The King of AEO competition left its title vacant after Round 1. Its own scores and the League of SEO’s rule both point back to David Quaid as King.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Nov 12, 2026
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
AI SEO
AI SEO and the rest of SEO: tests, notes and guides on how ChatGPT, Gemini and Google pick brands, plus site building, content and links.
Written by Bike Hawley
On The Edward Show I showed how I build linkable assets with Claude Code and no coding background, using SEO TV, built in five hours, as the example.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 6 minutes
- Dataset
- No
I told Claude to go all out on a wiki design. It built a 3D model, path traced the images on my RTX 3080, and could give all 87 flavors their own picture.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Discord Is Putting Server Threads in Google Search. I Started an AI SEO Server the Next Day.
Content & Links
Discord server threads and forum answers reach Google search from mid-December 2026. Why it looks like Reddit for parasite SEO, and the 1,000-member gate.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
My SEO literacy test grades 30 questions against Google’s own documentation. In the first 242 tests, 50% of 202 people passed on their first try.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Cloro vs DataForSEO on 40 Google searches with known real pages: Cloro answered all 40 with no confirmed swap, and DataForSEO’s full page matched 10 of 22.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 6 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Three Claude Code Sessions Deployed to One Site in 20 Minutes. Two Undid the Work Before Them.
Building
Three Claude Code sessions deployed to one site in 20 minutes on October 21, and two of the three put older files back live while every check passed.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
One word in the prompt changed which brands ChatGPT recommended: “construction” swapped the project management field, and “law firm” had four different effects.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- Included
How I decide which city pages get built: five local providers, three verified, real local depth. EliteAEO ranked #1 for searches with no measured volume.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
AI instructions page vs About page for 87 brands: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode cited the About page in 850 of 2,610 answers and the AI page in 742.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2026
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Four free SEO tools built with Claude took 112M to 170M tokens each, about $34 to $50 a tool at Opus list prices. Then a botched retry burned $73 in 20 minutes.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 4 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Reddit ranked in Google’s top 10 for 631 of my 700 software questions. ChatGPT’s 700 live answers, collected September 8 to 21, didn’t mention it once.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reading time
- 4 minutes
- Dataset
- Included
My robots.txt welcomed GPTBot, yet two shared hosts answered it with a 429 on every HTML page, while Googlebot, ClaudeBot and four other crawlers got 200.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Two free AI tools went live near midnight. By 9:06 AM, 62 IP addresses had spent their $5 daily cap: Claude $2.33, Gemini $2.10, ChatGPT $0.38, Google $0.20.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 4 minutes
- Dataset
- No
ChatGPT vs. Google: 74% of ChatGPT’s Software Recommendations Went to Brands Outside Google’s Top 10
AI Search
ChatGPT vs Google on 2,100 software questions: 74% of ChatGPT’s 7,997 brand recommendations went to brands whose own site was outside Google’s top 10.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reading time
- 6 minutes
- Dataset
- Included
A Roofer With 176 Town Pages Gets Its Rankings From the Blog
Content & Links
A roofer’s site had 176 service-by-town pages, yet all 182 keywords it ranked for nationally were blog articles, and an area page won its best city spot.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 4 minutes
- Dataset
- No
Which CRM does ChatGPT recommend? In 100 logged-out answers it picked HubSpot in 69, then Pipedrive, Zoho CRM and Salesforce, each tied to a type of buyer.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- Included
Is SEO dead in 2026? No. Google reports more than 5 trillion searches a year, but 68 percent of US Google searches ended without a click in early 2026.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reading time
- 4 minutes
- Dataset
- No
ChatGPT recommended Salesforce in 46 of 100 CRM answers, and in all 46 the line naming it also said enterprise, complex, large, customization, scale or grow.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- No
- Reading time
- 1 minute
- Dataset
- No
How to check which brands ChatGPT recommends in your category: 100 fixed queries, logged-out runs with web search on, two coders and Google as a control.
- Written by
- Bike Hawley
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Dataset
- No