For indie developers shipping SaaS
Rank in Google. Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.
A 2026 SEO + GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) playbook built for developers. Every lesson is a tactic you can ship in an afternoon — and measure the next morning.
Why this exists
Google AI Overviews sit above the blue links. ChatGPT Search and Perplexity cite sources — but only 11% of cited domains overlap between them. The old SEO playbooks miss most of this surface, and 47% of AI Overview citations come from pages that don't even rank in the top 5.
RankPropel is a tactical playbook for the new search reality. No agency fluff — just what works for indie SaaS in 2026.
Latest articles
Cloudflare's 'Manage robots.txt' will silently block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity if you let it
I audited 25 of my own Cloudflare-hosted indie sites in May 2026 and found 6 of them invisibly blocking every major AI crawler. Here's what's happening, how to detect it in 30 seconds, and how to fix it.
IndexNow on Cloudflare: the 5-minute free win indie devs skip
IndexNow is a single POST that tells Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, and a growing list of engines that your URLs changed. Cloudflare has a one-click integration. Almost nobody enables it. Here's the setup and what it's worth.
Welcome to RankPropel
What this site is, what's free, what's paid, and why we're publishing this in 2026.