Many startups see SEO as an attractive traffic channel - it's a powerful way to get free traffic that grows and scales over time. However, there's a catch: many founders give up on SEO when they don't see quick results.
In this article, I'll share how we launched AI Video Summarizer Noiz.io and reached 103,385 monthly visitors from scratch in just 5 months - and we're still growing.
Here's our data from the last 30 days, showing organic sources only, excluding paid traffic.
Our main traffic sources are Google, Bing, ChatGPT, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo. We also get traffic from social media as part of our brand-building and organic social strategy, including Facebook, Twitter, and direct/none traffic from TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat, where we promote through viral reels.
The US accounts for our largest traffic share (12%), with Tier 1 countries making up about 42% of total traffic.
In this article, I'll break down our strategy: what we did, how we did it, and how much we spent.
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Hi! I'm Dmytro Tymoshenko, CEO of Eightify - the first YouTube summary tool on the market. We decided to launch a new project a few months ago. Our goal was to build it specifically for search traffic and create a more cost-effective user acquisition channel than paid advertising.
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Choosing the right domain is crucial for SEO success, especially when aiming for quick results.
New domains typically rank poorly for 6-12 months, and accelerating this process is expensive and labor-intensive. Our experiments showed that aged but empty domains (domains that someone bought and held without using) perform just as poorly - even if a domain shows as 10 years old, it won't perform much better than a new registration.
Key criteria we set for quick results: