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Rush: Google counts viral social media backlinks more than website links
“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. And in that particular case, it was like fifth or 50th time …”
Rush: Users will shift from Google search to curated directories
“So I think people will be outsourcing the decision-making for the content to the directories from Google, because now they ask Google, and that's becoming more and more relevant as we see that the top Search results of the Google are mostly dominated by all th…”
Rush: AI search engines will rely heavily on curated online directories
“So I think the directories will Eventually be really important for AI and the best directories will be chosen by AI to be used for the search results.”
Rush: Online directories sell between $2K and $100K depending on size
“So small ones go for two to five K and then 15 to 20 K the average ones. And then the bigger ones go to a hundred K. And I think that's where it stops. I never seen a directory being sold for over a hundred K.”
Rush: The indie hacker movement is doubling every year
“This movement was very small. Like it was very few people like three, two years ago, but I think it's doubling every year. Like I don't have the count, but my feeling that it's at least doubling and will keep growing just because we see that the access to buil…”
Rush: Sponsors can buy 100k views on X for just $300
“Like from my experience, it was like, you can pay 300 dollars and have a hundred K views on the post now on Twitter.”
Rush: Micro-influencer sponsorship prices have crashed from $1,000 to $100
“I was looking at that segment two years ago as well, and I was checking the prices and it was at least one K And they would guarantee maybe 30,000 views. And then I kept asking the same people price again every few months. And now it's way lower just because t…”
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.”