Stop Thinking in Keywords: Rebuilding SEO and Customer Acquisition for Global Markets
A strategic guide to moving beyond isolated keywords by understanding customers, intent, acquisition channels, content systems, and product-market fit.
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How to Get Positive Feedback Faster When Building for Global Markets
A practical playbook for AI entrepreneurs: choose promising markets, study proven operators, spot emerging opportunities, launch quickly, and build early traffic.
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19 Practical SEO Lessons from Gefei
Nineteen field-tested lessons covering keyword research, search intent, content structure, indexing, backlinks, site authority, and sustainable SEO growth.
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SEO from First Principles: Tools, Search Mechanics, and Global Growth
A first-principles guide to how Google discovers, indexes, and ranks pages, plus the tools and workflows that make SEO execution more reliable.
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From a Broke Student to Five-Figure Monthly Income: A Gen Z AI Entrepreneur's Journey
A candid account of learning to build websites, finding real demand, using SEO, and turning consistent action into a sustainable global AI business.
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From Vercel to Cloudflare: A Static-First, Edge-First Migration Retrospective for an SEO Content Site
A retrospective on moving an SEO content site from Vercel to Cloudflare Workers: trimming a SaaS template, exporting Next.js statically, routing at the edge, protecting SEO, validating launch, and keeping rollback clear.
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I Attended Gefei's Mid-Year Offline Meetup: An Actionable SEO & Going-Global Notebook
Notes from Gefei's mid-year meetup in Shanghai: getting valuable free traffic from search, pricing design that lifts average order value to $67, building and deploying sites fast with AI, plus hands-on SEO and backlink tactics.
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An Indie Hacker's Traffic Awakening: SEO vs Growth Hacking, the Math and the Engineering
A retrospective on a micro-site ranking experiment: linear SEO growth vs the exponential math of a viral K-factor. Two playbooks side by side, plus an interactive simulator at the end so you can move the levers yourself.
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March Contest Recap: 49 Sites, I Ranked 45th
My first time joining the monthly new-keyword new-site contest. I built a browser games site and finished 45th out of 49, with 211 UV and 363 PV. Low start, but plenty of room to grow — aiming for top 30 in April.
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Is SEO Dying? How One Indian AI Generalist Made $100K in 5 Months—and Doubled the Exit Multiple on the Next Deal
Notes from a podcast with Deepak, an Indian AI generalist: MicroSaaS exits, why SEO is at an inflection point, perception optimization, AI swarms, and how to stay relevant on the next internet.
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New Game Tool Site: First Week Data Review
From spotting a trending search term to launch on March 21st — a full breakdown of the first week: 844 GSC clicks, 39K impressions, 916 GA active users, and lessons learned.
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How to Minimize the SEO Impact of Domain Migration: A Complete Guide
Based on Wang Feng's talk at the 2026 China Google SEO & GEO Conference, this guide covers pre-migration preparation, day-of execution, post-migration monitoring, and the four core principles for minimizing SEO loss during domain migration.
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Rebuild Your SEO Thinking from Search Engine Fundamentals
Based on GeFei's talk at the 2026 China Google SEO & GEO Conference, this article explains how to build a systematic SEO framework by understanding the three essences: the internet, search engines, and SEO itself.
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GEO Case Study: How a New SaaS Brand Achieved 12K Monthly LLM Referral Traffic
A breakdown of Span's GEO playbook — SEO foundation, brand building, and LLM data source influence — showing how a new AI Face Swap tool grew from zero to 12K monthly sessions from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs.
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The "Small & Rich" Strategy: Capturing High-Value SaaS Users in Low-Competition Markets
A real-world case study from Pinhok Languages revealing the untapped growth opportunity in small-population, high-GDP European countries — where 4 tiny nations drove 40% of sales and 32% of profits.
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Not Last Place Gives Me Confidence: Notes from Feb & Mar SEO Competitions
Positive feedback keeps you going. A record of joining Gefei's monthly SEO competitions — from a late February sign-up to launching a site the same day, with real keyword research, site building, and link building lessons.
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SEO Summit Recap: SaaS Growth Strategies in the AI Era
My notes from the March 8, 2026 online SEO summit, where 6 speakers shared practical insights on ICP, GEO, Reddit marketing, and multilingual strategies for SaaS global expansion.
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GeFei SEO Notes: Beginner Starter Guide
A practical summary of GeFei's beginner framework: demand discovery, SEO execution, keyword validation, and a repeatable SOP for building tool sites.
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Backlink Scaling Playbook: From Low-Authority Volume to High-Authority Defense
A structured recap of Gefei’s community sharing: why game niche sites can scale with low-authority links early, and when to switch to higher-quality backlinks.
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Blog Comment Backlinks: The Right Way to Automate
A demo of semi-automated blog comment backlink posting, Gemini 2.0 Flash cost analysis, and why beginners shouldn't rush into automation — build the muscle memory first, then let AI help.
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What a 15-Year-Old Site Taught Me About SEO: Why Calendar Pages Must Be Built 2 Years Early
A breakdown of calendar-12.com's strategy: dynamic homepage year + prebuilt yearly landing pages + behavioral signal accumulation for rankings.
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Gefei Community Advanced Course Study Notes
Detailed notes from the Gefei community advanced course, covering demand mining, website development, domain selection, launch promotion, and operation strategies.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (7): Technical SEO
Technical SEO fundamentals, understanding crawling and indexing, quick wins, additional technical factors, and optimization tools.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (6): Link Building
Link building fundamentals, how to build links, what makes a good link, best link building strategies, and tools.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (5): On-Page SEO
On-page SEO fundamentals, optimization checklist, search intent alignment, title tags, meta descriptions, image optimization, and internal linking.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (4): SEO Content
SEO content basics, what makes good SEO content, and how to create content that ranks in search engines.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (3): Keyword Research
Keyword research fundamentals, finding keyword ideas, analyzing keywords, keyword grouping, and prioritization.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (2): SEO Fundamentals
Benefits of SEO, initial setup, keyword research, on-page SEO, link building, technical SEO, and free SEO tools.
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SEO Study Notes - Ahrefs Course (1): How Search Engines Work
Understanding how search engines build their index and rank web pages - covering crawling, indexing, and ranking factors.
