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Many SEO hacks out there can feel spammy, think private blog networks, fake guest posts, or questionable Fiverr gigs. That’s not my style.

I wanted a clean approach, one that I wouldn’t mind showing during a Google penalty audit. So, I created a small script that combines OpenAI with a custom database of startup directories.

Here’s how the system works:

1. I provide GPT with a concise version of my product description.
2. It rewrites the description based on the niche and tone of each site.
3. My script then automatically submits it to over 500 niche directories over a few days (with rate-limiting and randomness).

All links are live profile-style pages, nothing shady here. These are real listings on legitimate websites, like startup directories, AI tool aggregators, mobile app showcases, and more.

Some people may laugh at directory submissions, but that’s what helped me get indexed and rank quickly. There was no outreach and no content marketing, just quiet visibility.

The best part? I now launched [this tool](http://getmorebacklinks.org/) and offer this service to other SaaS founders as well. They simply fill out one form, and voilà—100+ live listings within a week.

Hi folks,

I run a (B2B/industrial) website that I built myself—call it “vibe-coded” with some programming chops + AI guidance.

**What I’ve already done (AI-assisted):**

* On-page basics: titles, metas, H1/H2 hierarchy, keyword targeting
* Internal link structure & topical clusters (at least a first pass)
* XML sitemap + robots.txt + Search Console setup
* Basic schema (Organization/Product/FAQ)
* Core Web Vitals fixes via Lighthouse/GSC suggestions
* Content cadence: a couple of blog posts/month, intent-focused, AI-drafted then edited by me
* Google Ads: set up campaign, negative keywords, conversion tracking, landing pages

**Time & Results:**

* \~2 hours/week on SEO/Ads combined
* Rankings: slow upward trend for core keywords (from page 3–4 to 1–2 for some long tails)
* Ads: acceptable CPC/CPA (for now), conversions trickling in

**The Big Question:**
What does a *good* SEO agency or consultant typically do that I’m *not* doing (or can’t replicate with AI + elbow grease)? At what point do I pull in a pro?

Not trying to self-promote—just genuinely want to understand the delta between “DIY + AI” and “pro-grade” SEO.

Thanks!

At my firm, everyone is currently focused on large language models (LLMs). For an upcoming project, we need to develop a machine learning model to extract custom entities varying in length and complexity from a large collection of documents.
We have domain experts available to label a subset of these documents, which is a great advantage. However, I’m unsure about what the current state of the art (SOTA) is for named entity recognition (NER) in this context.
To be honest, I have a hunch that the more “traditional” bidirectional encoder models like (Ro)BERT(a) might actually perform better in the long run for this kind of task. That said, I seem to be in the minority most of my team are strong advocates for LLMs. It’s hard to disagree with the current major breakthroughs in the field..
What are your thoughts?

EDIT:
Data consists of legal documents, where legal pieces of text (spans) have to be extracted.

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Thank you to the mods for continuing to support the bi-weekly job listings post.

As a reminder, these are not my listings. All applications must be submitted through the proper channels listed in each job description below.

[Sr. Technical SEO Manager \~ Gravity Global \~ Remote (UK)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/sr-technical-seo-manager-gravity-global/)

[SEO Manager (Technical, AI, Content) \~ Helzberg \~ Hybrid (Kansas City, US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/seo-manager-helzberg/)

[SEO & GEO Growth Marketing Manager \~ Firecrawl \~ $70-100k \~ Remote (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/seo-geo-growth-marketing-manager-firecrawl/)

[SEO Product Manager (ASO, AI, Content) \~ Pizza Hut \~ $122.1-160k \~ Remote (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/seo-product-manager-aso-ai-content-pizza-hut/)

[Principal, SEO & Generative AI Search Strategy \~ Chime \~ $146-207k \~ Hybrid, San Francisco CA (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/principal-seo-generative-ai-search-strategy-chime/)

[SEO Director (AEO, GEO, LLM) \~ Argano \~ $136-160k \~ Remote (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/seo-director-aeo-geo-llm-argano/)

[SEO & AI Search Director \~ Animalz \~ $100-140k \~ Remote (WW)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/director-of-seo-ai-search-animalz/)

[Search & Discovery Growth Manager (SEO, GEO, AI) \~ Johnson Outdoors \~ Remote (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/search-discovery-growth-manager-seo-geo-ai-johnson-outdoors/)

[SEO Manager (AI, AEO) \~ Vanta \~ $119-140k \~ Remote (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/seo-manager-ai-aeo-vanta/)%5BSr. ](https://www.seojobs.com/job/sr-content-marketing-manager-seo-ai-authentic8/)

[Lead Web & Organic Growth Strategist (AI) \~ Upstart \~ $130.8-181.1k \~ Remote (US)](https://www.seojobs.com/job/lead-web-organic-growth-strategist-ai-upstart/)

Remember, every eCommerce giant started small and faced adversity. The road is rarely straightforward, but each challenge brings a lesson. With persistence and patience, you’ll find your stride. Keep pushing, keep learning, and remind yourself you’re not alone on this journey. Let’s lift each other up and turn our shared struggles into shared successes.

I’m torn regarding disavow lists. On the one side, I think Google is good at identifying PBNs and sites purely created for ranking manipulation. On the other side, I feel that disavowing toxic links could not harm if you know what you are doing in terms of what domains you put on the list.

I would like to know what other experienced SEOs think regarding disavowing domains.

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

Hey y’all. The R9700 was supposedly launched yesterday, but I couldn’t find any reviews or listings online for it, outside of one company that had a “request a quote” button instead of an actual price. So I kept digging and found Velocity Micro’s blog post, which is from yesterday. I’ve never heard of them before, but they appear to be a well-established System Integrator/boutique PC builder.

In their blog post, they compared the RTX 5080 and the R9700’s AI Inference performance using Phi 3.5 MoE Q4, Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503 Q8, Qwen 3 32B Q6, and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B Q6. The results are shown in the screenshot above.

Now, I’ll freely admit I’ve been an AMD fan for a long time (RX590 with ROCm 6.3 says hi), but those performance figures are **heavily** biased towards the R9700. There are two big, glaring issues here:

1. No concrete tokens per second performance figures were presented, only relative performance uplift in percentage.

2. ALL of the models used in the benchmark don’t fit within the RTX 5080’s 16GB VRAM buffer.

That completely defeats the point of the benchmark lol. None of those models fully fit within the 5080’s VRAM, so God knows how many layers were offloaded to the CPU.

They don’t mention the price in their blog post, but I checked the custom build configuration page of their ProMagix HD150 workstation, and the R9700 adds $1500 to the build cost, whereas the 5080 adds $1710. So I suppose there’s an argument to be made about comparing the two, considering how close in price they are, but… the models chosen reek of dishonesty.

Oh, and as an aside, that’s not the only thing the post reeks of. It reeks of LLM-isms, like this one passage right beneath the benchmarks table: “The takeaway? For professionals running large prompts or full-sized models locally, the Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 isn’t just competitive—it’s transformative,” you know, with the classic “It isn’t just X, it’s Y!” But maaaybe I’m being just overly critical in this era of AI slop. idk lol.

I’ve just bought tickets for a round trip to usa via swiss airlines site but I can’t find an option to add passport details. Is it just not possible when you try to do it a few weeks before the flight?
the first flight is via Lufthansa and the flight back is via Swiss. I’d love to have every information added before the check-in so I won’t have to waste more time the day before the flight.

Hey r/Bitcoin, about a month ago I posted about trying to live off Bitcoin. Most comments called it dumb or said it wouldn’t work due to taxes and fees. I actually agreed, but I’ve found a simple solution that works for me. It’s not perfect, but here’s my plan to start. I will learn as I go and get better I am sure.

The Plan:
I’m using Strike’s Direct Deposit, Pay Rent, and Pay Bills features. 100% of my paychecks will be converted to Bitcoin on Strike. For expenses, I’ll use credit cards with solid rewards (for example Gemini’s 4% Bitcoin cashback or Prime/Chase for Amazon purchases). So in short I am spending USD that are not mine, and instead of paying off my cards every paycheck like I have been doing my whole life, I’ll simply do one payment monthly via Strike’s Pay Bills feature to minimize Bitcoin transfer fees. It won’t eliminate fees entirely but lower them quit a bit, and I’m fine with that. Once I hit a certain amount of Bitcoin on Strike I’ll move my Bitcoin to a cold wallet.

Having 12 payments a year(one a month) via Strike paying off cards, I can use their tax forms to easily fill out taxes. As for income/capital tax, it shouldn’t be much but even so it just means Bitcoin went up and I am beating inflation.

Savings:
I’m converting half my savings to Bitcoin now and the other half over the next 3 months. If this doesn’t work out, I can easily switch my direct deposit back to my bank and convert savings back to USD.

Why I’m Doing This:
With Bitcoin hovering around $117-120k, I don’t see it disappearing, and frankly it’s got too much momentum. I’m fed up with my hard earned money losing value and my investments barely outpacing inflation. I’m going 100% into Bitcoin over the next few months. I’ll either sink with the ship or sail to the new world! (lol that was so cheesy).

I wouldn’t normally share this info but I have been seeing more interest in doing this exact thing from a lot of people online, some friends, and some family. I hope my journey can help others who are interested and seeing what works and doesn’t.

As always I love the discussion and feedback. What do you think? Any tips or flaws I’m missing?

TLDR Using Strike and a cold wallet lol

I own a few dealerships in the tristate area and I am trying to figure out who the best firm / agency / freelancer would be to hire to to the SEO work for my agency.

The main goal would be to get to the top of Google for “car dealer near me” in the surrounding towns.

Thank You!