Independent feature film · United States · SalesClawd since June 2026
Blood Star: 50x more search visits in three months, and hundreds of visitors from ChatGPT
organic search visits a month
603,044
GA4 · 20 May to 18 Jun vs 25 Aug to 23 Sep 2026
Blood Star is a 2024 desert survival thriller, directed by Lawrence Jacomelli and produced by Beast, streaming free on Tubi and Prime Video in the US. People looking for a film like it search for things like “movies like Wolf Creek” or “best desert thriller movies”, and the site ranked for none of them.
At the start the site scored 53.4/100 on our health audit and 25/100 on structured data, and 0 of 14 discovery questions we asked AI answer engines cited it.
The flight recorder
Every change, pinned to the day it shipped.
Daily visits from Google Analytics since May. The shaded blocks are the 30 days before we started and the latest 30. Hover the chart or the log: the change and the curve line up.
GA4 property 464890601, pulled 2026-09-24
Results
The numbers, with their dates and sources.
- Organic search visits
- 603,044+4,973%
- Google Analytics 4, 20 May to 18 Jun 2026 (the 30 days before we started) vs 25 Aug to 23 Sep 2026
- Visits from AI assistants
- 0296
- GA4 AI Assistant channel, same windows
- Search clicks
- 61697+1,043%
- Google Search Console, first 30 days of the engagement vs the latest 30 days at the month-three review
- Search impressions
- 12,24557,325+368%
- Google Search Console, same windows as the clicks
AI search
Who sends visitors now
- ChatGPT0 → 288
- Gemini0 → 5
- Perplexity0 → 2
- Copilot0 → 1
GA4 AI Assistant channel · 20 May to 18 Jun vs 25 Aug to 23 Sep 2026
- Cited in Google AI Overviews for “movies like wolf creek” and “movies like sicario” (checked 6 and 17 Aug 2026), and for “best desert thriller movies” on 6 Aug.
- At the start, 0 of 14 discovery queries cited the site.
Rankings
Keyword moves
- “best desert thriller movies”#25 → #5
- “blood star cast”#16 → #5
- “movies like wolf creek”#12 → #4
- #30page one starts at #10#1
DataForSEO, US · 30 Jul to 17 Aug 2026
What we did
699 changes, each read back from the live site.
Done by Axit with SalesClawd's specialist agents: the agents research, draft and check, and a person approves and ships each change. Two audit rounds found 278 issues to fix.
01
Discovery content
- 86 discovery articles by month three, built around the questions viewers actually search
- Comparison tables on the AI-cited pages
- Seven duplicate article pairs consolidated; headings fixed on 43 posts
02
Entity and schema
- Movie entity bound to Wikidata (Q131386935), with cast and crew as Person entities
- ItemList schema across 46 pages covering 262 films
- Free-to-stream Offer and WatchAction schema on a watch page built from scratch
03
Site and speed
- Image payload cut from 53 MB to 14.3 MB, in-article images from 41.1 MB to 3.8 MB
- A watch funnel on 64 pages and related guides on 37
- llms.txt and llms-full.txt for AI crawlers
What didn't work (yet)
The honest part.
- The film still doesn't own its own name: “blood star” gets thousands of impressions but isn't on page one yet (#23 on 3 Sep 2026).
- Top-10 positions across 50 tracked keywords went 17, then 20, then back to 16 between July and mid-August: discovery terms rose while some others slipped.
- Review schema, one pillar article and the month two and three delta reports from the plan are still to ship.
Next: Month three focuses on the film's own name: the title query, the entity and the watch page.
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