Edition 10.8 — The SEO reading. Most "agentic SEO" wins are self-reported traffic graphs that crater in six months. This chapter pulls the real receipts from two products built by AI agents end to end: Folderly EmailGen — a brand-new subdomain that hit #1 for "business email generator," 467K impressions, third-party traffic value climbing ~$0 → ~$320/mo — and LinguaLive, the cautionary tale whose 153K-impression graph looks like a win until you see ~94% of the clicks are people already typing the brand name. The method is triangulation: GSC for footprint, Ahrefs for the independently-checkable commercial keywords, conversions for truth. Do not trust a graph you cannot cross-check.

The SEO reading. Most "agentic SEO" wins are self-reported traffic graphs that crater in six months. This chapter pulls the real receipts from two products built by AI agents end to end: Folderly EmailGen — a brand-new subdomain that hit #1 for "business email generator," 467K impressions, third-party traffic value climbing ~$0 → ~$320/mo — and LinguaLive, the cautionary tale whose 153K-impression…