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Stop publishing new blog content.
I see too many websites with 100s of blog posts that get no traffic.
Yet they're still publishing 4+ new posts per month.
If you already have existing content, do this instead:
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We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.
We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.
Here's how we did it:
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We took a website from 0 to 750K/mo SEO traffic using 100% AI-generated content.
- 7K total pages generated
- Hit 300K/mo after 6 months
- Hit 750K/mo after 12 months
- 4K+ keywords in positions 1-3
- 13K+ keywords in positions 4-10
Here’s the breakdown:
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We pulled off an SEO heist using AI.
1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap
2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles
3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI
18 months later, we have stolen:
- 3.6M total traffic
- 490K monthly traffic
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Update: 0 to 820K/mo SEO traffic with AI content.
- Traffic after 24 hours
- 300K/mo after 6 months
- 750K/mo after 12 months
- 820K/mo after 16 months
- 10K top 3 keywords in Google
Here's not only how we did it 16 months ago...
But how to do it even better:
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I built a website glossary in 2 hours.
- 530K total traffic in 7 months
- 80K/mo current traffic
- $3.09 per article
The easiest SEO project I’ve ever done.
Here's how I did it:
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- Go to Search Console
- Filter for the last 28 days
- Export your keyword data
- Filter keywords in positions 4-20
- Prioritise queries to increase ranking
Then find ways to better optimise for those keywords within your existing content...
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This is all AI content.
In just 5 months, the site has:
- 1.12M SEO traffic
- 33K conversions
Here’s how I did it:
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SEO has been dying since the early 2000s.
Some notable 'deaths' include:
- Web 3.0
- Google Ads
- Social media
- Voice assistants
- Featured snippets
- Zero-click searches
- Every Google update
And now ChatGPT and AI.
Here's the reality:
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2 weeks ago, I published my AI SEO case study.
I took a website from 0 to 750K/mo SEO traffic using 100% AI-generated content.
It got over 2M views on Twitter and LinkedIn combined.
And I received 100s of questions.
Here are the most common (with answers):
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You will get quicker traffic increases by optimising your existing content rather than creating new content.
Do that for the next 60 days and watch what happens.
P.S. I'm posting my full optimisation checklist here soon. Follow me to make sure you don't miss it.
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Having a successful online business is 80% not getting distracted by other online business ideas.
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Too many websites have 100s of blog posts with 0 traffic.
Before you publish new content, get more from your existing assets through content optimisation.
Here's my 25-step checklist:
(With visuals and examples)
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Social media glorifies:
- Exercising
- Drinking water
- Walking outside
- Eating good food
As 'tips and tricks' for living life.
In reality, they should just be the norm.
We shouldn't need Twitter to tell us.
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Small marketing budget?
Create content.
If you write 1 blog post/week
You will publish 52 blog posts/year
If each post averages 40 visitors/week
You will get 100K organic visitors/year
If 1% of your blog visitors buy from you
You will get 1K new customers/year
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We finally hit 1 million monthly SEO traffic using 100% AI-generated content.
- 7K total pages generated
- 1.07M current monthly sessions
- 9.2M total sessions since day 1
- 41K first-page ranking keywords
- New links from 1,648 domains
Here's how:
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What people think SEO is:
- Backlinks
- Technical stuff
- Keyword research
- Write lots of blog posts
- Green lights on Yoast plugin
What SEO actually is:
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1. Find a competitor
Which website ranks for the keywords you want to rank for?
- Brainstorm
- Use Ahrefs/Semrush
- Manually search on Google
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How we did it?
18 months ago, this was a totally manual process.
Today, there are tools to help automate 90% of the process.
Here’s how:
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I speedran SEO on a brand-new website starting from 0.
- New domain (1 day old)
- No existing website or authority
- Starting content and links from scratch
24 hours later, it had 45 impressions and its first click from a legit Google search.
Here's how:
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I've finally joined Twitter.
Here's my Q2 content strategy:
- 6 LinkedIn posts per week
- 13 single Tweets per week
- 1 Twitter thread per week
- 1 newsletter per 2 weeks
- 1 blog post per 2 weeks
How I'm going to do it:
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How I quit my 9-5 when I was 21:
- I learned SEO on YouTube
- I experimented on my own sites
- I reverse-engineered successful sites
- I built sites and monetised them
- I started selling SEO services
I was obsessed then, and I've been obsessed ever since.
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I pulled off an SEO speedrun that ranked a brand-new site in 24 hours.
- I bought a new domain
- I published 1,000 articles
- I got SEO traffic hours later
A world record? Let’s see...
Here’s how it played out:
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2. See their sitemap
To find your competitor’s sitemap, add the following to their domain:
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Go from low rankings to the top of Google with 15 minutes of work by optimising for featured snippets.
They don't get enough love.
I win roughly 90% of snippets and go from getting 5% of clicks to over 23%.
Here's my snippet-winning process:
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This website got to 200K/mo SEO traffic with AI content...
But then lost 25% of this traffic in 4 days.
Over 3 months, they recovered the traffic and are now getting 650K/mo.
Here’s how:
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For example:
- Write new sections
- Add to existing sections
- Optimise existing headings
- Write the featured snippet (if present)
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I helped a friend earn a full-time income through blogging.
Here's what we did step-by-step:
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My SEO agency has generated $10M+ for clients.
We run all our campaigns with 9 SEO tools.
Here's our complete SEO tool stack:
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How to get ahead of 91% of websites:
- Make SEO your
#1
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- Work in 3-month sprints
- Do the fundamentals well
- Learn and iterate like mad
Sprints of high output are how you blow past your competition.
Yes, SEO takes time.
But the work doesn’t have to.
Here's how:
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Old content marketing:
- Find high-volume keywords in your industry
- Write articles starting with the lowest DA
- Make sure your Yoast light turns green
- Post a link to the article on all socials
New content marketing:
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“AI content doesn’t convert customers...”
People say this a lot. So I ask if they've tried:
1. Product-led AI content
2. AI-generated CTAs
3. Content upgrades
4. Low-funnel topics
5. Landing pages
The answer is always "no".
So here are 5 ways I get conversions using AI:
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SEO = Writing
Emails = Writing
LinkedIn = Writing
Conversion = Writing
Master writing and you can master any channel.
It's the most important skill in marketing.
Practice daily.
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Many websites are sitting on 100s blog posts with low traffic.
But how do you get more from existing content?
Here’s my 25-step checklist:
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In 2022, I bought a website for $17,675.
A few months later, it was worth $64,750.
I worked on this project for less than 1 month.
Here's how:
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I have a friend who got 160,000 followers in 4 months.
So I asked him, "How are you growing so quickly?"
He responded with:
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I published 346 AI articles.
3 months later they've generated 123K SEO traffic and 641 conversions.
The best part?
This project is still incredibly early. Performance is currently growing by 50% week-on-week.
Here's how I did it:
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Results?
Using this process, we published 1,800 articles in a few hours.
Since then:
- 490K monthly traffic
- 3.6M total since publishing
- 13K keywords on page 1 of Google
The best part? We’ve taken that traffic from our competitors.
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"What do I actually want?"
I recently took a week off social media to 'zoom out' and think about this question.
I've been too ‘in the trenches’ and started losing sight of the bigger picture.
I found my answers in 4 simple steps:
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Most people don't know this:
Google works in 3 stages for every page.
1. Crawling
2. Indexing
3. Serving results
Here's what each of them means:
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Hot take: Google doesn't care about AI content.
We've been playing around with AI for over 2 years.
We're biased, but we find that Google cares much less than you think about the use of AI content.
Here's why:
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Managing a blog for 3 months will teach you more about SEO and content than:
3 year marketing degrees
3 months consuming blogs/videos
3 hours a day scrolling through socials
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How I create SEO content plans:
I flip the traditional content funnel into a pyramid.
This framework:
- Prioritises revenue
- Builds a content moat
- Earns backlinks naturally
- Scales organic traffic quickly
Here's a breakdown (with examples):
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I took a B2B blog from 1K to 120K organic visitors per month without creating new content.
- 90-day sprint
- 120K/mo in 180 days
- 100% content optimisation
Here's how:
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I've been writing content online for 8 months.
In that time, I've built:
- 85K+ LinkedIn followers in 8 months
- 6.5K+ Twitter followers in 5 weeks
- 24M+ views on both platforms
- 2x successful businesses
- 10+ person team
Here's how:
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7 months ago, I wasn't on social media.
- No network
- No audience
- No inbound leads
- No full-time team
- Low 6-figure business
Today:
- Solid network
- 76K+ total audience
- 25+ leads per month
- Team in 8+ countries
- High 6-figure business
The power of social content.
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After auditing 1,000s of websites for SEO:
- Multi-billion-dollar brands
- Popular SaaS companies
- Top ecommerce stores
- Large affiliate sites
And everything in between...
Here are the 12 most common issues found:
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Their sitemap shows a list of all the URLs on their website.
However, the URLs in the sitemap must be descriptive to get the
best results...
For example:
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Quick overview:
Website: B2B SaaS
Industry: Finance
AI languauge model:
- Started on GPT-3
- Moved to GPT-3.5
- Now on GPT-4
AI tool used:
It survived all recent Google updates.
In fact, it thrived.
Here’s how we did it:
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Try for yourself...
Sign up at to try this feature and get 5 articles for free.
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You're right, SEO is dead.
It’s too saturated.
It was 10 years ago, and it is today.
1,000s of people haven’t made £1Ms in the same markets from organic search.
Don’t start.
It’s not worth the investment or risk.
Just carry on spending £100,000s on paid ads.
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I run my 100% remote companies from a 16-inch laptop.
My small screen has opened up a big world.
We've been remote since day 1. We're based in 7 different countries. And I haven't met most of my team in person.
It's never been easier to make a living online.
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Power of a personal brand:
Need to hire?
1 post = 250 applicants
Need new clients?
1 post = 20 qualified leads
Need email subscribers?
1 post = 400 subscribers
Need product signups?
1 post = 10K new users
Real data.
Huge leverage.
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Most writers suck at blog introductions.
No one is Googling to hear about:
"The constant changes in the technological landscape"
"It's a common issue that many businesses face"
“Today’s rapidly changing times”
Here's what to do instead:
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4. Generate ideas
Using the list of competitor URLs, it’s time to generate article ideas.
Add the URLs from the sitemap into Byword’s Write From URLs feature and scrape the URLs.
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I skipped the Rolex and took my younger siblings travelling (for their first time) instead.
I sacked off the new Tesla and retired my mum from her corporate job instead.
I swerved the mortgage on a fancy London apartment and financially secured my family's future instead.…
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It took me 7 years and 1,000,000s in organic traffic to develop my current SEO playbook.
But I’ll give it to you right now, for free.
Here’s my 90-day SEO playbook:
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LinkedIn can ban your account.
TikTok can remove your account.
YouTube can delete your account.
Instagram can suspend your account.
But remember:
The same can’t be done to your website or email list.
Invest just as much into your *truly* owned assets.
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3. Export sitemap
Google “convert XML to CSV” and use one of the free tools to export the sitemap as a CSV file.
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Canva doesn’t make you a designer.
Ahrefs doesn't make you an SEO expert.
Buffer doesn't make you a social media guru.
Too many people use tools and call themselves experts without putting in the years of work.
Too many companies see tools as replacements for expertise and…
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Too many people overcomplicate SEO.
In reality, you can focus on 3 things and see success:
1. Build a website with a solid technical foundation that provides a great user experience.
2. Comprehensively cover the topics in your niche with written content that:
- Is…
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The best content marketing?
Content that doesn't feel like marketing.
- Entertain
- Educate
- Engage
- Inspire
- Excite
Don't just 'market'.
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I followed this exact process again...
(Just to prove it wasn't luck)
Published 45 days ago:
- 300+ pages
- 16K/mo SEO traffic
This is all AI content.
In just 5 months, the site has:
- 1.12M SEO traffic
- 33K conversions
Here’s how I did it:
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I'm an SEO provider and my company's website gets 173 organic users per month.
SEO isn't a priority in my marketing strategy.
Does that make me a fraud? Probably.
Does it reflect my abilities? Nope.
SEO just isn't the right channel for my company.
Here's why:
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4 years ago today, I quit my job with £315 in the bank and £2,500 borrowed from my mum.
I was working at an agency for £6 an hour.
I’d looked around and thought, "I could do a better job, managing fewer clients, whilst earning more".
So I quit the next day.
- No job (with…
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I've generated millions in traffic and revenue from blog posts.
Steal my top 15 blog title templates:
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3 years ago, I helped a friend earn a full-time income through blogging.
Here's what we did (step-by-step):
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5. Write with AI
Optional: Edit the suggested titles and headings for the articles...
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6. Publish quickly
Publish the content straight onto your website using CMS integrations (to save time).
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I've helped companies generate millions in traffic and revenue with blog posts.
My blog strategy:
- Generates revenue as a priority
- Creates a content moat
- Scales organic traffic
- Builds email lists
- Earns backlinks
Here's my 9-step SEO content strategy:
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SEO has changed.
It's crucial to not get left behind.
Here's old SEO vs new SEO:
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- Deep customer research
- Well-researched blogs
- Clustering and linking
- Understanding intent
- UX (site and content)
- Competitor research
- Query optimisation
- Crawl optimisation
- Great copywriting
- NLP optimisation
- Site architecture
- Market research
- Regular testing
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2 years ago,
@tylerxdixon
and I started living together 1 month after reuniting in our local nightclub.
We were:
- Just out of long-term relationships
- Not in the healthiest of lifestyles
- Complacent in our careers
1 year ago, I convinced Tyler to quit his corporate job to…
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Byword generates article titles and outlines based on the competitor URLs provided.
For example:
might get translated to:
A Beginner's Guide to Making Soup
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Stop publishing new blog content.
If you already have lots of existing content, do this first:
1. Go to Search Console
2. Filter for the last 30 days
3. Find keywords in positions 3-20
4. Write new copy for those keywords
Here’s how I do this in minutes:
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I'm convinced that writing every day for 60 minutes is the best habit you can develop.
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If you enjoyed this thread:
1. Follow me
@jakezward
for more
2. RT the tweet to share it with others
We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.
We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.
Here's how we did it:
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Successful SEO looks like:
- 120 new blog posts
- 60 high DR backlinks
- 500 AI-created pages
- 1,000% growth in traffic
But remember, it also looks like:
- Removing 3 cannibalising pages
- Improving a cluster’s internal linking
- Tweaking 5 titles for better targeting
-…
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Small marketing budget?
Create content and pay with your time.
If you write 1 blog post per week?
You'll publish 52 blog posts per year.
If each post averages 40 visitors per week?
You'll get 100K organic visitors per year.
If you repurpose into 5 social posts per week?…
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- Technical fixes
- SERP analysis
- Data analysis
- Lead capture
- Distribution
- Digital PR
- Branding
Green lights on Yoast don't get SEO results.
True SEO and holistic marketing does.
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Once ready, generate AI content for your final set of articles.
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This is all AI content:
Monthly traffic has grown 112% since the March 2024 Google update began.
Here's how we made it algorithm-proof:
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2. Choosing a scalable topic series
Find a series of topics with 100s of potential keywords to target.
Here are the main 6 we chose:
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You're right, SEO is dead.
It’s too saturated.
It was 10 years ago, and it is today.
1,000s of people haven’t made $1Ms in the same markets from organic search.
Don’t start.
It’s not worth the investment or risk.
Just carry on spending $100,000s on paid ads.
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The secret to ranking in Google?
It’s hiding in plain sight.
1. Google your target keyword
2. Analyse the results on page 1
3. Reverse engineer what’s working
Google is rewarding these websites out of 1,000s of pages.
Understand why:
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The best content marketing?
Content that doesn't feel like marketing.
- Entertain
- Educate
- Engage
- Inspire
- Excite
Don't just 'market'.
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Successful SEO looks like:
- 120 new blog posts
- 60 high DR backlinks
- 500 AI-created pages
- 1,000% growth in traffic
But remember, it also looks like:
- Removing 3 cannibalising pages
- Improving a cluster’s internal linking
- Tweaking 5 titles for better targeting...
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- 15% of searches are brand new
- Searches grow by ~10% every year
- There are 3.7B Google searches daily
- SEO is a $100B+ industry (and growing)
- Search engines and SEO will always evolve
- Search habits will take a long time to change
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8.5B Google searches are made daily.
But 99% of websites don’t get traffic, leads or sales from these searches.
Want to change that?
Use my 5-step SEO strategy:
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People don't have short attention spans.
They have short interest spans and need to be hooked quickly.
If they're interested, they'll give you their attention.
But you need to retain their attention by keeping them hooked throughout.
In short, your content can't be boring.
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I've outlined 1,000s of blog posts.
It's the most important step in the process to ensure your content actually ranks in Google.
Here's my exact process:
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Maths behind a $100K per year blog:
- $8,333 per month
- $278 per day
Monetised with a product:
- 3 new customers at $93 each per day
- 400 visitors per day at 0.75% conversion
Monetised with affiliate links:
- 56 orders at $50 each (10% commission) per day
- 5,600 visitors…
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LinkedIn can ban your account.
TikTok can remove your account.
YouTube can delete your account.
Instagram can suspend your account.
But remember:
The same can’t be done to your website or email list.
Invest just as much into your *truly* owned assets.
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Typical AI content is dull to read.
But what if you could train AI to write like you?
Well, I did. And it only took me 2 minutes.
Now I can generate 100s of articles in my (or my client's) tone and writing style.
Here's how:
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People think customers:
1. Read a piece of content
2. Buy the product or service
When in reality, they:
- Read reviews
- Read case studies
- Listen to podcasts
- Attend online events
- Compare all solutions
- Read 10+ pieces of content
- Talk to friends and colleagues
The…
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I built a glossary that now gets 70K/mo SEO traffic.
The best part?
It took me minutes to generate with AI (instead of months).
And it didn’t cost much (compared to $10,000s).
Here’s how you can do it too:
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