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My side project just had its best month ever. I have no idea why. Here's what happened.
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My side project just had its best month ever. I have no idea why. Here's what happened.

via Dev.toGenglin Zheng2h ago

Okay so this is a little embarrassing to admit — I launched bulkpictools.com three months ago and genuinely forgot to check the analytics for like two weeks straight. When I finally opened Google Search Console, I had to look twice. Month 3 traffic was more than Month 1 and Month 2 put together. I'm not going to pretend I have a clean explanation for this. I did some SEO work around the end of Month 2 — rewrote a bunch of meta descriptions, cleaned up the page content so it actually matched what people were searching for, stopped being lazy about alt text. Basic stuff. The kind of stuff you tell yourself you'll do later and then actually do later. Did that cause the jump? Maybe. Probably? Google took its time, which, honestly, very on-brand for Google. But while I was waiting for the SEO stuff to kick in (or not), I shipped something that I've been wanting to build for a while. A background remover. Except the whole model runs in the browser. No server. Zero backend calls. The image ne

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