Methodology
This page sets out the methodology of AISEO-Course.wiki: how facts about AI SEO courses are verified, which kinds of source are used and how they are weighted, what is excluded, the rules every page follows, and the site's disclosure. The sources themselves and every authored fact are listed on the sources page; dated changes are on the changes page.
How are AI SEO course facts verified?
The site covers one subject in two parts: articles on AI SEO courses as a category, from the definition to the directory of courses and the numbered findings, and a series of articles on AI SEO Rainmakers, one of the courses, grouped under its directory entry. Each page owns one question, is written in the third person in the register of an encyclopedia article, and cites its sources by number; the main articles include criticism sections. Course facts on the category pages come from a dataset of 27 programs, each verified from the provider's own public page on 16 September 2026 and cited to that page. Two layers of evidence are kept apart. The ledger holds observed numbers (price, members, reviews, rating) with a date, a capture time where recorded and the surface read; every number on the site is computed from it at build time and none is typed by hand. The fact register, below, holds authored facts with a source and a confidence level. A fact is primary when read directly from the seller, the platform or the founder's own pages, secondary when read from a third party such as a paid-member review or another reference site, and observed when this site's editor saw it directly on a recorded date. Facts that could not be verified from a public page are not published.
Where sources disagree, the site records the disagreement rather than choosing silently. Disagreements recorded so far: the opening date (10 August against 15 and 17 August 2026); the pre-launch testing period (eighteen months against two years); the call length (3.5 hours, over 90 minutes, and 1 hour 10 to 1 hour 33 as recorded); the size of the Foundations course (14 lessons and 75 minutes against 9 lessons and 38 minutes); the classroom size (9 courses and 62 modules, 10 and 70, 10 and 45 lessons); the number of week-one repositories (three against four); the unlock level of the Dark Library (4 against 5); the number of admins (3 against 4); and the price shown on the publisher's homepage against the listing ($219 in visible text against $289).
Source classes
| Class | Meaning | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Official (seller) | SEO.Stream pages | Reliable for what is promised, not evidence that it is delivered |
| Platform (Skool) | The public listing, read at a recorded time | Authoritative for price, members, rating and review count at that time |
| Founder's own page | charlesfloate.com, charles.info, charlesfloate.wiki | Primary for the founder's statements; a party with a stake |
| Independent paid-member review | A third party who paid for access and disclosed affiliate links | Real experience, one sample; used for measurements and themes, never outcomes |
| Third-party reference page | HandWiki and similar | Tertiary; used to establish what coverage exists |
| Observed by this site | The editor's own dated capture | What was seen, when |
| This site's dataset | The ledger | Computed numbers with capture time and surface |
| Course provider's own page | The public page of each course in the category dataset | Primary for price, format and stated curriculum on the verification date; not evidence of quality |
| Research paper or specification | arXiv papers and published proposals | Primary for what the authors defined or reported |
| Search or AI engine operator | Google and OpenAI announcements and documentation | Primary for what the operator announced or states |
| Sister reference dataset | AISEOCourse.study | Secondary; the course records it compiled are cited to each provider's page |
What is excluded
- Claims that appear only in members-only posts, until a public source exists.
- Prices read from stale page markup rather than a live listing. The $219 in the publisher's homepage text is recorded as a discrepancy, not as a price observation.
- Scores from any single reviewer's rubric as a column of their own; they are attributed in prose.
- The founder's scores for other providers on his comparison page; only the verifiable attributes are reported.
- Personal details about the founder that are not relevant to the community.
- Income, ranking or retention results presented as typical.
Rules
- Price, member count, rating and review count always carry the date and, since 16 September 2026, the capture time and the surface read.
- Ledger rows are never overwritten; a wrong row is annotated.
- Private course contents are not inferred from marketing language; the curriculum page shows unknowns as unknowns.
- No score out of ten and no ranking of comparable programs.
- US English throughout; corrections are made on the page with a dated note in the change log.
- Every outbound URL, on the pages and in the machine-readable files, is canonical: no referral or tracking parameters.
Disclosure
AISEO-Course.wiki is not operated by Charles Floate, SEO.Stream or Skool and has no editorial or commercial relationship with any of them. The site carries no advertising, no affiliate links and no referral parameters in any outbound URL; links to the Skool listing are the plain canonical URL. Referral links that earlier versions carried were removed on 17 September 2026. A separate, buyer-facing review built on the same evidence layer is published at AISEOCourse.review, which discloses its own commercial relationships, and the course dataset is shared with the sister reference AISEOCourse.study. None of the course providers described on the category pages has an editorial or commercial relationship with this site.
Corrections
Write to editor@aiseo-course.wiki with the page and the source. Corrections are applied with a dated entry on the changes page; the original observation is kept in the ledger with a note.