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How Landingsite Grew

AI website builder for businesses

How did Landingsite grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Landingsite grew through multiple organic channels including viral social media exposure on TikTok and Instagram. Early traction was also gained by paying low-key influencers on X/Twitter to mention the service in posts about AI tools. The founder validated the idea by posting in the r/Entrepreneur subreddit, receiving over 500 comments which indicated demand. SEO played a significant role, with targeted blog posts helping attract organic traffic from search engines without paid advertising.

Channels

7 channels · grouped by how Landingsite grows

  • SEO

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “SEO helps there finding people who might be typing in like, you know, a website for a moving company, something like that. So like, we have some like pages that are specifically targeted to these types of businesses that we, that people might be searching for, because they're starting these busin...”
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    “Those early blog posts helped give us a huge boost in our own SEO. For the first few years, we put zero money into advertising, and to this day most of our traffic is completely organic.”
    high

  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “Then lightning struck - we went viral on TikTok and Instagram.”
    high

  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “Early in 2023 Todd had the idea for Landingsite, and to validate it we posted in the r/Entrepreneur subreddit "Building 10 Websites for Free". When we got over 500 comments, we knew there was something to fix.”
    high

  • Influencer partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “Our early traction came from paying low-key X/twitter influencers to include us in their posts about AI tools.”
    high

  • Hacker News

    · 1 mention
    “I just kind of built it in a weekend, put it out there, made a little website for it. Someone found it and put it on Hacker News and it had a bunch of people looking at it, talking about it. And so I was like, wow, maybe I could like build like a business out of this.”
    high

  • Content marketing

    · 1 mention
    “With Prerender.io being a developer tool, many blog posts were written about Prerender.io because they could show our open source code and then just include a link to our hosted service at the end.”
    high

  • Open-source community

    · 1 mention
    “I just released it as an open-source project on Github with a little webpage explaining how to use it. ... our open-source code turned into another avenue to attract customers.”
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How 2,739 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Landingsite’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    60% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    35% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    33% ◀
  • Partnerships
    32%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    17%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    10%
  • Product expansion
    2%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2% ◀
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