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title: "Basic SEO brings 50 visits a day in week one | Ian Nuttall"
description: "A one-week-old site in a boring local service market reaches 50 visits a day with basic SEO, good data, and good content."
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# Basic SEO brings 50 visits a day in week one

Sep 2026 / 13,321 views / [via X](https://x.com/iannuttall/status/2099471232651633050)

One week in and this site is up to 50 visits a day from SEO.

For contrast, I launched another site two days after this that's getting some traffic but not to the same level yet.

These are boring local service markets where basic SEO, good data, and good content works well.

![Image from the original X post](https://ian.is/media/tweets/2099471232651633050/2099471225651445760/18ce4ffcd4a66e28781ff51250a7019cefd5c44008f6b9083aeec050a23cc623.jpg)

-   **Total clicks:** 146
-   **Total impressions:** 61.3K
-   **Average CTR:** 0.2%
-   **Average position:** 12.6

![Image from the original X post](https://ian.is/media/tweets/2099471232651633050/2099471229468188672/d0d4bcff83fe8c56ea616ddc42256f7d9f0b64175facac78669351846cac0a9c.jpg)

[![](https://ian.is/media/tweets/2098041063768305845/9111552/3b92beafc36291717d6d5d467749e630ded347006cedcd81b351d3dae10e2e1e.jpg)**Ian Nuttall**@iannuttall](https://x.com/iannuttall)

> This site is 3 days old. Entirely planned and built on my Mac Mini via Herdr in about 12 hours the day before.
>
> Fable 5.1 was the lead orchestrator using Astra high for research and data, Astra low for backend implementation and Fable 5.1 low for design - all in parallel.

![Image from the embedded X post](https://ian.is/media/tweets/2098041063768305845/2098040348765491201/2ffc1ccd934909696fa97d6efe2bd5c81ba40c93f9c3ffeb5d4fff97856a0781.jpg)

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