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What the episode covered
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089 - How to Grow a SAAS With SEO with Kevin Sahin
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089 - How to Grow a SAAS With SEO with Kevin Sahin
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00:45 Introduction of the episode and the guest
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01:56 Kevin Sahin journey, from being in corporate to startups, then in SEO.
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06:31 Kevin’s journey into web scraping, the challenges and failures and how they eventually launched ScrapingBee.com?
13:14 How did Kevin and their company ScrapingBee get their first clients?
16:26 Since Kevin started with building blogs, how did he create the blogs so that it ranked? …How did he start to learn SEO and implement it?
22:28 Gert’s personal theory on how Google takes signals and ranks a content as something good and with authority.
What I would emphasize today
Search has moved beyond one channel. Google still matters, but your buyers also use AI answers, YouTube, Reddit, reviews, communities, and comparison content before they decide.
That means the practical question is not just “does this rank?” The better question is: does this help the right buyer find enough proof to trust us?
How to apply this now
- Diagnose the actual visibility gap.
- Check whether the buyer researches this topic on Google, AI tools, YouTube, Reddit, or another platform.
- Create the asset that answers the question clearly.
- Add proof, examples, and structure so both humans and AI systems can understand it.
- Measure whether the work leads to better qualified demand, not just more traffic.
My current take
The topic still matters, but the playbook has changed. SEO is no longer only about ranking a page. It is about being present with the right answer, on the right platform, at the moment the buyer is forming trust.
If you want to know where your visibility gaps are now, start with a diagnostic call or the AI Readiness Check.