How UserPilot Scaled to 100K Clicks in 10 Months With Programmatic SEO (Emilia Korczyńska, Head of Marketing, UserPilot) [SEO Case Study]
Dec 14, 2022
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Emilia Korczyńska, Head of Marketing at UserPilot, shares how they scaled from 25K to 100K monthly organic visitors in just 10 months. They built efficient content operations, scaled production with programmatic SEO, and produced 29 long-form blog posts per hour. She discusses their challenges, adjustments, and the strategy of focusing on pain point SEO. The podcast also touches on unbiased comparisons, demos vs free trials, operational mistakes, and creating landing pages for tool descriptions.
UserPilot achieved triple growth in organic traffic by building efficient content operations and leveraging programmatic SEO.
UserPilot focused on creating content that aligns with their target audience's pain points and incorporates their product organically.
Deep dives
Scaling Content Operations for Rapid Traffic Growth
The podcast episode discusses how User Pilot achieved triple growth in organic traffic, going from 25,000 to 100,000 monthly visitors in just 10 months. This was accomplished by building an efficient content operation and leveraging programmatic SEO. Initially, they made the mistake of relying too heavily on individual skills rather than creating systems and processes. However, they learned from their missteps and developed a scalable approach by creating brief templates and organizing content into epics or clusters. Utilizing programmatic SEO techniques, they were able to create hundreds of blog posts by combining fixed elements and variables from databases. The podcast also emphasizes the importance of consistency, patience, and making incremental improvements for long-term growth.
Aligning Content with User Pain Points
User Pilot focused on creating content that aligned with the pain points their product solves for their target audience. They identified specific areas their platform covers, from user onboarding to product analytics, and targeted bottom to mid-funnel keywords related to these pain points. By providing valuable insights and actionable directions, they were able to organically incorporate their product into the content. They also emphasized the importance of unbiased competitor comparisons and helping readers make informed decisions.
Implementing Programmatic SEO for Content Scaling
User Pilot embraced programmatic SEO to scale their content production. This approach involves creating content at scale by using templates and databases. They developed templates for various types of content, such as comparing tools for specific use cases. By leveraging combinations of keywords and variables, they were able to generate a significant number of posts from just a few templates. Additionally, they adopted tools like Webflow and WordPress to automate and streamline the content creation process. Through programmatic SEO, they achieved exponential growth in blog posts and optimized their content for search engine results.
It took UserPilot three years to get its first 25,000 monthly organic visitors. And, just 10 months to get to 100,000.
Whaaaat?! Triple the growth rate. 🤯 How on earth did they...
Well, in short, they:
Learned how to build efficient content operations (scaling from 4 monthly blogs to 40)
Leveraged programmatic SEO to scale production even further
All without a drop in quality. Interesting. 🤔
This week, I talk to UserPilot’s Head of Marketing, Emilia Korczyńska to hear her story. It wasn't an easy journey. They made mistakes along the way. But from the flames of challenge, efficient operations were born.
UserPilot is now capable of producing 29 long-form blog posts per hour.
Per. F*ucking. Hour.
In this week's write-up, I deep dive exactly how they use programmatic SEO to do this without losing quality, and explain how you can do the same.
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