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AI-generated directory BestDubai ranked fourth on Google in under one month
“You type in Parker's Dubai reviews. We're like the fourth organic link right now. And I don't even think it's been a full month that we've been indexed in Google.”
AI site Guilty Chef outranks TripAdvisor for specific recipe search queries
“This is like a restaurant called Dishoom, the paneer tikka, for example, we're ranking number one on Google for this right now. You could take, so this is literally the first organic results. It's not sponsored at anything. If someone types in this menu item w…”
Legacy travel SEO funnels tourists to the same destinations and restaurants
“TripAdvisor ranks very highly on Google and Expedia ranks very highly. All of this like conglomerate monopoly of travel sites that have been around since our, you know, parents were our age traveling tend to get the most traffic. So what does that do? For trav…”
Rush: Listing trending items on directories captures early Google search traffic
“The next wave of growth comes from being early to list hot items on your directory, and Google will find nothing else on the internet to supply to the user who is searching for that, and Google will show Your item, your page for that.”
Wilkinson: I have completely replaced Google with Perplexity and ChatGPT
“I don't use Google anymore. Like for everything I go on perplexity or chat GPT now.”
Isenberg: AI will enable real-time 1-of-1 personalized ads on AR and mobile
“So it only makes sense that with AI that AI is going to make the ability to create one of one ads that are gonna show up on your glasses, on mobile, on, on web, in real time.”
Schneider: Citation strategy achieved Google Maps snack pack in 10 days
“Like we've seen it in like a week and a half go from like, it's not in that snack pack to it's in that snack pack.”
Schneider: Local SEO automated citation setup costs under $300
“Like you can, this whole thing I'm talking about, you can do for under probably, you know, 300 dollars. You can get started with this entire company.”
Rush: Outrank blog posts on high-traffic keywords by building curated directories
“And then you find a keyword that has high traffic. And then you search for that keyword on Google and only blog posts are shown on the top. That's the idea. Like you just build a directory around that and Google really likes directories and eventually you will…”
Deploying 100,000 programmatic Shopify landing pages increased organic traffic by 10%
“So my friend has this shop, she has like a 10,000 SKUs. And so we're like, all right, this, that Shopify thing I was talking about, let's just like throw up a 100,000 landing pages and see what happens. And we'll do some like auto indexing on the back, just li…”
Isenberg: Trimmed Google stock position to reallocate into Microsoft
“I had a bigger stake in Google and trimmed it a little bit. Roy, Royal Bank, and I trimmed it because of And put it into Microsoft basically.”
Postma: Target Keywords Under 10 Difficulty to Launch Automated Side Businesses
“Keep on typing in keywords of things that you might be interested in until you find a collection of keywords that has a keyword difficulty under 10, which means you should be able to go to the first page of Google. Build a product around that, that could be au…”
Bloom: Storytelling companies will outperform ad-arbitrage businesses in the coming years
“And so the businesses that are thriving and that are going to continue to thrive in the coming years are going to be the ones that actually have a story to tell and tell it really effectively.”
To: Google released design.md as a cross-medium design blueprint
“Google just came out with design.md, and this is one way to create a blueprint to take one beautiful design, Whether you made it or not, and then spread throughout the, all the formats and the mediums for your startup idea, right?”
Google releases Anti-gravity as direct competitor to AI editor Cursor
“Google has released something called anti-gravity. Anti-gravity is basically their cursor competitor.”
Kilpatrick: Gemini 3 is live in apps, AI Studio, and APIs
“It's available across a bunch of Google services like the Gemini app. If you're sort of looking for an assistant or the API for developers and enterprises, if you want to build this experience or build Gemini three into your own products.”
Kilpatrick: Google AI Studio directly hooks generated apps into Gemini API
“Behind the scenes for folks who haven't played around this experience before, we have sort of all the Gemini API, like all of Google's AI model infrastructure hooked up behind the scenes. So when you ask for AI features the model is like really well primed and…”
Kilpatrick: Gemini 3 Pro is free for app building in AI Studio
“You're going to be able to build apps using Gemini three pro for free in AI studio.”
Creators use picture-in-picture starting frames to direct Veo 3 camera pans
“There's weird hacks like that that you can do where you can put picture in picture to describe what you're wanting to like pan the camera over to, or if it was like a script Like a, if they didn't know what the Titanic looked like, you could put a picture of t…”
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Google's state-of-the-art image generation model
“We're talking about Nano Banana, AKA Gemini, 2.5 flash image, which is our new Gemini state of the art image generation and specifically image editing model which folks are loving and no pun intended going bananas for right now.”
Low latency in generation models unlocks previously unbuildable image editing experiences
“There's a lot of these like editing experiences or these generation experiences that you can't usually build just because like it takes 45 seconds and like our user is really going to sit there and wait while the thing is generating. So there's like a, there's…”
Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image costs roughly four cents per image
“It's also only like, I think it's like roughly four cents for an image to be generated too. So it's like You know, you can let people go wild, and you're not going to break the bank, which is really great. It's like a thousand images is 40 bucks.”
Woodward: Creators have stitched up to an hour of video using Flow
“I think flow, you can think of it as really for folks who might have a longer duration project. They may want to do something over several minutes, or maybe we've seen people do up close to an hour of stitching things together.”
Greg Isenberg: Searching Reddit for 'is there a tool' reveals unmet demand
“Search site Reddit is there a tool and then your niche, and then you're going to find users begging for tools that don't exist.”
Chowdhury: Predefine Webflow URL slugs with AI for accurate Google schema
“The reason I do that is because when you're doing your SEO, you want the slug to be, you want to know what the slug is so that you can, when you generate your schema, you actually reference the correct URL for Google. Cause you, it's difficult to create the sc…”
Rush: Google searches for 'business ideas' reach nearly one million monthly
“So business ideas is almost one million a month. That's a lot and competition low. This competition is, is about the ads. So people don't pay for the ads for this keyword.”
Courtney: AJ&Smart generated $270K on $86K ad spend in June
“We spent 80,000 dollars on ads in What month is this in June? So this is just a June page that's open right now. 80,000 dollars in June on Facebook ads 6000 dollars in June on Google and YouTube ads. So total ads. Oh yeah. Sorry. Total ad spend. So total ad sp…”
Isenberg: An enterprise AI agency client is worth $1M to $2M
“So we actually have an agency called LCA that literally builds the biggest AI products out there. So we'll work with like a Dropbox and be like, Hey, let's go build like an AI first version of Dropbox or the Googles of the world, that sort of thing. So a clien…”
Dorkin: BiggerPockets diversified revenue streams to protect against Google search penalties
“That's why we launched a podcast. That's why we built out a book business. That's why I did a conference in 2014, you know, by myself and the team now does one annually, but you know, and that's why we built memberships and things like that. Ultimately it was …”
Beshore bought his first business with zero capital using an SBA loan
“I called a local lawyer that I had at the time whenever I had the opportunity to buy my first business. It was very, I had no capital. I took out an SBA loan and I said, okay, so what do we do next? And he said, well, we needed a due diligence. So I literally …”
Isenberg: Google Attempted to Buy Path for Over $100 Million
“Path was tried or Google tried to buy path at one time. And I remember like, I think it was like a hundred million dollars or more.”
Chu: Scraping exact-match Google categories minimizes directory data cleaning
“Because we do have that exact match category in Google, we don't have to do too much cleaning.”
How Matty Mo Outranked Picasso on Google for 'The Most Famous Artist'
“He's literally the number one person that comes up ahead of Pablo Picasso, ahead of Rembrandt, ahead of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, these people. He's the first person. His name's Matty Moe.”