How to Build Viral Linkable Assets with Claude Code (Zero Coding Experience)

E1224: How do you build a beautiful site people want to share, earn backlinks to, and send traffic from, without writing a single line of code?
Mike Hawley walks through how he uses Claude Code to build interactive websites for linkable assets, newsjacking, trending events, and SEO. He shows the entire process, from researching keywords and planning pages to building the design, checking technical SEO, and publishing the finished site.
Mike has zero programming experience. His example is SEO-TV.com, a searchable video store for SEO YouTube channels and podcasts that he built in about five hours.
We cover:
- How to make a standalone site worth sharing, then direct attention and links to your business
- How Mike built SEO-TV in five hours using Claude Code
- How he started with a single prompt to plan the site's topical map
- How Claude identified 21,180 related searches, narrowed them to 213 target keywords, and planned the initial 73 pages
- How to choose page types based on what Google ranks and avoid keyword cannibalization
- How Mike adds more pages as earlier pages get indexed, growing SEO-TV.com to 139 pages
- How server-side rendering makes page content and metadata accessible to search engines
- How the site's keyword search works and how it checks YouTube hourly for new videos
- How to install Claude Code and set up project folders, notes.md files, and standing instructions
- When to use Ask and Auto permissions when Claude needs to use your computer
- How to request four different homepage designs instead of accepting the first result
- How to stop Claude from producing the same fonts, rounded cards, stock layouts, and other familiar AI design patterns
- The design skills Mike uses, including Hallmark, Impeccable, and UI UX Pro Max
- How to save mistakes, preferences, and requirements as reusable Claude skills
- How Mike connects Chrome, hosting services, Cloudflare, and keyword data sources
- Why logos, favicons, page titles, and Open Graph images matter for sites designed to be shared
- Why you need to inspect the finished website before publishing, even when Claude runs automated checks
- When Claude spent nearly nine hours working on a GTA VI map site that wasn't what Mike requested
We also examine cheese.help, an AI-built cheese encyclopedia that Mike launched without manually building backlinks. It began getting Google clicks and earned links from food blogs and MSN. Mike shows 11 MSN backlinks pointing to seven pages and more than 4,200 AI citations reported by Ahrefs.
Since September, Mike has worked on 114 websites and launched 56. He explains how the rules and skills he's built over those projects make each new site easier to create.
If you want to build linkable assets for SEO or create a custom website with Claude Code without learning to program, this episode shows the process from start to finish.
⭐️ Mike's prompts that get Claude to build
great websites - https://aka.bike/prompts/
⭐️ Mike Hawley on 𝕏…