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aliases: ["March 2025"]
Is A: Month
Created at: "2025-03-28"
Belongs to: "[[25q1]]"
Rating: "😄"
---
# March 2025

## Focus

- Complete [[25q1-newsletter-seo-sprint]] — optimize top 15 articles for search
- Ship [[25q1-laputa-v1]] as internal release — feature-complete for personal use
- First outdoor rides of the season

## Highlights

- Completed [[25q1-newsletter-seo-sprint]]: optimized 15 pillar articles with updated titles, meta descriptions, internal linking, and structured data — organic traffic up 40% by month end
- [[25q1-laputa-v1]] shipped as "internal v1" — search, navigation, frontmatter editing, and property panel all working — vault has 9,000+ files and performs well
- Referral program ([[25q1-referral-program]]) running strong — 3,200 total referral subscribers in Q1
- Newsletter hit 56k subscribers — [[25q1]] delivered well above expectations
- [[25q1-strength-program]] paying off — can hold a 2-minute plank now, leg press up 40%, climbing power noticeably improved
- First outdoor ride of the season: 85 km along the Po River, 12 degrees, absolutely beautiful
- [[measure-sponsorship-mrr]] at EUR 14.2k — strong close to [[25q1]]

## Reflections

March was the month where Q1 came together. The SEO sprint was unglamorous work — rewriting titles, adding alt text to images, building internal link maps — but the results were immediate. One article ("How to Run Effective 1:1s") went from page 3 to the #2 result for its target keyword. That single article now brings in 200+ organic subscribers per month. The compounding effect of SEO on a content business is underrated.

Shipping Laputa v1 felt like a real milestone, even if I'm the only user. It's not pretty, it has bugs, and the graph view is more confusing than helpful. But it works. I browse my vault in it every day — types on the left, notes in the middle, properties on the right. The workflow is faster than Obsidian for my use case, and that's all the validation I need to keep building. Next up: bidirectional linking and a better graph. Closing [[25q1]] feeling strong and focused. [[25q2]] is going to be intense.
