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AI SearchGuide
What AEO, GEO and AI SEO each mean, and where they overlap
Three labels are sold for much the same goal: being quoted and named when buyers ask a machine for help. What each term covers, where they overlap and how to read a proposal that uses them.
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AI Search · Guide
How AI assistants decide which businesses to name
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AI Search · Guide
How to write a page an AI answer can quote
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AI Search · Insight
Does traditional SEO still matter when buyers ask AI assistants?
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AI Search · Guide
An AI search audit you can run in an afternoon
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SEO · Guide
How local search decides which businesses to show
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SEO · Guide
Setting up a Google Business Profile that earns enquiries
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SEO · Guide
Location pages that are not doorway pages
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SEO · Guide
Reviews: how to ask, how to reply, and what never to do
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SEO · Guide
Local SEO for businesses with many branches
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Digital Growth · Guide
How digital marketing agencies price their work
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Digital Growth · Guide
What drives the cost of SEO, and what a low quote leaves out
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Digital Growth · Guide
How to choose a digital marketing agency: twelve questions to ask
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Digital Growth · Insight
Agency, in-house team or freelancer: which fits which stage
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Digital Growth · Guide
Warning signs in an SEO or marketing proposal
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AI Search · Guide
How to measure AI search visibility when the answer changes every time
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SEO · Guide
Sizing a search opportunity by commercial value, not volume
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Digital Growth · Insight
AI made execution cheap. That moved the bottleneck, it did not remove it.
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Paid Media · Insight
What to let automated bidding optimise for
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CRO · Guide
Conversion work for sites without the traffic to A/B test
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Analytics · Insight
The attribution questions worth answering, and the ones that are not
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Research areas
Eight subjects, and the questions we are working on.
- 01
AI Search
How generative answers select, cite and recommend brands, and what that changes for marketers.
- Which sources shape AI answers in a given category?
- How should visibility be measured when outputs vary between runs?
- 02
SEO
Technical, content and authority practice for search as it works now.
- How do you size a search opportunity by commercial value?
- What should a technical audit prioritise first?
- 03
Digital Growth
Strategy, planning and operating models for teams accountable for revenue.
- How should budget be split between capturing and creating demand?
- What does an AI-assisted marketing team actually look like?
- 04
Paid Media
Account structure, automation guardrails and creative testing across ad platforms.
- What should automated bidding be allowed to optimise for?
- How do you reconcile platform data with CRM outcomes?
- 05
CRO
Research methods, experiment design and landing page practice.
- What can low-traffic sites do instead of A/B testing?
- How do you stop tests being won by low-quality leads?
- 06
Analytics
Measurement design, attribution and reporting that leadership can use.
- Which attribution questions are worth answering, and which are not?
- How do you build a revenue view from imperfect data?
- 07
Marketing Automation
CRM, lifecycle messaging and AI agents in the lead-to-revenue process.
- Which parts of follow-up should never be automated?
- How do you design handover between AI agents and people?
- 08
Industry Insights
How search and buying behaviour differ by sector, and what that means for planning.
- Where do buyers in regulated industries look for reassurance?
- How does local intent change the playbook?
Start with a growth audit
Stop Buying Marketing Activity.Start Building a Growth Engine.
Tell us where you are today, where you want to go and what is holding growth back. We’ll identify the highest-impact opportunities.
What happens next
- 1
You tell us where you are
A short form about the business, its goals and what is holding growth back.
- 2
A strategist reviews it
Search, AI visibility, paid media, content and conversion, read together.
- 3
You get the priorities
The highest-impact opportunities, in order, with the reasoning shown.
No obligation, and no guaranteed outcomes promised. Just an honest read of where you stand.