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Ever wish you could work with a $20K/month SEO agency? We're building something that gets you pretty damn close - from $200/month. SEO used to be pure gaming. Keyword stuffing, link networks, every trick in the book. One algo update and you'd go from champagne to ramen overnight. Nowadays you can't just hack your way to the top anymore. Here's the opportunity: Most SEO tools are built by people who've never done good SEO. They're automating a bad process. Shitty blog posts that you don't even look at, spam links, and not a clue what's working (if anything). Building this with @Nile - he runs a 7-figure SEO agency. We've both grown sites from thousands to millions of visits. Safe to say we know a thing or two. We're taking the $240K/year agency playbook - all the systems, processes, and special sauce - and building these into agent flows, powered by the best LLMs for the job (Claude, of course) I love a value-based offer that delivers real results. The kind where you can say "if it doesn't increase your traffic, get your money back." You get massive gains in search traffic, we get a small % of that value. Win-win. We're starting by using it internally. Then opening to closed beta. DMs open if you want to hear more.

It was just one outage. I think they're overreacting a bit.

Fantastic discussion @MarekEstok_SK, excited to find a way forward for our two glorious nations

It's always fun having one of our customers on our podcast. On episode 47, I had so much fun chatting with @Nile, founder and CEO of Masse SEO. I got to know Nile through one of our investors. In his work at Masse SEO, Nile and his team work primarily with scaling startups (think Series A, Series B). Like me, Nile got started in #SEO by building his own niche sites. Lately, there has been much talk about the death of niche sites. I asked Nile to tell me what he thinks about niche sites, helpful content, scaling content creation, and more. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about: - Niche Sites — Are they dead? Not so much. Nile shares his experiences building niche sites and tells us a little bit about his success with a new website. - Creating Helpful Content at Scale — Nile's team has grown in size over the last year. These days, he is creating a lot of content. Nile shares more about his processes for scaling content creation while maintaining a high quality bar. Also, Nile explains how to and how not to use AI tools along the way. - SEO in Competitive Categories — Nile and I chat a bit about building SEO channels in competitive industries. I'm thrilled to announce that @daverathmanner is coming back on the Optimize podcast. If you remember, Dave was one of our earliest guests and, as far as I'm concerned, one of the best in SEO. I'm particularly excited about this episode because we unpack Dave's recent analysis of websites impacted (and not impacted) by Google's Helpful Content Update and March Core Update. This episode drops on 5/1!

You have to understand Europe defines itself as the "other" of America. Thats their identity. If America has freedom of speech, than Europe must put people in jail for insults. If America has gun rights, Europe must completely ban guns. If America creates technology, Europe must regulate it. If America is a society where it is easy to become poor (or rich), than in Europe it will be difficult for it to happen to you

We made it! Today is @GoPositional's public launch day! Go sign-up! 📈 But in all seriousness, getting here has been a long road. We did a very hard pivot into Positional 13 months ago. We had spent two years building something that people didn’t want, and we decided to return to our roots… content, SEO, and inbound marketing. Since at least 2019, Matt and I have wanted to build our own toolset. We were tired of using seven separate tools to do our jobs. We wanted to connect the workflow from end to end, from keyword research to analytics, and the actions that users take that ultimately drive revenue for a business. With Positional, you can start, grow, and scale your inbound marketing and SEO strategy with a toolset optimized for results — not vanity metrics. Today, Positional has 11 core features. Of course, we have tools for keyword research and tracking. But we also have a number of really unique experiences and workflows for internal linking, content optimization, content analytics, and mapping buyer journeys. We have a lot of work left to do, but I’m proud of what we’ve shipped today. There are lots of thank yous. Thank you to my wife, Emma, who has been so supportive. I call Emma my mini-management-consultant (MMC). Emma has been here for a few startups. Being a startup-founder-significant-other is really hard. Lately, Matt and I have been working some insane hours. Thank you to Matt for being the best co-founder a guy could have. Thank you to my dog, Jasper, who, despite going on much shorter walks lately, has still been incredibly supportive. Our team, you guys rock. Post-pivot, things were a little crazy. But we stuck together. Our private beta customers, thank you for trying us and for signing up early. Many of you signed up way too early, but we’ve really appreciated your feedback, suggestions, bug catches, and patience as we’ve built Positional. We’ve got some wonderful investors, too. Shout out to @snowmaker, @bradflora, @ycombinator, @lachygroom, @briannekimmel, @pioneer_fund, @grinich, and so many others for giving us the opportunity to build Positional. Again, we’ve got a lot of work left to do. There are bugs still to catch and new products to ship, but we had to launch. If you sign up today, I’d love to hear your feedback. Plus, if you become a customer this week, you’ll get an awesome 3-pack of SEO-inspired hot sauces (“Link Juice”). Over the long term, we are working to build the toolset for inbound marketing and GTM. Onward! Get Started with Positional: positional.com/

Speechless what's happening in Europe Every day almost a new rule, a new ban on something, I don't know how this will end well? I used to be a big EU believer myself Finally time to become an 🇺🇸 American? I'd move to Austin, TX but it's too hot 🥵

Cancelling my £20 direct debit to the national lottery

“I'm sorry, Sam. I'm afraid I can't do that.”

Urgent memos are frantically flying around that remaining 8% of Fortune 500 companies right now

Will anyone stop the Spotify product managers?

Excited to share how @glideapps is bringing the capabilities of AI to businesses today! I wrote a bit about how we're thinking about bringing AI to Glide, what customers are building, and a peek at our upcoming native AI features: glideapps.com/blog/glide-ai

Mark Zuckerberg in shambles

when people say things like the jeff bezos megayacht fiance statue is tacky, that is a cope, and we don't do that here. everyone wants — and deserves — a statue of their lover on the prow of their megayacht.

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Working in tech you have to simultaneously hold the contradicting opinions that Engineers are the smartest humans on earth, and that they can’t do anything right without an instruction manual 😂

An AI-enhanced creator across multiple domains I’ve always been a fan of the idea of creating multiple things in different domains: software, writing, art, physical products, music, film.. you name it. But because of multiple reasons, so many of my ideas didn’t move beyond just being a nice idea. Now with AI being able to help with the work of producing content or a product... I feel I can restart many of my old ideas or start just as many new ones. Combine it with the fact that platforms like Twitter give you the chance to present your work to a global audience... And I’m very optimistic about the coming AI age. I feel this can be the most productive period of my life. — “Yes, but there is a giant competition and it is still a lot of grind..” Sure... Everything is a grind.. Working in the cubicle for a big company, swiping the floor at McDonalds.. But the biggest grind (in my experience) is just sitting, not deciding what to do and watching the others move.

Struggling to see why everyone is so upset over this Top 3 results are still the most important, and arguably are now more clearly displayed Next 3 results now likely to get more attention by people skipping the generated answer Much better.