[whatamidoingyo]

Same. Numerous 1st page top results, and even snippets. Honestly no idea how... I do know SEO basics, but didn't know I knew them well enough for this. Within a year I had the first result for a very, very popular search term. Granted it was a lot of hard work (18 hour days, sometimes).

[Solvency]

You spent 18 hours a day on SEO? Doing what??

[whatamidoingyo]

No, no. I spent 18 hour days posting on social media, writing articles, designing cover images, researching, etc. I honestly didn't do much work in regards to SEO, at least I don't think so. (There were a few times I knew something was going to be released soon, so I wrote about it before anyone else did.) But I do believe all of this contributes to SEO.

But yeah, this brought my site to having every article I write today to be listed on page 1 (top 5 results, at the very least) almost within a day, numerous snippets, etc.

[WarOnPrivacy]

>> You spent 18 hours a day on SEO? Doing what??

> No, no. I spent 18 hour days posting on social media, writing articles,

Yes, yes. Based on my 10-years-ago contact with SEO, you just described it.

[kjkjadksj]

I wonder how easy this will continue to be in the chatgpt era. What takes you 18 hours can probably be generated in 18 seconds with enough fidelity to get traction.

[15457345234]

Oh and doesn't that just define the problem so well

[aniftythrifrty]

The only thing I did was everything google recommended I do, literally. Run PageSpeed, do everything suggested. Log in to search console, do everything recommended. Super hard. And the keywords I dominate are for such things like, jewelry repair, jewelry repair near me, jewelry repair Seattle. Not niche. The reason I am beating such big spending rivals is because they usually have sites that break a lot of SEO rules funny enough. They try so hard and pay so much to "SEO Experts" but their site is templated spaghetti and no one can fix it, seemingly.