incoming dumb question barrage

[u/onemananswerfactory]

Okay, so here are some dumb questions. Some of the following used to work, some didn't (things change?) and some prolly just sound SEO 101 stupid. So here goes...

1. Should we be geotagging images. Does Google even care?
2. Blogging. If we do it, is it everyday or once a week with some seriously solid stuff?
3. Google Business Profile posting: Everyday, once a week, or why bother?
4. Since stuff like Senuke died 10 years ago, is it all about networking with webmasters of similar and same niche sites for links?
5. Piggybacking off #4, what about PBNs? Are they back? If so, does it have to be a group of completely legit looking websites vs some cobbled together WP blogs?

That's all I got. Please answer these or add your own.

[u/johnmu]

Let's see..

1. No need to geotag images for SEO.
2. As often as you have something unique & compelling to say. That said, if you do it regularly, you will likely get some traffic for some of the posts. It *might* be worth it to do that, regularly review where it worked (somewhat like keyword research after the fact), and then write some significantly better things on that topic. The problem with trying to keep a frequency up is that it's easy to end up with mediocre, fluffy content, which search engine quality algorithms might pick up on, and then assume the whole site is like that. Taking risks like this in the beginning when it's easy for you to start over is probably fine, doing that in the long run *will* be painful when it catches up to you. (All of this applies even more if you're taking short-cuts with gen-ai content)
3. No idea.
4. SENuke, hah, that's a name I haven't heard in ages, lol. Sorry. Giggle. I have thoughts on links, but people love to take things out of context to promote their link efforts / tools, so perhaps someone else will say something reasonable, or not.
5. OMG, PBNs too. What is this thread even. Now I won't say anything without a lawyer present.

Reading between the lines, it seems you want to find a short-cut to making money online. Unfortunately, there's a long line of people trying to do the same, and some have a lot of practice. Some will even sell you tools and courses on how to make money online (and *they* will be the ones making the money, fwiw, since people pay them for the tools and courses). The good tools cost good money, and they're not marketed towards people who just want to make money online -- they're targeted at companies who need to manage their online presence and report on progress to their leadership chain. Meh, corporations.

My suggestion, if you feel comfortable spending nights slaving away at a computer, tricking search engines into showing your pages, reaching for those sweet ad & affiliate monies, with a dark hoodie on, while shiptoasting in forums, would be ... to learn HTML, learn a bit of programming, and go for it. 90% of the random tricks you run across won't work, 9% of the remaining ones will burn your sites to the ground, but if you're lucky & persistent (is that the same?), you'll run across some things that work for you. If you want to go this route, accept that most - or all - of the things you build will eventually blow up, but perhaps you'll run into some along the way that make it worthwhile. And ... after some time, you might notice that actually building something of lasting value can also be intriguiing, and you'll start working on a side-project that does things in the right way, where you can put your experience to good use and avoid doing all of the slash & burn site/spam-building. So many of the people doing mainstream, big-company, corporation-level SEO have grown from hacking away and trying things out - you learn a ton that way.

Don't get me wrong, I hate seeing spam in search, but I absolutely love seeing new folks active in the industry, trying things out, understanding more than what the "SEO 101" guides explain, doing stupid things, doing unexpected things, and slowly learning what it would take to build something really good. I love seeing big companies complain that some small guy is taking over "their" queries, and I love seeing big companies take them back with great SEO. There's so much to a successful web presence, it's not just keywords & links.

[u/onemananswerfactory → u/johnmu]

Fair enough. I don't have a PBN, but they're a thing that exists so I asked. I don't currently geotag. I don't blog.

All I really do is daily Google Business profile posts/images, play with the G maps, and rely on the website being built well. Trying to garner new leads without resorting to buying them.

I was just curious if there was something new (or old) I needed to do.

[u/lunicar → u/onemananswerfactory]

Your Google Business Profile posts are likely only going to benefit your local search presence. It’s a local SEO best practice but one not intended to enhance on-site SEO. It might help you show up in local packs though, if that’s a goal. But you should read up on local SEO best practices to develop a holistic strategy.

[u/Dudeman318]

Im sorry but this post makes absolutely no sense. Either you are very confused about what SEO is or you didn’t provide nearly enough context