EDIT — alt-text scoring is now stricter (HivePulse v1.12.1)
The analyzer used to accept any alt text on an image. It now only counts alt text that actually describes the image — so
,, and auto-filled filenames likeno longer earn the Media points.Most editors fill the filename in for you, so this is easy to miss. If your Media row dropped, open each image and replace the filename with a short description of what is in the picture:
— notThis is applied evenly. Judging re-scores every entry from the blockchain with the same rule, so nobody is advantaged or disadvantaged by when they entered. If your screenshot shows a slightly higher score than the final table, this change is why — your ranking is unaffected. Descriptive alt text is also a real image-search and accessibility win, which is why we corrected it.
Summary: Week 3 of the HivePulse SEO Contest is settled. Three creators split 300 HIVE, every entry was re-scored directly from the blockchain, and week 4 opens today — from this moment, not tomorrow.
Last week 
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.
@mein-senf-dazu (150 HIVE)31st Atlas Earth Payout ($162 Earned) — SEO 98% · GEO 100 · combined 99
A bilingual German/English payout update, 1,180 words, with a clean summary up top, a payout table that carries the whole story, and sentences an answer engine can lift on their own. Also the second podium in three rounds — this time with the #hivepulse tag firmly in place.
@nabbas0786 (100 HIVE)Day 2 of Playing GOT DragonFire And A Guide for Beginners — SEO 94% · GEO 100 · combined 97
A 1,361-word beginner guide to Game of Thrones: Dragon Fire with an opening overview, real subheadings and a perfect GEO score.
EDIT: Note that due to the change made above which was undetected and is practically a missed assessment by the extension, and due to difference in scoring between the extension and our internal scorer which had this rule in place, we awarded an extra 50 HIVE to
@katriel1 (50 HIVE)Graduation Celebration: 1 Great Academic Achievement — SEO 83% · GEO 93 · combined 88
A 594-word family chronicle of her son's high school graduation in Venezuela — structured, heartfelt, and a long way from the 283-word post that missed the floor in week 2. From 49 to 88 combined in one round. That is what the coaching is for.
All three winners are upvoted and reblogged by
Full transparency — one row per person, their best tagged post.
| Author | SEO | GEO | Combined | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @mein-senf-dazu | 98% | 100 | 99 | 🥇 |
| @nabbas0786 | 94% | 100 | 97 | 🥈 |
| @katriel1 | 83% | 93 | 88 | 🥉 |
 @ekads | 78% | 93 | 86 | qualified |
 @yusmelys | 74% | 78 | 76 | qualified |
 @cositav | 58% | 100 | 79 | below the SEO 70 floor |
 @jankris | 94% | 100 | 97 | outside contest window |
The tag reminder is working — 8 of 11 entries were tagged this week. But the two best-scored posts of the round both missed it, and that is the entire difference between first place and the shape of this board. It costs two seconds and it is enforced.
How to enter:
#hivepulse. Enforced. It decided this round's podium.Prizes: 🥇 150 HIVE · 🥈 100 HIVE · 🥉 50 HIVE, all upvoted and reblogged by
Rules: the window opens the moment this post publishes — write and publish today and you are in. New original content published from today through 25 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.
Three rounds of data now say the same thing. SEO scores cluster high — Hive creators already write good titles, headings and images. GEO is the metric that turns a good post into a citable one, and this week the field caught on: six of seven qualifying entries scored GEO 93+.
GEO measures whether an AI answer engine can lift a passage from your post and cite it. Three habits carry almost all of it:
And the cheapest points on the board: fill in the preview description — worth 10, takes 15 seconds. 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.
And while we're here: tag the post #hivepulse. Not after you remember — at the top of the tag list, before you publish. It is the difference between the podium and a footnote.
Congratulations to
— The HivePulse Team (