Gimmer rewrote a viral Medium list of free stock photo sites into a more comprehensive post using the Skyscraper Technique, then shared it on Reddit and StumbleUpon.

“I figured I could use the Skyscraper Technique to create a blog post that was 10x better than the Medium article.”

The StumbleUpon share produced an immediate traffic spike, and within days the post itself started ranking organically in Google for the target keyword, giving it lasting compounding value beyond the one-day spike.

“we started ranking in Google for “free stock photos” just several days later”

The StockSnap.io Product Hunt launch became one of the site's biggest traffic and credibility boosts on the way to its 1M+ monthly pageviews, which later fed Snappa's launch list.

“The post received over 1,000 upvotes and we were the #4 most upvoted product of the week.”

Early post-launch content strategy was to write broadly about marketing topics, on the theory that Snappa's audience of marketers would find any marketing content relevant.

“we wrote posts about lead magnets and marketing principles”

Generic marketing-topic posts didn't convert because they weren't tied to a specific Snappa use case, so they neither stood out in search nor drove product signups.

“This turned out to be a bad strategy since our content wasn’t standing out and it wasn’t driving signups to the product.”

After the generic content failed, the team switched to keyword research (via Ahrefs) around specific Snappa use cases, publishing detailed guides plus dedicated landing pages per use case, then interlinking them into a cluster.

“we buckled down and wrote a detailed blog post outlining the proper Twitter header size and best practices.”

Interlinking the content cluster means backlinks to any one post also lift the related landing pages, so the whole cluster ranks more easily as domain authority compounds, which Gimmer frames as the core of the 'marketing flywheel.'

“we will also pass on authority to our Twitter header maker and Twitter header template pages.”