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Hayden Schuster Senior SEO Strategist ยท Portland, OR

I build the systems that make complex sites visible

So the right people find you, trust you, and choose you.

8+Years in organic search
5Sites built from zero
50+Published articles
80+Dealer locations managed

Every search starts with a person trying to close a gap between what they know and what they need. The surfaces keep changing. The psychology never does. Build for the person, structure it for the machine, and the visibility follows. It’s not complicated. It’s just not easy.

๐Ÿงฉ The Systemโ„ข

Three stages. Click to see what lives inside each one.

Built and live

Four sites I own and operate. Same systems I use professionally. Go view the source.

Case Study checkmytap.com

CheckMyTap

Water quality lookup by city. 1,000+ programmatic pages built to prove that genuine information gain, answer-first structure, and programmatic scale can earn both user trust and search visibility. Every city page surfaces real contaminant data from public records that doesn’t exist in this format anywhere else.

Architecture National โ†’ State โ†’ City hierarchy
Differentiation City-specific data. Phoenix โ‰  Scottsdale.
AI-Ready Schema per template, server-rendered, answer-first
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Methodology How I Build: The Process Behind All Four Sites The repeatable system, the decisions, and the compounding lessons across CheckMyTap, GageRef, UpOrbit, and WireRef. Read the methodology

What I do

Six areas, each covering a different dimension. Every page cross-references the others because the work is interconnected.

Hayden Schuster

The human part

Soccer obsessed (indoor and outdoor leagues, even in my 30s). Sports freak. Gym regular. Corgi parent. House plant collector. Fiction reader. Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook evangelist. New AI tech addict. Always walking somewhere and probably overthinking something.

Fan Projects

Sites I built because I couldn’t not build them.

Same architecture brain. Different obsessions. These started as “I’ll just make one page” and became full sites. That’s usually how it goes.

The Quack Report March 16, 2026

I’ve been going to Autzen since I was a baby. Of course I built a website about it.

109 pages of Oregon Ducks football. Season archives, rivalry records, recruiting data, player profiles, and the heartbreak index. Built by a lifelong Duck who is way too emotional about this program.

๐Ÿ“…2026 Schedule
Game-by-game previews
๐ŸŸ๏ธAutzen Stadium
127.2 dB. Game day guide
โš”๏ธRivalries
8 head-to-head records
๐Ÿ“šSeason Archive
Every season 2000-2025
๐Ÿง Dan Lanning
48-8. The Lanning Way
๐ŸŽฏDante Moore
Turned down $50M
๐ŸˆNFL Ducks
47 active pros
โญRecruiting
3 straight top-five classes
26Seasons
8Rivalries
47NFL Ducks
109Pages
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The Crawler’s Cookbook

The series needed a proper reference site. Nobody had built one. So I did.

An unauthorized Dungeon Crawler Carl information repository. Book guides, character dossiers, floor breakdowns, theory articles, spoiler zones, and a class quiz. The Borant Corporation has filed 47 cease-and-desist orders. All have been used as kindling.

๐Ÿ“–Reading Order
All 8 books. Start here
๐Ÿ—ก๏ธCharacters
Carl. Donut. Mordecai. Mongo
๐ŸฐThe Dungeon
Floor-by-floor reference
๐Ÿง Theories
Tin foil hat zone
โš”๏ธClass Quiz
Floor 3 assessment
๐Ÿ”ฎSpoiler Zones
Full plot discussion by book
๐Ÿ“บTV Show
Seth MacFarlane adaptation
๐Ÿ“ฐNews
Book 8 drops May 12
crawlerscookbook.com Visit the site
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