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Indexsy
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Indexsy helps companies make more money through organic growth by specializing in SEO services and creating affiliate programs for established brands.

indexsy.com · Founded 2016 · 100 public sources · Updated 2 days ago

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How Indexsy Grew

SEO agency offering niche edits, BrowserBlast, and digital asset acquisitions

How did Indexsy grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Indexsy grew by focusing on SEO strategies including technical SEO, content creation, and link building to produce sustainable growth in traffic and revenue. They utilized niche edits and guest posts as part of their link-building services to secure backlinks and improve search rankings. Indexsy also leveraged organic social media platforms such as Reddit and blogs to drive traffic quickly, with results visible within 48–72 hours.

Channels

22 channels · grouped by how Indexsy grows

  • SEO

    · 14 mentions · 14 sources
    “I tracked twenty keywords across all eight tools for my mug shop. The same twenty. Handmade ceramic mugs. Custom pottery gifts. Artisan coffee cups. I checked each tool against manual incognito searches. Some were spot on. Some were off by five positions. One was off by twelve.”
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    “This guy makes $200,000 a year entirely from SEO. How he does this is he owns a portfolio of companies that all specialize in doing something related to SEO, whether that's link building or content writing, or also affiliate.”
    medium
    “BrowserBlast ★ #1 BIGGEST Rank in 7 days, guaranteed.”
    medium
    “How I Made $261,661 With SEO in August ... local SEO client ... The mix of SEO products, SaaS, real estate, and affiliates shows that diversification works”
    high
    “Our data-driven SEO and content strategies produce exponential growth in traffic and revenue. ... Our team implements technical SEO, content and link building for sustainable growth.”
    high
    “Our clients have seen measurable ranking improvements across various niches, including SaaS, local business, affiliate, and eCommerce.”
    medium
    “Operator-led SEO, content, and link building. Built for sustainable growth not short-term tricks.”
    medium
    “We help businesses rank higher, load faster, and turn organic traffic into leads and sales.”
    medium
    “The product page does three jobs simultaneously. First, it is an SEO page. IH has high domain authority and its product pages rank for branded and category searches.”
    medium
    “Organic search contributes just 13.2% of traffic, and almost all of it is branded-term capture: LocalRank.so has no meaningful content SEO flywheel in place. The homepage owns 93%+ of organic visits via branded queries...”
    medium
    “Vasco at Arvow and Vikash at Bulk Mockup both describe low-view, high-intent buyer-intent videos on job-to-be-done queries ranking on Google as well as YouTube, and increasingly being surfaced by AI answer engines.”
    medium
    “Here's how we use AI to build a site to 45k visitors/mo 1. Find 1000s of low competition high volume keywords via Ahrefs 2. Export and post them onto the site using an AI service 3. Use the free RankMath instant indexing API plugin and use an indexing service”
    high
    “Jacky’s opening argument is simple: find SaaS products already making money, build a competing product, then use SEO and paid distribution to beat founders who know how to code but do not know how to market.”
    high
    “12:08How I Ranked #1 with $100 (Local SEO Case Study) - Building in Public Day 26810K views • 1 year ago”
    medium

  • Organic social media

    · 9 mentions · 9 sources
    “Chou posted a YouTube video every day, assembling an audience of the exact operators who would later need the product. By the time LocalRank shipped, the demand already existed. ...In an IndieHackers interview he states that “videos with relatively low view counts drive significantly more product...”
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    “I just literally rewrite news I see on X, publish it in a subreddit like entrepreneur. And then at the bottom, I have a call to action. I think if you guys search through my history, you'll see I've done it like several times. Like, you only need to buy like 20 upvotes. And then if it's good enou...”
    high
    “I build internet businesses in public & share everything.”
    medium
    “One tweet about my revenue went viral and gained me over 1,000 followers in 24 hours.”
    high
    “We deploy our proven traffic method using real users from Reddit, blogs, and SERPs. Results visible in 48–72 hours.”
    medium
    “Both posted repeatedly, responded to comments, and built up name recognition in the community through volume and specificity over time.”
    medium
    “Co-founder Jacky Chou posts from his personal @indexsy account (60,319 followers), where monthly revenue breakdowns and growth-tactic threads reach 55,000-80,000+ views and function as the primary product-discovery and milestone-announcement channel for LocalRank.so.”
    medium
    “Marketing channels: [X / Twitter](https://trustmrr.com/channels/twitter)”
    medium
    “The Viral YouTube Trick Nobody Talks About 🚀 #shorts424 views”
    medium

  • Reddit

    · 6 mentions · 6 sources
    “I think you're onto something with the scaling of short form content that you. mentioned on X. And another thing I've like written down to talk about is like, most large or funded startups are under utilizing Reddit right now ... So, you just need to spin it in the right way. So the SOP is you ju...”
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    “📈 Reddit SOP 50-page system →... Shill by Trackings Grow Reddit traffic on autopilot →”
    medium
    “We deploy our proven traffic method using real users from Reddit, blogs, and SERPs.”
    medium
    “In October 2025, Jacky posted a detailed X thread (55,568 views, 574 likes) describing a step-by-step system for seeding product mentions inside Reddit threads already ranking on Google, claiming the approach generated over $45.5K in four weeks; in January 2026, r/localseo user joeyoungblood post...”
    medium
    “Reddit is SO easy to abuse right now. We used it to generate over $45.5k in 4 weeks, all organic. Here’s the full system (bookmark this): Step 1: Find threads already ranking on Google”
    high
    “In this episode: ... SaaS, affiliate SEO, parasite SEO, Reddit, ChatGPT, listicles, backlinks, partial-match domains, offsite SEO, and what Jacky would do if he had to start from zero again.”
    medium

  • Backlinks

    · 4 mentions · 4 sources
    “What we've been experimenting with is like all of our niche edits, we just point back at these pages ... all of our link building is basically to these statistics or whatever these link magnet digital PR pages ... you could just get journalists to basically link back to this article using the str...”
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    “Execute & Scale Our team implements technical SEO, content and link building for sustainable growth.”
    medium
    “As one of the top link building agencies, we build over 3000 white hat backlinks a month. We do this with a team of 20+ PR representatives that manage relationships with web masters. Our specialty is niche edits aka curated links.”
    medium
    “Authority & Link Building Earn high-quality, relevant links that strengthen domain authority and competitive positioning.”
    medium

  • Video content

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “I think that you have been like a perfect example of like, yo, I just went ham on YouTube for a year and like, it basically, you know, tripled my agency. ... they don't know that in the last year directly attributed from YouTube, it's like 500 K in profit. It's, it's insane.”
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    “YouTube’s role”Customers find us through YouTube” (founder); 22% of views come from Google...In the Starter Story interview he says it directly: “Customer find us through YouTube… he trusts me and then he purchases the product.””
    high
    “Berthelot says more than 60% of new customers came from YouTube. In another discussion, he described YouTubers as the channel behind the large majority of distribution for the business.”
    medium

  • Building in public

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “building in public and sharing the journey with my audience. ... Reporting your wins publicly builds authority and audience faster than ads ... building in public turns transparency into opportunity.”
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    “I build internet businesses in public & share everything.”
    medium
    “Build-in-public transparency is a genuine distribution lever for founder-led SaaS: revenue milestones, product decisions, and honest failure analyses all generate reach and trust when shared genuinely.”
    medium

  • Guest posts

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “I highly recommend them for all their services especially SEO and their products like local guest posts, niche edits, and full service SEO.”
    medium
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    “New Local Guest Posts Build authority and backlinks with strategic guest post placements on local and regional authority websites.”
    medium

  • Affiliate program

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “A year ago I was doing $500k per month from affiliate and display ads (Amazon and Mediavine). Today those same sources make up less than five percent of their former glory.”
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    “he does partnerships with established brands to create a new stream of revenue for them by spinning up an affiliate program for them on their website, where he just takes a rev share of the new revenue that he generates for the company.”
    medium

  • Leveraging existing platforms

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “A year ago I was doing $500k per month from affiliate and display ads (Amazon and Mediavine).”
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    “Pre-July 2025... hit ~$20K MRR immediately by converting pre-built Indexsy agency audience (self-reported, Indie Hackers May 2026)”
    medium

  • Medium Content

    · 1 mention
    “the core ones right now are like LinkedIn Pulse, Medium and Reddit. Are there any other ones that you're seeing? And then could you just break down like what Parasite SEO is for the audience? So Parasite SEO is pretty much where you can post your own article onto another website. And the goal is ...”
    medium

  • Print Media Marketing

    · 1 mention
    “We used to do this in Pinterest. ... we would, uh, make like hundreds of different pin variations based off of it. And then just keyword stuff them. ... you need, um, repins, uh, for that, that pin to rank. And so you could just run like a hundred dollars and add traffic to it. Um, and then, uh, ...”
    high

  • Podcasting

    · 1 mention
    “NGMI Podcast The Podcast NGMI Podcast with Tony Yu (Vessi) & Tom Wang Spotify Apple YouTube”
    medium

  • Google Ads

    · 1 mention
    “1 active text ad as of 2026-06-29, with the longest-running active placement across both platforms at approximately 388 days, positioning LocalRank as "The First AI Local SEO Agent."”
    medium

  • Contribute on Quora

    · 1 mention
    “I used to do this with Quora actually. I'd find, I'd use SEMrush to find top ranking Quora questions for like keywords that were related to like bottom of funnel, you know, whatever, software, like I'm trying to do X or whatever. And then we'd go in and I have an age Quora account that's just gan...”
    medium

  • Ebook

    · 1 mention
    “I could see exactly where I ranked in Asheville, in Charlotte, in Raleigh, and in Nashville where I sell at a craft fair twice a year.”
    high

  • Topic Clusters

    · 1 mention
    “Authority content frameworks used across our portfolio. Editorial Calendar Copywriting Visual Assets Topic Clustering”
    medium

  • Pay Per Click Advertising

    · 1 mention
    “Jacky’s opening argument is simple: find SaaS products already making money, build a competing product, then use SEO and paid distribution to beat founders who know how to code but do not know how to market.”
    high

  • Advertising on social media

    · 1 mention
    “18 active ads as of 2026-06-29 running across Facebook, Instagram, Audience Network, Messenger, and Threads, with every creative pointing to localrank.so and the dominant message targeting aspiring local SEO agency owners with a "$10K/mo" income promise.”
    medium

  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “he does partnerships with established brands to create a new stream of revenue for them by spinning up an affiliate program for them on their website, where he just takes a rev share of the new revenue that he generates for the company.”
    medium

  • Email List Growth

    · 1 mention
    “They just took the episode, they turned it into a transcript, turned it into a blog post, published it on the SaaS subreddit, then had a call to action at the bottom to subscribe to the newsletter for more content like this. And literally, if you go back to his whole profile, every one of them wa...”
    high

  • Online Community

    · 1 mention
    “Of the 68 apps tracked in the DistributionMarket database, 4 used the Indie Hackers community as a meaningful distribution channel: Build in Public Mastery, LocalRank.so, Testimonial.to, and Trends.vc.”
    medium

  • LinkedIn

    · 1 mention
    “Jacky Chou's Indexsy brand gave LocalRank.so a pre-warmed audience that converted at launch without paid acquisition, delivering self-reported near-$20K MRR from day one; this was a structural advantage specific to a second product built by a founder with an existing audience in the exact vertica...”
    medium

How 3,362 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Indexsy’s highlighted.
  • Social media
    64% ◀
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    63%
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    47% ◀
  • Community
    37% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    36% ◀
  • Partnerships
    32% ◀
  • Events
    24%
  • Paid ads
    23% ◀
  • Outbound/Sales
    18%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12% ◀
  • Podcasting
    4% ◀
  • Influencer partnerships
    3%
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