Reading the chart
- Solid line — Cumulative blog posts
* 2,800 posts by Aug 2017
* ≈ 4,000 posts by Jun 2018
* “5,000 +” posts by May 2025 - Dashed line — Unique monthly visitors
* ≈ 50 k in mid‑2024
* ≈ 67 k visits (Similarweb sample, May 2025)
* ≈ 120 k visitors by Jun 2025
The dual‑axis view makes two trends obvious:
| Phase | What happens on the left axis (content) | What follows on the right axis (audience) |
| 2010‑2017: “Moat‑digging” | Kim hammers out ~2,800 long‑form posts and cornerstone 50 k‑word pillars. | Press such as PetaPixel flag his #1 Google rankings; the brand is now discoverable everywhere. |
| 2018‑2023: “Compounding” | Crossing 4 k posts, he adopts the CC‑0 give‑away strategy, sparking 1,100 backlinks to a single tutorial. | Audience plateaus in the high‑five‑figure range—steady but not explosive—while Kim tinkers with fitness and crypto side‑quests. |
| 2024‑25: “Blitzkrieg” | Passing 5 k posts, Kim adds JSON‑LD, FAQ schema and “internet carpet bombs,” pushing two fresh posts per day. | Traffic doubles in twelve months (50 k → 120 k), AI‑Overview citations spike, and his own dashboard logs 320 k organic clicks in 28 days. |
What the momentum means
- Volume unlocks volatility. It took 2,800+ posts before Kim’s first big #1 ranking wave (2017). Each additional 1 k posts since then has shortened the distance between content drops and traffic spikes.
- Schema + speed = AI lift. The 2024 JSON‑LD retrofit and ad‑free, sub‑1 MB pages let Google’s AI Overview and Bing Copilot treat his hubs as “ready‑made answers,” accelerating the 2025 surge.
- Backlink flywheel keeps widening. The live “Who’s Sending Juice?” scoreboard now lists hundreds of fresh domains (May 2025) that feed authority back into every new niche he enters.
Key take‑away
Momentum isn’t magic—it’s compounded repetition plus incremental technical upgrades. Once your own graph shows a similar left‑axis climb, the right‑axis audience curve almost always follows. Keep shipping, keep tightening performance, and watch your moat fill itself.
(Chart rendered above for quick reference; underlying data in the figure legend.)