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John Rush

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647 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And you have to wait quite a lot for SEO to get in and to validate certain assumptions. But if you have 10 of them, then it's faster. So now, the next thing I do is, once I've built the directory, I have to promote it somewhere. So I do a few things. So the first thing I do, I go to Reddit and I search. I just search on Google, small business ideas, Reddit.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And you have to wait quite a lot for SEO to get in and to validate certain assumptions. But if you have 10 of them, then it's faster. So now, the next thing I do is, once I've built the directory, I have to promote it somewhere. So I do a few things. So the first thing I do, I go to Reddit and I search. I just search on Google, small business ideas, Reddit.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

When I do that, I will see all the Reddit articles about that. And then I go into those articles and I reply with my URL. Just have to be careful to not be banned. And to not be banned, you have to reply on articles where people actually ask for URLs. And there are articles like that where people ask, do you know places to find the ideas?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

When I do that, I will see all the Reddit articles about that. And then I go into those articles and I reply with my URL. Just have to be careful to not be banned. And to not be banned, you have to reply on articles where people actually ask for URLs. And there are articles like that where people ask, do you know places to find the ideas?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

When I do that, I will see all the Reddit articles about that. And then I go into those articles and I reply with my URL. Just have to be careful to not be banned. And to not be banned, you have to reply on articles where people actually ask for URLs. And there are articles like that where people ask, do you know places to find the ideas?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And then you put your URL, nobody's going to hate you for that. And there are a lot of articles like that. So for this particular thing, I found over 100 articles. It took me time. You have to search with different kind of queries. And then you don't have to just go into every article and reply right away.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And then you put your URL, nobody's going to hate you for that. And there are a lot of articles like that. So for this particular thing, I found over 100 articles. It took me time. You have to search with different kind of queries. And then you don't have to just go into every article and reply right away.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And then you put your URL, nobody's going to hate you for that. And there are a lot of articles like that. So for this particular thing, I found over 100 articles. It took me time. You have to search with different kind of queries. And then you don't have to just go into every article and reply right away.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

You just make a plan to make three replies a day or one or two just to not be blocked or banned by the Reddit engine itself because it has some rules for URLs too besides the subreddits. So that's number one thing I do. And that brings some traffic. And then the number two thing I do is I put my directory into other directories.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

You just make a plan to make three replies a day or one or two just to not be blocked or banned by the Reddit engine itself because it has some rules for URLs too besides the subreddits. So that's number one thing I do. And that brings some traffic. And then the number two thing I do is I put my directory into other directories.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

You just make a plan to make three replies a day or one or two just to not be blocked or banned by the Reddit engine itself because it has some rules for URLs too besides the subreddits. So that's number one thing I do. And that brings some traffic. And then the number two thing I do is I put my directory into other directories.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And that's probably the second best way to start on marketing because directories are big. And that's why the other directories might bring traffic to your directory. But it has to be relevant. So you have to find directories which are relevant. But again, you Google for them. And usually find them. And then the third thing I do is I go to social media and I start searching for the same question.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And that's probably the second best way to start on marketing because directories are big. And that's why the other directories might bring traffic to your directory. But it has to be relevant. So you have to find directories which are relevant. But again, you Google for them. And usually find them. And then the third thing I do is I go to social media and I start searching for the same question.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And that's probably the second best way to start on marketing because directories are big. And that's why the other directories might bring traffic to your directory. But it has to be relevant. So you have to find directories which are relevant. But again, you Google for them. And usually find them. And then the third thing I do is I go to social media and I start searching for the same question.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And then when I find the question there, I reply with my directory there, which works sometimes really well. if your directory actually helps to the original question. I had that when Fireship had this, what was that? He had this viral tweet about self-hosted software on Twitter. And I replied with my hosted software directory. And it was the most...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And then when I find the question there, I reply with my directory there, which works sometimes really well. if your directory actually helps to the original question. I had that when Fireship had this, what was that? He had this viral tweet about self-hosted software on Twitter. And I replied with my hosted software directory. And it was the most...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And then when I find the question there, I reply with my directory there, which works sometimes really well. if your directory actually helps to the original question. I had that when Fireship had this, what was that? He had this viral tweet about self-hosted software on Twitter. And I replied with my hosted software directory. And it was the most...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

viewed and like replied there and since his post was like a million views mine got like 30 or 40k views it was really good and and the interesting thing that many people don't know is that Google, they don't say so, but they do this. I know for sure. They look at backlinks from social media. And if there is a good tweet with a lot of views and there is your link there, it's so valuable.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

viewed and like replied there and since his post was like a million views mine got like 30 or 40k views it was really good and and the interesting thing that many people don't know is that Google, they don't say so, but they do this. I know for sure. They look at backlinks from social media. And if there is a good tweet with a lot of views and there is your link there, it's so valuable.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

viewed and like replied there and since his post was like a million views mine got like 30 or 40k views it was really good and and the interesting thing that many people don't know is that Google, they don't say so, but they do this. I know for sure. They look at backlinks from social media. And if there is a good tweet with a lot of views and there is your link there, it's so valuable.