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Nov 24, 2023 15 tweets 5 min read Read on X
We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.

We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.

Here's how we did it: Image
We pulled off an SEO heist using AI.

1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap
2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles
3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI

18 months later, we have stolen:

- 3.6M total traffic
- 490K monthly traffic
How we did it?

18 months ago, this was a totally manual process.

Today, there are tools to help automate 90% of the process.

Here’s how:
1. Find a competitor

Which website ranks for the keywords you want to rank for?

- Brainstorm
- Use Ahrefs/Semrush
- Manually search on Google Image
2. See their sitemap

To find your competitor’s sitemap, add the following to their domain:

website.com/sitemap.xml
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Their sitemap shows a list of all the URLs on their website.

However, the URLs in the sitemap must be descriptive to get the
best results...

For example:


website.com/t/1043423
website.com/how-to-make-so…
3. Export sitemap

Google “convert XML to CSV” and use one of the free tools to export the sitemap as a CSV file. Image
4. Generate ideas

Using the list of competitor URLs, it’s time to generate article ideas.

Add the URLs from the sitemap into Byword’s Write From URLs feature and scrape the URLs. Image
Byword generates article titles and outlines based on the competitor URLs provided.

For example:

might get translated to:
A Beginner's Guide to Making Soup website.com/how-to-make-so…
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5. Write with AI

Optional: Edit the suggested titles and headings for the articles... Image
Once ready, generate AI content for your final set of articles. Image
6. Publish quickly

Publish the content straight onto your website using CMS integrations (to save time). Image
Results?

Using this process, we published 1,800 articles in a few hours.

Since then:

- 490K monthly traffic
- 3.6M total since publishing
- 13K keywords on page 1 of Google

The best part? We’ve taken that traffic from our competitors. Image
Try for yourself...

Sign up at to try this feature and get 5 articles for free. Byword.ai
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But 99% of websites don’t get traffic, leads or sales from these searches.

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So I asked him, "How are you growing so quickly?"

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He then broke it down for me:

(But on the basis that I kept him anonymous)
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