Bad Answers to A Popular Question - (SEO Is Not About Your Website) - Episode 143

About this episode

This episode explains why SEO is more about comparing to competitors than making changes to your website.

Please help keep this podcast free: https://www.patreon.com/grumpyseoguy It's not "what can I do to my website?" It's "how does my SEO compare to my competitors?" There is very little you can do to your new websites to improve your SEO. Because that's not how SEO works. Luckily for you, we explain what that is in this episode.

People in this episode

Host: Grumpy SEO Guy

Topics covered

• SEO
• website optimization
• competitor analysis
• digital marketing
• search engine ranking

Keywords

• SEO
• website
• competitors
• digital marketing
• search engines

More episodes of Grumpy SEO Guy

• Should You Use AI Content in 2026 - Episode 145 · April 15, 2026 · 11 min
• Can You Rank Without Backlinks? (SHORT VERSION) - Episode 144 · March 25, 2026 · 10 min
• Trying To Build Backlinks? Avoid Linkfarms - Episode 142 · March 6, 2026 · 11 min
• Negative SEO (High Level - What It Does) - Episode 141 · February 25, 2026 · 15 min
• Answers To Reddit SEO Questions Rapid Fire - Episode 140 · February 11, 2026 · 29 min
• Why Are There No Good Examples of PBN Sites? - 139 · February 4, 2026 · 8 min