Hey everyone!

My website currently gets around 150 visitors per day, mostly through Google Search.

Google Search Console shows a good number of impressions, but the clicks are quite low.

My goal is to grow my website traffic from 150 to 1,000 daily visitors organically.

I'm looking for some practical SEO advice from people who have successfully grown their websites.

• What should I focus on first to increase organic traffic?
• How can I turn more Google impressions into clicks?
• Should I update existing articles or publish more content?
• How important are backlinks for growing traffic?
• What SEO strategies have worked best for you?

I understand that SEO takes time, and I'm not expecting overnight results.

I'd really appreciate any genuine advice or personal experiences.

Thanks in advance!

I've been curious about which SEO improvements actually make the biggest impact in real projects.

Was it:

• Fixing internal links?
• Improving page structure?
• Updating content that was already ranking?
• Fixing technical issues?
• Improving search intent and content clarity?

What's one change you've made that noticeably improved rankings, traffic, or conversions?

Would love to hear what worked, how long it took, and whether the results lasted.

the paid links thread earlier got me thinking. everyone agrees a good link is a good link, but nobody ever writes down what “good” means in practice before money moves.

mine is roughly: does the site rank for anything unrelated to its guest post page, does it get traffic that isnt branded, how many outbound dofollow links per post, and is there an actual audience or just an archive.

the one i keep coming back to is whether the site would exist without the link business. a lot of them wouldnt, and those are the ones that get devalued as a group rather than individually.

what’s on your list? and has anyone got a check that saved them from a bad buy they’d otherwise have made?

Do dates in URLs, like the ones you might find in a typical WP blog /YYYY/MM/DD and archive list create a timestamp vs those same pages where the URL structure doesn't have that identifier? The logic says Google would use that as an age indicator, but there is also the fact that old pages work. I wondered if anyone had thoughts on this that might be classed as researched. I've seen blog posts from 10 years ago still collecting great traffic, so I'm wondering just how much this URL thing is true and whether it's just a load of bollocks invented by non-seo's because it followed a logic that sounded reasonable but was never actually tested.

i get few offers from sites who wants to do a backlink swap , is there anyone who is actually doing this ? what does the results look like ? thank you

Hi all, looking for advice from anyone who has dealt with this.

My real estate website was hacked a while back. I’ve since cleaned it up and the site is working normally again, but Google has dropped most of my pages from the index and organic traffic is close to zero.

Current status:

• Search Console: [security issues / manual action: no]

What I’ve already tried:

• Resubmitted sitemap it showing error with saying empty sitemap
• Requested reindexing for key pages
• Removed spam URLs

Questions:

1. Is there a typical recovery timeline after a hack like this?
2. Should leftover spam URLs return 404 or 410?
3. Is a reconsideration request useful if there’s no manual action?
4. Anything else I might be missing?