The numbers
Can a website built with AI rank on Google?
Yes. Here is ours, four months in, and a client’s, eleven months in, with Google’s own numbers.
Source: Google Search Console, read . We update this page monthly.
What Google itself says
Google wrote the rule down in 2023.
“Appropriate use of AI or automation is not against our guidelines.”
Google’s approach is to “focus on the quality of content, rather than how content is produced”.
In plain words: Google ranks pages that help people, and it penalises pages made to game its rankings, however they were made.
Source: Google Search’s guidance about AI-generated content, Google Search Central blog, February 8, 2023.
Our own site
Built with AI. Live since July 5, 2026.
The site you are reading was built with AI and went live on July 5, 2026. Before that we had an ordinary WordPress site. Here is the before and after.
Before: the old site
43
clicks from Google in its last three months or so. Never more than 3 in a day.
After: the AI-built site, Aug 7 – Nov 6, 2026
- Clicks
- 71
- clicks from Google
- Times shown
- 2,060
- times shown in Google
- Searches
- 109
- different searches
- Pages
- 28
- of our pages shown
How to read these. “Times shown” is how often one of our pages appeared in someone’s Google results, whether they clicked or not (Google calls this “impressions”). A click is someone choosing us from those results. Clicks per time shown: 3.5%.
71 clicks in three months is not a flood. It is a start, for a site that is four months old, and it is already more than the old site managed in a similar stretch.
How often Google showed us, day by day
See the day-by-day numbers
| Day | Times shown | Clicks |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 7 | 31 | 0 |
| Aug 8 | 17 | 1 |
| Aug 9 | 35 | 0 |
| Aug 10 | 27 | 2 |
| Aug 11 | 55 | 0 |
| Aug 12 | 29 | 0 |
| Aug 13 | 47 | 1 |
| Aug 14 | 16 | 0 |
| Aug 15 | 14 | 0 |
| Aug 16 | 38 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 50 | 0 |
| Aug 18 | 33 | 0 |
| Aug 19 | 12 | 1 |
| Aug 20 | 22 | 0 |
| Aug 21 | 19 | 1 |
| Aug 22 | 12 | 1 |
| Aug 23 | 23 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 24 | 0 |
| Aug 25 | 19 | 0 |
| Aug 26 | 21 | 0 |
| Aug 27 | 16 | 0 |
| Aug 28 | 20 | 1 |
| Aug 29 | 17 | 1 |
| Aug 30 | 22 | 1 |
| Aug 31 | 30 | 0 |
| Sep 1 | 24 | 0 |
| Sep 2 | 29 | 1 |
| Sep 3 | 17 | 0 |
| Sep 4 | 37 | 3 |
| Sep 5 | 14 | 0 |
| Sep 6 | 27 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 16 | 2 |
| Sep 8 | 24 | 2 |
| Sep 9 | 35 | 2 |
| Sep 10 | 28 | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 17 | 0 |
| Sep 13 | 18 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 22 | 1 |
| Sep 15 | 17 | 1 |
| Sep 16 | 23 | 1 |
| Sep 17 | 20 | 1 |
| Sep 18 | 20 | 0 |
| Sep 19 | 15 | 1 |
| Sep 20 | 18 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 17 | 0 |
| Sep 22 | 29 | 4 |
| Sep 23 | 17 | 7 |
| Sep 24 | 21 | 0 |
| Sep 25 | 11 | 2 |
| Sep 26 | 16 | 2 |
| Sep 27 | 10 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 32 | 3 |
| Sep 29 | 17 | 2 |
| Sep 30 | 22 | 2 |
| Oct 1 | 16 | 3 |
| Oct 2 | 15 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Oct 4 | 17 | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 23 | 1 |
| Oct 6 | 28 | 0 |
| Oct 7 | 30 | 0 |
| Oct 8 | 33 | 0 |
| Oct 9 | 16 | 0 |
| Oct 10 | 16 | 0 |
| Oct 11 | 17 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 23 | 0 |
| Oct 13 | 18 | 1 |
| Oct 14 | 18 | 0 |
| Oct 15 | 32 | 1 |
| Oct 16 | 23 | 2 |
| Oct 17 | 11 | 0 |
| Oct 18 | 21 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 32 | 1 |
| Oct 20 | 31 | 0 |
| Oct 21 | 20 | 1 |
| Oct 22 | 19 | 0 |
| Oct 23 | 23 | 2 |
| Oct 24 | 18 | 0 |
| Oct 25 | 19 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 21 | 0 |
| Oct 27 | 19 | 0 |
| Oct 28 | 25 | 1 |
| Oct 29 | 15 | 2 |
| Oct 30 | 23 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | 23 | 0 |
| Nov 1 | 26 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | 14 | 0 |
| Nov 3 | 33 | 4 |
| Nov 4 | 24 | 1 |
| Nov 5 | 16 | 0 |
| Nov 6 | 19 | 2 |
Searches where Google put us on page one
Searches for what we do, not for our name. “Average position” is where we sat in Google’s list on average: 1 is the top, and 1 to 10 is page one.
| Search | Times shown | Average position |
|---|---|---|
| seo | 20 | 2.8 |
| digital marketing agency in edmonton | 10 | 1.0 |
| website design services near me | 10 | 1.0 |
| edmonton seo near me | 8 | 1.0 |
| facebook ads agency edmonton | 6 | 7.7 |
| which edmonton agencies offer ai-powered digital marketing | 5 | 4.4 |
| best place to buy solo ads | 5 | 9.6 |
| digital marketing | 3 | 1.0 |
| seo services | 3 | 1.0 |
| digital marketing agency | 1 | 1.0 |
| ai visibility victoria bc | 1 | 2.0 |
Aug 7 – Nov 6, 2026. Source: Google Search Console. These are small numbers for a four-month-old site. Page one is page one.
Inside Google’s AI answers
Google now writes an AI answer at the top of many searches (it calls these AI Overviews and AI Mode). In the same three months, our pages were shown 136 times inside those AI answers, across 15 different pages.
What Google has on file
Google has 13 of our pages in its index, the list of pages it can show in results. It lists 36 more addresses as not in the index: most are old addresses that now forward to new ones, duplicates, or pages Google has found but not added yet. Our proposal pages are kept out of Google on purpose. They are written for one customer, not for search.
A client’s site
An Edmonton building-maintenance company.
We built this site with an AI site builder. It went live in mid-December 2025. Here is everything Google has reported since.
Dec 18, 2025 – Nov 6, 2026
- Clicks
- 179
- clicks from Google
- Times shown
- 2,550
- times shown in Google
- Searches
- 77
- different searches
- Average position
- 12.8
- average position, all searches
Month by month
See the monthly numbers
| Month | Times shown | Clicks |
|---|---|---|
| December 2025 (from the 18th) | 31 | 9 |
| January 2026 | 155 | 24 |
| February 2026 | 113 | 11 |
| March 2026 | 207 | 9 |
| April 2026 | 235 | 17 |
| May 2026 | 239 | 25 |
| June 2026 | 310 | 21 |
| July 2026 | 361 | 13 |
| August 2026 | 388 | 18 |
| September 2026 | 300 | 19 |
| October 2026 | 184 | 10 |
| November 2026 (1st to 6th) | 27 | 3 |
It is not a straight line up. October was lower than the summer months. We report the slow months the same way we report the good ones.
Searches where Google puts it on page one
Searches for the work the company does, not for its name.
| Search | Times shown | Average position |
|---|---|---|
| building maintenance | 226 | 2.3 |
| facilities maintenance edmonton | 135 | 1.0 |
| maintenance construction | 117 | 1.6 |
| building maintenance caulking | 38 | 1.0 |
| construction clean up and maintenance services edmonton | 8 | 1.0 |
| commercial maintenance services edmonton | 5 | 1.0 |
| building maintenance edmonton On the edge of page one | 146 | 10.7 |
Dec 18, 2025 – Nov 6, 2026. Source: Google Search Console.
Inside Google’s AI answers
Since Google started reporting it in May 2026, this site has been shown 81 times inside Google’s AI answers.
Who did what
What the AI did, and what it didn’t.
The AI
- Wrote first drafts of the pages.
- Built the design and the code, fast.
- Made changes in minutes when we asked for them.
The people
- Chose what the business actually does and who it is for.
- Kept the Google Business Profile and the online listings right.
- Wrote the real details: services, areas, phone numbers, hours.
- Checked every claim before it went live.
- Kept the site up and fixed what broke.
A site ranks because it is useful and correct, not because of who typed it.
See it live
Don’t take the page’s word for it.
On a call we open Search Console and show you the live numbers, yours or ours.