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Google removed our website from search because it uses youtube-dl

Google removed our website from search because it uses youtube-dl

Update: Google accepted our DMCA counter notice and reinstated all 317 Kapwing webpages that they took down. In the week that the takedown was in effect, our website traffic was down 30%. A week ago, we received an email that every website owner dreads - a notification of a DMCA

How to Get Started with SEO Guide

How to Get Started with SEO

We've grown our website to millions of monthly active users with zero ads spend. This article shares my advice to entrepreneurs who want to leverage Google Search to get more traffic and sell a product or service. Get started with SEO in two steps, for free.

Content Cleanup: How We Acquired 100k Users on Search by Updating Old Content

Content Cleanup: How We Acquired 100k Users on Search by Updating Old Content

In the first quarter of 2021, we ran 7 experiments on content maintenance to measure the ROI of refreshing old SEO content. Here's everything we learned.

VIRAL: How We Used Watermarks to Grow our Startup

VIRAL: How We Used Watermarks to Grow our Startup

We put a watermark on every video made with our website. Here's the story of the Kapwing watermark and how this growth strategy helped our brand and user base go viral.

Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users

Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users

Recently, a founder asked to chat with me about SEO. During our call, the founder - whose startup is backed by a top-tier VC - said to me “I assume that you acquired your first users through paid marketing.” Really? Is this an assumption nowadays? Since we’ve raised money

Press Stunts: The scrappy way to grow to a $20K MRR business

Press Stunts: The scrappy way to grow to a $20K MRR business

My cofounder [https://www.kapwing.com/blog/find-a-cofounder-before-you-find-an-idea/] and I have grown a $20,000+ MRR business in a year with trivial (<$1000) marketing spend. We’re 25-year-old product managers, not marketing gurus, but we are lucky to have discovered the power of SEO early on. Link building is the