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Real SEO experiments from founders. Organic search, programmatic pages, and ranking content.

6
experiments
$0–$1.5K
budgets disclosed
SEO
23K
google impressions per day, after
52.7K
clicks, whole chart
1.8%
average click rate, whole chart

Tibo ran his SEO tool Outrank on SuperX: Google impressions went from about 2K a day to 23K

Tibo · SuperX

Tibo turned on Outrank — his own AI SEO tool — for SuperX in November 2025. It did the keyword research, wrote the articles, got contextual backlinks and built some free tools. By September 2026 daily Google impressions had gone from about 2K to 23K. Signups and revenue weren't shared.

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SEO
70
domain authority
$20K
MRR when he wrote the playbook

Postiz's SEO: open source took it to 70 domain authority and traffic kept rising — but revenue didn't follow

Nevo David · Postiz

Nevo David built Postiz's search presence through open source — GitHub awesome-lists, open-source and SaaS directories, a daily AI blog post and free tools — reaching 70 domain authority. By August 2026 he wrote that traffic went “up and up and up” but revenue didn't follow, and he's moving effort to getting cited by AI assistants.

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SEO
7.3K
google visitors in 30 days
$0
spent
4
months

Slashit went from zero organic traffic to 7,300 Google visitors a month with 12 articles — led by a “Raycast alternatives” page

Mahmudul Hasan · Slashit

In April, Mahmudul Hasan's Slashit had zero organic traffic. By July it pulled 7.3K visitors in 30 days, all from Google, from 12 articles — with no ads, backlinks or outreach. The biggest page targeted a competitor's name plus the exact use case where Slashit wins.

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SEO
6%
comparison page click rate
$0
spent
4
months

AIToolsRecap: an explainer page got 398,000 impressions and almost no clicks; a comparison page one spot lower got 6%

Pat · AIToolsRecap

Four months after launch, with $0 spent on ads or backlinks, AIToolsRecap had 4.95M Google impressions but only 4,540 clicks. July alone brought 71% of all clicks, as comparison pages took over from explainer pages that Google answers in the results. One explainer: 398,000 impressions and a click rate that rounds to zero. One comparison page: 6%.

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SEO
1
google Ads trial signups
2
meta Ads purchases
$1.5K
spent

$500 on Google Ads, $500 on Meta, $500 on SEO: what GenPPT got from each

Ilias Ism · GenPPT

Ilias Ism split $1,500 three ways for GenPPT, an AI presentation tool. $500 of Google Ads produced 1 trial signup; $500 of Meta ads, 2 purchases; $500 of content and backlinks, 5,000+ visitors a month — most of it from one $100 blog post.

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