HivePulse SEO Contest Winners + New Week 3 (300 HIVE)

Summary: Week 2 of the HivePulse SEO Contest is settled. Three creators split 300 HIVE, every entry was re-scored directly from the blockchain, and week 3 opens today — from this moment, not tomorrow.

Last week @hdev asked Hive creators to optimize a post with the HivePulse SEO Contest analyzer and show the score. Six posts came in from five creators, every one re-scored directly from the blockchain. Below are the winners, every score, and how to enter week 3.

How were the HivePulse SEO Contest winners chosen?

No screenshot was taken on trust. Every entry was re-scored from its published on-chain body using the same scoring engine the extension runs in the editor, so a flattering screenshot cannot win. In fact the screenshot is only ever used to confirm you ran the tool. The ranking metric is the combined average of the SEO percentage and the GEO score.

Three checks decide eligibility: publication inside the contest window, the #hivepulse tag, and a minimum SEO score of 70. Merit does the rest.

🥇 First place — @nabbas0786 (150 HIVE)

Why Facing Mistakes And Losses Gives You A Best 2nd Chance — SEO 94% · GEO 100 · combined 97

A 2,449-word piece on recovering from failure that also carries a perfect GEO score, because the structure does the work. Clear opening, subheadings that stand on their own, and sentences an answer engine can lift without losing the thread.

🥈 Second place — @angeluxx (100 HIVE)

HivePulse Helps Me Optimize My Content — SEO 93% · GEO 60 · combined 77

The second-highest raw SEO score of the round at 93%, tagged correctly, and published within hours of the week-2 announcement going live — the fastest entry of the round.

🥉 Third place — @ekads (50 HIVE)

How To Earn Crypto Passive Income — SEO 71% · GEO 62 · combined 67

Cleared every rule: in window, tagged, and past the SEO 70 floor. Moreover @ekads improved on week 1 rather than repeating it. @ekads asked sharp questions about search indexing back in week 1 and turned up this round with a full entry.

All three winners are upvoted and reblogged by @hdev, and prizes are paid on publication of this post.

Every entry, every score

Author	SEO	GEO	Combined	Result
@nabbas0786	94%	100	97	🥇
@angeluxx	93%	60	77	🥈
@ekads	71%	62	67	🥉
@katriel1	51%	46	49	below the SEO 70 floor

A reminder that carried real weight this round: several entries were ruled out for missing the #hivepulse tag. It costs nothing and takes two seconds. However, without it a post cannot place, no matter how well it scores.

@katriel1 is close on structure and a long way from the floor on length — 283 words is the single biggest thing holding that score down, because length feeds structure, keyword placement and readability at once. Come back in week 3 with 800 and the number moves a long way.

🚀 Week 3 opens now — same 300 HIVE

How to enter:

1. Install HivePulse — Chrome or Firefox. Free, works on Opera, Brave and Edge through the Chrome build, and runs on Firefox for Android.
2. Write and publish a new post on any supported Hive frontend, using the analyzer as you write.
3. Comment below with a link to the post and a screenshot of your SEO and GEO panel. Both are required — a screenshot alone cannot be scored.
4. Tag the post #hivepulse. Enforced. Three entries lost on this last week.

Prizes: 🥇 150 HIVE · 🥈 100 HIVE · 🥉 50 HIVE, all upvoted and reblogged by @hdev.

Rules: the window opens the moment this post publishes — write and publish today and you are in. New original content published from today through 18 August 2026, 23:59 UTC, minimum SEO score of 70, one entry per person — if you post several, your best tagged one counts. Any language welcome.

Where the points actually are

Two rounds of data now say the same thing. SEO scores cluster high; GEO is what separates entries. Every winner across both weeks scored well on GEO, and the entries that missed the podium missed it there.

GEO measures whether an AI answer engine can lift a passage from your post and cite it. Therefore the habits below matter more than any single keyword. Three habits carry almost all of it:

1. Open with the answer. Put the payoff in the first 8 to 60 words, before any preamble.
2. Write self-contained sentences. A sentence beginning "This shows…" means nothing quoted alone. Name the subject.
3. Keep pronoun density low. Repeat the noun where a weaker draft reaches for "it" or "they".

And the cheapest 10 points on the board: fill in the preview description. On PeakD it is "Short preview description", right under the editor. On Ecency it is in the Story preview step, the box under the greyed-out title — pre-filled from your post, so it looks like your text, but editing it changes only your search snippet.

Join in

• ⭐ Subscribe to Hdev Contests — every round lands here.
• 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/wnpR8Rafcf
• 🐦 X: https://x.com/HdevCore
• 🧩 Get HivePulse: Chrome · Firefox — the Chrome build also covers Opera, Brave and Edge

Congratulations to @nabbas0786, @angeluxx and @ekads. Week 3 entries go in the comments — and tag them. 🚀

— The HivePulse Team (@hdev)