Our approach

Our SEO process: exactly how we work, step by step

Our SEO methodology has six steps, the same for every engagement: listen, research, study the competition, build the strategy, launch and optimize, then scale what works.

1

First

We Listen First

Every engagement starts with your goals, not our template. Before we touch a single keyword, we sit down with your team to understand the business behind the site.

Too many SEO engagements start with a generic audit template applied regardless of the business. We start differently: a structured discovery process that covers your revenue goals, sales cycle, existing team capacity, and what a win actually looks like for your organization, not just what a rankings dashboard says.

  • A kickoff session with your marketing, sales, and (where relevant) product teams.
  • Review of existing analytics, past SEO work, and internal documentation.
  • A clear definition of success metrics tied to revenue, not just traffic.
2

Next

We Research What Matters

Keyword and intent research grounded in how buyers actually search now, across traditional queries and the growing share of questions asked to AI tools.

We map search demand across your category, weighting commercial intent over raw search volume. Increasingly, this means researching not just what people type into Google, but what they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews directly, since those questions often reveal buyer intent that traditional keyword tools miss entirely.

  • Keyword and topic clustering by search and buyer intent, not just volume.
  • AI-query research covering how your category is being asked about in answer engines.
  • Prioritization scoring that weighs commercial value against competitive difficulty.
3

Then

We Study Your Competition

A full teardown of who's winning your category and why, across both traditional rankings and the sources AI engines cite.

We analyze the sites currently ranking and being cited by AI engines in your space: their content depth, backlink profile, technical setup, and structured data. The goal isn't to copy what's working for them. It's to find the specific gaps in their approach that represent your fastest path to outranking them.

  • Competitive content and backlink gap analysis against your top 3-5 named competitors.
  • Technical benchmarking of page speed, structure, and indexation health.
  • Identification of AI-citation gaps where competitors are being cited and you aren't.
4

Now

We Build Your Strategy

A prioritized roadmap tied to revenue impact, not busywork, walked through with you on a live call instead of buried in a slide deck.

Every recommendation is ranked by expected impact and implementation effort, so the highest-leverage work happens first. This roadmap covers technical fixes, content production, and authority-building initiatives together, sequenced so that early wins build momentum for the larger structural changes that take longer to pay off.

  • A prioritized roadmap covering the next two to four quarters.
  • Clear ownership for each initiative: our team, yours or shared.
  • A live strategy walkthrough call, not just a document handoff.
5

Finally

We Launch & Optimize

Execution handled by our in-house team of strategists, writers and developers, not handed off to a freelancer queue.

Technical changes, content, and outreach move through your approval queue as they're ready, on a cadence your team can absorb. We don't batch everything into a single quarterly release; work ships continuously so you see progress, and can course-correct, throughout the engagement, not just at the end of it.

  • Rolling implementation of technical fixes as they're ready for release.
  • Content briefs, drafts, and published pieces on a defined production cadence.
  • Direct access to the specialists doing the work, not an account manager relaying updates.
6

Ready

We Scale for Long-Term Growth

Once the foundation holds, we compound it by expanding into new keyword clusters, markets and content formats.

Rankings that hold steady for two consecutive quarters signal it's time to expand rather than defend. We shift budget and attention toward adjacent keyword clusters, additional markets or languages, and emerging content formats, always tested against the same standard: does this move revenue, not just traffic?

  • Quarterly strategy resets informed by performance data and business goals.
  • Expansion into adjacent keyword clusters once core terms are secure.
  • Ongoing monitoring of AI answer engine visibility as that channel continues to grow.

Our toolkit

The tools we use

Tools collect the data. A strategist reads it, checks it against your site and decides what to do.

Search data and analytics

Where rankings, traffic and conversions are measured.

  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Looker Studio
  • Bing Webmaster Tools

Keyword and competitor research

Demand, competitors and backlink data.

  • Ahrefs
  • Semrush
  • Moz
  • Google Keyword Planner
  • Google Trends

Technical SEO

Crawling, speed, rendering and structured data.

  • Screaming Frog
  • PageSpeed Insights
  • Lighthouse
  • Chrome DevTools
  • Rich Results Test

Content and CMS

On-page setup and editing.

  • Yoast SEO
  • Rank Math
  • Grammarly

Paid search and shopping

Campaigns and product feeds.

  • Google Ads
  • Google Merchant Center

AI search

Checking how AI tools answer and cite, and research support.

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Claude

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