The starting point
On September 29, 2026, we ran our baseline check on our own brand-new domain. The honest result: not ranking on a single tracked search — and a search for our own name pointed at an old Carrd page, not this website.
We sell search visibility. So before selling it to anyone, we ran the engine on ourselves — and logged every check, good or bad.
The results
Positions below are dated snapshots from live Google searches. Every one is in our tracking log.
| Search a customer would type | Position | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| instagram repost campaign service Los Angeles | #1 | Oct 29, 2026 — also #1 in checks on Oct 24, 25, and 26 |
| instagram repost service Orange County | #1 | Oct 29, 2026 — also #1 in checks on Oct 24, 25, and 26 |
| Delilah Agency | #1 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| instagram repost campaign | #3 | Oct 29, 2026 |
How it happened
- Sep 29, 2026 — Baseline: nothing ranking. Our own name didn't find us.
- Oct 20 — First organic ranking ever recorded for the domain: #3 on the Los Angeles search.
- Oct 21 — First #1.
- Oct 24–26 — The homepage held #1 on both the Los Angeles and Orange County searches across three consecutive daily checks.
- Oct 29 — #1 on the Los Angeles search, #1 on the Orange County search, #1 on our own name, and #3 on the head term — in the check that set the baseline for our expanded 30-search tracking set.
- In the same window, the site grew from 27 pages to 58 pages — every new page published by the engine.
The honest footnote: these are dated snapshots, not a claim that a position holds every single day. Young sites move around in Google's results — ours did, and our log records those days too. That's the entire point of tracking: you see exactly where you stand, at every check, in plain English.
How it was done
- A fixed set of tracked searches — 30 for Delilah today, covering our services, our cities, and the questions customers ask AI assistants — checked on a schedule, with every position logged. No cherry-picking.
- Articles published on the site daily (the engine runs two a day for Delilah), each written for a tracked search in an answer-first format, so both Google and AI answers can use them.
- Structured data on every article — BlogPosting and FAQPage schema, so search engines and AI assistants can read the pages properly.
- Internal links from every article to the pages that sell.
- A listicle strategy — the "best of" roundups AI assistants cite most are a named target of the work.
- One telling detail: Delilah's own Google Business Profile verification is still in progress. These rankings were won by the website and the content engine alone — no map listing, no shortcuts.
How we track AI search
There's no honest tool that reads ChatGPT's or Perplexity's answers directly, so we use a labeled proxy method: we track the question-style searches people ask AI assistants ("what is the best instagram repost service…"), check the answer-style results and roundups those assistants draw from, and record whether the business is named among them. We never report a made-up "AI ranking" — the method is on the label.
Same engine, second property
The engine also runs for OTL Music, our music agency. In its baseline check on October 29, 2026, otl-music.com ranked #1 for "white label spotify playlisting for agencies" — the exact B2B search its agency clients type — and #4 for its own name.