Link Building + AEO/GEO + Technical SEO for US Food Recipe Blog

I run a US food and recipe blog (thefoodieblog.com — 214 published posts, WordPress + Hostinger). I need an experienced SEO freelancer to handle authority building and search visibility across Google, AI search engines, and Google Discover. Current situation: - DR 0 (Ahrefs), DA 6 (Moz) - 256 backlinks, only 18% dofollow - Average position 30.3, CTR 1.7% from 9.9K impressions - Mobile LCP 3.7s (PageSpeed 84 mobile) - 64 indexed pages out of 214 published posts - Spam Score 4% — possible toxic backlinks - Zero Google Discover presence Stack: Yoast SEO Premium, WP Recipe Maker, LiteSpeed Cache, SEMrush. --- **Scope of work:** 1. Dofollow backlink building — guest posts + niche edits on US food/recipe blogs (DA 20+ minimum). Monthly outreach tracker included. NO PBNs, NO link farms, NO nofollow. 2. Toxic backlink audit + Google Disavow file submission. 3. Index coverage audit + fix — only 64 out of 214 published posts indexed in GSC. Identify and fix non-indexed + orphan pages, decision per post: keep / optimize / 301 redirect. 4. AEO + GEO — FAQ schema (4–6 Q&A) on 20–30 priority posts for Featured Snippets + People Also Ask. Rewrite key sections to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. 5. Google Discover optimization — hero image audit (1200px+, WebP), Discover-style title rewrites, E-E-A-T signals (author bio, author schema). 6. LCP fix — bring mobile LCP from 3.7s to under 2.5s via LiteSpeed Cache + image optimization. Must preserve Best Practices 100 + SEO 100. --- **Deliverables:** monthly backlink report, disavow file, index audit log, AEO/GEO optimization log per post, before/after PageSpeed scores. To apply: start your proposal with the domain of a food blog you built backlinks for + Ahrefs or Moz screenshot showing DR/DA improvement.