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EKU Search Scorecard
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Search scorecard · 22 September 2026

EKU is still found almost only by its name. What changes that was built in these 90 days, and none of it is live yet.

Same instrument, before and today. About 95% of EKU's estimated search visits still come from people typing its name. Rivals appear in Google's AI answers 27 to 35 times; EKU, 4 times. The four buyer terms measured in August keep the same demand and still have no owner.

95%

of EKU's estimated search visits come from people typing the EKU name.

177 of 186 estimated monthly visits · Google US, desktop · 22 Sep 2026

4 vs 27 to 35

appearances in Google's AI answers: EKU vs each specialist rival.

3 of EKU's 4 are searches for its own name · 22 Sep 2026

19 vs 30 to 39

site authority score, 0 to 100. The gap did not move.

Was 18 vs 29 to 37 on 10 to 12 Aug 2026

890

monthly US buyer searches on four terms with difficulty 2 to 3 and no owner.

Same demand as the August measurement · EKU absent then and now

How to read this page. Before = the readings frozen as EKU's starting line (15 July to 12 August 2026, date shown on each row). Today = live reading of 22 September 2026. One instrument throughout, never mixed with Search Console or the AI prompt panel.

Story room · four scenes

Four scenes tell the whole comparison in two minutes.

By name, EKU wins. By problem, it barely appears.

About 95% of estimated visits come from the EKU name. The one buyer term EKU holds, idle management, is still #4, and its plural form now appears inside Google's AI answer.

See the 27 results

Before and today · one instrument

Nine readings with the same instrument: EKU held its ground, rivals moved, and the open buyer terms are still open.

Reading Before Today, 22 Sep What it means
Search positions in Google US, all types 27 to 2915 Jul to 12 Aug 37 Up, mostly unrelated
Of today's 27 regular results, 14 are searches for a household heater brand that shares the Vulcan product name and only 4 are buyer searches. Inference
Idle management, the buyer term EKU already holds #4plural form #8 · 15 Jul #4plural form #5, and quoted in Google's AI answer Holding, slightly up
The only buyer term with a dedicated EKU page keeps page 1. The plural form moved up and now appears inside the AI answer (seen 15 Sep). Observed
Appearances in Google's AI answers EKU 4 · rivals 13 to 3015 Jul EKU 4 · rivals 27 to 35 Rivals pulling ahead
3 of EKU's 4 are searches for its own name. Deep Sea more than doubled, from 13 to 31. Observed
Site authority score, 0 to 100 EKU 18 · rivals 29 to 3710 to 12 Aug EKU 19 · rivals 30 to 39 Gap unchanged
EKU stays at about half the specialists' score; everyone moved one or two points. Observed
Sites linking to ekupd.com 208 to 24816 Jul to 12 Aug 360 Up, low quality
The newest 30 are automated pages with authority 0 to 5. That is why the authority score did not move. Inference
Estimated monthly visits from Google US 192 to 20715 Jul to 12 Aug 186 Flat
About 95% of today's estimate comes from people typing the EKU name. Observed
Maximus controller, the product-name search (40 a month) #1815 Jul #18 Holding, shared name
The results above EKU are mostly a poultry-farm controller brand also called Maximus, so most of these searches are not EKU buyers. Inference
Technical health score of the site 87crawl of 9 Jul 87crawl of 23 Sep · 84 on 4 Sep Back to the July level
On 23 Sep the 68 broken outbound links flagged on 4 Sep were gone, and warnings fell from 213 to 140. The 70 errors are the same types as in July; 68 of them sit in the structured data the site adds automatically. Observed
Four open buyer terms 890 a month · EKU absentdifficulty 0 to 3 · Aug 890 · EKU absentdifficulty 2 to 3 Still open
No rival closed them. EKU is absent because the pages that target them are not live. Inference

Kanbina Lumina market intelligence dataset · Google US, desktop · starting line frozen 13 Aug 2026 from readings of 15 Jul to 12 Aug 2026; today = live reading of 22 Sep 2026 (technical crawl: 23 Sep 2026). Modeled monthly estimates, directional, not revenue. Labels: Observed = visible in the dataset; Inference = our reading of it.

Where Google files EKU today

Of the 27 regular results listed for ekupd.com, 4 are buyers describing a need and 14 belong to a heater brand that shares a product name.

The rest is the EKU name (5) and other unrelated searches (4). Checked separately on 22 Sep: idle management #4 and Maximus controller #18, both the same as in July.

The dataset's headline count of 37 adds 10 special result boxes to these 27: 4 brand knowledge panels, 4 AI answers, 1 image block and 1 question box. For scale, each specialist rival holds 537 to 843 positions in the same dataset.

What you are seeingPicture EKU as a restaurant. Each square is a way someone found it. Guests who ask for it by name fill the first group; guests who describe what they are hungry for arrive only four times, and 14 squares are people looking for a heater brand that shares a product name.

Kanbina Lumina market intelligence dataset · organic positions of ekupd.com, Google US, desktop, 22 Sep 2026 · keyword checks for idle management and Maximus controller, 22 Sep 2026 · grouping by Kanbina (Inference).

Google's AI answers

Rivals appear in Google's AI answers 27 to 35 times; EKU appears 4 times, 3 of them for its own name.

Since 15 July, Deep Sea more than doubled (13 to 31), DEIF added 6 and ComAp 5. EKU's one buyer appearance is idle management systems, seen on 15 September.

Appearances in Google's AI answers, 15 Jul and 22 Sep 2026
15 Jul 2026 22 Sep 2026 EKU Specialist rivals
AI answer appearances by domain DEIF 29 to 35, Deep Sea 13 to 31, Basler 30 to 31, ComAp 22 to 27, EKU 4 to 4, between 15 July and 22 September 2026. 010203040 Appearances in AI answers, Google US, desktop DEIF: 29 on 15 Jul, 35 on 22 Sep DEIF 29 → 35 Deep Sea: 13 on 15 Jul, 31 on 22 Sep Deep Sea 13 → 31 Basler: 30 on 15 Jul, 31 on 22 Sep Basler 30 → 31 ComAp: 22 on 15 Jul, 27 on 22 Sep ComAp 22 → 27 EKU: 4 on 15 Jul, 4 on 22 Sep EKU 4 → 4
View as table
Domain15 Jul15 Aug22 Sep
DEIF293635
Deep Sea132631
Basler303231
ComAp222027
EKU434
What you are seeingGoogle now writes a short AI answer above many results pages. Appearing in it means being quoted, not just listed. Rivals are quoted on dozens of searches; EKU mostly when someone already types its name.

Kanbina Lumina market intelligence dataset · AI answer (AI Overview) positions per domain, Google US, desktop · monthly readings 15 Jul and 15 Aug 2026, live reading 22 Sep 2026 · directional. The AI prompt panel is a different instrument and is reported apart.

Authority and links

The site's credit score stayed at 19 while specialists sit at 30 to 39; the new links do not count.

About 150 more sites link to ekupd.com than in July. The newest are automated pages with authority 0 to 5, and the score did not move.

Authority score, August baseline and today
EKU Specialist rivals 10 to 12 Aug 2026
Authority score by domain Today: ComAp 39, Deep Sea 37, DEIF 34, Basler 30, EKU 19. August baseline: 37, 37, 33, 29, 18. 01020304050 Authority score (scale 0 to 100, shown to 50) ComAp: 37 in August, 39 today ComAp 37 → 39 Deep Sea: 37 in August, 37 today Deep Sea 37 → 37 DEIF: 33 in August, 34 today DEIF 33 → 34 Basler: 29 in August, 30 today Basler 29 → 30 EKU: 18 in August, 19 today EKU 18 → 19
View as table
Domain10 to 12 Aug22 Sep
ComAp3739
Deep Sea3737
DEIF3334
Basler2930
EKU1819
Sites linking to ekupd.com, monthly
Engagement months
Referring sites per month Monthly referring sites from August 2025 to September 2026: about 190 to 260 for a year, 213 in July 2026, 277 in August and 360 in September. 0100200300400 Aug 2025 Jan 2026 Jul Sep 2026 Referring sites, first day of each month 213 360 Aug 2025: 213Sep 2025: 216Oct 2025: 241Nov 2025: 235Dec 2025: 249Jan 2026: 259Feb 2026: 193Mar 2026: 207Apr 2026: 209May 2026: 217Jun 2026: 219Jul 2026: 213Aug 2026: 277Sep 2026: 360
View as table
MonthReferring sitesLinksAuthority
Jun 202621991919
Jul 202621392519
Aug 202627797618
Sep 20263601,10619
What you are seeingAuthority is the site's credit score, from 0 to 100. Links work like references on a CV: a hundred references from strangers do not raise it, which is why the score stayed at 19.

Kanbina Lumina market intelligence dataset · authority and link profile per root domain · August baseline read 10 to 12 Aug 2026; today 22 Sep 2026 · monthly link series as recalculated by the dataset on 22 Sep 2026 (the frozen August readings were 208 to 248 sites) · newest 30 referring sites reviewed 22 Sep 2026.

The open buyer terms

The four buyer terms measured in August keep the same demand, the same low difficulty and no owner.

About 890 US searches a month at difficulty 2 to 3 out of 100. EKU is absent from all four, as it was, because the pages that answer them are not published.

Buyer search, Google US Searches a month Difficulty, Aug → Sep EKU position, before → today
generator monitoring system3202 → 2Not in top 100 → not in top 100
generator control panel2602 → 2Not in top 100 → not in top 100
power plant control system1703 → 3Not in top 100 → not in top 100
remote generator monitoring1400 → 3Not in top 100 → not in top 100
idle managementn/an/a#4 → #4
idle management systems504#8 → #5, plus the AI answer

The large, crowded terms did not move either: commercial generators 4,400 a month at difficulty 20, condition monitoring 2,400 at 29, data center power solutions 1,300 at 28. EKU is absent from all three, as in August. Idle management shares its results page with truck idle systems and idle games, which is why EKU always qualifies it as industrial or generator idle management.

What you are seeingDifficulty is how many kitchens already serve a dish, from 0 to 100. At 2 or 3 almost nobody serves it yet: the first credible page that does can take the spot.

Kanbina Lumina market intelligence dataset · modeled monthly US desktop searches and difficulty · August 2026 measurement (EKU Field Terms) and re-read 22 Sep 2026 · EKU positions 15 Jul and 22 Sep 2026 · volumes are directional, never revenue forecasts.

What this means

Search will move when the pages go live, not before; this page is the line the next quarter is measured against.

Strategic conclusion

The 90 days produced the language, the pages and the proof. The search layer has not moved because none of it is live. The starting line is measured and stable.

Commercial implication

Each month offline has a visible cost: rivals keep adding presence in AI answers while about 890 monthly buyer searches wait for a credible page.

Recommended use

Day 84 reading for the handover (digital authority starting line and Day 90 measurement) and backup for the founders session. Re-read on 26 September with the same instrument.

Validation status

Observed readings from a third-party search dataset, modeled and directional. Interpretations are labeled Inference. Not a revenue claim.

Measurement still to complete

Five checks close the Day 90 measurement on 26 September, and none needs a new tool.

Open the measurement checklist
  1. Re-read the nine readings above on 26 September with the same instrument and the same filters.
  2. The technical crawl was rerun on 23 September (87). Repeat it before that reading only if pages change.
  3. Restore daily rank tracking on the full buyer keyword list. The tracked list was cut after August, so the August visibility figure cannot be compared until it is restored.
  4. Review the quality of the newest linking sites; act only if a harmful pattern appears.
  5. Report the AI visibility score and the AI prompt panel separately; they are different instruments from this page.
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