You typed your own service and your town into Google, watched that AI answer build itself at the top of the page, and your business was nowhere in it. A competitor got named. You did not. And now you are sitting there wondering if something is broken, if you did
Your customers are starting to ask a question and just take the answer the machine gives them. They type "best physio near me for a running injury" into Google, read the AI summary at the top, maybe ask a follow-up, and book the clinic the AI named.
AI Integration
Your team shipped more last quarter than the quarter before, and you cannot find a single person who can explain how half of it works. That is the symptom. AI did not make your people faster at the part that matters; it made them faster at producing things nobody has
Google Ads
Somewhere in your Google Ads account is a number you typed in once, probably during setup, probably on the advice of an agency you no longer use. A Target CPA. A Target ROAS. You set it, the campaign ran, the leads came in, and you stopped looking. For years that
Local SEO
You have probably been told your shop is too far from the people searching, and that there is nothing to be done about it. The pin on the map sits where your lease sits. You cannot drag it three blocks closer to the busy intersection, and no amount of money
Generative AI Visibility
You wrote a "Top 10 Best [Your Category] Software" post, put yourself at number one, and called it content marketing. For fifteen years that worked. As of this spring, Google's AI Overview reads your list, cites your page as a source, then tells your buyer to
Content Strategy
Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, went on a podcast and told you to stop cutting your content into chunks for AI. The same week, every system that decides whether your page shows up inside an AI answer kept reading your content one passage at a time, the way
AI Integration
You will get an invitation, soon, to talk to your Google Ads account in plain English and let it make changes for you. The pitch will be that you no longer need to understand the dashboards. That is exactly the part to distrust. Google's new Ask Advisor is
Google Ads
The mistake is already happening in thousands of accounts: a business owner reads that Google replaced keywords with an "AI Brief," shrugs, types two vague sentences about what they sell, and hands Gemini the keys to a five-figure monthly budget. That single lazy paragraph is how you
Google Ads
Before you change a single bid, raise your budget, or switch campaign types, check whether your conversion tracking is telling the truth. A "conversion" is just the action you want a visitor to take, a phone call, a filled-out form, a booked appointment, and Google counts those
Local SEO
Google spent 2025 tearing down fake listings at a scale that would have sounded made up two years ago, and the businesses cleaning up after that are not all scammers. Some of them are the plumber down the street whose profile got auto-tagged with a service he never offered,
Generative AI Visibility
You typed your business name into ChatGPT, asked if it would recommend you, and got an answer. Maybe it named you. Maybe it didn't. Either way, that single check told you almost nothing true, because AI tools hand back a different answer nearly every time you ask. The
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What I do
Strategy and execution for businesses that want to stay visible while search gets rebuilt around AI.
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Book a free call17 years in content and 15 in SEO, plus a decade of Google Ads and paid campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Bing, and 300+ businesses helped across the USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Now focused on how AI systems decide which brands get surfaced, cited, and recommended. More about me →