serpguy // field notes on searchEST. 2026 — ISTANBULARCHIVE · 42 ENTRIESLAST PUBLISHED · APR 23 2026
About serpguy · Est. 2026 · Istanbul

This is serpguy — a practitioner's archive on how search actually works.

A blog publishing expert content on SEO, GEO & AEO, Growth, and Vibe Coding. Written from real client work and production deployments — not conference stages, not recycled LinkedIn posts.

FoundedJanuary 2026by a single practitioner
Essays published42 longreads8–20 min reads
CadenceOne per Thursdayno exceptions
Readers2,340 subscribers16 countries
§ 01 · The beat

What serpguy covers — and what it refuses to cover.

01

Technical SEO

Crawling, indexing, log-file forensics, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering, schema — the underneath layer most content teams never look at.

14 essays →
02

GEO & AEO

Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization. How to stay visible as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews absorb the top of the funnel.

11 essays →
03

Growth

Acquisition, retention, and conversion. Practical tactics that survive contact with a P&L — backed by experiments, numbers, and a fair share of failures.

9 essays →
04

Vibe Coding

Building SEO infrastructure with AI-assisted tools. Fast, lean, opinionated — how one person ships production workflows without a full engineering team.

8 essays →
§ 02 · The editorial line

Six rules that decide whether something ever ships on this site — no exceptions.

Rule 01Field experience first. Every essay draws from real client accounts, real deployments, real algorithms dissected under a debugger.
Rule 02No recycled takeaways. If a better version of the idea exists elsewhere, we link to it instead of repackaging it.
Rule 03Numbers or it didn't happen. Case studies include the measurement method and the failure modes, not just the outcome.
Rule 04Tools are boring. We write about the decision, not the dashboard. Nobody needs another "top 7 SEO tools of 2026."
Rule 05No sponsored content. Ever. No affiliate links disguised as recommendations. The newsletter pays for itself or it doesn't.
Rule 06Longform, always. If the argument fits in a tweet, it goes on the timeline. The archive is for everything that doesn't.
§ 03 · Who writes this

One writer.
Ten years in search.

The byline
Serpguy

Sr. Growth Manager · SEO & founder of Sealed.agency. Based in Istanbul. Writes here on Thursdays, consults the rest of the week, and breaks more things in staging than he ships to production.

serpguy is a one-person archive. There is no editorial team, no content calendar filled by freelancers, no "head of content" rebranding B2B listicles as thought leadership.

The byline is the practitioner. If a case study runs on this site, it's because the writer ran the project. If a code snippet appears in an essay, it's because the writer shipped it. This is the single non-negotiable principle the whole archive is built on: the person writing about the work is the person who did the work.

That constraint is also why posts are weekly, not daily. A longread that meets this bar takes between 10 and 30 hours of writing, editing, and production. The math doesn't support a higher cadence, and nobody's helped by one.

If you've read something here that moved your work forward, that's the entire point. If you disagree loudly with something you've read — even better. The inbox is open.

§ 04 · The paper trail

How we got here — the short version.

2016

First agency seat, first technical audit

Learned to read server logs before learning to read keyword research. Which turned out to be the right order.

PRE-HISTORY
2019

In-house SEO lead at a mid-market e-commerce brand

Three years, four replatforms, one very long section on migration checklists that still informs the current Technical SEO archive.

IN-HOUSE
2023

Founded Sealed.agency

Boutique growth consultancy — SEO, GEO, and growth engineering for B2B and e-commerce clients. Deliberately kept to a roster of 6–8 clients at a time.

AGENCY
2026

Launched serpguy

The archive you're reading. Started as an internal write-up habit, then became a public one. Same writer, same standard.

NOW

Read one essay. Decide for yourself.

The fastest way to know if serpguy is for you is to spend 14 minutes on the latest field note.