Insights
How search actually works for AI-built websites.
Substantive, engineer-written pieces on why vibe-coded sites go missing in search and how to fix it — distinguishing discovery, crawling, indexing, and ranking instead of blurring them into one word.
If you built a site with Lovable, Replit, Bolt, or v0 and it isn’t showing up, the cause is usually a specific, fixable technical layer — not a mystery. These explain which one.
- Direct answers first — no long throat-clearing introductions.
- Platform claims are cited to a dated research log, not asserted from memory.
- No unsupported statistics and no generic AI filler.
Articles
Latest writing
- Diagnostics · 9 min readWhy Your Vibe-Coded Website Is Not Showing Up on Google
Being online and being findable are different things. The four stages of search — discovery, crawling, indexing, ranking — and where AI-built sites break.
- Platform · Lovable · 8 min readCan Google Index a Lovable Website?
Yes — but whether it's indexed depends on which of Lovable's two rendering paths your project is on, plus config Lovable doesn't set for you.
- Checklist · 11 min readSEO Checklist for AI-Built Websites
The twelve layers of SEO for an AI-built site, in dependency order — from technical access and rendering to authority and measurement.
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Reading is a good start. The scan shows you exactly which of these things your own public page delivers to a crawler today — no score, no email gate.
This is a narrow technical scan of the public page response. It does not measure rankings, content quality, backlinks, Google index coverage, or business opportunity.