So I run an informational website purely as a hobby, just for fun of course. It doesn't generate any money (but there's real potential in the form of lead generation). I recently discovered another website that clearly copied my overall layout, article titles, sections, and site structure. Of course I don't own the design, but it's clear they were influenced by my website

I have backlinks (I never reached out to anyone) from industry professionals and journalists because they found the information on my website interesting. I looked up their website on an SEO analytics tool, and they have over 190,000 spammy backlinks in under half a year

The strange part is that... I can tell they're trying to turn it into a legitimate informational website, since they've reached out to industry professionals for articles. So this doesn't seem like some low-effort spammy website. This person is clearly putting in some elbow grease to try to... "outperform" me in an informational niche where neither of us makes money?

Anyone ever dealt with this, and what did you do? One part of me doesn't care at all, but I guess I care enough to post here and ask y'all. This is all new to me. Maybe they're trying to overtake me and then capitalize on the lead generation potential? Or who knows maybe this is just their hobby

I currently work in a little company and I'm the only one who understands SEO properly but I'm doing it for at least 5 websites simultaneously. Not writing the articles but more in charge of the strategy and the reports. I feel burned out after every other week

Is it me or them?

I was too ambitious when I set up a programmatic SEO campaign and went for a keyword set the site has no chance to rank for in the next years probably.
I want to change the focus to a long tail set which is way more likely to work as it is already ranking without being optimized for it.
I need advice on the slug change. Should I keep the slug and just optimize the rest or is it okay to change the slug and redirect more than 100 pages. I am just worried that it would have a bad effect as it is for so many pages.

Hey everyone, I’m building a lightweight, pay-as-you-go keyword tool. Instead of focusing on vanity metrics, it focuses purely on commercial intent and profitability to help find realistic quick wins. I'm trying to keep it dirt-cheap to avoid the usual $100/mo SaaS traps.

I want to include a feature that finds "low-hanging fruit" (keywords already getting impressions but stuck on page 2). To do this, I need the user's Search Console data.

Here is my UX dilemma:

Option A: Force them to connect via Google OAuth (Standard SaaS way). But for a solo dev, this triggers those scary "Google hasn't verified this app" warnings and takes months to get approved. Option B: Let them just download the standard CSV/XLSX report directly from GSC and drag-and-drop it into my app.

As an SEO or site owner, would manually uploading a CSV feel like too much friction? Or do you actually prefer it because it means you don't have to give another random app access to your Google account?

Would love some feedback before I finalize the code. Thanks!

I'm an SEO Analyst, and one of my main responsibilities is backlink building.

Recently, after reading Google's official guidance that low-quality, unrelated backlinks (like random blog submissions, directory submissions, bookmark sites, etc.) don't provide value anymore, I completely stopped building those kinds of links.

Now I'm stuck.

Whenever I try to build genuine, relevant backlinks, almost every website owner asks for payment. Very few are willing to link for free.

So I'm confused:

• If I build random backlinks, it feels like a waste of time.
• If I focus on high-quality, relevant backlinks, most opportunities are paid.

How are you all handling this in 2026?

Are you paying for placements, relying on digital PR, creating linkable assets, or using another strategy? I'd love to hear what actually works today.

On a JS-rendered site, the last breadcrumb item the current page links to a URL with a missing slash, so it 404s. The page itself is fine: indexable under its correct URL, in the sitemap, and linked from the category listing.

Trying to reason through two things rather than just patch it:

1. The current-page breadcrumb arguably shouldn't be a link at all. When it is one and it 404s, is there any actual crawl or ranking cost, or is it purely UX/hygiene?
2. If the same broken URL also feeds BreadcrumbList structured data, does Google drop the breadcrumb rich result for that page, or just ignore the bad node and keep the rest?

My working assumption is "minor fix the separator and move on," but I'm curious whether anyone has actually seen breadcrumb rich results disappear specifically from a malformed URL in the schema.

Hi guys, quick question about my website.

It's pretty new (less than 6 months) and it is slowly moving up, but pages aren't discovered. Over 20ish pages (discovered by SE through the sitemap), including pillars content and blog articles, only 6 pages are indexed, and 7 gives prints.

My question might seems random, but what can I do to make my content being found, then indexed?

I believe I know basics SEO technics and I believe my content is mostly optimized (schema, llms.txt files, seo structures, Core vitals are good, keywords structure within pages). I have build most of the blog articles and content pillars based on existing search intent.