
Aurelien Dio
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Aurelien Dio
@aurelien_dio
Built a €1M+ SEO Agency. Then lost years in VC hell. Starting over at 44yo in BKK 🇹🇭 Leveraging 20y of SEO to build better tools. App: https://t.co/UyKYM5gdDd (free)
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Very hard to answer just like that
Sometimes it's possible to recover the situation by clearing out all the pages flagged by Google and starting to create very high-quality content very slowly
Sometimes the domain is virtually dead in the short term, and you have to start over with a brand new domain because Google's trust is really low. It depends on the penalty on Google's side
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@aurelien_dio @onlinedopamine Any idea how to please google back when something like this happens?
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pSEO did, in fact, not make us generationally wealthy
you can see the spike when we added those pages, only for our site to instantly crash after
deindexed the pages around the red line period, instant upswing in clicks and impressions
creating all kinds of pages because you can will nuke your site if not done carefully - and this was a good reminder

Vik@onlinedopamine
pSEO will make us generationally wealthy
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OK, that's perfect. You can no longer re-index these pages. The URLs are dead. Google knows them, it knows their content which it has recorded in its graph, so if you try to get them re-indexed, they won't be
Ultimately it's a good thing if they weren't converting anyway. However, if they're just deindexed (with Meta robots tags or X-Robots-Tag headers) but still accessible to crawling (not blocked from crawling in robots.txt file), I'd advise you to delete them and redirect their URLs with a 301. Or, if you have no backlinks pointing to them, you can also make them respond with a 410 (gone) status. The rules in the robots.txt file are not always followed
If they are only deindexed, they consume crawl budget. Even deindexed pages can still be crawled by Googlebot. It will keep visiting the URLs. So it's better to make them disappear
And for your new clusters, I'd also advise you to be patient with backlinks. Google also monitors the rate at which backlinks appear and their source. It's better to wait a bit before building backlinks. Let the pages rank slowly on their own, and then send backlinks after the pages have had some time to exist
Always the same principle. A brand new site doesn't get hundreds of backlinks immediately as soon as it goes live. That's "normal" behavior. Any behavior that's too fast, "abnormal" in Google's eyes, will be scrutinized and can be penalized
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@aurelien_dio I may have said it incorrectly or omitted but we will keep these de-indexed cause they won’t convert anyways. And yes, following that exact strategy with a new page cluster we are currently building (and will send external links to soon)
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@PaganArtifact @JamesIvings @vercel I mainly use @Hetzner_Online (DE) on my side, but also from time to time @Scaleway (FR) and softshellweb.com (UK)
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@JamesIvings @aurelien_dio @vercel What do you guys use, and what are you paying? Just curious to compare. Been wanting to take an on-prem back to cloud
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@Pauline_Cx Thank you Pauline! I’m going to give myself the means to make it happen 💪
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@aurelien_dio Yeah!! No doubt you'll get clients on next ones ☺️
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People are asking me about my next moves
I no longer have a job or freelancing clients. I'm 100% on my runway now
And the first thing I'm doing is... cooking a free tool
Sounds like a terrible strategy
But here's the thing. I did a lot. I ran a SEO agency for 13 years and 2 VC backed SaaS for 6 years
But I've never shipped a product by myself. I'm not a developer
So before I go after paid products, I needed to answer one question: can I actually ship something people want to use?
Turns out I can. 150 visits on SnappyName so far. It works, and people are using it
Now I know I can do it. Paid products are next
And by the way, free for users doesn't mean there's no money on the table. I'll show you how in the coming weeks

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🚢'ed new feature
Live Activities now can have a button to open any URL or trigger a webhook
ActivitySmith@ActivitySmithHQ
New: Live Activity Action Button - Jump from the Live Activity to any URL - Trigger a backend webhook to pause or retry work activitysmith.com/changelog/2026…
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@bardonadam Thanks Adam! A great adventure awaits us on the indie hacking journey 🙂
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@aurelien_dio Just the way everything is, but also a field through which I can quickly check a name that just popped in my head based on the results

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Thanks a lot Val! Really happy you like the tool. Yes, I'm going to add affiliate links. It wasn't planned at first, but I need to cover the server costs, etc. So it makes perfect sense
You mean, a field where you can just enter a domain name that you've already identified yourself?
I was already thinking of creating a page with a field where you can copy-paste a list of domain names and check their availability in bulk. Would that match what you're looking for?
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Awesome tool man! I can see myself using it. And the affiliate model makes total sense for something like this. In addition to the suggestions based on the prompt, it would be cool to have a field where you straight up search for the domain name. I know you can do that with the actual registrar, but they're clunky and "while I'm here, I might as well continue my search..." and you get the affiliate drip.
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💯
My last VC-funded SaaS (dead now) started as 100% freemium
We racked up 6,000 free users before even launching paid plans
28 free users converted
Conversion rate: less than 0.5%
Alex Napier Holland 🦍@NapierHolland
I've worked with 100+ startups. Free users do NOT become paid users. Why did anyone ever assume they would?
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No, I couldn't have coded the projects entirely myself. I was running an SEO agency and I only knew a little Python. Nothing on frontend side. So I would have had to learn, which was entirely possible, except I didn't have the time. And now I have the time to learn to code, but it’s faster to use AI
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@aurelien_dio yes but you could have coded the other projects yourself right?
imho if you can learn how to code with AI you can also learn without it
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@jakeh2792 Thanks Jake. Yeah, I've been grinding a lot these last few days!
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@guillermocarone Thanks Guillermo! Yes, I'm happy because it's finally working 😄 Getting domain availability this quickly isn't easy. I grinded hard before I managed to get it shipped
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@aurelien_dio Love the facial expression on the video when the results show up! 😆👏
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