Ok so my original plan - way back when - was to create a completely new website that I can use to host the SEO optimized content in Q&A form, based on the terms that people search for.
Then, it occured to me.
I owned eyadquaibi.com
I'd already built a website for Eyad Qunaibi a long time ago.
After discovering his series on evolution and I thought it really deserved it's own place on the internet.
I remember being shocked to learn the domain eyadqunaibi.com was not registered -- so I quickly picked it up, and set to work. I created a (relatively) simple website that displayed the video series and generated the content from the captions that I was able to extract from the videos.
Keep in mind, this was before the advent of LLMs so I had to hand-code this bad boy up myself!
Anyway, I was pretty happy with how it turned out -- but it was severly deficient in terms of the content it served. It was just 2 series out of the entire corpus of the stuff he'd put over the years. I think it was just ~70 videos from about ~900 total.
But this wasn't actually the main reason why I decided to extend the original site.
Traffic started picking up
I started noticing that traffic started to pick up on eyadqunaibi.com
I'd done a terrible job of the SEO to date, so I quickly patched it up using Claude Code and started seeing some results:
So rather than build another thing from scratch, I'm going to simply extend this bad boy to update directly from the content we retrieved earlier.
That's the topic for the next post!