AI SEO agent for SaaS
SEO kept getting deprioritized. Now it compounds.
AIApply is a product-led SaaS in the crowded job-search space. Content happened “when we can”. With Outrank publishing consistently for over two years, the site gets 70,000 to 110,000 Google clicks a month and shows up in AI answers.
aiapply.co“If you’re a lean team that wants SEO growth Outrank is the way to go.”
Aidan Cramer
CEO and co-founder, AIApply
+44%
Google clicks
188,390 → 270,592, May–July 2025 vs 2026
109,260
Clicks in June 2026
The best month in 16 months of data
1,368
AI citations
Across 271 pages, per Ahrefs
331
Articles published
Straight to Webflow
The challenge
A product team with no time for a content calendar
AIApply finds high-match roles, tailors resumes and cover letters, and auto-applies. Keyword research, clusters, writing and publishing kept losing to product work, so content was irregular and momentum never built. The domain was not strong enough to beat bigger players either, and the brand barely appeared in AI Overviews or ChatGPT-style answers.
What the AI agent did
Consistency over hero posts
Outrank has published 331 articles to AIApply’s Webflow site since March 2024 and placed 287 verified backlinks through the exchange. Instead of a few big launches, the site gets a steady stream of pages answering the questions job seekers actually type.
- 331 articles published to Webflow
- 287 verified backlinks
- Running since March 2024
The results
A bigger site still grew 44%
For a site already getting around 60,000 clicks a month, doubling is not the realistic bar. Clicks from May to July 2026 were 270,592, up 44% on the same months of 2025. June 2026 was the best month on record at 109,260.
The brand also shows up in AI answers now. Ahrefs counts 1,368 AI citations across 271 pages, spread across Google AI Mode, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT and Copilot.
Google Search Console, monthly
Joined Outrank Mar 2024, before this data starts
Best month: Jun 2026, 109,260 clicks1.8× vs May ’25
| Month | Clicks | Impressions | Days of data |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | 59328 | 1705382 | 31 |
| Jun 2025 | 63827 | 2108225 | 30 |
| Jul 2025 | 65235 | 3395313 | 31 |
| Aug 2025 | 59135 | 3296761 | 31 |
| Sep 2025 | 63276 | 2856729 | 30 |
| Oct 2025 | 77350 | 2131862 | 31 |
| Nov 2025 | 60929 | 2112953 | 30 |
| Dec 2025 | 45853 | 2140881 | 31 |
| Jan 2026 | 65764 | 2284882 | 31 |
| Feb 2026 | 61322 | 2455729 | 28 |
| Mar 2026 | 73243 | 2849838 | 31 |
| Apr 2026 | 92631 | 2876059 | 30 |
| May 2026 | 84299 | 2774514 | 31 |
| Jun 2026 | 109260 | 2287226 | 30 |
| Jul 2026 | 77033 | 2063181 | 31 |
| Aug 2026 | 83831 | 1946312 | 26 |
Source: Google Search Console, via Outrank, data through August 26, 2026. Three months against the same three months a year earlier.
1,368
Times AI assistants cite the site
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode
271
Pages cited by AI
Source: Ahrefs, September 2026
AI citations by assistant
608 of 1,368 shown · Ahrefs, September 2026
Google AI Mode cites the site 179 times, 13% of all AI citations Ahrefs tracked.
The screenshot
Straight from Aidan’s dashboard
In their words
What Aidan told us
Quotes are taken word for word from the case study form the customer filled in and agreed to publish.
On AI visibility
“The biggest visible shift: our brand started getting picked up in AI answers.”
Aidan Cramer
CEO and co-founder, AIApply
On why it compounds
“Outrank keeps publishing consistently and builds authority in the background, so we’re not relying on one-off “hero posts.””
Aidan Cramer
CEO and co-founder, AIApply
The honest reading
What this data does not show
- AIApply joined Outrank in March 2024, before the start of the 16 months of Search Console data we hold, so we cannot show a before-and-after for its first year.
- Clicks dipped to 45,853 in December 2025, a seasonal low for job search, and July 2026 came in below June.
Data and method
Where every number comes from
- Clicks and impressions: Google Search Console, via Outrank. Full months unless marked partial, through August 26, 2026.
- AI citations: Ahrefs, September 2026, all subdomains.
- Articles and backlinks: Outrank platform data. Backlinks count only links our crawler verified live on the host page.
- Quotes and screenshots: submitted by Aidan Cramer, who agreed to their use in this case study.
Want the bigger picture? Our study of 2,119 sites shows how typical this result is, including the sites that did not grow.
