We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor. We got 489,509 traffic in October alone. Here's how we did it:
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We pulled off an SEO heist using AI. 1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap 2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles 3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI 18 months later, we have stolen: - 3.6M total traffic - 490K monthly traffic

Nov 24, 2023 · 12:47 PM UTC

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How we did it? 18 months ago, this was a totally manual process. Today, there are tools to help automate 90% of the process. Here’s how:
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1. Find a competitor Which website ranks for the keywords you want to rank for? - Brainstorm - Use Ahrefs/Semrush - Manually search on Google
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2. See their sitemap To find your competitor’s sitemap, add the following to their domain: website.com/sitemap.xml
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Their sitemap shows a list of all the URLs on their website. However, the URLs in the sitemap must be descriptive to get the best results... For example: ❌ website.com/t/1043423 ✅ website.com/how-to-make-soup
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3. Export sitemap Google “convert XML to CSV” and use one of the free tools to export the sitemap as a CSV file.
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4. Generate ideas Using the list of competitor URLs, it’s time to generate article ideas. Add the URLs from the sitemap into Byword’s Write From URLs feature and scrape the URLs.
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Byword generates article titles and outlines based on the competitor URLs provided. For example: website.com/how-to-make-soup might get translated to: A Beginner's Guide to Making Soup
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5. Write with AI Optional: Edit the suggested titles and headings for the articles...
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Once ready, generate AI content for your final set of articles.
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6. Publish quickly Publish the content straight onto your website using CMS integrations (to save time).
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Results? Using this process, we published 1,800 articles in a few hours. Since then: - 490K monthly traffic - 3.6M total since publishing - 13K keywords on page 1 of Google The best part? We’ve taken that traffic from our competitors.
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Try for yourself... Sign up at Byword.ai to try this feature and get 5 articles for free.
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Jake Ward
 @jakezward
24 Nov 2023
We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor. We got 489,509 traffic in October alone. Here's how we did it:
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