Product Hunt: Programmatic SEO Case Study

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Product Hunt is rarely unknown to anyone in the creator community, it’s a big platform of SaaS and other digital products.

Product Hunt has created several programmatic pages that drive hundreds of thousands of monthly organic traffic.

Product Hunt overview

Product Hunt is an online platform that helps people discover new products and services. Product Hunt allows users to browse and upvote the best new products and services, and also features a daily newsletter that highlights the most popular products. The platform also offers a variety of resources for makers and entrepreneurs, including a podcast, a job board, and a community forum.

Product Hunt programmatic SEO overview

Product Hunt has implemented the techniques of programmatic SEO in the following area(s). Let’s take a look at the case study:

#1. Product profile page

In this area, Product Hunt targets {product name} keyword which is informational in nature. The programmatic pages generated under “product profile page” are landing page type.

Let’s take a look at some example pages in this area, and how much organic traffic they generate every month:

Example page Monthly organic traffic
OnlyFinder – The OnlyFans Search Engine 2.8k
Factle.app 2.5k
This Person Does Not Exist 2.3k

Product Hunt area Product profile page screenshot

Product profile page – data points

A few data points that Product Hunt uses on these programmatically generated pages are:

  • The name and logo of the app
  • A short description of the app and what it does
  • Few clear CTA buttons
  • Image, screenshots, and a long description of the app
  • Ratings, comments, and other related products

#2. Product alternatives

In this area, Product Hunt targets {product} alternatives keyword which is informational in nature. The programmatic pages generated under “product alternatives” are landing page type.

Let’s take a look at some example pages in this area, and how much organic traffic they generate every month:

Example page Monthly organic traffic
Bypass Paywalls alternatives 2.4k
Moviedle alternatives 1.1k
SpyDialer – Reverse Phone Lookup alternatives 889

Product Hunt area Product alternatives screenshot

Product alternatives – data points

A few data points that Product Hunt uses on these programmatically generated pages are:

  • A descriptive category/app alternatives title
  • A short and a long description of the page
  • List of apps alternatives to the current app/category
  • Names, descriptions, and logos of all the listed apps
  • A clear CTA button in front of all apps

And that is how Product Hunt generates 666k organic traffic every single month.

Take a look at other programmatic SEO case studies and see if you can implement the same on your website.

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