel.
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SEO isn't dying - it's splitting. Traditional rankings still matter, but there's a parallel game now: getting cited by AI. Most businesses are invisible to ChatGPT even if they rank #1 on Google. Different signals entirely.
You're not wrong to question it. But the businesses panicking about AI search are the same ones who'll be invisible to it. The answer isn't to abandon SEO - it's to optimise for both humans AND the models recommending to them.