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FIXING MY SEO WITH 100 LANDING PAGES USING AI
Introduction to SEO Troubles
Every business that relies on organic traffic knows how devastating a sudden drop in rankings can be. For my SEO agency, the trouble hit when we took an ambitious approach — building hundreds of landing pages targeting major cities across the United States. It worked wonders initially. We saw a rapid rise in rankings, traffic shot up, and things looked fantastic. But then, things went south.
Google’s algorithm is smart, and when it figured out what we were doing, we were hit hard. Traffic plummeted, our rankings disappeared, and suddenly, we were in SEO trouble. This article outlines exactly what happened, the steps we took to recover, and how we rebuilt our rankings using AI tools, manual SEO strategies, and data-driven approaches. Hopefully, my experience can help you avoid the same pitfalls.
The Initial Problem: What Went Wrong with Our Website
Let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room: over-optimization. As a growing SEO agency, we decided to target every major city in the U.S. with SEO-specific landing pages. We created a template and scaled it for over 100 cities, thinking we could dominate local search results nationwide.
