2 builders who never spoke to each other
Assemble the dataset the pages will run on
No data, no template. Pay a freelancer to scrape and clean the set rather than doing it yourself, publish it with your own computed extras layered on so the free version beats the source it came from, and watch for a competitor shutting down so you can rebuild what they abandoned. Withholding your data from search out of scraping fear costs more than it saves.
The method
- 01
If you do not already own the data the pages need, pay a freelancer to scrape and assemble it rather than doing it yourself.
- 02
Generate the pages with a no code CMS instead of building custom tooling. The publishing cost is small relative to the traffic.
- 03
Make the free public version of your data better than the source it came from by layering on your own computed extras, such as extracted topics, contact details and guest identification.
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Stop withholding your data from search engines out of scraping fear. A scraper only gets one snapshot, while your ongoing collection, extraction and updating stays out of reach.
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Watch for a competitor shutting down and rebuild the function they abandoned as your own free public offering. Podscan rebuilt worldwide podcast chart tracking after Chartable closed following its Spotify acquisition.
What it returned
- 350
A freelancer collected over 350 pitch decks, mostly from SlideShare, with the startup name, site, industry, funding amount and round for each.
- 429
429 pitch deck pages were built in Webflow over roughly three months and under 50 hours of work, and drew more than 30,000 organic users in the following three months.
Chartable shut down after being acquired by Spotify. Podscan rebuilt chart collection from Spotify and Apple across all languages and categories.
Sources
- Breaking my Own Rules – The Bootstrapped FounderArvid Kahl · thebootstrappedfounder.com · Breaking my Own Rules · 2024-12-20
- How We Get 97,450 Users/Mo with Programmatic SEONicolás Cerdeira · failory.com · 3) Collect Data · undated
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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