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.
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Case study: 239 clicks from 61,500 impressions — anatomy of a page-2 CTR collapse
A real 28-day Search Console panel — 0.4% CTR at average position 11.5. Setup, data, diagnosis, and the action plan. Plus the generalizable lesson: most 'ranking problems' indie devs bring me are click-through problems in disguise.
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.