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10X Growth in LLM Traffic in 5 Months

Kim Huong Tran3 Mar 2025
3 min read

Identifying the right content wedge

Final Round AI supports job seekers throughout the entire hiring process—from ATS-optimized resume and cover-letter creation to AI-driven mock interviews and real-time Copilot assistance during live or recorded sessions. Their target demo includes professionals and students applying for jobs across industries, but especially those in competitive or technical fields, who want personalized, real-time feedback and career-boosting support.

One of the most common ways job seekers begin their journey is by searching for specific interview questions. daydream identified this as a strategic entry point: if we could capture search intent around interview prep, Final Round AI could get in front of users at the exact moment they’re preparing for high-stakes conversations.

Building a long-tail SEO engine

We developed a scalable content strategy focused on role- and topic-specific queries like:

In January, performance was modest: about 11,000 sessions per month from Google, with ~100 sessions per month referred by LLMs. We kept going, shipping new pages weekly and optimizing them around two core principles:

  1. Structured, extractable content. Each page was designed for clarity and ease of parsing. We used clearly labeled questions, answers, and examples that users could navigate quickly and LLMs could easily extract from.
  2. Topical authority through scale. By continuing to publish thousands of these pages each month across diverse technical roles, Final Round AI is establishing itself as a topical authority in job preparation and technical hiring.

Final Round’s LLM traffic grows 10X in 5 months

By May, 2025, Final Round AI’s organic (Google) traffic from these pages spiked to about 107k sessions per month, while LLM-reffered traffic spiked to 1k sessions per month.

This growth came not from chasing algorithms, but from building content that genuinely met user needs and, in turn, aligned with the types of material LLMs surface in their responses.

According to visibility tracking for the month of May 2025:

  • Final Round AI appeared in 10% of relevant prompts across LLMs
  • Their average position within those responses was 69% at the top (meaning Final Round was cited early and prominently in the response)

Final Round AI is well-positioned to increase the frequency of presence across LLM platforms. The surface area is still expanding and their authority is growing in tandem.

With a scalable content engine in place and topical authority compounding, Final Round AI is positioned to capture even more surface area across both traditional search and AI-powered platforms. As LLMs become a mainstream surface for information retrieval, Final Round AI is showing what it looks like to win by doing the fundamentals right: building useful, structured, and trustworthy content at scale.

Want to show up where your users are searching, whether it’s Google, ChatGPT, or Perplexity? Let’s chat.

About the author(s)

Kim Huong Tran

Founding Marketer

Kim Huong Tran

Kim has been making complex ideas feel simple for over a decade. She has built content programs from the ground up at AI/ML companies, shipped global campaigns, and written everything from customer stories to IPO communications. At daydream, she leads content and brand, working at the intersection of creativity and performance to shape how we show up. Outside of work, she creates content with her corgis.

Thenuka Karunaratne

Co-Founder & CEO

Thenuka Karunaratne

Thenuka started daydream to help high-growth companies turn organic search into a real growth channel. Before this, he founded Flixed, which drove over 100,000 subscribers to streaming services through programmatic SEO. He also serves as an SEO Expert in Residence for several venture capital firms, advising portfolio companies on organic growth. His interests range from Zen Buddhism to learning Mandarin Chinese, and he hosted a podcast called "Wandering with Thenuka."

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