Technical SEO/GEO/AEO Consultant & Python Developer
Writing about how sites get found — by people, search crawlers, and language models alike — and how to build the infrastructure that works for all three. Technical SEO, Generative & Answer Engine Optimization, Python automation.
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all posts →Google's Top 10 Still Feeds AI Answers. Three Signals the Rules Are About to Change
The common view is that AI answers have already changed search. Under the hood it is still the same two-stage ranking pipeline. I checked this on data from anastasiya.studio: 74% of pages with impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode rank in the top 10 and collect 92.6% of AI impressions. But Google has already published the theory that removes that pipeline, started paying for contributions to AI answers, and opened a Search Console report for them. Here are the three signals and what to do right now.
Which Page-Two Rankings Are Worth Fixing: Contrast Analysis by an AI Agent on a Live Store
An agent in Orakul pulled 5 anastasiya.studio pages ranking 10–20 and compared each one with Google's top results. Two are worth fixing, one has a ceiling of 1–2 positions, the agent refused to suggest edits for one, and one has nothing to compare. Here's the data, what I changed on the site right away, and how I'll check the result in a month.
SEONegative SEO Link Bombing Is Real. That SEJ Disavow Story Was Something Else.
A widely shared Search Engine Journal story about a Reddit user's ranking collapse is making the rounds as proof Google can't stop negative SEO. It isn't that story — it's about someone disavowing their own paid links by mistake. The real threat is separate, and one of our clients lived through it: a coordinated spam-link attack, a same-day disavow file, and months of Search Console data that still hasn't fully recovered.
Technical write-ups are moving to Habr (Russian-only) — starting with the case of the vanishing IPv6
Technical deep-dives now live on Habr, in Russian only. Today's case: a client's site was blamed on Russian network-level blocking for three months — the real cause was three ordinary misconfigurations on one server.
SEOThe August 2026 Google Spam Update: The Real Facts, and the S-CTS Myth
A text is circulating claiming this update runs on an algorithm called "S-CTS." S-CTS is real — it's just YouTube's video-spam system, not a web search ranking mechanism. Here's what's actually confirmed, plus honest Search Console data from my own two-month-old site.
AEO68.9% vs. 2.1%: How to Get Baked Into an LLM's Weights
ChatGPT decides who to cite before it even searches. Three steps that move a brand from the rejected 2.1% into the pre-selected 68.9% — plus a tool that tests the first one right now.
AEOFive AI Agent Protocols in 2026: What to Ship Now and What Can Wait
llms.txt, OKF, ARD, MCP, UCP — a guide to the protocols deciding whether an AI agent finds you, connects to your data, and buys from you. Simple to complex, with a table and recommendations.
About me
My name is Max. Technical SEO consultant with 8+ years of practice, specializing in GEO/AEO since 2023. I write the Python tools I use for audits, crawling, and Django-based services, and I have run 120+ technical audits for product and content sites.
I have been in internet marketing since 2014 — industrial companies, education, events, software.
When COVID hit, I decided that a marketer who codes would outlast a marketer who does not, and learned Python. The first real scripts I wrote at my wife's request: small tools for her Teachers Pay Teachers store. They worked so well they grew into tptseo.tools — a product TPT sellers use today.
At Sundrax I ran SEO for six sites, each in seven languages — 42 versions of every decision. There it became obvious that search was changing faster than the playbooks: people were getting answers from ChatGPT and Perplexity, not only Google. I went deep into GEO, then AEO, and rebuilt my audit process around one question: can a language model read, understand, and cite this site?
Current project — Orakul: AI agent orchestrator for agencies.
This site is my lab notebook: what works, measured on real projects. And the free audits section is that notebook turned into a tool: run one and see how AI systems read your site — it costs you nothing
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