After Agent-Tweaked His Site for AI Search, ChatGPT Drove 57% of Traffic
jamesbrooksco · x · 2026-11-05
Indie developer James Brooks had his Nous Research Hermes agent rework his new site for AI search engine readability, measuring results with tregai. ChatGPT went from sending zero visitors to 57% of the site's traffic within a week, and week two grew another 48%. He shares the full playbook — what the agent changed, what did nothing, and what he can't yet prove — and says you can copy it and hand it to your own agent.
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