Brian Dean: Exploding Topics blog gets 650,000 monthly visitors
Brian Dean · 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics · Sep 4, 2024 · at 5:52
Brian Dean discloses traffic numbers for Exploding Topics while explaining why he actively looks for automated content maintenance software.
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“The Exploding Topics blog got big, you know, with, you know, we got like, 650,000 visitors a month, and I'm thinking how, and we're hiring all these people to update, and I'm just like, how can we automate this?”
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