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Handwrytten · robot-written handwritten notes

Hire one in-house writer to blog on searches like 'good luck messages'

~40K search clicks a month, but few become paid accounts

Mixedseocontent

What they did

No agency: one in-house writer produces blog articles targeting message-writing searches (e.g. 'best wishes / good luck messages') and category terms (ranks #1 for 'handwritten letter'). Posts have only a minimal 'get started' signup CTA at the bottom; founder admits conversion from content isn't optimized.

What happened

Host's SEO tool shows ~40K organic clicks/month, top post ~14K/month, DR 70+; conversion of that traffic to paid accounts is weak ('probably not enough')

In their words

Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M

Play from 10:48

… there's been talks about expanding into Europe, but the problem is there's so much opportunity here. I just don't need the distraction of dealing with Europe, you know? Well, go deeper on your inbound for a second, because, I mean, you have a very strong CO footprint. I mean, you've put this article out, best wishes, good luck messages. It brings in almost 14,000 clicks to the website on a monthly basis. Your overall domain rating is above a 70,

10:48

which is very strong, getting 40,000 organic clicks a month. Was this sort of SEO strategy? Was this tactical and specific? An agency runs this for you or you do it? We do it all internally. Yeah, I have a woman that writes articles. Because SEM doesn't work, We've gone the SEO route. Now we're going to start with social media advertising. We're doing a lot of social media posting, obviously, but now we're going to be doing social media advertising. So what have you done? This is your top performing post. 14,000 people hit this a month.

11:19

What have you done to optimize this, both to stay high in the rankings, but also to convert more people into a paid account? That's a great question that I don't have an answer to. Probably not enough. We do a lot on content marketing. We haven't done a great job converting it. If you go down to the bottom of that article, scroll up just a wee bit. I mean, there's a sign up here to get started today thing. I mean, it's really pretty minor. We probably could go a lot farther than we do with our blog posts. Yeah. I do want to touch on just inorganic growth for a second.

11:50

You rank, which is very impressive, number one for the keyword handwritten letter also brings in a lot of traffic to the firm. If we look at some of your competitors that rank below you and you were to have unlimited money and rolled these folks up. I mean, how big is the market? I mean, do you know, do you have a guess of what Penn Letters does in revenue and RoboQuill in revenue? Well, RoboQuill, I know, is based in the UK. So that would be an …

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Tags: google, in-house-writer, blog, evergreen-content, weak-conversion