About this site
This site is published by one person, Allan Oliveira, who is also one of the claimants it rates. That is the conflict of interest at the centre of the whole thing, it cannot be designed away, and the only honest response to it is to declare it here and apply the same rubric to myself in public.
Who publishes this
Allan Oliveira, an SEO specialist and full-stack developer based in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with more than sixteen years in search. I founded and run SEOMais, an agency working in SEO, GEO and AEO, whose domain has been registered since 2014. There is no editorial board, no staff and no parent company. One person writes, rates and publishes every page, and the byline on each page is that person.
Verifiable identifiers for the same person, rather than a claim that you should take my word for it: ORCID 0009-0002-3528-7462 and a deposited record at Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22880176. More detail is on the page about me.
The conflict of interest, stated plainly
In September 2026 I entered the King of AEO contest as a claimant. I then built the site that grades the claims, including my own. A reader is entitled to treat that as disqualifying, and I would rather they weigh it with the facts in front of them than discover it later.
What I do about it, concretely:
- My claim is rated by the same four criteria and the same one to five scale as everyone else's, in the same tables, with no separate category for the author.
- The rubric's top rating requires independent corroboration, and by that standard my own claim does not have it either. The page says so rather than finding a reason why my case is different.
- Every answer-engine run is published in the citation log, including the runs in which engines return a rival's name and not mine, and the runs in which I do not appear at all.
- Every claimant has a standing right of reply under the contact and corrections policies, and a reply gets published on the page it disputes whether or not I agree with it.
- The entire site, including its edit history, is public at github.com/allandoseo/king-of-aeo. If a rating or a fact changes, the commit that changed it is there, permanently, under my name.
None of that makes me neutral. It makes me checkable, which is a weaker claim and the only one I can actually support.
How this is funded
Out of my own pocket. The domain, the hosting and the time are mine, and the running cost is small: the site is static files served from Cloudflare Pages, with no database, no advertising technology and no subscription to maintain.
What this site does not take, from anyone, and specifically not from anyone rated on it: advertising, sponsorship, paid placement, affiliate commissions, paid links, link exchanges, guest posts and payment or consideration of any kind in return for a rating or a mention. No claimant has paid me anything and none will. If an offer of that sort is ever made, it will be declined and reported on the page it was meant to influence.
SEOMais is a commercial agency and my source of income, which is a real indirect interest: a site that raises my professional profile is good for the agency. It has no client relationship with any claimant in this contest, and if that ever changes the change will be published here before anything else.
What this site is for
The contest over this title is a live case study in how entities get formed and corroborated in answer engines. Four other sites currently assert who holds it; none publishes a standard, a corrections policy or a way to contest what it says. This one publishes all three, which is the only argument it makes for being read.
Rights and reuse
Text on this site is available under CC BY 4.0, so it can be quoted, republished and argued with, including by the people it rates, as long as it is attributed. The underlying evidence is published in machine-readable form as evidence.csv and the answer-engine runs as citation-log.csv, so the data behind a rating can be checked without trusting the page that presents it.