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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 29/08/2026

The funny thing about having a brand built on "roasting" people is that friends expect you to be mean in real life The old profile picture didn't help, so here is a new one:

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 09/12/2025

🤑 The easiest satisfying SaaS pricing hack: 👉 Charge $5/week instead of $20/month Same price, right...? Nope: - 52 weeks × $5 = $260/year - 12 months × $20 = $240/year - That's an extra $20/user/year At 50k users, you just made an extra $1M/year 🧠

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 02/12/2025

Should websites even have landing pages anymore?

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 28/11/2025

SEO ROAST is on sale for Black Friday 🔥 Get a 20-min audit with quick wins and high-impact feedback! Buy now, redeem anytime in the next 365 days! Use code BF25 → seoroast.com 🔥

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 06/11/2025

🤯 Every year, Reddit’s search traffic EXPLODES right before Black Friday, last year it hit 5M+ organic visits/day! And it’s starting again right now... I broke down which threads, subreddits, and keywords drove it, full report drops Friday in my newsletter (only sent ONCE) 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 05/11/2025

I scraped every Black Friday keyword, matched it to the Reddit post ranking for it, and priced the clicks The numbers are insane, millions in free organic traffic hiding in plain sight I’ll share everything (plus how to leverage it) in my newsletter Friday 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 03/11/2025

I analyzed every single Reddit post ranking for "Black Friday" keywords 🧠 32,463 keywords 💰 $6.1M total traffic value 💬 15M+ keyword volume across 17,143 pages I’m sending the full keyword list + list of top subreddits in my newsletter on Friday. Subscribe before then (only sending it once) 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 22/10/2025

I found a company called Polygraph that is absolutely dominating Reddit for the "click fraud" niche They are the undisputed authority This is a masterclass in "SEO Everywhere" Stop spamming, start helping

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 04/10/2025

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 29/09/2025

Your next $10k/month app already exists (people just hate it) Here's how to find it in Ahrefs: 1. Type in a directory with AI tools (list below) 2. View organic keywords 3. Filter on Keyword: Alternative 4. Add CPC > 1.00 to filter for keywords in demand

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 20/08/2025

how to make Cursor less greedy with tool calling 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 11/08/2025

💰 How to make affiliate money with @ahrefs - In Site Explorer, enter any site in your niche - Filter: Backlinks → In content, sort Page Traffic - Steal the titles of the best backlinks - Create a better post, more detail, better design, ... - Sign up for the affiliate programs mentioned

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 28/07/2025

🚀 1 month of Blitz SEO at Chatbase We picked 1 keyword "AI Customer Service" → Checked rankings weekly → Redesigned, refreshed pages & blogs → Built 50+ backlinks, Reddit, Medium, LinkedIn, YouTubers, ... From >100 to top 10 in 4 weeks

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

13. ✅ You don’t need 1,000 reviews. You need 3–5 *relatable, specific* stories. Place them at every point of doubt: - Next to pricing - Beside your CTA - In your hero section Let your customers do the selling for you.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

12. 🥚 No social proof yet? Here’s how to start: ✅ Offer free access in exchange for feedback ✅ Launch a beta with built-in testimonial asks ✅ Guide your users with easy forms + smart prompts No friction = more powerful stories.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

10. ⚠️ The Dark Side Social proof can "backfire" 😬 Example: A sign said “Many have stolen petrified wood from the park.” Result? Theft went 3x 💀 🧠 Tip: Never normalize bad behavior or low stats.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

9. 🟢 Real-Time Activity ✨ What it is: "Jason from Berlin just signed up" pop-ups (cc @nico_jeannen) ✨ Why it works: Triggers FOMO + creates urgency + shows momentum. 🧠 Tip: Use sparingly. Fake notifications destroy trust fast.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

8. 🔢 Big Numbers ✨ What it is: "Trusted by 50,000+ users" or "Used in 97 countries" (cc @dannypostmaa) ✨ Why it works: No one wants to go first. Everyone wants to join a crowd. 🧠 Tip: Pair it with a testimonial for a 1–2 punch of trust.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

7. 🧢 Authority Logos ✨ What it is: "As seen on..." or "Used by..." logos from known brands (cc @levelsio) ✨ Why it works: Borrowed credibility. Trust transfers instantly. 🧠 Tip: Only use logos from actual customers or legit press mentions.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

6. ⭐ Ratings & Reviews ✨ What it is: Aggregated star ratings + short user comments ✨ Why it works: Quick trust hit. 4.8 from 250 people = "Safe bet" 🧠 Tip: Don’t fear 4-star reviews. Perfect 5.0s look fake.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

5. 🎬 Case Study ✨ What it is: A full narrative of problem ➝ solution ➝ result (cc @StoryChiefApp) ✨ Why it works: Builds deep trust, especially for high-ticket B2B. 🧠 Tip: Use the Hero’s Journey: - Pain - Journey - Win (with metrics)

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

4. 💬 Classic Testimonial ✨ What it is: A direct quote from a happy customer (cc @helloitsolly) ✨ Why it works: A mini-story that future customers see themselves in. 🧠 Tip: Use real names, faces, and metrics. 🧨 Place the best one right next to your “Buy” button.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

3. Your visitors don’t trust you yet. Not because you're sketchy. Because you're a stranger on the internet. Their 🧠 brain is screaming: 🤔 "Is this safe? Or am I about to get scammed?" Social proof calms that fear. Here's what works 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/07/2025

Your landing page isn't broken. 🟠 The CTA pops. 🧠 The copy is sharp. 💡 The product solves a *real* problem. So why is 97% of your traffic bouncing? Because you're missing "social proof" Here’s how to fix that (and make visitors *feel safe* buying): 🧵

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 12/06/2025

Google doesn't just rank keywords. It ranks formats. For "top software companies," Google wants a rich, sortable list. Not a vague landing page. It rewards pages with: ✅ Logos & ratings ✅ Company size & price ✅ "Last updated" date Give Google the data format it wants to see

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 24/05/2025

Guess the prompt?

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 23/05/2025

Most SEO advice is a lie. You don’t need 40 blog posts. You don’t need 6 months. I ranked #1 on Google in 6 days by obsessing over ONE keyword. It’s called Blitz SEO. Here’s the playbook (and my free Notion tracker) 👉 il.ly/blitz-seo

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 22/05/2025

I literally use the new @GenPPT tool for the weirdest things 😂 Just dropped in a table of memory-hungry Docker containers and boom, instant slides, summary, speaker notes, visuals! You can literally slide into anything.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 21/05/2025

🔥 We A/B tested "Sign in with Google" on GenPPT Result? +107% lift in trial starts. Here's how: il.ly/blog/google-...

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 16/05/2025

Just acquired GenPPT, 40k users but no growth plan. Now it’s getting the Blitz SEO + LinkDR treatment. Let’s turn a sleepy SaaS into a traffic machine!

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 21/04/2025

LinkDR AI Contact Finder goes brrrrrrr

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 17/03/2025

"If someone reads your blog, subscribes to your emails, follows you on X, uses your free tools, watches your videos, and buys your product for an entire year – what ONE metric in their life or business should massively improve?" What's yours? 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 16/03/2025

But for now you can run "bunx savethis export markdown" and copy it to aistudio.google.com (my 111 emails + 94 PDFs use 479k tokens out of 2M tokens limit) - indexing cost about $1 or $2. Try it: npm install -g savethis

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 16/03/2025

😅 I spent this whole weekend coding a Gmail export, indexing all 90+ PDFs/images/csv's & excels with AI summaries... ...just to find one missing tax document Only to discover after all that work: The file never existed. Email sent to request it. 😭

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 10/03/2025

The perfect dev candidate does not exi-

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 20/02/2025

Is building an AI recipe website for pSEO REALLY that hard? 🤔 Nope! I just built one in *under an hour* using our Next.js boilerplate. 🤯 Full tutorial (from zero to deployed!) 👇

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 13/02/2025

🌶️ Hot take: Fire your entire product team Replace them with ONE cracked dev watching @PostHog recordings Their job description: 1. Watch session replays every morning 2. Track revenue leaks, product issues & dropout points 3. Ship quick A/B fixes with Cursor AI You'll get 100x more done in 1 year

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 05/02/2025

I'm reviewing all sites and they have many pages. The 12-month Ahrefs data shows strong DRs and growing backlinks, but traffic is flat or declining. Need a strategy to improve rankings. I'll begin with readmake.com tomorrow; it's the smallest site with a good score.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 05/02/2025

#SEOROAST - Initial checks 5 sites to audit for @levelsio. Here's 16 months of GSC data. Traffic's down 📉 but needs to go up 📈 Lots of work ahead.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 04/02/2025

Been a wild journey working with Chatbase.co on SEO! We wrote a lot of blog posts to help them rank for AI agents (screenshot is SEO traffic to the blog) All that's left is to rank #1 for "ai agent" itself Help us with our ProductHunt backlink 😉👇 producthunt.com/posts/chatba...

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 31/01/2025

You don't need a reasoning model like R1 or o3, just use this .cursorrules with Claude Sonnet to add a thinking step, works 100x better.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 30/01/2025

Can 🇨🇳 DeepSeek please stop hammering the Google AI studio for knowledge distillation to copy Gemini? Kinda need this model to run.

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 25/01/2025

POV: you jump on the Bluesky trend and build a programmatic SEO site in a weekend

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 24/01/2025

SEO for blueskystarterpack.com 🔥

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 23/01/2025

My complete AI sales call workflow for (tech) founders with #ADHD: • record every call (google meet) • get perfect transcripts (descript) • analyze conversations (gemini) • create proposals instantly Full guide with examples 👇 il.ly/blog/ai-sales

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 23/01/2025

TIL: just @ images in cursor and it writes alt text for you

Screenshot of a code editor showing an image tag with width of 584 pixels and height of 661 pixels. The filename in the source path contains 'sales-calls-with-ai/cal-record-button.png

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 19/01/2025

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25683820/

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 19/01/2025

people who weigh themselves daily lost 20x more weight than those who don't (Steinberg et al 2015 - link in comment 🧵) what gets measured gets results this applies to everything: - weight loss - SEO rankings - conversion rate - your MRR you can't improve what you don't measure & check daily

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Ilias Ism @il.ly · 16/01/2025

lmarena.ai is quite nice if you're wondering which AI to use, check it out

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