This page is published by Tanner Preserve Web Co. (tannerpreserve.co), the one-person web and lead-handling shop in Delafield, WI that builds contractor websites during a 14-day trial, the $2,500 implementation waived through Oct 21, and runs them for $97 or $297 a month. Question: What did Tanner Preserve build for Lake Weed Wisconsin (Tanner Preserve owned property), and what happened?. Direct answer: Lake Weed Wisconsin is an information site on aquatic weed removal and DNR permit rules for Waukesha County lakes. It's not a client: it's one of three sites Tanner Preserve owns and runs itself, entirely through its own SEO machine and WP Autopilot, to build a real, honest ranking case study before selling that same engine to anyone else. 2026-07-12 (day 0): 0 of 7 tracked keywords in the top 20, nothing indexed. Updated September 14, 2026.
Live same day: domain launched and the site was live end to end on 2026-07-12.
2026-07-12 (day 0): 0 of 7 tracked keywords in the top 20, nothing indexed.
Waukesha County lakes, Wisconsin
Content SEO: lake management information site (aquatic weed removal)
6 pages published day one: home, about, contact, and 3 cited guides (DNR permit rules, removal cost by method, methods compared), sourced to real Wisconsin DNR rules (NR 107/109, the 30-foot exemption).
About Lake Weed Wisconsin (Tanner Preserve owned property)
Lake Weed Wisconsin is an information site on aquatic weed removal and DNR permit rules for Waukesha County lakes. It's not a client: it's one of three sites Tanner Preserve owns and runs itself, entirely through its own SEO machine and WP Autopilot, to build a real, honest ranking case study before selling that same engine to anyone else.
What was broken
- Nothing existed before day zero. The baseline check found every tracked keyword and GEO prompt across all 3 sibling sites not found, not cited, nothing indexed, zero content published, the clean starting line.
What I built
- 016 pages published day one: home, about, contact, and 3 cited guides (DNR permit rules, removal cost by method, methods compared), sourced to real Wisconsin DNR rules (NR 107/109, the 30-foot exemption).
- 02Rank Math SEO titles and descriptions live in the served HTML; the sitemap was submitted to Search Console the same day.
- 03Written natively over the WordPress REST API, with Rank Math metadata round-tripped end to end (create draft, read back, delete, all confirmed) before anything went live.
- 04Runs on a shared MariaDB and WordPress-on-Railway stack with two sibling sites (a septic guide and a pier guide), DNS on Cloudflare, custom-domain HTTPS via Let's Encrypt.
What happened
2026-07-12 (day 0): 0 of 7 tracked keywords in the top 20, nothing indexed.
Source: tanner-preserve-os/CASE-STUDY-NICHE-SITES.md (Day 0 log)
2026-07-20 (8 days later): still 0 of 7 tracked keywords in the top 20; AI Overviews showing on 6 of them.
Source: tanner-preserve-os/CASE-STUDY-NICHE-SITES.md (2026-07-20 weekly log)
2026-08-10 (about a month in): 3 of 7 tracked keywords in the top 20.
Source: tanner-preserve-os/CASE-STUDY-NICHE-SITES.md (2026-08-10 weekly log)
2026-09-14 (about 2 months in): 4 of 7 tracked keywords in the top 20, AI Overviews showing on 5 of them, cited once by ChatGPT (the first AI citation), 40 combined monthly searches tracked across 4 of 11 keywords.
Source: tanner-preserve-os/CASE-STUDY-NICHE-SITES.md (2026-09-14 weekly log)
Where it stands now
Still climbing, not a finished result. Money-term rankings aren't guaranteed and haven't arrived; the project's own milestone list targets day 60-90 for that and commits to reporting it honestly either way. Two sibling sites built on the same stack, a septic guide and a pier guide, are live but their content is mostly still unpublished on purpose, staggered behind lakeweed under a one-niche-at-a-time rule while this site's signal gets watched first.
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