Digital Media Forum

I’ve been noticing that more people are using AI search tools instead of regular Google searches. Does that mean Generative Engine Optimization will become more important than traditional SEO? If that’s true, how should businesses and content creators adjust their strategy to stay visible in AI-generated answers in 2026?

I optimized my site using proper on-page SEO strategies, such as like adding relevant keywords, improving tags, creating quality content, and making the website mobile-friendly. But, my website is still not ranking higher in search results. I want to know what common issues prevent it from improving, also i want …

Hi everyone! I can not drive traffic on my website. The backlinks that I am creating are not indexing hence I am not getting any referral traffic as well as backlinks. Can someone help me out? Also how can I index my backlink on Wikipedia? Thanks!

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Is Github really help to improve AI visibilily?

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Digital marketing offers tremendous opportunities for small businesses to reach and engage with their target audience in a cost-effective and measurable way. Here are some of the ways that small businesses can benefit from digital marketing: (1) Increased visibility: With digital marketing, small businesses can reach a wider audience than …

Hi everyone, I have 2 brand new Facebook pages that I am trying to grow. Getting new followers, impressions, and engagement have been a bit challenging. Any tricks? Would really appreciate.

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I am an advertiser, and I need to put advertisements on my website to increase traffic. If there is a website that can sell advertising space, please reply or write to me privately, or leave your email address.

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Hindsight is always 20-20. What would you do differently if you started again?

Hello, everybody, I’ve been wearing the "ecom manager" hat for the past three years at my company, and to be honest, I feel like I’ve plateaued. I know how to handle the day-to-day stuff: keeping the lights on, the basics of pay-per-click, responding to customer tickets. But when I look …

Before some times ago Google shows 935 backlinks but now a days shows 681 for my site.. Kindly suggest me what can I do to improve the backlinks or any tools to check which backlinks are removed from Google....

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What is seo? what is the use of seo?

I have a few websites, having to do with carpet dealers, carpet installers and everything home decor. I get about 30-40 unique visits a day. Id like to get lots more. Any advice.

Many of us have tried to speed up a website and ended up breaking the design. Layout shifts, images lose quality, animations disappear…and suddenly the site looks nothing like what we built. Speed improves, but the visual experience suffers. I’d like to know how others balance both. Here are things …

I’m suddenly having issues regarding my Google Search Console -> Page indexing has it has 1.13K pages not indexed and 1 indexed. Therefore, what do the settings have to be so that all the pages are indexed? I’m not a guru on Google technologies and this interface so I must …

Of all forms of marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) provides what is widely considered the best return on investment (ROI) of any type of marketing. Organic searches are typically the highest intent prospects. This means serious shoppers, looking to buy. This is largely because consumers typically realize that PPC results …

Google said at today's Google Search Central Live event that a core update is in the works and coming soon, although not necessarily before the holidays. This is different than previous years where, best I can recollect, Google almost always rolled out a core update right at the beginning of …

What will the future secure for AI in Digital Marketing?

How does your site perform in Google Analytics and GSC? I hope you are fine sharing this info with us. It would be very helpful for people who are just starting out. For me, I get 1 sign up for every 100 unique visitor. And out of 1,000 I get …

How has technology changed the way you form and maintain friendships? For me, and I think for most people of my generation, phone calls have been replaced largely by text messaging. In depth conversations with real world friends is mostly done in person versus hours spent on the phone, and …

Random question after thinking about how people would post a question on DaniWeb, get an answer from volunteers, and then demand their question be deleted so that their teacher/employer/etc didn't find out they got help: What part of your digital life do you think your future self will regret the …

Digital marketing agencies play a crucial role in helping businesses navigate the complex online landscape. They offer a range of services, from SEO and content creation to social media management and paid advertising, all aimed at increasing brand visibility and driving conversions. I’m curious—what do others think are the most …

Hi everyone, I'm optimizing a Python scraper (requests + multiprocessing) handling about 500k requests/day. The main bottleneck right now is bandwidth cost. Most residential pools are $8+/GB, which kills the margin. I've refactored my rotation logic to be more efficient. Does anyone have recommendations for reliable residential pools under the …

I know how I feel about this as a publisher. However, as a *searcher*, do you like the Google AI overviews at the top of the search results? Or would you prefer things went back to the old school way they were years ago where it was just 10 search …

Hey there, fellow design enthusiasts! Today, I'm excited to share with you a game-changer in the realm of UI/UX design - it's called Figma, and trust me, it's a total game-changer! Picture this: you've got a brilliant design idea in your head, but translating it into a digital masterpiece can …

Will submitting links on blog comments box help the website to get backlinks and to improve whether it is blank link or anchored text link.

Is it just me, or are cookie consent banners just absurd? I now have to click a button to close a modal on *every* single website I visit. Also, why does GDPR privacy seem to only care about cookies so much? Cookies have existed since practically the dawn of the …

When I started DaniWeb, it was before forums were really big. I got in just at the right time. Forums and blogs dominated the early 2000s. How did we go from those days to just a handful of mega-platforms essentially controlling all discourse online? Do you think it's a good …

My understanding of Google core algorithm updates is that they are tweaks to the ranking systems that are used. This causes ranking fluctuations as the systems re-assess all indexed content in realtime. According to Google AI: > In essence, the data is continuously refreshed, and core updates are changes to …

Hi all I have encountered some difficulty while checking seo report of a site. Which is the best tool for exact tracking?

Which technique is better onpage seo or offpage seo

## Why Are IP Proxies So Critical? Social media platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok) use various methods to detect multi-account operations, with the IP address being one of the core fingerprints. **Avoiding Account Association:** If multiple accounts are consistently logged into and operated from the same IP address, …

Hi, I am avani and i am working as a seo and i want to know how to increase my site rank in Google ?

If I submit a temporary removal in Google Search Console of a folder that contains a ton of thin content, will that near-instantly reflect on the quality of my domain? Or do I have to wait for Google to recrawl all of the pages in that folder to find that …

Currently, when a member @mentions another member in their post, clicking on it opens a modal with all of the posts in that thread that were posted by the member being mentioned. I've been told by Google AI (a very trustworthy source, to be sure) that it's horrible UX because …

Google has gone on the record stating that if pages are noindexed long enough, Google will eventually stop crawling them, which means that all links on the page will essentially turn to nofollow. I would like to run a Screaming Frog crawl that excludes noindexed pages entirely so that I …

Out of curiosity, what percentage of your total URLs do you disallow via robots.txt? What percentage of your total URLs do you noindex? I've been struggling lately with whether to noindex member profiles and tag pages, and was wondering what other people were doing.

**Is it true that a java website faces much more page speed and core web vitals issues as compared to a wordpress website? ** I have seen many wordpress websites doing nothing on technical seo issues but having very good page speed whereas my website is a java website and …

Hi everyone I have a small WordPress website named *<Self-promotional reference removed>*. where I post job updates and results. Whenever many users visit at the same time, my site becomes very slow or sometimes stops working. Right now, I’m using shared hosting and a few basic plugins for speed. Can …

What are the new tools to increase the visibility of our website and genrate more business through Digital Marketing ? Which activity will improve the SERP max .... ?

What is the best way to fix this Google Search Console error: I've tried to tweak my robots.txt file, resubmited my sitemap.xml file and also checked that the site doesn't have any noindex attributes set on the homepage or inner pages as I customized the template for this to make …

In 2025, have become a game-changer for small and medium-sized businesses. Traditional SEO alone isn’t enough anymore — local targeting helps brands appear in map packs, voice search results, and localized intent-based queries. One of the most effective strategies we’ve used is optimizing Google Business Profiles, adding structured data, and …

Does anyone remember those old Usenet newsgroups? I remember I used to use Windows Live Mail to access some of the groups, although I forget which I subscribed to it's been so many decades! That was around the same time I started DaniWeb as one of the only online communities …

You may have noticed all of the work I've been doing lately on cookie consent banners, legal links in the footer of every page, etc. I recently received a couple of "right to be forgotten" requests from EU-based members. And that got me thinking: Why is the GDPR so far-reaching? …