Day 2 at indiehackers - Making seo progress

Week 2 update on MadeOnSol — the honest Solana tool directory.

Since my first post, here's what happened:

SEO / Indexing:

- Google indexed pages: 40 → 173 (and climbing)

- 2,300 URLs discovered by Bing (just submitted sitemap today)

- Published a data-driven article on HackerNoon analyzing 466,000 token launches — waiting on editorial review

- Backlinks: 26 across 7 linking websites (up from near-zero)

- Created profiles on GitHub, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, Dev.to for legitimate backlinks

Product:

- Shipped 9 community features in one update: review replies, private messaging, achievements, weekly leaderboard with SOL rewards, tool watchlists, follow system, reputation points, new badges, and admin monitoring

- Launched Token Scanner — paste any Solana token, get an instant 0-100 risk score checking contract authority, holder concentration, bundle detection, and deployer history

- Added creator fee claiming for token launchers

- Now tracking 600+ tools (up from 530+)

Traction:

- First organic tool claim + review from GetBlock (24K X followers) — completely unprompted

- Started daily tool spotlight posts on X, tagging each tool — some engage and retweet

- Launched a review reward program: top 3 reviewers each month earn 0.25 SOL

- 2 registered users organically

Costs:

- Cancelled Plausible Cloud (€16/mo), migrated to self-hosted Umami — €0

- Locked in annual RPC plan at 50% discount — saving $294/year

- Total monthly cost: ~€140

- Revenue: still $0 (building trust and audience first)

Biggest lesson this week:

Stop buying cheap backlinks. I evaluated multiple Fiverr packages and Reddit offers — all turned out to be spam farms or PBN networks. The legitimate backlinks I created myself (GitHub, Product Hunt, HackerNoon, Indie Hackers) are worth more than 1,000 junk links.

Biggest challenge:

Still SEO. 1,400 pages discovered by Google but not yet indexed. The bottleneck is domain authority. Every legitimate backlink helps, but it takes time.

Next up:

- Expanding glossary from 17 to 100+ terms (each term = its own SEO page)

- Fixing Wallet X-Ray to catch all trades (currently missing some DEX transactions)

- KOL directory (Key Opinion Leaders) — track Solana influencers with verified wallet PnL

Happy to answer questions or share what's working/not working. Building in public, one feature at a time.

🔗 madeonsol.com