Two hundred pages of Hill Country, read by every AI that matters.
15,000 AI-crawler readsacross three Hill Country sites in 15 days
LIVE · HILLCOUNTRYHOMESTEADS.COM- What Bill wanted
- Bill wanted to own the California-to-Texas relocation conversation and the probate niche, without a webmaster on retainer.
- What Halo created
- Halo built three authority sites, hillcountryhomesteads.com, movetotexas.net and texasprobatehomes.net, and runs seven automations: day-trip and Hill Country insight posts three times a week, a weekly insight article, a weekly probate-law sweep. Bill has shipped 2,683 edits by text since May, more than any agent here, from mobile-layout fixes to whole new sections.
- What happened
- GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Amazon and the rest fetched the three sites 15,073 times in fifteen days, GPTBot alone 5,041 times. Two hundred and seventy-four pages of Hill Country, read by every AI that matters.
What the record shows.
3 sites · 2,683 edits · 7 automations · 12 graphics · 3 custom domains · Halo records, Aug 30, 2026
California-to-Texas relocation specialists and Texas probate home sales.
What Halo replaced.
- Hire it yourself
- $17,500Built once $9,900 · kept running $1,900/mo × 4 months
- With Halo
- $3964 × $99
- Saved so far
- $17,104≈ 290+ hours of doing and briefing avoided
View the itemized estimate
| 3 authority sites × $3,000 | $9,000 |
| 12 graphics × $75 | $900 |
| Built once · the old way | $9,900 |
|---|---|
| Webmaster on retainer × 4 mo × $1,500 | $6,000 |
| Copywriter × 4 mo × $400 | $1,600 |
| Kept running · the old way | $7,600 |
| 2,683 edits by text, any hour | included |
| With Halo · 4 months | $396 |
How we estimate this
Estimates, not invoices. Rates are low-end market rates: authority site $3,000 (quoted $3,000–6,000), single-property site $300, listing film $400, graphic $75, webmaster retainer $1,500/mo (quoted $500–2,500), copywriter $400/mo. Months on Halo are counted from the first project and rounded up; the Halo figure is $99 per month plus $99 per listing package. Time ≈ conservative do-or-brief hours per deliverable (authority site 6 h, listing site 2 h, film 2 h, graphic 30 min, edit 6 min), rounded down to the ten. Work counts are from Halo’s records as of Aug 30, 2026; nothing here is modeled or projected.
Everything behind this story.
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See the records
- 3sites live
- 2,683edits by text
- 7automations running
- 12graphics made
- 3custom domains
- 274pages live
- 15,073AI-crawler fetches · 15 days
AI crawlers, Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: GPTBot 5,041 · Amazonbot 1,863 · ClaudeBot 1,507
View the timeline
- Site live: hillcountryhomesteads.com
- Site live: movetotexas.net
- Site live: texasprobatehomes.net
Teal = Halo records · Copper = customer-reported
What Halo built, in detail
Three authority sites
- hillcountryhomesteads.com, movetotexas.net, texasprobatehomes.net
Seven automations
- Day-trip destination posts and Hill Country insight posts three times a week, a weekly insight article, a Hill Country living blog, a weekly Texas probate-law sweep
Edited by text, constantly
- Thousands of edits shipped by text since May, from mobile-layout fixes to new page sections
Own the California-to-Texas relocation conversation and the probate niche, without a webmaster on retainer.
Ongoing automations
- Day Trips Blog — Sequential Destination Publish (3x/week)three times weekly
- Hill Country Insight Post Publisherthree times weekly
- Hill Country Status Strip Refreshthree times weekly
- Texas Hill Country Living & Lifestyle Blogthree times weekly
- Tri-weekly blog series cyclethree times weekly
- Weekly Hill Country Insight Articleweekly
- Weekly Texas probate law sweepweekly
Every site stays editable by text at any hour, every form writes the lead up and texts Bill, and new listings get their own site the day they are taken. 2,683 edits have shipped since May 26, 2026.
Methodology
Halo records are counts from Halo’s database as of Aug 30, 2026: sites, listing sites, films, edits by text, automations, graphics, custom domains and pages. Site log figures come from the sites’ own server log for Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: AI-crawler fetches are identified by user agent; visitor-days are counted only on hosts with visitor-level analytics, so custom-domain traffic behind an edge network is under-counted, never inflated. Customer-reported outcomes are the customer’s own words, attributed and dated, never modeled or projected; correlation is not claimed as causation. Site inquiries exclude the agent’s own tests, vendor pitches and form-fill bots; only the count and anonymised dates are shown.
Sources: Halo records; site analytics log, Aug 16–30, 2026.
Names, faces, quotes and URLs used with permission · Cost comparison is an estimate at low-end market rates, not an invoice
