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From stuck to soaring: A Siftr SEO success story

Food bloggers reading Siftr are seeing real SEO gains. 📈
Here’s one story to prove it:

Screenshot of a food blogger’s fall 2023 - summer 2025 Semrush domain overview; shared with the food blogger’s permission
The Siftr subscriber behind this food blog (👆) graciously agreed to tell all, and share their success story with you.
How’d this site do it?
They fixed their site’s link spam issues.
After reading this Siftr newsletter about how link spam hurts recipe sites, the food blogger put Siftr’s reporting into action, and got results almost immediately.
“I have/had many link groups on my site that have always bugged me. I am a vegan blogger who was adding links for pork (WTF! I have not eaten pork in 36 years!)
Once I read your article, I started removing them [the link groups]. While I have many more to remove, it seemed as though, within 48 hours, things started to take off.
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Even better, now that there is an upswing, after 4.5 years of working my butt off, I finally crossed the 50K mark. Fingers crossed, Raptive accepts me.”

Screenshot of the food blogger’s Google Search Console account annotated by the food blogger indicating when they removed / fixed link spam on their site
❗️ Spoiler alert ❗️
The food blogger was accepted to both Raptive and Mediavine (🎉🎉):
“After 4.5 years of struggling and a fight to recover from HCU, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been accepted into both Mediavine and Raptive. I watched so many throw in the towel during HCU. Seeing this graph from SEMRush I am proud I stuck it out!
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I am super excited. As someone whose organic traffic dropped from 42k visits a month to 9k during HCU, it was a tough fight back. But to see myself hitting 60k and joining Raptive feels like a major victory.”
Seriously, we love a Siftr-powered SEO win! 💛
If you’re ready for SEO insights that work and inspire, become a Siftr subscriber.
Your SEO success could be the next one we share!

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