If you stop growing, you die: Lessons from my projects
Keeping momentum is the real game. With Find My Moat, I went from explosive organic growth to a plateau in November that forced me to wake up.
Itās been a brutal learning experience. I donāt operate on intuition anymore; now itās pure science.
š” The reality of Programmatic SEO
Iāve found that Programmatic SEO is the fastest way to scale, but thereās a catch: the bounce rate.
The mantra: If your auto-generated page is mediocre, users leave.
The solution: Technical quality. If thereās no real value on every URL, traffic is just an empty number.
š Product pivot: From visits to community
I had traffic, but I was missing the āglue.ā In the investing niche, nobody checks out tools every day without a good reason. The problem? People looked at two data points and disappeared. My response? Radical experimentation.
Iāve gone from āproviding informationā to ācreating repeat visitsā through:
- Voting systems and dynamic Tops.
- Stats pages (pure curiosity magnets).
- Rankings of quality stocks that provide immediate value.
š The goal: Massive value
My obsession now: scale visits while locking in retention. Iām no longer lost in the process; I understand the mechanics and know which levers to pull.
In the end, the market is meritocratic: the only way to win in capitalism is to provide more value than anyone else. And Iām just getting started.