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▲ 0 r/expat_feedback+2 crossposts

Expats in Europe: what part of finding housing is the hardest?

For those who have moved (or are trying to move) to another European country, I’d love to hear how you handled the housing search.

What was most difficult?

  • Finding relevant listings when every country seems to use different property portals?
  • Understanding local terms, fees, measurements, prices, or neighbourhoods?
  • Handling the “access” side: landlord requirements, documents, residency rules, financing, agents, or being accepted as a foreigner?
  • Understanding the broader relocation process once you found a property?

Which country were you moving to, and what did you actually use? Did you use property portals, agents, Facebook groups, local contacts, relocation services, government websites, or online guides?

Did you use any housing or relocation guides for the country you moved to? If yes, what was actually helpful, and what was missing?

Would you prefer one place that combines listings, explanations of local terms, and relocation info, or do you usually rely on separate local sites and guides for each country?

For transparency: I’m the founder of Seeki.eu, a pan-European property listing aggregator focused specifically on expats. We’re building tools to make it easier to search across countries and understand listings in a foreign context, and I’m trying to validate whether this is actually useful for people going through the relocation process.

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u/alulord — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/Blogging

AI writing blog - sharing experience?

Hi, we have a startup website and of course we need content for it. We do have a good source of data which we are using to write the blogs, however as a startup we don't have the capacities to do everything manually. We have the process fairly manual plus we also created some skills and quality gates based on best practices to write articles, EEAT compliant content and how not to come out as AI written slop.

However my question is how can we be sure it's good quality? I mean I like what's written in there, it makes sense, but I'm not a professional blogger. And then a follow up question: How can I be sure Google thinks it's good quality? Do you guys have some experience with that? Any tools?

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u/alulord — 9 days ago
▲ 3 r/DigitalMarketing

How do you get the first real traffic to a new startup website?

Curious how others are handling this.

We’re building seeki.eu a pan-European AI property marketplace. We always knew content and link building would be part of the job. The difficult part is doing that while also trying to build the actual product.

We’ve been sitting under 20k impressions for few months now. At the same time, we have over 400k pages that have been crawled but aren’t indexed. My AI agents are telling me that it's because our domain not having a good authority (and bing tools are outright saying we lack backlinks from high quality domains). Which makes sense, Google won't go full throttle on a new website nobody knows about. They suggested writing blogs posts which will be cited on other portals and sending them manually to news outlets (does anyone do that?). But same like Google, why would they cite a brand new website nobody knows?

We also use Clarity to monitor citations, and after we added some new articles (optimized for AEO) to Google’s index, we started seeing a few of them show up in AI-search citations the following week (the speed of it was quite surprising).

One thing I find especially annoying is the indexing workflow. Every time we publish a new blog post, we have to go into GSC and manually request indexing (even though we have sitemaps, but it takes Google ages to get it from sitemap). There seems to be a fairly small quota too, around 10 URLs for us. I haven’t found a proper way to automate this for normal blog posts.

Is everyone just doing this manually, or is there a better workflow?

More generally, what tools are small teams using for:

  • content planning and writing
  • social publishing
  • link building and outreach
  • monitoring mentions or AI-search citations
  • finding relevant discussions to participate in
  • tracking whether any of it is actually working

There are plenty of tools for individual parts of this, but I haven’t found anything that feels particularly practical for a 1–5 person team that is also busy building the product.

I’m not looking for another list of enterprise marketing platforms. I’m more interested in what people are actually using day to day, including spreadsheets, scripts, manual processes, or combinations of smaller tools.

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u/alulord — 11 days ago
▲ 16 r/MarketingAutomation+3 crossposts

How do you get the first real traffic to a new startup website?

Curious how others are handling this.

We’re building seeki.eu a pan-European AI property marketplace. We always knew content and link building would be part of the job. The difficult part is doing that while also trying to build the actual product.

We’ve been sitting under 20k impressions for few months now. At the same time, we have over 400k pages that have been crawled but aren’t indexed. My AI agents are telling me that it's because our domain not having a good authority (and bing tools are outright saying we lack backlinks from high quality domains). Which makes sense, Google won't go full throttle on a new website nobody knows about. They suggested writing blogs posts which will be cited on other portals and sending them manually to news outlets (does anyone do that?). But same like Google, why would they cite a brand new website nobody knows?

We also use Clarity to monitor citations, and after we added some new articles (optimized for AEO) to Google’s index, we started seeing a few of them show up in AI-search citations the following week (the speed of it was quite surprising).

One thing I find especially annoying is the indexing workflow. Every time we publish a new blog post, we have to go into GSC and manually request indexing (even though we have sitemaps, but it takes Google ages to get it from sitemap). There seems to be a fairly small quota too, around 10 URLs for us. I haven’t found a proper way to automate this for normal blog posts.

Is everyone just doing this manually, or is there a better workflow?

More generally, what tools are small teams using for:

  • content planning and writing
  • social publishing
  • link building and outreach
  • monitoring mentions or AI-search citations
  • finding relevant discussions to participate in
  • tracking whether any of it is actually working

There are plenty of tools for individual parts of this, but I haven’t found anything that feels particularly practical for a 1–5 person team that is also busy building the product.

I’m not looking for another list of enterprise marketing platforms. I’m more interested in what people are actually using day to day, including spreadsheets, scripts, manual processes, or combinations of smaller tools.

u/alulord — 11 days ago
▲ 64 r/OpenAI

80% of our traffic are AI crawlers. Two referrals to show for it.

I looked at our traffic metrics (we are a small startup) and just had to share it. 80% of our traffic are AI bots. Not even normal bots and crawlers, just pure AI bots. We have to feed the infra to support all this traffic.

Meta is the big one here and it has sent us nobody at all. I Genuinely thought OpenAI and Anthropic would be further up, they get all the attention for this. OpenAI did manage to refer someone, so congratulations to them on an awesome 80,000:1 ratio.

Blocking it is easy enough in Cloudflare, but you can't do that without impacting search indexing, which is the actual goal for a site our size.

Amusing timing too, given the ongoing debate about open weight models distilling from the frontier labs while the frontier labs are distilling the rest of us.

u/alulord — 22 days ago
▲ 2 r/Anthropic

80% of our traffic are AI crawlers. Two referrals to show for it.

I looked at our traffic metrics (we are a small startup) and just had to share it. 80% of our traffic are AI bots. Not even normal bots and crawlers, just pure AI bots. We have to feed the infra to support all this traffic.

Meta is the big one here and it has sent us nobody at all. I Genuinely thought OpenAI and Anthropic would be further up, they get all the attention for this. OpenAI did manage to refer someone, so congratulations to them on an awesome 80,000:1 ratio.

Blocking it is easy enough in Cloudflare, but you can't do that without impacting search indexing, which is the actual goal for a site our size.

Amusing timing too, given the ongoing debate about open weight models distilling from the frontier labs while the frontier labs are distilling the rest of us.

u/alulord — 22 days ago
▲ 69 r/ArtificialInteligence

80% of our traffic are AI crawlers. Two referrals to show for it.

I looked at our traffic metrics (we are a small startup) and just had to share it. 80% of our traffic are AI bots. Not even normal bots and crawlers, just pure AI bots. We have to feed the infra to support all this traffic.

Meta is the big one here and it has sent us nobody at all. I Genuinely thought OpenAI and Anthropic would be further up, they get all the attention for this. OpenAI did manage to refer someone, so congratulations to them on an awesome 80,000:1 ratio.

Blocking it is easy enough in Cloudflare, but you can't do that without impacting search indexing, which is the actual goal for a site our size.

Amusing timing too, given the ongoing debate about open weight models distilling from the frontier labs while the frontier labs are distilling the rest of us.

u/alulord — 22 days ago