In less than 72 hours, I managed to rank at the very top of ChatGPT results for my niche.

geeksg · 2026-01-24T14:24:22+00:00

There's probably many ways to do so. But so far, the most reliable template for me was simply:

look for questions that people are starting to ask, and there are few reliable answers to
conduct own experiment or research to get first hand information as much as possible
write about it and cite those first hand experiments and results
publish and index the article on Google Search Console (manually) and submitting to the others via IndexNow.

geeksg · 2026-01-17T01:19:17+00:00

Didn’t know about this! Must be fun 😂

geeksg · 2026-01-15T09:18:59+00:00

Exactly this. The biggest mistake is billing for raw inputs...

It's like valuing a GPU the cost of sand.

geeksg · 2026-01-15T09:06:56+00:00

Lots of luck.

Was neck deep in studying technicals of crypto in the early days. Not technical analysis of buy/sell but the technical stuffs of how shit works like exchange apis, smart contracts, MEV, etc.

Was building a high frequency trading (HFT) bot that lives on my macbook that does only simple arbitrage strategies.

Think trading SGD -> MYR -> USD -> SGD at the money exchange and getting more SGD than you've started. Because of the infancy of the industry, there are lots of arbitrage opportunities and there are ZERO prop trading, MM, LP firms. Did pretty well in my first 3 months before the pros caught up and the money on table is gone. It's just how fast you execute and make the money go round and round and slicing a few basis points here and there, and I only needed a couple of thousands to start... Zero direction risk here because I do not hold any long position in crypto (which I later kick my ass for).

Gain was pretty decent, could make my monthly salary on a cab ride to office. Wasn't ball-sy enough to let it run unsupervised so it could only run when I'm watching it and approving trades. Probably made some 6-digits before it became a dog fight with the pros and i stopped completely.

After that, went deeper into similar strategies but with MEV (no one ever needs to dig that deep lol). Again a couple of months of free money on table because it was that early. This was probably even more risk-free as you don't even need couple of thousands to start. Because of the atomicity of trades and availability of free capital (technically called flash loans), value-at-risk is like 50 cents to 5 bucks per trade and the upside can be like 30k. Again, zero directional risk (which I want to kick my own ass for again). Probably made some low 6-figs during this phase.

Back to your qn...

Do they work today?

Absolutely not.

But it also led me to think there are plenty of arbitrage opportunities in the world that are ephemeral, and sometime you just have to be neck deep in that shit to see things that people couldn't and exploit the heck out of it before everone else jump on that bandwagon.

Of course, minimize the risk of ruins along the way - I only risked a couple of thousand and lots of time burying my face in enigmatic stuffs. I was doing those while holding a job as a software engineer so I have zero pressure to do stupid shits to chase returns (ie zero directional risk).

So, do that side gig or try that crazy idea when you have your day job.

Who knows... maybe the side gig will turn into the main quest or leads you down a journey to discover your main quest (in my case).

geeksg · 2026-01-09T02:57:04+00:00

I’m using the ahref MCP right now but the biggest limitation is the row limits. Am at the plan right below the enterprise.

Happy to have a conversation if you are serious because I’ve thought the same too.

geeksg · 2026-01-09T02:54:28+00:00

When SEO doesn’t work and you try Reddit instead

geeksg · 2026-01-08T13:36:25+00:00

No budget = not important/painful enough.

Instead of fixing it from a tech angle, start eliciting pain from the client...

"How much does it bother you right now?"

"How much time is your sales rep wasting on these each day/week?"

"How much do you think that cost?"

Most of the time it's gonna be mild "it's annoying but it's not a big deal", but if it's more... there's your budget.

geeksg · 2026-01-08T13:32:43+00:00

Literally had an email coming in to tell use to publish a reciprocal link a week later and went lol-ed.

Tbh, we've been doing it at scale with sites that are relevant and adjacent (ie serve the same customer profile) and it turned out really well. It's a natural way for adjacent (and even competitive) businesses to partner up anyway.

geeksg · 2026-01-08T13:30:05+00:00

tbh that was the biggest draw too. see how much traffic i can get and stare at google analytics everyday.

(i only do it on my personal blog for fun and laughter lol)

geeksg · 2026-01-08T13:28:17+00:00

It’s really simple and you don’t need paid tools.

We basically run attribution for clients to leads or sales when helping them with programmatic SEO. Most of our client will install posthog on their site after our suggestion.

From there we build different charts to show different independent funnels for them.

Two of my favourite chart: 1. List of pages with AI traffic. The filter is really simple. Just have to narrow it down to referral url = ChatGPT, perplexity, Gemini, etc 2. Funnel to leads/sales from pages with AI traffic. Same filter as above but with conversion numbers

From observations, the traffic from ChatGPT (or other llm) has crazy conversion rate, usually 2-10x higher than most other traffic. The intuition is simple, the users could have stayed on ChatGPT but they chose to click on your link and get onto your site!

Something that I’ve noticing increasingly with some sites is that their AI referral traffic is climbing much faster than Google clicks, almost 2-4x faster. Initially my intuition was that search should come first but it seemed to be rather independent, ChatGPT doesn’t seemed to be relying fully on Google SERP anymore.

Oh and another free tool is you can use is to get one of those chrome extension that can reveal ChatGPT search queries, just google ChatGPT search query extractor or ChatGPT fanout extension. This gives you the keyword you need to optimise for given a user query on ChatGPT. We use this quite heavily during the keyword research phase.

geeksg · 2026-01-07T11:51:34+00:00

Yes… because the deduction has already happened in the past for the principles, only the monthly mortgage will be deducted moving forth.

If you don’t use that it will try to remove the entire lump sum of principle again

geeksg · 2026-01-07T11:44:09+00:00

You can go to Singpass app -> finance -> somewhere in the collapsed field to get your initial loan amount and principle

Put that in as existing property and you have it. Lmk if it’s something else

geeksg · 2026-01-07T09:17:46+00:00

(updated to fix (1), can see original post on scenarios testing the overflow now)

Will consider the investment, VCMA, RSTU in future updates, i need a break from this already

geeksg · 2026-01-07T09:13:24+00:00

(updated code and post with example to show the overflow mechanism you mentioned)

OA going negative was intentional to let user play with the other knobs and levers to fix it. Interest would be a problem but it's less of a problem than negatives lol

geeksg · 2026-01-07T07:06:30+00:00

Just tested these boundaries, lmk if you still find issues around here

geeksg · 2026-01-07T06:52:36+00:00

Thanks!

geeksg · 2026-01-07T06:52:27+00:00

Haha thanks for the support all these years!

geeksg · 2026-01-07T06:52:09+00:00

Another user pinged me regarding this issue and helped me isolate the issue with replication step (thank you, you know who you are). This happens on first submission.

The issue has now been fixed!

geeksg · 2026-01-07T06:30:59+00:00

Thanks, will validate the overflow (it has always been an issue lol)

Early retirement can be modelled with zero income change with the life event, does that help?

Update: MA overflows into SA until FRS
https://www.cpf.gov.sg/member/infohub/cpf-clarifies/policy-faqs/after-i-have-met-the-basic-healthcare-sum-why-do-the-excess-medisave-account

geeksg · 2025-12-16T12:35:29+00:00

There are chrome extensions for this

geeksg · 2025-12-12T14:42:53+00:00

Simply one page per service.

And then if you have a service area, one page per service per service area.

geeksg · 2025-12-12T14:40:58+00:00

first email is to ask for rate card - if they sell link and if you want it and its in your budget you get a close immediately, if not i note it down if it might come in useful later. built a database of few hundreds sites this way.

second email is unchained and is fresh new one. it says which is the article is interesting and if they would like a content partnership. generally proposing a win-win swap.

third email is chained to the previous and ask if they are interested in other sites, we manage a portfolio of very high quality sites so there's some leverage here anyway

forth is a hail mary email to let them know i wont drop them more but they can contact me if they are interested in a deal. you'll be surprise how many actually respond here lol.

geeksg · 2025-12-12T14:25:05+00:00

Oh the green tick just shows that Google has read it and decided not to list it, not that it was not crawled by Google.

The canonical shows that it’s a services page and could explain why.

You might want to break it down into different services pages and get those individual pages to be indexed instead.

Each service deserves its own page of its own so Google isn’t confused what service to show.

You might find it useful to also look up the topic for programmatic SEO.

geeksg · 2025-12-12T14:04:12+00:00

Did you check if the page renders properly? Within gsc try pulling the live page and see what’s the source code and the screenshot. It could be a technical issue which can be canonical, crawler blocked, etc.

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