Keynejad built 500 landing pages and YouTube videos for SEO
Saba Keynejad · I Got Rejected From YC, Then Built a $200M Startup · May 7, 2025 · at 11:42
Saba Keynejad, co-founder of video editing platform Veed.io, discusses how he bootstrapped organic user acquisition through programmatic and brute-force search engine optimization.
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“There's actually about 500 of these search terms. So I built a landing page for every single one of those things, and then I'd record YouTube videos for every single landing page.”
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