NEW AI Update: How to Rank on Google & ChatGPT (2026 SEO)
Discover the massive shift in SEO for 2026 and how to rank your AI-built apps on Google and inside ChatGPT answers. We walk through building an SEO-optimized landing page, performing keyword research, and creating a content engine that turns your AI tools into distribution machines.
00:00 - 00:00 - Intro: The AI SEO Problem
01:11 - 01:11 - Building a Ranked Landing Page
02:32 - 02:32 - AEO: Ranking in ChatGPT & Claude
03:36 - 03:36 - Instant Keyword Research Demo
04:12 - 04:12 - Creating an AI Content Engine
05:01 - 05:01 - Lead Capture with AI Tools
05:47 - 05:47 - The Future of SEO Strategy
Full transcript
New AI Builder update is a game changer. Today I'm going to show you the biggest SEO shift of 2026. Apps can now rank on Google and show up inside chat GPT answers. Click, code.
No SEO degree needed. And the best part? Your old apps get fixed automatically. Stick around because this changes everything for getting traffic.
Okay so here's the deal. The last two years AI app builders had one huge problem. You could build an app in 10 minutes but nobody could find it. Zero traffic, zero clicks, zero customers.
You'd spend a weekend building something cool, launch it, refresh the analytics and see nothing. Crickets. Why? Because most AI builders shipped apps as empty HTML shells.
Google would crawl your site and see almost nothing. Chat GPT couldn't read it. Perplexity ignored it. You built a beautiful store in the middle of the desert.
That just changed. Lovable, one of the biggest AI app builders, just dropped an update that flips the whole game. And I'm going to break down exactly what it does, why it matters for SEO and how you can use it right now to drive real traffic. Hey if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency.
Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads every comment so make sure you comment below. Now look, I want to show you exactly how I'd use this in the real world because demos with fake apps are boring. Let me walk you through how I'd grow the AI Profit Boardroom, our community for people learning AI automation, using this new update.
Here's the prompt I'd start with. Build a landing page for the AI Profit Boardroom community. It teaches business owners how to use AI automation to save time, get more customers, and grow their business. Include a hero section, member testimonials, an FAQ, and a blog section.
Make it SEO optimized with proper meta tags, headings, and schema markup. Now watch what happens. Lovable takes that prompt and in about two minutes you get a full landing page, hero section, testimonial blocks, FAQ, the whole thing server-side rendered, structured for Google to read. And the beauty is you didn't have to think about any of the SEO stuff.
The meta tags are there, the headings are in the right order, the schema markup is baked in, you got it from one prompt. Now this is just the foundation. Most people would stop here and wonder why they're not getting traffic but the real work starts with the next step, optimization. And one more thing, if you're building AI apps and landing pages with tools like this but nobody is finding them online, you've got a traffic problem.
That's where SEO comes in. If you want more leads, more traffic, and more customers, my team can help you rank higher on Google. Check the link in the comments and description to book a free SEO strategy session and let us handle your backlinks while you focus on growing your business. Okay, back to the demo.
Here's the second prompt I'd run. Optimize this landing page to rank on Google and appear in chat GPT, Claude, and perplexity answers. Target keywords around AI automation for small business, AI tools for entrepreneurs, and AI business community. Add FAQ schema, structured data, and AI readable formatting throughout.
This is where the AEO magic kicks in. Answer engine optimization. Lovable rewrites the page so it speaks the language both Google and AI search engines understand. It adds FAQ schema so your questions can show up as rich snippets.
It structures content in a way chat GPT can quote directly. Here's why this is huge. When someone asks chat GPT, what's the best community for learning AI automation, your page becomes a candidate to be the answer, not just a link in a list. The actual answer.
That's a completely different game than traditional SEO. And the wild thing is, you didn't write a single line of code. You typed a sentence. The AI did the rest.
Six months ago, this would have taken a developer and an SEO specialist a week to set up properly. Now let's get into the keyword research piece. This is where it gets really fun. Here's the prompt.
What are the top 20 keywords the AI profit boardroom should target to attract small business owners who want to learn AI automation? Show me search volume, difficulty, and which ones have the highest commercial intent. You hit enter and SEMrush pulls back real data, real search volumes, real competition scores, real opportunities, stuff that used to require a separate tool, and hours of digging through spreadsheets. Now I can see exactly what people are searching for.
Maybe AI automation for small business gets thousands of searches a month. Maybe AI tools to save time is easier to rank for. The data tells me where to focus my next move. And the best part, I don't have to leave the builder.
I don't have to copy keywords into another tab. The whole workflow lives in one place. Once I have those keywords, here's the next prompt. Create five blog articles targeting these keywords.
Each article should be 1500 words, include relevant subheadings, internal links to the AI profit boardroom signup page, and a clear call to action at the end. Make sure each article answers a search intent fully. Boom, five articles, each one targeting a real keyword, each one structured for SEO, each one funneling readers back to the community. This is how you build a content engine, not one blog post here and one there.
A whole connected system where every page has a job and every link pulls people deeper into your offer. And because everything is server-side rendered with proper schema, Google can crawl and index it fast. You're not waiting six months to see results. You could be ranking inside weeks.
Last prompt I want to show you, this one is for lead capture. Build a free AI automation audit tool. Users enter their business type and main challenge. The tool returns three personalized AI automation ideas they can use right away.
After the results, prompt them to join the AI profit boardroom community for the full step-by-step system. This is the move. A free tool that gives real value, captures emails, and pushes people into the community. People love free tools.
They share them, they link to them, they bring you traffic on autopilot. And here's the secret. Free tools rank ridiculously well in both Google and AI search because they answer a specific question with something useful. Both Google and ChatGPT love that.
So now I've got a landing page, five blog articles, a free tool, all optimized, all connected, all pulling traffic toward the same goal. That's a real business asset, not a toy. Let me hit you with something important. The biggest mistake I see people making with AI builders is they treat them like toys.
They build something cool, they post it, they get a few likes, then they move on to the next shiny thing. That's not how you build a real business. The people winning right now treat AI builders like distribution machines. Build, they optimize, they drive traffic over and over.
And here's what most people are missing. SEO is changing fast. The old way was you write a blog post, build some backlinks, wait six months, maybe you rank. The new way, you build an entire app with built-in SEO and AI optimization in one afternoon.
Then you let AI search engines do the work of bringing people to you. That's the future. And it's already here. And here's my prediction.
The next wave of successful businesses won't be built by huge teams. They'll be built by one person with AI tools and a clear plan for SEO. No big agency, no huge budget, just smart tools and smart distribution. The bottleneck is no longer building, it's getting found.
And this update fixes that problem. So here's what I want you to do. Pick one project, just one, build it with an AI builder, run the SEO review, hit the one-click fixes, do the keyword research, build out the pages, then watch what happens over the next 30 days. You'll see traffic you've never seen before.
You'll see signups you didn't expect. You'll see your site showing up in places you didn't even target. That's the power of this shift. One last thing before I go.
If you found this helpful, smash that like button. It tells the algorithm to show this to more people who need to hear it. And drop a comment below, tell me what you're going to build. Julian reads every single one.
And one more thing. If you want more leads, more traffic, and more customers from Google, my team can help. We do SEO and AI search optimization for businesses every single day. We handle the backlinks.
We handle the strategy. You focus on growing your business. Check the link in the comments and description to book a free SEO strategy session with our team. That's it from me.
Catch you in the next one.
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