James's AI-built website outranked 20-year-old local competitors on Google search
James (The Boring Marketer) · How Claude Code Ranked Me FIRST on Google (It's OVER for SEO Agencies) · Aug 4, 2025 · at 22:43
James discusses building a mobile diesel repair website in Charlotte with Claude Code and auditing its live Google search rankings.
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“Now if you go to Google and you say mobile, Diesel mechanic Charlotte. And you look here, like we're showing up in the maps, like right away. And you know, we're in the top three organic results and these, some of these competitive websites and businesses have been around for, you know, 20 years or something like that.”
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