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Can I learn SEO on my own?
Posted by on January 11, 2026 at 9:29 pmThe great Matt Diamante recently made a TikTok, saying that he got around 1400 clicks in a couple of days, by only using AI content, AI images, and a few internal links in 2026. A statement SEO dreams are made of.
It must be stated that he has a DR 57 website, with 9000 visitors per month, according to Ahrefs. He clearly has a lot of Topical Authority on SEO.
So, from an E-E-A-T point of view, there are only a handful of people on the planet who can speak to SEO as well as he does. He has hundreds of TikToks, courses, videos… and even now wrote a book called "Get Found: The No-Fluff Guide to Ranking Higher and Becoming Your Customers’ First Choice".
I scyscraped his content on this page, and created a similar post, based on his previous advice, where he often promotes looking at what your competitors are doing, and improving on that. One of the best improvements in my post is that I mention other SEOs to learn from, like David Quaid, Edward Strum, and The Grumpy SEO Guy…
So my question:
How many links would my new DR 29 website, with 600 visitors per month, need to outrank the HeyTony website, on this 1 keyword?
What can I, if at all possible, do to rank number 1 for this keyword?
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I don’t know why but I don’t trust him and his advice. not for any particular reason but he’s just not part of those I trust. David and Edward I do trust
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The fact that he uses Ahrefs to report “9000 visitors per month” is enough I have to hear to trust his knowledge on SEO.. xD
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If you want to rank faster quit worrying about third party vanity metrics.
It’s not going to be a number of backlinks it’s going to be dependent on the authority, via Google not third party metrics, on the web pages that link to you, but any link will help despite what third-party metric says so just start exchanging backlinks.
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