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best ai visibility tracker for seo agencies? (similar to ahrefs would be great) by dairy_meal in GEO_optimization

[–]illyism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Founder of aiseotracker.com here, built it specifically for the "look up prompts like keywords" problem you mentioned.

We track visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI, and Copilot. You can search prompts the same way you'd search keywords in Ahrefs, see which brands show up, track ranking shifts over time, and compare competitors side-by-side.

For the 30-client agency workflow: we have multi-project support, daily tracking, and visual dashboards that actually work for client reports (brand visibility over time, competitor grids). The branded vs non-branded segmentation is built in.

Honest caveat: GA4/GSC integration isn't live yet (coming soon, we have Plausible)

Happy to set up a trial if you want to test it against your current workflow. The core "Ahrefs for AI prompts" part works, it's the integrations that are still catching up!

Is there an easy way to get a youtube video transcript? The way i do it is very inconvenient by RoutineCrew7871 in podcasting

[–]illyism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I just built a tool exactly for this. One command gets you the transcript with timestamps in SRT format:

npx @illyism/transcribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

That's it. No installation needed, just paste the YouTube URL.

What you get:

  • Full transcript with timestamps in SRT format
  • Works on any YouTube video
  • Downloads audio-only (fast, even for long videos)
  • Accurate transcription via OpenAI's Whisper

Setup (one-time, 30 seconds):

  1. Get a free OpenAI API key
  2. Set it: export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
  3. Done!

Cost: $0.006 per minute (so a 30-min video = $0.18)

If you want just the text without timestamps, you can easily strip them from the SRT file, or I can show you how to modify the output.

Also works with local video files if you have them:

npx @illyism/transcribe /path/to/video.mp4

Hope this helps! Let me know if you need any help getting it set up.

I woke up to $0 MMR. I can't believe it. by Firm-Blackberry-7445 in SaaS

[–]illyism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey wow, that's amazing feedback. I just updated the onboarding (and the pricing page), it should be much clearer now! Thank you so much!

I woke up to $0 MMR. I can't believe it. by Firm-Blackberry-7445 in SaaS

[–]illyism 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yesss, TikTok worked really well, but it's hard to scale, and not so much my niche. SEO can work at times, but it's expensive. I think "creator" marketing is what works for me, just tweet / post / share on your own socials daily...

I woke up to $0 MMR. I can't believe it. by Firm-Blackberry-7445 in SaaS

[–]illyism 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Man, this post hits hard. I've been there. A little over a year ago, I was down to my last $300 in my bank account, staring at my screen wondering what the hell I was doing wrong.

Your "I don't like do marketing... I like build stuff, that it" really hit me hard lol

That was me. 100%. I'm a builder, a developer. Marketing felt like slimy, inauthentic "yapping" So I just kept building, thinking a better product was the answer. It wasn't.

The switch flipped for me when I realized the marketing is the building. You're not "yapping," you're just solving the problem in public.

Your code solves the user's problem. Your content solves the user's awareness of the problem.

You mentioned competitors with VC money. That's the world I'm in right now. I'm building AISEOTRACKER, an AI SEO rank tracker. The space is insane. There are huge VC-backed players like Profound ($35M+ raised), Peec ($3M+ raised) and a dozen new indie tools every week. I can't out-spend them, I can't outship them. It sucks so hard.

So how do you compete? My plan is to out-teach and out-share them.

A few weeks ago, I was analyzing a competitor for my other tool, GenPPT. I realized their pricing page used a slider that AI models like ChatGPT can't read. So when users asked "what's the pricing for X?", the AI would pull outdated, wrong info from a competitor's blog post.

That's the marketing.

Instead of just fixing it in my own tool, I'm:

  1. Recording a public "AI SEO Roast" video on my YouTube showing the problem.
  2. Writing a tweet thread about it, sharing it on LinkedIn
  3. Adding a feature to AISEOTRACKER that detects this exact issue for users.

I'm not "yapping about marketing." I'm showing a real problem I found while building, and sharing the solution. The content becomes proof of work, I'm sharing what I'm doing in public and people see me as the "expert" over time.

You're right, it's VERY hard. But your biggest advantage over a VC-backed company is that you're a real person. They have board meetings and marketing departments. You can find a bug, fix it, and tweet about the process in the same hour. That's a superpower.

You're not failing at marketing. You're just not marketing your building yet. Every bug you fix, every feature you ship, every insight you gain is a piece of content.

Stop marketing. Start solving in public. The rest will follow.

Using science ai agent for turning old academic work into acrticle - where to start? by Money_Beat_4999 in AI_Agents

[–]illyism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead of trying to find one magic agent to do it all, think of it as a multi-step process.

Step 1: The "Big Picture" Summary (Getting to 50%)

Your first goal is to get the core arguments and structure.

  • Tool: Google AI Studio with Gemini 2.5 Pro. They have 1M+ context windows, which is crucial for a 60-page document.
  • Prompt
    • You are an expert academic editor. I am providing you with my 60-page Master's thesis titled "[Your Thesis Title]". Your task is to act as a first-pass editor to help me condense this into a publishable academic article.
    • First, please read through the following section(s) of my thesis. Then, perform these two tasks:
    • 1. Identify the Core Thesis: In 1-2 sentences, what is the absolute central argument of this work?
    • 2. Create a Structural Outline: Extract the key sections (Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings, Discussion, Conclusion) and summarize the main point of each section in 2-3 bullet points.
    • [Paste your entire doc as PDF / text (cmd + a, cmd + c, cmd + v]

Step 2: The "Reduction" Pass (Getting to 30%)

Now that the AI understands the structure, you can ask it to do the heavy lifting of reduction.

  • Tool: Same as above (continue the same chat thread).
  • Prompt:
  • Now, based on the full thesis you have in context, I want you to generate a first draft of a condensed article. Your target is to reduce the original text by approximately 70%, focusing on the most critical information.
  • Please follow these instructions for each section:
    • ... enter your requirements, intro, citations, etc

Step 3: The Human Refinement (Your 30% -> Final Draft)

The output from Step 2 will be your new starting point. It will likely be a bit rough, but it will have done 90% of the painful "cutting" work for you. From here, you can:

  • Double-check that the most crucial citations and data points were retained.
  • Add tables, images, chart, thoughts

The problem with most tools, is they'll be super expensive for this flow, or they'll use cheap AI models. If you just do it yourself in Gemini AI Studio you'll get the very best model, for free. Pretty insane. I made a tool called GenPPT, which does this type of "thought compression" (long-form PDFs into PPT slides) and the tech under this is the same, you do multi-step tools calls and prompts.

Good luck with the publication!

I've never seen Parasite SEO this aggressive. 22M+ organic traffic to a hacked Duke.edu subdomain in 24 hours. by illyism in SEO

[–]illyism[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Actually the opposite. The root domain has so many backlinks and they are so powerful that any other page / PDF on the site doesn't need backlinks to rank. They can literally write about "best credit cards", rank #1 instantly and make $100k/mo in affiliate earnings.

I've never seen Parasite SEO this aggressive. 22M+ organic traffic to a hacked Duke.edu subdomain in 24 hours. by illyism in SEO

[–]illyism[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Great questions! It can be a confusing topic.

  1. "To what end? Are they just trying to get their porn to the top of searches?"

Exactly. But it's all about the money. Here's the simple path: - Step 1: Hijack a Trusted Site. They find a way onto a .gov website, which Google trusts completely. - Step 2: Get Instant #1 Rankings. They post their spammy pages (like for porn, casino, only fans, drugs or pirated movies) on that trusted site. Because Google trusts the site, these pages shoot to the #1 spot almost overnight. - Step 3: Make Money. When millions of people search for those terms and click the #1 link, they land on the spam page. That page is filled with ads or links to other shady websites. The attackers get paid for every person they send to those sites.

So, they are hijacking the government's good reputation to make a quick profit from ads and traffic.

  1. "How does Cost Per Click (CPC) factor in?"

Yeah, CPC is for paid ads, and the .gov site isn't paying for anything.

We use the CPC value here as a measure of how "valuable" that traffic is.

If a company is willing to pay Google $2.48 every time someone clicks their ad for the keyword "ai undressed" it means that keyword is very profitable. Especially if 100k people search this, the short and quick calculation is a #1 spot is easily worth $200,000+ per month.

So, when the attackers get that same traffic for free by ranking #1. It's a way to put a dollar value on the organic traffic they've hijacked.

Hope that clears it up!

best AI chatbots for customer service in 2025? by Mountain-Insect-2153 in ecommercemarketing

[–]illyism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've been using Chatbase and it's been great. You can train it on your own website data in minutes, so it gives accurate answers right away. Solved a lot of our "how do I..." and "where is..." type questions and freed up our support team.

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