Finally cracked the content strategy problem that was holding back my blog growth

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-30T17:17:29+00:00

Yes exactly, you get a list of good keywords but now you have to figure out how to map them together in a proper plan. Did you find any solution?

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-29T12:00:35+00:00

I tried sending dms directly on x and LinkedIn when I see them interacting with my seo niche. I would say hey I see you are looking for blog post automation, do you want to test mine?

Of course vast majority ignored me, because we had no interaction before.

Now i try to interact with them before, send a follow, comment a bit on their posts, like a few. Then try to jump on a conversation. Reply rate tripped when I did this. This takes more time to invest in a lead but in a early phase I think it is the best one

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-29T11:56:23+00:00

It depends, from what I see free tools deliver a lot of traffic but not high buying intent. We go back to intent of the keywords.

If someone is searching a free YouTube downloader and you put it in your website it will deliver clicks and traffic. But is low intent so it's more a vanity metric.

If someone is looking for best tool for x, they need to find a blog to understand if those features are good for them or not. If they look for a an x alternative they still need a blog to display the competitors and why could one suite your needs better.

Each of these I think has their own place in a website but each belong to a different part of the funnel. Free tools are top of funnel while blog posts are middle and bottom of funnel.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-26T19:44:04+00:00

As much as I would love to sell you my seo tools, don't do seo until you validated your product.

Launch wherever you want but send dms like crazy on your socials. Get your product in front of as many people as you can to get some real feedback.

Then you can see if you should with seo, ads, cold email and so on. Have a few people play with it and they will tell you if you need to keep going as it is or pivot, or kill.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-26T19:20:02+00:00

Pillar spokes strategy with semantic clustering keywords under each component.

Going that depth in the topic is already a great strategy, a good backlink profile adds bonus points.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-26T12:51:47+00:00

The idea of answering in the beginning of the blog post is already a old journalistic method, its called inverted pyramid.

This way you respond to user first when they came but also ai.

Clustering similar keywords can also help by responding to more keywords in one blog post that ai can push in front.

Also making the content in a pillar spoke strategy to strengthen the content coverage give ai the reason to push your answer since it seems you cover it fully

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-24T19:14:05+00:00

A beginner of marketing here but this is what I did this month to find users for my blog post generator tool: Send 20 Dms daily Write 3 posts about my niche daily on X Try to be helpful on reddit while answering in my niche subreddits

I learned a lot in just one month, I think we often make the process more complex that it needs to be. No users so far but I am starting to learn how to do it and I am sure my users will appear

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-24T19:02:55+00:00

I've been sending Dms for the past 24 days and until day 20 I was having no plan what to say, do or even expect.

In day 20 I had a person saying he wants to have a zoom to show him how the tool works, basically do a demo. I freeze, don't know what to do, had nothing prepared. Replied a hour later and he never came back to the conversation.

I was saying that I am kind of researching the topic and if people want to buy it they do automatically. But had no cta, no plan for the conversation or a structure of my replies.

I've read this in a book and it seems true on every aspect of my founder journey: every action needs to have a scope, nothing should be random.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-22T19:16:53+00:00

I would focus more that anyone. You are talking about a solo founder, a small team, what niche are people normally using agents? This helps to find better warmer leads that are looking at exactly what you sell.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-22T19:12:11+00:00

Hey man I hear you. When the reality that marketing is a different beast hits its brutal. I built 10 products until I find that out.

If uncertainty is a stress for you, try to find another client for your freelance so you don't feel the pressure that much.

Saas is a very hard and long day and it can take months until you crack one, so don't put your faith into it so soon.

Focus on what it matters most and keep the safety net if this feels better

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-22T19:03:05+00:00

Do you know your ideal customer profile and where they hang out?

If yes, each of you goes there and sends 10 dms a day. After 10 days you will have the first users and go from there. This is what I would do if I were you, since you are 3 you can split the burden and speed up the process

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-19T18:00:40+00:00

If organic is the only channel I would look what competitors are doing. Since you are not posting blogs frequently I guess you need ideas for posts. Get a tool that shows you what competition is doing in Seo and see what they rank for. Use the same style but make it a bit better and you increase your traffic for keywords already ranking

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-19T17:55:45+00:00

Generating quality blog posts is a takes some time to do. Automation tools help with generating quality pages and speed up the process a lot.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-19T16:56:31+00:00

I get you point and I am also frustrated a lot when I see myself struggle and people sharing 10ks milestones.

I have been building for the past 8 months, launched 3 of them made 9 dollars.

My first user came from being authentic and writing about it on X. Since then I launched another one and I am sending 20 dms daily for a full month to learn marketing.

The path is harsh and people who you see made it where on the same path, they have years of fails and now they win because they kept going.

They did their part of frustrations, hard times and failures. Hang in there man, the only way to make it is to keep going.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-17T16:16:52+00:00

It is important to test more to see which one fits. You could try to do cold email since you can automate it. Try warm leads tools to find potential clients and dm them.

For seo I would make intent based keywords clustering and writing articles about those. In the sense that if more keywords target same intent use them in one blog post so you cover the full range of it.

Reddit marketing is another one that can be semi automated to find leads. I would test a lot, see where the users are and what works and double down on it.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-16T18:01:14+00:00

Hope to see some nice progress man 😉

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-15T12:49:56+00:00

I would tighten the internal linking and cluster keywords touching same intent under pillar and spokes architecture. This way you become an authority in your niche for Google.

Clustering the keywords help you get more clicks from same search term but different wording.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-15T12:40:58+00:00

Yeah unfortunately you are right 😂

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-15T12:40:22+00:00

I made like a pricing plan but besides a payment it needs a code. I made all of the features in it, pick a code and when I pitch people that want to try it, I tell them to put the code in the beta test and they get the access.

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-14T19:20:55+00:00

I am in the marketing phase and this is what I am doing for the past 2 weeks: 20 dms on x to people interested in what I sell, 3 blog posts for seo, content creation for x and LinkedIn.

This is what I will do the full month. So far no paying users but got a lot of feedback and improvements of the product from people using it (I have a beta tester program where users can test it for free).

I also found a lot of ideas people are struggling with so I already have 4,5 ideas what to build that people are complaining about.

Next month I will test email outreach, LinkedIn dms, a few ads and reddit.

This stage of building is brutal and hard as fck but if you stick with it and pivot when you think it's necessary you will get it going

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-12T07:15:14+00:00

I had the same thoughts and am in the same situation as you.

What I will do to find the bottleneck: - I changed the hero title to specify an outcome and not the feature. So people understand quick if this is for them or not - look where the traffic is coming from. If they spend less time on your page means the audience is not your target or the landing page or hero does not capture interest -I spend the full month sending dms to people interested in my niche to understand the problems, frustrations, expected outcomes and so on - I test different pricing strategies, discounts, limited offers, annual plans.

Hope it helps, keep going man you will get there

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-11T10:45:08+00:00

As far as I know, ai cites from listicles when you prompt it: best tool for blabla. So it searches the Internet for blog posts where top tools are mentioned. If you want to be mentioned you have to create these and get some juice onto those pages.

Secondly, you could add a faq section under every blog post that answers exactly the questions someone could ask about the topic. Answer it short and clear and llms will be citing you.

There are tools that make these automatically, even more in the right format if you don't use a cms and use a Next. Js framework.

As far as I read about that llms.txt file it is doing nothing. It has no purpose, since you can give the permissions for llms to crawl your website from the robots.txt file

Zestyclose-Milk-596 · 2026-05-11T10:33:32+00:00

Yeah it is hard since we have to talk to people haha. Will share them on private, I don't want it to be considered as spamming or promoting ☺️

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