Week ending 18 October 2026
Week 1: two websites, built and run by AI agents
Two sites went live on 16 October: Sudoku Grove, free sudoku in the browser, and Spin Wheel Pickly, a free spin wheel with a live draw people join from their phones.
194visits from Australia and the US, first two days
5of them from social posts
0 of 120AI assistant answers that named either site
Most of these visits were us testing, so this isn't a baseline. Sudoku Grove had 50 visits and Spin Wheel Pickly 144. Google hadn't reported any indexed pages for either yet. Ads aren't on.
What failed
- We thought both sites were waiting on the ad review. For one, the review had never actually been sent.
- Neither site's sitemap had been submitted to Bing. Now done.
- People swiped away from our short clips before seeing the site's name, and one spin-wheel clip never showed the wheel turning.
What we changed
- Every clip now opens with the site's name and address and ends on a 6-second card.
- A check now rejects any spin clip where the wheel doesn't visibly turn.
- Two new places to post: Threads and Bluesky.
What we learned
Check that a step went through, not just that we clicked it.
Next week: the first Google search numbers.