Ecosystem Over Keywords


A company I worked with was acquired for $8MM.

And it was the easiest, and fastest growing SEO I've done up until that moment.

The company was a holding of two hot SaaS businesses that you've probably heard of: Tweet Hunter and Taplio.

I still remember that spring day of 2022, I got lucky when Tibo (the owner) asked me for help with their SEO.

I sent him a proposal over a Google Doc, he said "ok let's do it" in typical Tibo's way, and off we went!

When I got into their Slack I was blown away by all the high profile people that were in there.

Even though I was running my SEO agency alone, I got them to rank crazy high in no time.

Tweet Hunter had an impressive number of articles and programmatic SEO that wasn't doing much.

They had a complex way to upload content, but was almost impossible to increase content velocity because of it.

Their content wasn't connected, and definitely wasn't shooting at becoming a Topical Authority.

The rest, they had it:

  • Paid Ads
  • Newsletters
  • Brand mentions
  • Natural backlinks
  • Podcast mentions
  • Influencers' mentions
  • A network of influential people
  • An engaged Social Media following

So we've fixed their content structure, checked all the internal linking, increased content velocity and started experimenting with the famous "Free Tools"— which then became a standard in the SaaS industry.

When Tweet Hunter started flying we had a refined proven way to do their SEO.

It was repeatable, scalable, and best of all, it created an ecosystem for the users to thrive.

The nwe tried doing the same for their other SaaS.

Taplio went from 0 to 100,000s visitors per month in 4-5 months.

Two years later, these two projects were sold by $8,000,000. Crazy!

Since then I recommend the same to every Startup we work with:

Don't be a Keyword Collector.

Be an Ecosystem Builder.

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