Most SEO Communities Are Garbage

Technical SEO focus, well-moderated, experienced members. When you have a real technical question, this is where to ask. Discussions about crawling, indexing, JavaScript SEO, Core Web Vitals, and actual implementation challenges.

Q&A site for webmasters. Technical SEO questions with expert answers.

LinkedIn's course platform. SEO and marketing courses with certificates.

Forum dedicated to local SEO. Google Business Profile discussions and help.

WordPress caching plugin. One-click performance optimization.

Community and events for women in technical SEO. Mentorship and networking.

Community for bootstrapped founders. Good for SEO case studies and growth tactics.

Launch platform for new products. Can drive traffic and backlinks for tools.

Growth marketing community. Case studies, experiments, and tactics.

Growth marketing community. Case studies, experiments, and tactics.

For enterprise and agency SEOs. More strategic discussions, industry news, career talk. Good for people working on large sites or managing teams. Less beginner questions than r/SEO.

The general SEO subreddit. High volume, mixed quality. Lots of beginners asking basic questions. Occasional good discussions, but lower signal-to-noise than specialized subs. Worth browsing, but r/TechSEO and r/bigseo are better for learning.

Google's Search Advocate is active on Reddit. Following his profile shows his responses to real SEO questions. Direct from the source.

The premium SEO community. Founded by Nick Eubanks and Matthew Howells-Barby. High-caliber members, exclusive content, and actual practitioners sharing real wins and losses. The price filters out tire-kickers. Worth it if SEO is your career.

Moz's community forum. Used to be more active, but still has good archived answers. Worth searching for specific questions. New discussions are less frequent.

The OG forum. Been around since the 90s. Less active now but has serious history. The Google-focused forums still see discussion during algorithm updates.

Used to be a thing. Now mostly internet marketing spam, WSO promotions, and people selling courses to each other. The quality collapsed years ago. Avoid.

One of the larger Facebook SEO groups. Quality varies wildly. Some genuinely experienced members, but also a lot of noise. Moderation is decent. If you're already on Facebook, worth joining. I wouldn't join Facebook just for this.

Not a single community, but a loosely connected group. Real-time algorithm update discussions, industry news, and hot takes. Build your own list of quality follows. Start with Google's Search Relations team and work outward. Mute the obvious grifters.

Several SEO Slack workspaces exist. Most started strong and slowly died as key members left. The pattern: launch with excitement, peak in year one, ghost town by year three. If you find an active one, great. Don't expect longevity.