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1:54 What is topical authority?

Episodes that talk about relevancy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBbW69GYYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A

2:03 What is relevancy?

2:29 How do you get relevancy?

3:21 Why does this matter?

3:32 The 4 things you need to rank.

Episodes that talk about the 4 things you need to rank:

Complex version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg

Fast version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv

Episode that talks about penalties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A

5:14 How authority is passed

5:56 Most of your time will be used getting backlinks

6:35 Why do you need to care?

7:07 How relevancy works in ranking

7:30 Why search engines want to give good results

8:23 How authority works in ranking

9:06 Relevancy answers the question "will my website appear in the search results?"

9:37 Authority answers the question "what position will my website be in the search results?"

10:23 How should you structure the content on your site?

10:50 How to create posts

11:16 What is not ok.

11:34 Definition of cannibalization

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2:01 Private blog network vs. public blog network

3:54 Things that can happen to a public blog network

• deindexed
• penalized
• link farm

Episode that talks about link farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg3kxzfUaw

4:50 If links are public, everyone knows about them, and they lose their effectiveness

5:00 Search engines are looking for public blog networks

5:16 Where are the real backlinks?

5:40 The reason there are no forums with only good backlinks sellers

6:15 the reason I think 99% of people in the SEO industry are scammers

6:52 What you should do before buying backlinks from a forum

7:17 When something is advertised to the public, that is a public network

7:42 Episodes showing how to build a private blog portfolio. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez24lr3G_Mc 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguAeXhEBwI&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv

8:12 The hardest part of SEO is finding good backlinks

8:51 Episodes about the difference between good and bad backlinks

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0

8:59 The 4 ways to get backlinks

9:17 Episodes that explain the 4 ways to get backlinks

Old version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv

New version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8

10:30 Know how it works before ordering backlinks

10:50 A story about a public link network that was discovered by the search engines

11:51: Public networks get discovered

11:59 The 2 ways to use a private blog network

14:02 The reason (good) publicly available backlinks wouldn't work, anyway

16:05 When link networks are public, they eventually stop working

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2:51 he purpose of link directories

3:45 A main problem: they're copies of each other

5:07 Suspicious names

6:12 Same IP address

Episode that explains IP addresses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMe4nMrem4&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA

6:54 Link farms

7:25 Description of a link directory

8:32 Can link directories help you?

9:16 Why do they have directories linking to them?

0:35 The problem with Episode 128 and why it didn't come out at the planned time

1:12 How to email me

3:30 The reasons your rank is declining and how to tell and how to fix it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA

4:30 The 4 things you need to rank:

(long episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ

(short episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv

5:10 The 4 ways to get backlinks:

(long episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPARAuCXao

(short episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r_Bi3FBt8

6:15 LLMS.txt does nothing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WflCZyBnj8

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2:08 Local SEO vs. Regular SEO

2:07 Map

The episode about penalties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A

The episodes about the 4 things you need to rank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5kChCMQHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L7tAil0Bg

Documents about local SEO:

https://ahrefs.com/blog/local-seo/

https://www.semrush.com/blog/what-is-local-seo/

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2:09 What is a ranking factor

2:34 Why do you do SEO?

3:55 Many of the things people do are not SEO

4:16 Why did your impressions fall?

4:45 Definition of impressions

6:51 Why did your traffic fall?

Episodes that answer this question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtGQ8xQyhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSogvXY6FA

9:38 If you're not tracking your SERPs you're going to have no idea if you're successful

10:30 EEAT has no effect on your rank

Google's own documentation says this:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide

12:23 EEAT audit = scam

12:28 People do EEAT on your website = scam

13:12 Other things that are not ranking factors

17:24 Things that are ranking factors

The episode that talks about relevancy and authority and algorithms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoV09CHyGA

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1:22 Announcements

2:19 The four things you need to rank

Episode talking about types of penalties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGAxpB8q1A

4:28 Relevancy

Episode covering anchortext:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-Fh3QXB8A

6:24 Authority

Episode on helpful or harmful inks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7_DM7fj4Yg

8:10 How the algorithm understands where to rank you

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0:57 Reminders (How to contact me with questions)

2:14 Authority is basically like high school popularity

3:10 What makes somebody popular in high school?

5:56 What makes a website rank?

7:15 The 4 things you need to rank

Episode about good backlinks and bad backlinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHg6XwPha4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZSbWKJlJ0

Episode about SEO being a competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZo8Cdt3PnI

12:06 The reason people think good content makes a website rank