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How Speechly turned Reddit threads into 148k Google impressions.

Speechly is a macOS dictation app in a brutally competitive niche. Here is how a Reddit-first GEO strategy turned an invisible brand into 148k search impressions in 8 months, most of it branded demand.

RG Rafael GuilbertCo-founder, Speechly
148kGoogle impressions in 8 months, from a flat start
4.9kOrganic clicks, compounding month after month
3.3%Average click-through rate across all queries
#8.7Average Google position, page one and climbing

The authority followed

Reddit threads that rank become backlinks that count. Domain Rating climbed to 38 with 13K backlinks pointing at speechly.io.

Ahrefs overview for speechly.io: Domain Rating 38, 13K backlinks, 398 linking websites

Ahrefs, speechly.io, March 2026.

Organic search took off

Flat for months, then a clear inflection once the Reddit presence started compounding into Google and AI answers.

Google Search Console performance for speechly.io: 4.93K clicks, 148K impressions, 3.3% CTR, average position 8.7, with clicks and impressions compounding from December onwards

Google Search Console, speechly.io. Clicks in blue, impressions in violet.

The challenge, a great product nobody could find

Speechly had a fast, accurate macOS dictation app in a category growing every month. The problem was visibility. When someone asked ChatGPT or Google for the best speech-to-text app on Mac, Speechly never came up. The category was owned by a handful of Reddit threads and comparison posts, and none of them mentioned Speechly.

The play, show up where the answers get written

Instead of pouring budget into ad auctions, Speechly went to the source AI models and search engines read from: Reddit. Readyt surfaced the exact threads their buyers were already reading, drafted native replies scored for ICP fit, and posted them from your own accounts, aged and warmed by Readyt.

One approved reply, three compounding channels. The reply lands in the thread today. The thread ranks on Google over the following weeks. And the AI models keep citing it, so the brand shows up in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers long after.

The result, Reddit visibility became branded demand

Search demand followed the presence. Over 8 months, impressions climbed from a flat baseline to 148k and organic clicks reached 4.9k. Most telling: the single biggest query became the brand itself. "speechly" pulled 3,448 clicks, up from a handful, as more people discovered the app through Reddit and AI answers and then went to Google to find it.

"We stopped shouting into ad auctions and started showing up in the threads people actually read. The branded searches followed on their own."
RG Rafael Guilbert · Co-founder, Speechly

Where the demand showed up

Top queries from Google Search Console. Branded search became the dominant channel.

Search Console top queries for speechly.io, all branded: speechly 3,448 clicks, plus misspellings speachly, spechly and speecly

People even misspell it: speachly, spechly, speecly. That is what branded demand looks like.

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