📈New Google SEO Rank Hack

Hey there,

John here. You probably signed up for my list from X or from some of my tools.

I’m still cooking on my Facebook pages and I’ve launched a new product for ranking in Google.

Increase Your Google Rankings in as Little as 48 Hours

If you don’t know, Google uses Chrome data in its ranking algorithm. I’ve been experimenting with ideas for manipulating Google’s user signals, and I found one that works.

It works by simulating your website going viral. By sending a quick burst of traffic, Google picks up on these user signals and shoots your pages up the SERPs. It sounds simple, but there is more to it.

It works best for sites that are ranking in the top 3 pages of Google, but I have seen pages outside of the top 10 pages move up, too. Parasites worked very well, also.

Check out this example:

You’ll see that the first numbered column is the original rank. The second column is the ranking after running Traffic Smash. Some keywords that were already ranking increased, and many keywords that were not ranking shot up to the first 1-2 pages!

You’ll want to jump on this tactic now, before Google closes this loophole.

Plus, I’ve created an exclusive discount for members of this email list.

Use this coupon code to get 20% off: trafficalchemy

Facebook Pages Update

Facebook pages are the closest thing to “passive income” that I’ve ever experienced. I’m earning nearly $2k a month and spending 1-2 hours if that.

— John Ward (@JohnWardHere)
1:48 PM • Aug 19, 2025

My largest Facebook page is doing pretty well heading into the lowest-paying two weeks of the year for the ad industry. I’m testing different posting frequencies, ranging from 8 to 60 posts per day. I’m trying to figure out what the right cadence is. Most people seem to say once per hour, but I think I am seeing better results posting more frequently.

The holiday season is when ad spending really takes off. So, I have been running Facebook Page Like ads to grow the page as we head into that. I’d like to grow the page to about 250k followers by mid-November. I’m paying 2-5 cents per like, so that would be an investment of about $3,000 that I hope to make back in November and December.

I only spend 1-2 hours per week because I’ve built an internal tool that generates images, writes Facebook posts, and schedules them with just a few clicks (yes even 50 per day). I even have a viral news page that is entirely automated that does all of that and makes a WordPress post and links to that post in the first comment.

I’m all about automation. $2k per month is not where I want to be, but it is nice for the amount of work it’s taking me.

Pinterest Update

I haven’t been focusing a lot on Pinterest lately because my sites were removed from Journey by Mediavine for using AI content.

I personally think Mediavine is crazy. I used to work with the largest advertisers in the world at Meta. Not once did anyone ask if their ads were being shown next to AI content. The advertisers simply do not care if the ads perform. There is nothing that indicates AI content performs worse than human content from the display ad side.

My hunch is that the group of Mediavine creators (The Facebook Recipe Karens™️ as I refer to them) is bugging Mediavine so much that they had to do something about it.

I tried to move some of the sites to Ezoic, but their approval process is surprisingly more difficult and obtuse than Journey’s! So none of the sites were approved. I did get some of them on AdSense, but AdSense doesn’t pay much.

Pinterest is still driving traffic to my sites, I’m just not monetizing it at the moment. I’ve switched to posting a lot of links to my AI recipe generator tool. I’m considering creating a mobile app to monetize the website through app installs. Similar to what this app is doing.

This is just insane 😤
A recipe l app making $500k/mo

Cooking content generates billions
of views every month.

You can build an app like this using
Cursor + Xcode pretty fast

And partner with viral cooking influencers to scale fast.

ReciMe has inly 1  viral format

— Ernesto Lopez (@ErnestoSOFTWARE)
5:29 PM • Aug 16, 2025

If you’re interested in seeing the types of sites that Journey by Mediavine is approving right now, try my free tool.

Quote of the Week

— John