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Insight
Walling: Relying on Google SEO is riskier than technical infrastructure dependencies
“So the reason I have this as number six is that if bubble 10 X their pricing or had a big outage, you could rebuild that. And if you're hosted on AWS or using SendGrid or using WordPress, you can rebuild it. The risks are there, but they're lower than if you l…”
Rob Walling Oct 15, 2024 ▶ 21:22 Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
Opinion
Walling: WordPress has shown it is an aggressive, unfriendly platform
“Given that WordPress has shown that they are going to be aggressive, not making themselves out to be a friendly platform right now.”
Rob Walling Oct 15, 2024 ▶ 17:27 Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
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Vollset: Acquirers discount SaaS valuation multiples for WordPress-only businesses
“At least last year or two, it's been the case that like a B to B SaaS business Which usually selling for some sort of an ARR multiple gets discounted if it's a service, it's a business that serves WordPress clients, you know, exclusively.”
Einar Vollset Mar 16, 2021 ▶ 30:42 Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
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Walling: Ranking in WordPress plugin repository is easier than Google search
“It's not that hard to rank high in the WordPress repository. There's just a little bit of WordPress SEO. That algorithm is not, it's not as complex as Google. It's not actually that smart.”
Rob Walling Nov 18, 2020 ▶ 6:56 Episode 523 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Entrepreneurship for Kids, Common Bootstrapper
Opinion
Rob Walling prefers WordPress over Squarespace for blogging and podcasting
“I still think WordPress is better for blogging and for podcasting because of the serial nature of it and just how many good plugins it has.”
Rob Walling Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 28:05 Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
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