Exactly one month ago, I started actively publishing content on yourwebsitepartner.web.id. Not just a landing page and a handful of random posts, but following a content calendar I built myself, covering five core niches: clinics, cafes and restaurants, guesthouses, and tour and travel agencies, in two languages at once, Indonesian and English.

This is an honest recap of what’s worked, what broke along the way, and what I’ve learned over the past month. The point isn’t just personal documentation, it’s meant to be useful for anyone building their own business website, including the parts that didn’t go smoothly.

What’s Been Built So Far

Over the past month, I completed:

• One English general landing page targeting the ASEAN market
• A local landing page for Cirebon, complete with an FAQ section covering nearby areas like Kuningan, Majalengka, and Indramayu
• A drafted Bandung landing page, ready to publish
• About a dozen blog articles spanning TOFU to BOFU, including an educational piece on GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and a dedicated article on Google’s new Ask Maps feature
• Full bilingual setup via Polylang, including a separate header navigation per language
• An active custom domain with SSL, after a bit of drama getting there (more on that below)

The Data from Google Search Console

I decided to keep this part honest too, small numbers included.

• Total impressions (last 28 days): 59
• Total clicks: 0
• Average position: 49.5
• Keywords starting to show up: jasa website cirebon, and more interestingly, ask maps google business profile with 4 impressions

In the early weeks, the data in Search Console was dominated by completely irrelevant queries, things like “service computer” or “hire software developers.” Turns out that’s normal for a new domain, Google needs time to actually “understand” what a site is about before matching it to the right searches.

What I found most interesting is that my article about Ask Maps, published just days earlier, already started picking up impressions for a related query. Average position is still far from page one (sitting at 49.5), and there hasn’t been a single click yet, but it’s early proof that content covering topics competitors haven’t touched yet, like GEO and AI search, tends to get picked up by Google faster than highly competitive keywords.

Technical Issues I Ran Into

A few technical problems ate up a fair amount of time, and I think this is the most useful part to share.

Extendify AI Page Builder Conflicting with Polylang

Since the homepage was initially generated using an AI page builder, some sections were saved as synced patterns. This became a problem once I started translating content into Indonesian, editing one language automatically changed the other too. The fix was detaching each section from the pattern before editing it per language.

Redirect Loop During SSL Activation

Right after pointing the custom domain via DNS, I hit a redirect loop (ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS) because WordPress was forcing HTTPS while the SSL certificate hadn’t finished generating on the server side. It resolved itself once SSL was fully issued, but it caused a few hours of panic before I figured out what was happening.

An Empty Site Title, of All Things

A small mistake with a real impact, the Site Title field in WordPress settings had never actually been filled in. As a result, every SEO title in search results showed up looking broken, the page title followed by an empty dash with no brand name after it.

Confusion Over RSS Feed Indexing

Search Console flagged over a dozen URLs as problematic, but they all turned out to be auto-generated RSS feeds from categories and tags, not actual content pages. A good reminder not to panic before actually understanding what’s being flagged.

What I Took Away From This

A few things stood out the most from this past month.

First, early SEO data really isn’t representative, and that’s fine. The biggest temptation is drawing conclusions too fast from numbers that are still tiny, when it actually takes much longer to see any real pattern emerge.

Second, basic technical fundamentals like a proper Site Title and robots.txt turned out to matter far more than I expected. Often it’s not the big strategy that’s the problem, it’s a small overlooked detail.

Third, positioning around GEO and AI search still seems largely untouched by competitors in my niche. After researching SERPs for several core keywords, I noticed almost none of them address AI search readiness at all. That’s a solid validation to keep pushing this direction further.

What’s Next

A few things I’ll be continuing into month two:

• Publish the already-drafted Bandung landing page
• Keep following the content calendar, including seasonal content ahead of the year-end holiday season
• Start collecting real client testimonials to replace placeholder content
• Keep tracking developments in AI search features like Ask Maps, and adjust GEO strategy if anything significant shifts

One month in, this is just the beginning. There’s no big win to show off yet, but the foundation is starting to take shape. I’ll keep updating this journey regularly, including the parts where things don’t go according to plan.