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  1. Steve Brownlie

    Links Quality, Natural, Editorially-Given, Links Obtained Through Content Promotion and Outreach

    Just a heads up that we have been working with a bunch of SaaS clients and can now get high DA (lowest guaranteed is 45 but most of your report will be in the 65-80 range) inserts on SaaS and good tech sites $225/link if you need product pages/commercial anchors. $175/link if you can just take...
  2. Steve Brownlie

    Future of Content Sites

    Right now it's really tough but what's clear is ecom sites and SaaS sites weren't hit by the latest updates. Even if they were propped up by cheap paid links and some AI content etc. But @Zoro is spot on - we can't panic react at the moment. Google sending everyone's traffic to Forbes and...
  3. Steve Brownlie

    Pivoting to SaaS?

    Surely a lot of the SaaS they're seeing failing though are just the silly 'wrappers around GPT' things that people built - like 'chat with PDF' etc that were obviously just going to become part of chatGPT and gemini in the end directly anyway? I do linkbuilding for a bunch of SaaS...
  4. Steve Brownlie

    What's your take on AI generated content?

    The AI influencers are already getting onlyfans accounts (or whatever that competitor is - I forget which one 'she' signed up for - famous pink hair 'girl' lol).
  5. Steve Brownlie

    What's your take on AI generated content?

    I don't use/have any smart stuff in my home despite selling automation consulting and stuff to businesses. Sometimes I post an AI post on LinkedIn as a joke and note it at the end etc. It's definitely dystopian but let's just make what money we can out of it all while it's going on - not like...
  6. Steve Brownlie

    Google Algorithm Updates - 2024 Ongoing Discussion

    This isn't very practical for us at scale because, of course... clients... and their fickle needs. But in ye olden days I used to use similar strategies involving interviews with basically 'mid tier but semi-well known players' to get links from poker media sites back to my site. Sometimes I...
  7. Steve Brownlie

    Google Algorithm Updates - 2024 Ongoing Discussion

    A lot of the best links now are traded between vets on private slacks and discords etc. Stuff that cost you $600 to buy direct from a site (if you could buy at all - eg a real good traffic DA70 SaaS) suddenly is open for trading. The world has just changed - we do that for our tech clients all...
  8. Steve Brownlie

    Smith's 20-year milestone...

    I can relate to this a lot - I've been around way too fkn long to have as little as I have. A couple of ok businesses that support my lifestyle and not much else to show from it. I used to always just use the excuse 'I don't have to work for someone and I haven't starved to death yet' to avoid...
  9. Steve Brownlie

    Google Algorithm Updates - 2024 Ongoing Discussion

    That's what I always used to do in the old days and they still caught me on one of my most profitable domains lol. I'm not sure why this is 'new' - it's like they really cracked down on this ages ago and I guess then just 'let it go'? and now they're caring again? Or just FUD because they can't...
  10. Steve Brownlie

    Building, Growing, & Monetizing an Email Newsletter

    I'm in the same boat mate - I had a list ages ago that people were opting in like mad and I made some rookie mistakes - burnt it out with shitty offers that made easy cash short term but killed the list - then panda/penguin killed the site's rankings and I never went back to email. I'm back at...
  11. Steve Brownlie

    B2B Cold Calling

    The trick is that it isn't really free - I mean I don't know which ones you specifically listened to - but the old SMMA offer was always you pay $XXXX but if I don't get you ZZ leads by Y date it's free. But you know the conversion rate you get for your target niche per <$XXXX of spend on social...
  12. Steve Brownlie

    Need Advice: Funding Growth for Scaling a sucessful business

    This is probably one of the best posts on BuSo ever. Sometimes just thinking properly outside the box/what the real solution is to a problem is makes more sense than solving some other problem...
  13. Steve Brownlie

    Need Advice: Funding Growth for Scaling a sucessful business

    Just tell him to be super super careful. I don't have the link handy but I remember watching some videos on YT a year or so ago about some sharks circling and taking in a whole bunch of creators with exploitative contracts and then never paying them what was owed. I know we all make worse...
  14. Steve Brownlie

    Is "SEO" dead?

    That's a really smart point - we've been investing a lot in seeing how 'not terrible' we can get AI generated video 'summary' versions of our content on some test sites - does it improve rankings/dwell time/do people even watch them etc.
  15. Steve Brownlie

    Semiconductor Shortage = Trouble

    Yeah a bunch of my friends are spending a lot of time learning how to deploy, host and fine tune open source AI models at the moment. I need to spend some time on it too - with the outage on and off for the best part of 48 hours at openai impacting business so much for us it just shows how...
  16. Steve Brownlie

    Is "SEO" dead?

    I was going to say it shouldn't matter as they return a lot of information from the web so you just have to make sure your presence there is really strong but the new Gemini outright refuses (even if I demand it searches Google) to do this query now saying it's just a large language model and...
  17. Steve Brownlie

    Search Project 2024 - Is It Even Worth It?

    I think the HCU is misunderstood. It seems in reality to have mainly targeted 'niche affiliate' sites and not much else regardless of if they were actually good in a lot of cases. Plenty of SaaS companies and ecommerce stores are full of garbage content, much of it AI generated, and are still...
  18. Steve Brownlie

    Hiring An SEO Expert

    You won't save as much as you think outsourcing overseas. The competent people already sell to 'westerners' at 'western' prices... And Ryu is 100% right here. If you just go round hiring people you will get ripped off - 99% of this industry is pure garbage. But that's because buyers don't know...
  19. Steve Brownlie

    Links Quality, Natural, Editorially-Given, Links Obtained Through Content Promotion and Outreach

    Just a heads up that you can sign up for our newsletter directly now - https://mailchi.mp/reachcreator/ai-in-seo-and-marketing-for-agencies-and-businesses - this week we're covering an AI SaaS case study, last week we covered our research into the prevalence of AI content in the front page of...
  20. Steve Brownlie

    Is "SEO" dead?

    A lot of people are pivoting to making SaaS type products. I've actually got a case study of one coming out on my newsletter on Monday but the tl;dr is below for those of you who don't want to sign up: * SaaS companies don't seem to have been smashed by the 'helpful content update' as hard *...
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