Presence & Trust

Be findable, and worth choosing.

SEO gets you into search. AEO helps AI answer engines describe you accurately. Google Business Profile and Maps get you chosen locally. One consistent story across all three.

What this covers
Technical SEOSite structure, content and rankings
AEOClear, consistent info for AI answer engines
Google Business Profile & MapsLocal search and review presence
The Problem

Ads can only sell to people who already found you.

Plenty of people look you up before they decide: they search your category, ask an AI assistant for a recommendation, or check Maps before calling. Ads can put you in front of someone, but they cannot control what that person finds when they go and check. That part is what this covers. Most businesses treat it as an afterthought, or hand it to three unrelated vendors who never compare notes.

What's Included

Three surfaces, one consistent story.

01

SEO

Technical diagnostic, site architecture, and content built to rank for the terms your buyers actually search. Scope depends on the state of your current site.

02

AEO

Clear, structured content and consistent information across the web, so AI answer engines have accurate material to draw from. This complements SEO, it doesn't replace it, and we don't guarantee citations or placement in any AI answer.

03

Google Business Profile & Maps

Profile optimization, categories, content and review strategy. We don't guarantee a first-place ranking or treat Maps placement as a sure result.

What we need from you: access to your site's CMS or hosting, and your Google Business Profile if you have one. No product photos or brand assets required for this one, the work is mostly technical and written.

What You'd Actually Get

A written audit, not a dashboard.

The first deliverable is a plain-language audit: what's broken, what's missing, and what to prioritize first, with the reasoning shown. Below is the format, filled in for an invented business so you can see the shape of it.

Demonstration

Written for a fictional local business to show the format. Not a client audit, and not a report on anyone's real site.

  1. High
    The same business name appears three different ways across listings

    Evidence: Google Business Profile, the site footer and two directory listings each use a different legal/trading name and two different suite numbers.

    Action: Pick one canonical name and address, correct it everywhere it appears, then add matching structured data to the site so the pages and the listings agree.

  2. High
    Service pages do not answer the question people actually ask

    Evidence: Pages are titled by service name only. Review text and the "People also ask" box are dominated by questions about price range, turnaround and whether the first visit is free, none of which appear on the pages.

    Action: Add those answers to the service pages in plain language. This is also what an AI assistant needs in order to describe the business accurately.

  3. Medium
    No page targets the way buyers describe the problem

    Evidence: Every page is written around the industry term for the service. Reviews consistently use a different, everyday phrase for the same thing.

    Action: Add one page in the buyer's wording, linked from the relevant service page, instead of rewriting the existing pages.

  4. Low
    Review responses stop after the first line

    Evidence: Recent reviews mention two recurring themes; replies are a generic thank-you that does not address either.

    Action: Reply addressing the specific theme. Worth doing, but it does not move anything until the two items above are fixed.

Each item lists what was found, what it was based on and what to do, in priority order. No rankings or AI mentions are promised: those depend on competitors and on how the engines weight things at the time, neither of which is under our control.

How It Connects

Presence feeds the rest of the system.

The research done here, what buyers search for, what they ask AI assistants, what reviews already say, feeds directly into media buying targeting and landing page messaging. It's one research base, not three separate projects.

Process & Scope

Diagnose first. Scope follows what's actually broken.

What this involves varies a lot by category, current site health, and local market, so the plan below is the shape of the engagement, not a fixed price.

01

Audit

Technical SEO, content gaps, Google Business Profile status, and what competitors already rank for.

02

Prioritize

What actually moves visibility for your category, not a generic checklist run on everyone.

03

Implement

Site changes, content, profile and listing work, scoped and quoted per project.

04

Track & adjust

Rankings and visibility move slowly and are affected by factors outside our control. We report what we observe, not guaranteed outcomes.

FAQ

Common questions

No. Anyone who promises a specific ranking position isn't being straight with you, search algorithms aren't something any agency controls. We can tell you what we're fixing and why, and report what actually moves.
No, and be wary of anyone who says they can. AEO work makes your information clearer and more consistent for these tools to draw from, it doesn't buy a guaranteed mention.
No. A local service business usually starts with Google Business Profile and Maps. An ecommerce brand usually starts with technical SEO and content. The audit tells us which first.
Scoped per project after the audit, because the work depends on what's already in place. This is separate from the ad creative plans, which have published pricing.

Start with a straight answer on where you stand.

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