Summary: Week 6 of the HivePulse SEO Contest is settled. Nine entries, nine qualified, three perfect 100/100 scores, and — for the first time in six rounds — nobody lost an entry to a missing tag. 550 HIVE is going out. The field finished one single entry short of the 400 pool.
One entry short of a bigger pool
The rule was published before the round started, as it always is: under 10 valid entries pays 300 HIVE, 10 to 19 pays 400, 20 or more pays 500.
Nine people entered. Every one of them qualified. And the pool stayed at 300, because that is what the rule says.
Last round the field was two short. Week 6 came up one short. We are telling you this plainly for the same reason as last time — quietly paying 400 anyway would make the ladder meaningless, and a ladder nobody believes is worth nothing to the people climbing it.
One more writer next round and every prize on the board goes up.
| Entrants | Prize pool | Places paid |
|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 300 HIVE | 150 · 100 · 50 |
| 10 – 19 | 400 HIVE | 200 · 100 · 60 · 40 |
| 20+ | 500 HIVE | 250 · 120 · 80 · 50 |
HivePulse SEO Contest week 6 winners
Three posts finished on a perfect 200 out of 200 — 100 SEO and 100 GEO, all three. No previous round has produced a single perfect score, let alone three, and the result was a genuine dead heat at the top of the table.
🥇 First place — 
@wardah (150 HIVE)
Best Spider Man Movie Trip: 2 Hours (of Joy) With My Sister — SEO 100 · GEO 100
A cinema trip with her sister. No keywords hunted, no formula — just a day described properly, with five images every one of which carries a real description instead of a filename. The post opens with the answer in the first sentence, every heading marks a real section, and the preview description is filled in. Study this post if you assume a high score requires a technical subject. A high score requires a clear one.
🥈 Second place — 
@nabbas0786 (100 HIVE)
HivePulse SEO Guide: Boost Your Hive Blog Visibility [2026] — SEO 100 · GEO 100
An explainer of the difference between SEO and GEO that stands on real numbers — 8.5 billion Google searches a day, 60% of AI answers citing sources with direct links — instead of vague claims. Concrete figures are exactly what a generative engine can lift and cite, which is why the GEO score is perfect.
🥉 Third place — 
@ahmedabbaci (50 HIVE)
AI E-Commerce Guide [2026]: Automations and Operations — SEO 100 · GEO 100
A first ever entry, and it landed on a perfect score. 1,361 words, seven images every one with a real description, nine sections. Their comment read "took me a long way just to turn those red & yellow lights into green" — and that is precisely the point of the tool. Turning the panel green on your first attempt is genuinely hard.
How the tie was broken — and the rule we are publishing because of it
Three posts, identical scores. The score could not separate them, so we read them, and gave first place to the one that reads most like a person talking to another person rather than to a search engine.
Choosing on readability was a judgement call, and judgement calls are exactly what this contest exists to avoid. So here is the rule, from week 7 onward:
When two posts tie on SEO + GEO, the tiebreak order is: (1) higher GEO score, (2) higher word count, (3) earlier publication time. All three are numbers you can check yourself before you publish. No taste, no debate.
Every score
| # | Author | SEO | GEO | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @wardah | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | @nabbas0786 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 3 | @ahmedabbaci | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 4 |  @les90 | 99 | 100 | 100 |
| 5 |  @angeluxx | 81 | 77 | 79 |
| 6 |  @militadigital01 | 77 | 80 | 79 |
| 7 |  @al-hamad | 77 | 78 | 78 |
| 8 |  @aimet | 79 | 60 | 70 |
| 9 |  @cositav | 77 | 57 | 67 |
Every score is re-derived from the post's on-chain content, not from the screenshot — a screenshot cannot win this contest, because we recompute the number ourselves.
The referral bonus is why this round grew
🐦 The 50 HIVE X prize goes to @les90
@les90's quote-retweet was the only one that actually quote-retweeted the announcement, and it earned real engagement doing it: "I have been writing on Hive since 3.5 years but I never had idea that my common writing blogs can be searched from Google from different countries."
50 HIVE, paid.
One honest note.
🚀 Week 7 — how to enter
- Install HivePulse — Chrome or Firefox. Free; the Chrome build covers Opera, Brave and Edge.
- Write and publish a new post on any supported Hive frontend, with the analyzer open as you write.
- Comment below with a link to the post and a screenshot of your SEO and GEO panel. Both are required.
- Tag the post
#hivepulse. Enforced. Nine out of nine managed it last round — keep the streak. - Referred by someone? Write exactly
referred by @usernamein your comment — and you both earn 25 HIVE.
Runs 8 September → 15 September 2026, 12:00 UTC. Minimum SEO score of 70. One entry per person; post several and your best tagged one counts. Any language welcome.
🚀 And HivePulse 1.14.0 is out — one fix was costing you points
The tool this contest is built around shipped a substantial update this week, and two changes matter directly to anyone entering.
If you write on SlothBuzz, your tags were being read as zero. SlothBuzz hides its tag input once you hit its ten-tag limit — which is exactly when you have finished tagging properly — and the analyzer was anchored to that input. So a fully tagged post scored 0 out of 8 on Tags, at the precise moment full marks were deserved. Version 1.14.0 fixes the bug. If your score ever looked lower than your post deserved, the tag reader may be why.
The analyzer now has an off switch. Settings → Post Analyzer. On by default, but if you would rather draft without a panel watching, it is one toggle.
The rest of it, briefly:
- Your internal-market activity now shows in Pulse — limit orders, fills, cancellations, expiries and HBD↔HIVE conversions, in their own Market tab so order traffic does not bury your mentions and replies.
- Frontend switching stops sending you to pages that do not exist. Switching from a page a frontend has no equivalent of now lands on that frontend's home page instead of a server error.
- Ureka links open at the right URLs, and its composer opens where it actually lives.
- Turning a frontend off in Settings now genuinely turns it off. The toggle used to go green and change nothing.
- Mixed-case links like
peakd.com/@Alice/My-Postare recognised; they were being ignored outright. - The side panel follows the page you are on as you browse, instead of the page it was opened on.
- Slow Hive nodes now time out and fall back instead of leaving the feed spinning, and a failed load no longer clears what you had already loaded.
- A sharper toolbar icon, one permission removed that let any website detect the extension, and two host permissions dropped that were requested but never used.
- The privacy policy has been rewritten to describe exactly what the extension reads and which services it contacts.
Update from Chrome or Firefox.
Where the points actually are
Six rounds in, 46 posts scored on both axes. The pattern has not shifted: SEO scores cluster high because Hive creators already write decent titles and headings. GEO — whether an AI answer engine can lift a passage out of your post and cite it — is where the gap sits, and GEO is where week 6 separated 4th place from 9th.
Across every post we have scored, the correlation between the two measures is just 0.60 — SEO explains about a third of GEO. A high SEO score is not evidence that an AI engine will quote you. Those are two different jobs, and most entrants are already winning the first one.
- Open with the answer. First 8–60 words, before any preamble. All three perfect scores did this.
- Write self-contained sentences. "This shows…" means nothing when quoted alone. Name the subject inside the sentence.
- Describe your images. Not
IMG_1234.png. A real sentence about what is in the picture.
And the cheapest points on the board: fill in the preview description — 10 SEO points for about 15 seconds of work. PeakD calls it "Short preview description", under the editor. On Ecency it is in the Story preview step.
🐦 The 50 HIVE X prize — week 7
The quote-retweet with the most engagement wins 50 HIVE. Likes + reposts + replies, added together, counted when week 7 closes. The number decides.
👉 This is the tweet to quote: https://x.com/HdevCore/status/2097327842325410165
Your post has to quote-retweet that tweet — not a reply, not a standalone post, not a quote of your own tweet. The difference between a quote-retweet and a reply cost someone the prize in week 6. Write your own words about your own experience. No engagement farming — follow-for-follow, like-for-like, reply rings and bought engagement are disqualified, and we look before we pay. Counted at 15 September, 12:00 UTC.
Four angles that travel, if you want a starting point: your score with the screenshot; the thing that surprised you; one sentence before and after; or what you would tell a Hive writer who has never heard of it.
Join in
- ⭐ Subscribe to Hdev Contests — every round lands here.
- 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/wnpR8Rafcf
- 🐦 X: https://x.com/HdevCore
- 🧩 Get HivePulse: Chrome · Firefox
One entrant is the whole gap between 300 HIVE and 400. Bring someone with you — the referral pays you both, and week 6 proves the mechanism works. 🚀
— The HivePulse Team (