All of the top 10 Google search results are third-party articles that link to my website.
However, my actual website doesn’t even appear in the top 40 results.
As a result, I’m losing sales — people keep telling me they can’t find my site directly.
The only current solution seems to be paying Google $5–$10 per click to show up in search.
I am not able to rank for my own brand name, it's not crowded. All the pages that are ranking from other websites (linkedin, facebook, x) are owned by me.