@Paul Wise Did you start with some directory backlinks?

On the subject of YouTube + videos for Social Media, has anyone heard of "John Lee", or bought one of his courses? ... He's an asian guy from the UK. I saw an ad about him on YouTube in which he was interviewed by Vishen Lakhiani (M-Valley) and has a course on Mind Valley. ... Most ads just make me glaze over, but his conversation with Vishen stood out because of the way he explained how to make content so easily / rapidly. Could be very powerful "one thing" for some of you? Another John Lee interview "...the best KNOWN, beats the best": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBkkJbtu15c

I was only able to catch the end, but it was good. Thanks for hosting @Brett Dev @Mashrur Rahman

One of the interesting points raised at the end was the benefits of promoting on YouTube, finding your YTube 'niche', and a recent change to the YTube algorithm... This is something I'd like to hear more about!

@Nathan Von Fumetti Hopefully I will get my first sale very soon, which will resolve this. I can't wait.

@Brett Dev Re; your mention of border countries Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia... to you guys who already live in Thailand, when you leave the country and re-enter for visa reasons, where do you go, and are these places nice to visit? ... This could be good for a new thread 🤔

I think this is where I can finally say #MeToo ... ehem, referring to the SEO events of 2012 of course 😂 The trouble with SEO is your relationship with Google. If you are doing SEO, and especially if you are learning it from scratch (even through a course), you are playing chess AGAINST Google, not WITH Google. So, Google is always tweaking its algorithm to try and prevent you from scoring goals. So, it's like shooting at a moving target. It also requires incredible patience, timing your posts on you site to mimic organic behaviour. And technical understanding of Backlink building and how this works, with a bad backlink potentially ruining your site's ranking, and 1 powerful backlink built at just the right time, really boosting your traffic. The SEO pros I follow don't even have their important websites (like their client's sites) loaded into Google Console, so (i think) they can't even measure their traffic via Google, and have to use other means. Some of their sites were annihilated this year, but only the ones they publicly talked about on YouTube, resulting in a 'manual action penalty'... in other words, the Google algo couldn't hammer them, so someone at Google resorted to manually punishing them instead. It is for this reason that I am not (as of yet) providing SEO as a service + I do not want to even build a biz that relies entirely on SEO (like an affiliate website, or website with online ads etc)... However, I intend to hire an SEOer to boost a secondary site that will link to (drive traffic to) to my main site, so as to insulate me from potential damage should things go wrong with the SEO investment.