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SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic

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Re: SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic

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Post by LeonM »

diminish wrote: post #2

> done right, SEO can be a game-changer... SEO is still one of the few free ways to get customers. Any ideas how to best leverage it for startups?

It is definitely not free.

But the answer is, as always: it depends.

A good way to start is RTFM. Google has many guides on how to optimize your website for their indexing service.

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Post by Cenk »

diminish wrote: post #2

> done right, SEO can be a game-changer... SEO is still one of the few free ways to get customers. Any ideas how to best leverage it for startups?

From personal experience: Yes, correct markup and h1 tags etc (“On-Page SEO“) all matter. Set everything up correctly, that should take your frontend dev a couple days at most for a small to medium site. But that will do almost nothing unless it’s coupled with loads of backlinks. Get a tool like ahrefs or semrush (they’re expensive because they’re good, but a one-week trial is enough to take a look around in the beginning). There you can then see how many backlinks your competitors have and track your own rankings. Concentrate on 1-2 keywords in the beginning and fill your site with well-written content for those keywords, interlink everything on your own site, and then go get backlinks. Yes, you can buy backlinks on Fiver, but those are terrible and will probably do more harm than good. Make something good and get people to write about it.

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Post by philfrasty »

Would be great to see how this translates into actual $ for the business. Is this mentioned somewhere else? The high CPCs indicate that there IS some value. But in general some people/businesses can make a living with an audience of 100 and others not with an audience of 100k.

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Post by noelceta »

philfrasty wrote: post #6

Would be great to see how this translates into actual $ for the business. Is this mentioned somewhere else? The high CPCs indicate that there IS some value. But in general some people/businesses can make a living with an audience of 100 and others not with an audience of 100k.

That's super situational and really depends on the keyword you rank on. Can't give you the numbers, but yeah, the high CPC keywords are usually the bread-winners.

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Post by ec109685 »

dhruvkar wrote: post #4

>> Tallyfy, a SaaS startup based in St. Louis Ironically, I'm based in St. Louis, looking for business automation software for my company based in St. Louis and the only reason I know Tallyfy exists is because of this HN article.

It’s content marketing all the way down…
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