Elephas · B2C · AI assistant for Mac
Write a '18 best ChatGPT Mac apps' roundup for the exact niche you sit in
Ranked #1 with high-intent buyers; AI chatbots now cite it too
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What they did
Defined positioning the way customers see the market (ChatGPT apps > ChatGPT Mac apps), then found underserved, low-competition, high-demand queries in that niche and wrote listicles such as '18 Best ChatGPT Mac Apps Free and Paid' covering the apps built around ChatGPT at the time.
What happened
#1 on Google with high-intent traffic and conversions; ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity now reference the articles, sending buyers who purchase quickly. SEO overall drove ~$70K in 2023
- Stage
- growth
This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.
“Like, this is an example of an article we wrote: 18 Best ChatGPT Mac Apps Free and Paid. Essentially, it is a listicle where we are highlighting all the best apps that were being built at the time around ChatGPT.”
“We are getting a lot of AI traffic uh as well from here: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity.”
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