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Hey SEO folks,

I’ve been working on SEO for my own small business website (local niche, service-based), and while I’m seeing good growth in impressions and clicks via Google Search Console, the actual leads/conversions are still super low.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

1. Fixed technical issues (indexing, mobile usability, Core Web Vitals)
2. Built out service pages + blog content targeting long-tail keywords
3. Improved meta titles/descriptions (based on CTR data)
4. Added schema markup (LocalBusiness, FAQ, etc.)
5. Optimized Google Business Profile regularly

Traffic is up. CTR is okay. But leads are trickling in slowly; It not matching the traffic growth.

My Questions:

1. What have you done to bridge the gap between SEO traffic and actual conversions?

2. Do you think I should focus more on UX/CRO at this point?

3. Any advice for someone trying to scale local SEO results into real business impact?

I’d appreciate any honest tips, even harsh truths. Just want to learn and improve. 🙌

Thanks in advance!

How on earth could we verify the answers in split second decisions? The answer can’t be we fully depend on it, redundancy is the gold standard. Airplanes, Spacecraft etc. all have redundancy.

The only answer is to have many AIs isolated answering the same thing and comparing (like the bitcoin network). Hopefully VERY fast and infinite transactions per second.

But this is time consuming, energy consuming. How do we solve this problem of Trust and Verifying?

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I’m finishing a bachelor’s in computer science with a linguistics minor in around 2 years, and am considering a master’s in computational linguistics afterwords.

Ideally I want to work in the NLP space, and I have a few specific interests within NLP that I may even want to make a career of applied research, including machine translation and text-to-speech development for low-resource languages.

I would appreciate getting the perspectives of people who currently work in the industry, especially if you specialize in MT or TTS. I would love to hear from those with all levels of education and experience, in both engineering and research positions.

1. What is your current job title, and the job title you had when you entered the field?
2. How many years have you been working in the industry?
3. What are your top job duties during a regular work day?
4. What type of degree do you have? How helpful has your education been in getting and doing your job?
5. What are your favorite and least favorite things about your job?
6. What is your normal work schedule like? Are you remote, hybrid, or on-sight

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Added questions about job titles and years of experience to the list, and combined final two questions about work schedules.

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share a new SEO update because this community has helped me so much. I posted here a few months back about taking SEO more seriously for my Boston-based video production company, and the response was honestly so kind that I wanted to post again with updated results and more gratitude. I also wanted to just circle back to shed some light on things that have been working really well for me in the last three months!

I’m now about 16 months into the real SEO grind – consistent blogging, optimizing titles and H1s, internal linking, structured data – all that good stuff.

Before I jump in, I do want to mention that I have some photos from Google Search Console below so that you can see the journey. Also, I know it’s not all about impressions – we’ve been booking a lot of gigs via google search and this all has lead to more clicks!

So back in March(ish) when I posted I mentioned that I was doing the following:

* Writing blog posts that got attention on google
* Building individual service pages for everything we do
* Using Google Search Console and GA4 to figure out what was working
* Fixing technical stuff in Squarespace
* Learning how to write and inject structured data. To be honest, I use chatGPT to help me write this code. I then take it to Google Rich Results and test it and go back and forth with ChatGPT to make sure it’s perfect.
* Internally linking like a maniac
* Getting every client to leave a Google review
* Asking other video production companies around the country to take meetings with me and learn more about who they are. If we think we’re a good partner to work together on something in the future we will both write a really detailed blog about one another for backlinks. I’m very careful about this and admit that backlinks are my weakest subject
* Updating our Google Business Profile weekly with posts and photos

Since then I have seen a lot of growth, specifically around May. This huge jump has made me wonder what I’m doing differently. I think I can credit the recent growth to the following:

* A **few blogs that have really hit it off** \- these are gear related blogs that have a lot of traffic. Are they potential clients? no but I think it is helping with authority!
* I have been **implementing schema code** on all our pages and every single blog I write!
* **consistency**
* **I changed my home page title** from “Boston Based Video Production | Bunker Hill Media” to “Bunker Hill Media: Video Production That Drives Proven Engagement” and I think this is helping with clicks. IMO, I love that title because it’s true!

I feel like I’m learning something new every day, especially when it comes to backlinks (still my weakest area). But this community has made SEO feel way less intimidating and way more collaborative!

I think the one thing I’m scared of a bit now is that I’m noticing I’m dipping in rankings. I seem to be staying right around the same place for what I want to be there for “video production in Boston” – right around 4-7 on google (up from 90th last year!). But working on keeping that up and improving CTR!

Thanks again for all the support xoxoxo!

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