Even though, in my case, users add their own domains, it's still took me quite a bit of time to reach 99% chance to crawl a website — with a mix of residential proxies, captcha solvers, rotating user-agents, stealth chrome binaries, otherwise I would get 403 immediately with no HTML being served.

And I'm trying to offer this "data advantage" to website owners, so they can grow, and also this is something that will be hard to replicate (at least quickly) with AI.

So I built a SEO/GEO Automation Tool for Small to Mid-Size Businesses who don't have a full-time team for that. [0]

The goal is to provide teams visibility across all the channels — Search and AI and give them the tools needed to outrank their competition. So far so good, the fully bootstrapped venture has grown over the last year and I've built quite a few big features — sophisticated audit system, AI Responses Monitoring, Crawler Analytics, Competitors Monitoring etc.

[0] https://seojuice.io

> Different naming conventions (DW_OP_* vs DW_op_*)

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I’m working on SEOJuice [1], an automated tool for internal linking and on-page SEO optimizations. It's designed to make life a little easier for indie founders and small business owners who don’t have time to dig deep into SEO.

So far, I’ve managed to scale it to $3,000 MRR, and recently made the move from the cloud to Hetzner, which has been a game-changer for cost efficiency. We’re running across multiple servers now, and handling everything from link analysis to on-page updates with a bit more control.

The journey’s been a mix of hands-on coding (and a lot of coffee) and constant optimization. It’s been challenging but incredibly fun to see how much can be automated without compromising on quality.

Happy to chat more about the tech stack or any of the growth pains if anyone’s interested!

[1] https://seojuice.io

This was written 10 years ago when I was struggling with pulling and installing projects that didn't have any requirements.txt. It was frustrating and time-consuming to get everything up and running, so I decided to fix it, apparently many other developers had the same issue.

[Update]: Though I do think the package is already at a level where it does one thing and it does it good. I'm still looking for maintainers to improve it and move it forward.

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I'm really curious to hear your thoughts and experiences.

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Cheers :)

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So how does it work you ask? Great that you asked:

1. You as a customer register and add your domain, Trial period starts.

2. The tool automagically finds your sitemap.xml (hopefully it will be at domain.com/sitemap.xml otherwise the automagic wont work)

3. Then the tool indexes the content, extracts keywords, does some more magic to understand which link goes where.

4. The tool generates links in the database that you can delete/modify.

5. You receive a small JS snippet that you need to add to the footer that will transform the relevant keywords into a link to some other page that is highly relevant.

6. Set up and forget, and reap the benefits of improved SEO.

The whole tool is built with Python, I have automated CI/CD with Github, I host on DigitalOcean (because I still got some balance there), I use some algorithms that I found on the internet to extract keywords + I use some algorithms that I found on the internet to extract content, even if it's not an article-type page (this was quite an annoying challenge to solve, but very rewarding). Everything is combined with some LLM magic and vector database for search / comparison.

I've already gotten some beta users testing the software, which is quite surprising. Apparently there are AI directories that are scanning the Twitterverse for AI tools, and you can get onto this directory and they will send traffic to you for free. (Though someone gave me a one star rating, because the onboarding failed with an 500 error, thank god I saw that in sentry and fixed quickly. Rookie bug, but it works!)

Here's the URL: https://seojuice.io

I'm mostly looking for feedback on all aspects — tech, improvements, ideas, vision, marketing, positioning.

What do you think?

Cheers, Vadim

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I run a blog at vadimkravcenko.com and recently I started being more aware of all the crosslinking of my content that benefits the SEO.

But I didn't want to do it by hand, so I built a tool for myself that automates the whole process and utilizes AI and semantic search to find relevant pages to crosslink and insert the links into the page.

I also built it as a single-line drop-in for everyone to use, basically you include a single JS in the footer of your website and the tool does the rest.

Of course there's full flexibility on which links you want to delete, change, which pages to exclude.

Let me know your feedback.

Cheers, Vadim

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