Ok fine…. this is my strange strategy:
Paying for links in YouTube video descriptions for videos that are ranked for my keywords
That’s it
As someone who posts to YouTube regularly I noticed Google is indexing links within my video descriptions
They get listed in AI Overview summaries and the site itself gets indexed quickly thereafter
In some cases I added a description before the link and the AI overview repeated it verbatim
So I’ve since been reaching out to YouTubers and paying for links in their video description
This is cheap because
1) they don’t have to make a new video
2) nobody else is doing it (??!)
Usually the conversation goes like this:
Me: hey I want to pay for a link in the description of your video to my app
Them: you mean make a video about your app?
Me: no, there’s no extra work on your end just a link to my app that’s it
Them: weird, but.. ok
The fastest YouTube path to a BMW M4 starts with a nursery rhyme that already has 379 million views.
The workflow does not begin with guessing what children might watch. It begins with proven demand.
She opens a popular kids channel, studies the videos already pulling hundreds of millions of views, then asks ChatGPT for original nursery rhyme ideas built around the same retention mechanics.
After choosing one, ChatGPT turns it into a complete one-minute episode with a scene-by-scene breakdown, character actions, camera direction and visual prompts.
That plan goes directly into Picsart AI Playground. Within two or three minutes, it produces a finished animated episode without cameras, drawing skills or an animation team.
The same idea does not stop at one upload. The full episode goes to long-form YouTube, its strongest moments become Shorts, and the recurring character returns in the next story.
That final part matters most. Random AI cartoons might generate temporary views. A recognizable character gives children something familiar to search for, replay and watch again the next morning.
Anyone can generate the first episode now. The real advantage belongs to whoever studies the data, improves the format and turns one character into a library of one hundred videos.
The entire workflow takes 49 seconds to watch. Bookmark it before your feed buries it.
TikTok prints faster but the product dies out quicker on there.
Meta's the opposite - takes forever to warm up but students of mine sell the same product 6-12 months later.
Which one's been treating u better?
I think I've just found the best Google Shopping ad I've ever seen
It's by a brand called Mugsy, selling men's clothing.
if I had to describe what a perfect shopping approach looks like..
I would say everything they have implemented here:
Infinite scroll is terrible for SEO.
It's great for user engagement. Bad for rankings.
Google can't properly crawl infinite scroll pages.
Here's the fix that works in 2026: 🧵👇
Here's how to rank on with Backlinks. aka Other websites vouching for you. (Bookmark this)
Here's where I get them, cheapest first.
Your Chamber of Commerce. Google your city plus Chamber of Commerce. Yearly fee, usually a couple hundred bucks, and you get listed in their member directory with a link. Local links are the most important ones you can get, a link from your own town says more about you than a random blog ever will.
Sponsor something local. Search your city plus sponsors for a run. Better trick, put become a sponsor in quotes after your city name. That search pulls up every organization in your area with a sponsorship page, and the whole goal is your website sitting on their page. Youth leagues, 5Ks, school events, most of them cost less than one job pays.
Your suppliers and vendors. Become a QuickBooks ProAdvisor if you're an accountant, a certified installer with whatever brand you already carry if you're a contractor. You're already buying from these companies. Get on their dealer locator, that's a link from a site Google already trusts.
Directories. Run your business through BrightLocal and it pushes you onto Bing, Yellow Pages, Yahoo, all the directory sites in one shot instead of you making forty accounts by hand.
And when you're ready to buy, PressWhizz. I covered that play already, real sites, real links, you pick them yourself.
Bookmark this and take some time this Saturday to get through the list. The chamber and the sponsor search alone put you ahead of most of your market.
@HuuVanTran If your site is on Cloudflare, just add a rule that if the visitor IP is from China or Singapore, add a Managed challenge. This has minimized the issue for me. Some still show up, but not as brutal as before. Also prevents the bots from overloading your server.
[Project Turtle – Pinterest Case Study: From 0 to 200K Sessions/Month]
I added 3 articles and 6 pins today for this case study account.
Boring, which is usually good for business.
I recently noticed that our GPT API usage has been much lower over the past 10 days, but I’m not sure what changed. Recall an email from OpenAI saying they had made their APIs cheaper, but I thought that only applied to text models, not image generation.
The chart below is mainly image API usage, and the cost is clearly lower than before, even though our content speed, the number of articles published each day, has stayed the same.
Very nice if this is the new normal. Are you seeing the same thing on your end?
dropping a full guide on how we’re scaling google ads with custom LPs
plus a swipe file of the top performing pages rn
our team has used these to cut our CPAs by 2–3x AND unlock new types of traffic across hundreds of accounts
some brands have scaled to 6 and 7 figures in spend alone
like + comment "page" and I’ll send it over
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Yes! It’s still possible to make $150/day (or more) on Merch By Amazon without advertising (especially in Q4). But you better understand how to find low competition keywords. Watch my beginners video if you missed it. https://t.co/amjTzjf8J5 #merchbyamazon#printondemand
Here's how you get more out of Pinterest marketing for tees in 2020...
- Post big images (1000 pixels wide or more)
- Use BRIGHT backgrounds
- Images convert better than T-shirt mockups
- Use the autocomplete to get keyword suggestions for your board titles
Pinterest converts!
If you want to learn how to use Pinterest to get keyword ideas for ecommerce/shirts, stay tuned because I just recorded a video for this strategy.
Pinterest is a gold mine for finding untapped audiences.
Stay tuned and subscribe
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This is the year of Pinterest for me! If you are not using it to promote your ecommerce shop/tees, you are SLEEPING. Just look at this exposure with very little time and no money spent. Seriously... what other social site has this viral exposure and traffic? Time to test more!
If you’re trying to get organic sales, never underestimate the power of a keyword tool to give you just ONE relevant, but less competitive word to add to your listing to help you rank.
I’m loving the Surfer Chrome extension right now. It’s free & similar to Keywords Everywhere.
Here’s how to scale your T-shirt traffic & income over time….
1) Build a brand/niche shop on your best selling niche
2) Create design variations of your hottest keywords
3) Pin best sellers on Pinterest to multiple boards
4) Be consistent
5) Enjoy the process
80% of your print on demand sales will come from 20% of your products. The money doesn't come from selling a lot of different designs. It comes from scaling the smaller percentage of ideas that sell best. That's why being early/first with an idea matters so much!
All I want for Christmas is for Amazon to let us show two or more shirts in the thumbnail to promote various "matching family or couples shirt" ideas.
That would be a gamechanger for MBA! #printondemand#sellingshirts