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What’s the fastest website fix you’ve seen actually move the needle?
Posted by JobsWonMarketing on January 17, 2026 at 6:56 pmNot talking long-term strategy — talking quick wins.
What’s the fastest technical fix you’ve seen actually improve performance?
robots.txt
indexing issues
heading structure
canonical problemsGenuinely curious what others have seen move the needle fast.
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WebLinkr
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:09 pmNone of these? Why would a robots.txt accelerate your growth?
You need to focus on PageRank – which is fundamental to SEO (Google SEO Starter Guide)
[SEO Starter Guide: The Basics | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide)
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peterwhitefanclub
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:23 pmRemoving a noindex has led to hundreds of thousands of visits in one day!
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coachvhuynh
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:26 pmI took on a new client where their site wasn’t ranking for anything.
I removed the Disallow: / from their robots.txt and the noindex tag on their pages. The last agency/dev company pushed those to production and no one cared to check for it
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BusyBusinessPromos
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:30 pmbacklinks with your keyworded anchor text
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WebsiteCatalyst
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:37 pmNo 404s.
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0_2_Hero
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 8:37 pmFor AI search, I made review modal component, it just aggregates reviews from many places and links out to them. I placed it as the 2nd node in the HTML.
This change alone made one of the clients I work with show up 1# in AI search for related terms.
Only caveat is you have to have good reviews and review volume
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bkthemes
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 9:07 pmOn-page SEO is still the best and fastest way to move the needle.
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khrissteven
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 9:22 pmNot a fix, but probably one of my fastest, quickest and money’est SEO wins came from publishing a super-competitive affiliate post on a DR 93 site that ranked instantly in less than an hour.
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KulshanStudios
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 9:42 pmSubmitting a sitemap and updating everything with schema markup worked a treat
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GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 9:43 pm[removed]
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PirateCareful3733
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 9:51 pmUsing Google Ads instead…🙂
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[deleted]
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 10:51 pm[removed]
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shodan_reddit
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 11:49 pmRedirect to prime domain
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HerroPhish
GuestJanuary 17, 2026 at 11:55 pmLanding page speed
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SoItGoes007
GuestJanuary 18, 2026 at 12:19 amSpeed
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