Jerad Maplethorpe
@Maplethorpej
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Hypertxt ⇨ Create content designed for visibility & growth. Husband • Dad x3 • Minnesotan • Generative Artist • Builder
Minneapolis, Minn.
Joined April 2009
Final thoughts on the @outrank_so controversy 👇 Tibo, Eugene and Outrank customers have clarified that the "Article created by Outrank" backlink only applies to trial accounts. Evidently there is a large disclaimer indicating that this will be added to articles. Great. Clever
Another gripe with @outrank_so 👇 Outrank is exploiting its customers by inserting a link pointing back to Outrank in every single article. Just Google "Article created using Outrank" They are systematically manufacturing a massive backlink profile by cheating their customers.
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TLDR don’t waste your time building AI visibility tracking tools
- “Tim, what does @Ahrefs think of all these new "AI visibility" tools popping up this year?” ^ you can imagine I get this a lot. (Once it even came from someone working at one of these tools.) Well... Here’s my honest take: Right now, these tools are mostly competing with
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LEGENDS FESTIVAL 2025 Final streaming on Dec 23 at 14:00 UTC! Tune in for a special performance and the reveal of a new character!
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Unpopular opinion Indie hacking isn’t about money at all. It’s about status. You could make more money with less effort with a regular, high-skilled job. This is why most indie makers want to be influencers: they’re searching for status and meaning, not necessarily money.
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I’m building up two existing long-term projects in 2026 and putting one on “autopilot.” I’m done building AI tools. They’re neat but will get consumed by the big platforms in time. I’m going to focus on products that deliver value without AI. It’s a bizarre concept in this AI
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Surfer just published a study that should worry anyone tracking AI search visibility. They ran 2,000 tests comparing API-based data vs. scraped results from ChatGPT and Perplexity. The findings? API results and what users actually see are completely different. Most AI
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Opused the sh*t out of the rest of the marketing site Can’t really imagine switching back to Sonnet 4.5 (although it is good enough for most tasks)
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Is anyone having success with @tinyadz_? I love the concept but even the “Engaged Clicks” aren’t translating to visits in my analytics software.
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Thousands of first-time homebuyers purchased a home this year thanks to our HomeReady® mortgage. Find out how.
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Oofta You see a product like Outrank come along and think it must be onto something. Then you realize what it’s actually selling is DA, backlinks. It’s a backlink exchange network. The kind that is explicitly prohibited by Google I’m glad its customers are seeing results but
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Your auto-blogging tool might be putting your long-term strategy at extreme risk. Building your DA with a manipulated backlinking strategy ALWAYS gets hammered by Google eventually. Private Blog Networks (PBNs) & Backlink Exchange Networks are the same thing 👇
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It took me 2 months to hit my first $100 MRR. Nobody cared. It felt slow, painful, I almost quit. Then suddenly… It only took a few days to reach $1,000 MRR (after one video went viral) Early stages aren’t about making $$ They’re about learning, iterating, and finding
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Low upfront cost and predictable monthly payments for your solar and Powerwall.
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Auto-blogging platforms create the worst AI images. These tools tanks brands even though they “generate traffic.” If you’re using AI to create content, at least take the time to edit articles and place your own images. You’re better off publishing less content at a higher
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If I knew how to properly sell domains, I wouldn’t pass any up. Unfortunately I tend to buy them and completely forget I own them until exp
Saturday night. Shipping, finally. And so tempted to buy a bunch of new domains. How do you fight this?
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.@lilyraynyc curious to get your honest assessment on whether or not Hypertxt is the best AI SEO writing tool you’ve ever used (or just yet-another AI writer) 🤘
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🚨 VICE Magazine Is Back! 2025 marks the glorious return of VICE magazine to print, marking a new golden era of weird and wonderful reportage in a totally messed-up world. Subscribe today from $2/mo.
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Businesses always have their own best interest in mind. This is nothing new, just a new modality. LLM providers could easily identify that the domain is associated with the #1 product being recommended and disregard the result.
If you think AI tools are ethically shady, you have a moral duty to check out @ahrefs research from last week showing how to effectively spam your way into AI mentions with self-promotional "best of" lists 👇
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If you want something done right, put Opus 4.5 on it.
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Just added a Keyword Research tool to Hypertxt. Now you can 👇 - Get related keywords - View search volume - Gauge difficulty - Analyze the 12-month trend - Generate content ideas - Create content targeting keywords You get 50 free keyword research credits, so go try it out 🤓
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With all the latest murmurs about people switching from ChatGPT to Gemini, it might be a good time to share this friendly reminder that those same old spam policies that applied to SEO also apply to Google's evaluation of the sites it references and cites in AI search (Gemini, AI
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You can't honk a spare tire. Might as well put something useful there!
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Indie hackers rely on 1) growth flywheels 2) SEO 3) time VC-back companies rely on 1) paid ads 2) massive marketing campaigns 3) immediate traction or pivot Don't pretend to be what you're not
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Late nights or early mornings. When do you prefer to work?
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