Indie maker shares full SEO/AEO playbook: get your product recommended by AI
tibo_maker · x · 2026-11-09
Tibo (builder of Outrank and Bazzly, 217K followers) shares for the first time the complete SEO/AEO playbook behind all his SaaS products. Core thesis: AI recommends the most-mentioned product, so you make sure your product appears everywhere Google and AI look — blogs, listicles, Reddit, review sites and social.
The 11 tactics:
- Reddit placement: Bazzly finds fresh and already-ranking Reddit threads and gets the product into the top reply (AI pulls heavily from Reddit)
- Listicles: Outrank gets products listed #1 in listicles that already rank — the pages ChatGPT reads when asked for the best tool
- Content engine: turn Reddit questions into blog articles; publish one SEO article daily; refresh old posts regularly since AI and Google prefer recent pages
- Backlinks: build and verify new backlinks weekly; pitch guest posts via Outrank's free database of 278 vetted DR20+ sites
- Free tools: ship genuinely useful free tools that each rank on Google and funnel users into paid products
- AI visibility tracking: monthly, an AI Visibility Checker asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity real buyer questions, showing whether the product got named, which competitors did, and which sources got cited — those sources feed back into Bazzly, Outrank and social content
- Word of mouth & affiliates: incentivize honest user reviews on Instagram/TikTok/X/LinkedIn and review sites; affiliates generated $8K in the last 30 days for Revid alone
Related event: Indie Hacker Tibo Shares Full SEO/AEO Playbook for AI Visibility(2 posts)→
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