SEO Framework Creator: Real Developer Expertise
I'm a software engineer who thought "I'll just build a quick affiliate site for passive income."
Two years and countless SEO bugs later, I had a framework—and a lot of hard-won lessons.
My Story
In 2023, I launched gustosome.com, a cooking affiliate site built with Angular and server-side rendering.
The code worked. The tests passed. The site looked great.
But traffic? Almost zero.
The Problems I Discovered
Google was ignoring half my pages. Root cause? Missing canonical tags on recipe variants.
Traffic dropped 40% overnight. I'd accidentally blocked GPTBot in my robots.txt—and didn't even know AI crawlers mattered yet.
Zero email signups despite thousands of visitors. A CSS overflow-y: auto bug was hiding 87% of my content, including every CTA. Users could see the hero section but couldn't scroll to anything else.
Finally got my first AI citation in Perplexity. It took 23 iterations of my schema.org markup to get it right.
What I Built
Every bug became a checklist item. Every fix became a reusable code snippet.
That's this framework.
What I Believe
SEO advice is broken.
Most guides stop at "optimize your meta tags" and never show you how to actually implement it in a real codebase.
Developers deserve better.
We don't need marketing fluff. We need specific configs and code snippets we can actually use.
AI is changing everything.
The 2024-2026 shift to AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) means half of traditional SEO advice is already outdated.
RankForge
This isn't a course or a coaching program. It's an agentic AI tool I wished existed when I was debugging why my sites weren't ranking. Autonomous agents do the heavy lifting—you just review and ship:
- Site scanner that checks 200+ SEO factors and ranks every issue by impact
- Keyword validator that flags declining terms before your traffic drops
- Competitor scraper that shows exactly what's ranking for your competitors
- Actionable fixes with specific code and config changes—not vague advice
I run it on every site I build. Now you can too—free.
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