I have some big personal news: Detailed has been acquired by Ahrefs. 🎉
I'm also super excited to be joining the company to work on marketing and product.
A few months ago Tim Soulo invited me to speak at their upcoming conference in San Diego, Ahrefs Evolve.
I brought up an idea I hinted at on the Ahrefs podcast last year, and 24 hours later we were on a call about me potentially joining the company.
If you follow me you'll know I'm obsessed with all things strategy and research in this space - and more importantly, doing the work - so to get to do that on a much bigger scale is genuinely a dream of mine.
The Detailed SEO Extension and all current features will remain free.
In five years it has grown to 450,000+ weekly users, which I'm incredibly grateful for. We'll add new features at some point, while keeping in place what's already there.
Detailed will remain a separate brand and I'll continue to personally update relevant projects there.
My focus now is on product and tool ideas, research reports, marketing insights and everything actionable we can share to help grow your business.
Finally, a HUGE thanks to everyone who has read and shared my work over the years for this to even be a possibility. 🙏
I'm really excited for what's next.
@thekitze I will buy it now because every year there's always one new model coming, you can probably get a discount now. I own M4 Max 16. I got it when it came out, will not need an upgrade for 5 years.
@ViperChill A strong brand will continue to be the main factor and will become an even more important for the direct and the increase of organic. Social is used to build that strong brand.
Lots of fake news out there. Here is the real story of the tragedy involving my 19 year old son. Please share as we're going to have a massive funeral and need security, legal, and more for this very public event.
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Thanks to any of my Twitter fam who can share. #LLT
The hardest part in starting a $100m business: picking the right idea to work on.
Pick wrong and you’ll spend years working away with little to no results.
Pick right and you'll have a much better chance to succeed.
Here’s how I’ve decided what ideas to work on…
We recently invested ~$10,000 into a report on what types of sites ranked best in affiliate-populated SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
Something really lucky ☘️ (and unlucky) happened on the way, so before it's live, I'm giving away some insights in this Twitter thread 👇
This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.
Ten. Million. Dollars.
Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.
That’s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.
Here’s what happened…
@gabriel_aigner For podcasting I don't recommend the Blue Yeti unless you live in a place without noise. It picks too much environmental noise (including computer fans). On a budget I have the Audio-Technica ATR2100, it can be use with USB and XLR. It is really good.