I'm a solo dev building 1RM.fit , a workout tracker (Next.js web + React Native mobile). In May I started publishing SEO content — eventually ~60 articles. What happened next surprised me, and I haven't seen it written up much. The honeymoon For the first 4-6 weeks, Google was generous. My brand-new domain got test-ranked for 528 distinct queries in a single month — 2,533 impressions at an average position of ~37. Articles I'd published two weeks earlier were showing up on pag...