Local Rank · B2B · local SEO software
Turn what your agency knows about local SEO into a software product
$20K MRR at launch; about $50K/month a year later
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What they did
After the content sites collapsed, took everything learned from years of local SEO agency work and built Local Rank, selling to the same SEO audience he reaches on YouTube.
What happened
$20K MRR right after launch; $454K in its first ~12 months
- Stage
- 2024-2025
This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.
“So, I decided to take everything I knew from local SEO, and we built Local Rank.”
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