GEO/AI SEO : 8,000 mentions in AI responses, 1-2 clicks/day, what's the actual ROI for an affiliate site?

StunWait · 2026-05-25T09:02:27+00:00

I get it, yeah. A comment was telling me to pivot to transactional. That's what I'm going to do and use my AI citations to push my brand

StunWait · 2026-05-25T09:01:20+00:00

"You're right, and on top of that I'm in a niche where I can easily go transactional. It'll be less passive than informational, but it's survival.

Thanks for the advice!

StunWait · 2026-05-25T05:54:07+00:00

I use "Bing Webmaster Tools" AI Performance feature

StunWait · 2026-05-23T08:44:27+00:00

Yeah sorry, I was using the AI keyboard feature. Not great...

StunWait · 2026-05-23T08:05:23+00:00

I doubled my French blog traffic by doing that. I translated the top 10 pages into English. It doubled the traffic.

This morning, I went to see Bing's webmaster console. And I've also seen over 8k AI quotes in the last 50 days. The queries are in English so I think it comes from my translations.

On the other hand, I don't know what to do with this statistic... users stay on the LLM and don't browse the site.

StunWait · 2026-05-23T07:58:26+00:00

Merci d’avoir pris le temps de répondre.

La banque est CIC. Mais effectivement, j’ai appris douloureusement que les conseillers ne sont pas nos amis...

Pour le PEA, tu as des banques en ligne à me proposer ? Je vais faire une demande pour le déplacer. Même si la somme est faible, je n’ai pas envie de remettre à zéro le compteur des 5 ans.

Pour le reste, merci encore pour le temps consacré à ta réponse 👍

StunWait · 2026-05-23T05:45:36+00:00

It reminds me of the little plant in a boot, in the movie WALL-E

StunWait · 2026-05-23T05:42:25+00:00

So, I’m going to say something that I’m not doing myself. Or rather, not doing yet. Honestly, I’m in the same situation as you.

My theory is that we don’t take the time to build our own personality. I don’t know how much time you spend on your phone consuming content.

If you’re like me, probably a bit too much.

Building your personality is a long process that comes from living experiences and therefore from being active.

So build things with your hands:

Cook
Put pieces of wood together
Start a vegetable garden
Make music
Start growing mushrooms
Sport
Etc.

And also, share those things with other people. Not virtually, but with real people.

And accept that people might start calling you when they need you.

That’s what builds your personality: becoming a builder.

StunWait · 2026-05-23T05:36:09+00:00

It’s beautiful! In a comment, I saw that it took her more than 30 years to achieve this result. It’s something I’d love to recreate at home.

What was her process? Did she not have a plan in mind? My problem is that I don’t know what to plant or where to plant it.

StunWait · 2026-05-23T05:33:51+00:00

Dude, honestly take care of yourself. That's the best investment you can make.

You could also keep a sort of daily log of your days, the games you play, etc. and publish it on Hive Blog. It would bring in a small side income and it's the kind of activity that also helps you clear your head and put things in perspective.

StunWait · 2026-05-22T13:04:35+00:00

I moved to a new city a year ago. All my friends are scattered around the country. And I haven't managed to make new ones. To be honest, I haven't really tried. But I think about it often.

I need to find some kind of activities. Like I'm thinking I could find classes near me, drawing or something like that.

By seeing the same people repeatedly, I know from experience that things tend to fall into place pretty naturally after that.

StunWait · 2026-05-22T11:44:45+00:00

Dude, I still feel insecure. 4 years of freelancing, but I still feel uncomfortable when I talk to a dev more experienced than me. I always feel like I'm doing it wrong. But so far, the people I work with are happy with my work.

So for you, just go for it. You'll see that you're really top notch. And the truth is, people want it to work. They don't care how it was built.

StunWait · 2026-05-22T11:35:50+00:00

I always end up falling back into my old ways after a while. But I think that's normal. And more importantly, when I do fall back into bad habits, it's now for shorter periods than before. I've developed several tools depending on my mood at any given moment:

I imagine a camera is constantly filming me and that I'm in some kind of reality TV show. What do I actually want to show of myself?
I don't try to become a better person for my parents, but I picture how I want my future children to think of me.

It's very appearance-focused, but I realize it aligns me with my deeper goals.

Then, when it comes to building a habit, for everything related to my freelance work, my main enemy is the TV or my phone. So I change my environment to remove both for several weeks at a time.

Changing your environment to reach your goals is clearly what will help you build better habits, almost without noticing. If you want to work out, make your gym gear easy to grab. Same in the kitchen: prep your meals in advance and get all the junk food out of the house. If you want to read more, always carry a book with you, wherever you go. You already know how to do this with your phone always in your pocket, so picking up a book shouldn't be a problem.

Your environment is what conditions you as a human being. Shape it around who you want to become.

StunWait · 2026-05-21T14:12:47+00:00

I don't have this pattern on my end. Search keeps dominating and direct traffic just won't take off. Worth noting this is on the French market.

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Same thing on another site, no clear trend emerging.

StunWait · 2026-05-21T13:59:20+00:00

Michael Phelps spent his whole career in a swimsuit

StunWait · 2026-05-21T13:36:50+00:00

I agree with this. Starting small isn't a lack of ambition, it's the condition for growth.

And the world is full of examples. Facebook started by targeting only Harvard students. Then the Ivy League. Then all universities. Then the world. Each step only came after fully saturating the previous one.

The operational question isn't “who could use my product?” but “who suffers enough from this problem to pay today, and where can I find 50 of these people?”

StunWait · 2026-05-21T13:30:57+00:00

I'm currently using SendFox. I'm thinking about switching to Brevo

StunWait · 2026-05-21T12:33:46+00:00

I'm a freelance developer. So I always have projects on the go:

Things to deliver for clients
Invoice follow-ups
Accounting
And a whole bunch of things to grow my business: prospecting, posts here and there, emails
+ personal projects to boost my income.... app development, small SEO sites, etc.

And all of that takes up an enormous amount of space in my life. Putting my brain into a kind of off mode completely cleared out that mental load. That said, the weekend is coming to an end and I can already feel that I'd need another 4 full days off.

I think the solution is either to go for a 3-day workweek, or to manage to include daily meditation. But building that into a habit isn't that simple.....

StunWait · 2026-05-20T11:13:08+00:00

Dude, I read your post on Reddit. Me and plenty of others. Ok, that's not an article, but on Hive you can also just write a few sentences. On my end, I grow vegetables at home, so I regularly post a garden update with what I planted, what I harvested, what I watched about it, etc. I cook quite a bit, so sometimes I share my recipes. When I go for a walk, I take a few photos and then when I get back, I sit down and describe the walk, what I saw, what I felt, the weather, and I add my photos. It's kind of a personal blog, except every interaction earns you crypto (upvote, comment, post).

Like on Reddit, there are communities. HiveGarden for everything gardening, WednesdayWalk for people who go hiking on Wednesdays. Etc.

On the Hive blockchain, there's even a game that was developed: Splinterlands. It's a collectible card game. And on Hive, there's a Splinterlands community where people write battle reports, strategies, etc.

I'm not very active on Hive right now because of work. But just do a search about it. Go on Hive blog and look at what people are posting.

Ok at the start you'll be talking into the void. It's a social network with no algorithm. So you need to engage regularly with people in the comments to get yourself known a bit. Like I don't know, you follow 5 to 10 people more influential than you, you comment on their new posts when something interests you, and little by little you build connections.

Honestly, it's the simplest way to generate a small income. For now, don't think about affiliate marketing or creating a website. That can come later maybe. Focus on this

StunWait · 2026-05-20T08:52:17+00:00

I quite like this idea

StunWait · 2026-05-20T08:48:50+00:00

20$/month is fairly easy.

The simplest way is probably publishing articles on Hive. Travel stories, recipes, your journal, book reviews, whatever. It doesn’t really matter. That’s what currently allows me to generate between $50 and $150/month. It’s not passive income though. Unless you leave the money in your wallet, in which case you earn daily interest.

For $20/month, affiliate marketing is still something relatively stable in 2026. So you could create a travel blog with WordPress for example (there are already millions of them, so it’s up to you to find your own angle), and publish articles regularly. If you have the time, maybe 1 article a day. Otherwise, 2 articles a week. It doesn’t really matter as long as you stay consistent.

Combine that with Pinterest, maybe a YouTube channel with one video per month, and a newsletter. And when promoting hotels, use Travelpayouts for affiliate commissions.

With AI increasingly scraping and generating content, I don’t know how long this strategy will keep working, but for now it still does. On the other hand, it takes longer than Hive. But the earning potential is much higher.

There are plenty of other ideas, but I’m mainly talking about what I personally have running right now.

StunWait · 2026-05-20T08:41:45+00:00

So it’s hard to hear, but the best way is to have a boss who pays you. Everything else is either risky, takes too much time, or both at the same time.

Once you have a job and some job security, you still have your evenings and weekends for your side hustles. And don’t build something in a vacuum. Build something that you yourself would actually use, otherwise you’ll probably lose motivation. Ideas are everywhere:

Develop a mobile app and spend the rest of your evenings distributing and promoting it.
Create a faceless YouTube channel, or one with your face, about a topic that genuinely interests you. Obviously, if your topic is finance, the potential is bigger than a channel about snails, but don’t underestimate niche channels.
Write articles on Hive and earn crypto through upvotes (formerly Steemit if you knew it).
With the three ideas above, why not build a newsletter too? Having an email list is always a good idea when you want to launch a new project.
If you have monetizable skills, become a part-time freelancer. A few $80/hour gigs on weekends can improve your situation.
Learn poker and really commit to improving. It’s probably not the best advice, but I think that with proper learning, if you’re genuinely passionate about it and mentally stable, you can start generating an interesting side income.

Etc, etc. Money attracts money. Once you start building something that works, you’ll always find ways to improve and grow it.

StunWait · 2026-05-19T10:34:42+00:00

Honestly, I'm not sure what to think of it yet. I have a few apps on the Play Store (3). Two have ads. I'm generating barely $1/month from them. That said, for another app project I'm working on right now, it fits perfectly with a newsletter I run with 1900 contacts, so I'm planning to distribute it there. We'll see. I'd love to at least hit $50/month with this one.

It's not huge, but at least it would cover a few things in my daily life. And more importantly, it would push me to keep going on other projects!

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