Elephas · B2C · AI assistant for Mac
Buy Ahrefs for a month, list 30-50 easy keywords, publish 2-3 posts a week
Took revenue from $3K to ~$12K/month; ~$70K from Google in 2023
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What they did
Buy Ahrefs ($129) for one month and use its 500 credits for a quarter's keyword research: filter keyword difficulty < 20 and search volume > 500, check what competitors rank for, and list keywords across 30-50 topics. Start with 2-3 posts a week, scaling to 6-7. Use AI as a research assistant to outline what already ranks, then add your own insights, user data and tone ('net-new information'). Run NeuronWriter pre-publish checks; track in Google Search Console.
What happened
SEO took them from $3K MRR to ~$12K/month; ~$70K from Google in 2023
- Stage
- growth
- Effort
- Ahrefs for a month; 2-7 posts a week since 2023
This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.
“Uh this is what I used to do. Uh I used to buy Ahrefs. It was $129. It was a lot of money ba- for for us. Use the 500 credits to do keyword research. Make a list of keywords around 30 to 50 topics, and then go back and write out those blog posts.”
“If you're starting out, you can just start with like two or three blog posts a week, and, eventually, you can, you know, scale up to six or seven even.”
“So, uh SEO essentially uh, you know, took us from 3k to where we are now. We're at around 12k uh per month that we're doing.”
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