How we engineer rankings.
A five-phase loop, repeated continuously. No black boxes — every step traceable to a measurable signal.
200-point technical, content, and backlink audit. Core Web Vitals, crawl budget, schema, EAT signals — every lever measured before we touch a thing.
Keyword universes mapped to topical authority pillars. Intent matched to content. Internal-link graph designed before a single page ships.
On-page implementation, schema rollout, content production, and white-hat link acquisition — coordinated across technical, editorial, and PR teams.
Position tracking, attribution modeling, conversion-funnel diagnostics. Weekly reports tied to revenue, not vanity metrics.
Algorithm-update response within 48 hours. Competitive deltas surfaced in real time. Continuous remediation on the pages losing ground.
Ranking is no longer just Google.
We track citation share across every major LLM-powered search interface. Client appearance rates across the surfaces our prospects actually use:
Schema-first because Google reads JSON, not paragraphs.
Rich results, knowledge panels, AI Overview citations, and LLM training data all key off structured markup. We deploy validated JSON-LD across every page, monitored for drift.
- ▹30+ schema types covered (Organization, Service, FAQ, HowTo, Article…)
- ▹Live Rich Results validation in CI
- ▹Schema audit included in every engagement
1{2 "@context": "https://schema.org",3 "@type": "ProfessionalService",4 "name": "SEO.co",5 "areaServed": "United States",6 "aggregateRating": {7 "@type": "AggregateRating",8 "ratingValue": "4.9",9 "reviewCount": "312"10 }11}
Page speed is a ranking signal. We engineer it like one.
Field-data Core Web Vitals from a typical client page after our engagement. Real users, real conditions, measured against Google's thresholds.
What “technical” actually means.
Every algorithm update has a playbook.
We don't wait-and-see. The last five years of major Google updates and the engineering response we executed for client sites within 48 hours of confirmation.
- 2024March Core Updateimpact: AI-content devaluation→ Manual byline audits, EEAT enrichment, schema author overhaul
- 2024Helpful Content Update v3impact: Site-wide quality signal→ Topical authority pruning, low-value page sunset playbook
- 2023October Core + SGEimpact: AI Overview rollout→ Citation-shape content, FAQ schema density, listicle restructuring
- 2022Product Reviews + Helpful Contentimpact: Affiliate / thin content→ Original research investment, first-hand testing methodology
- 2021Page Experience + MUMimpact: Web Vitals as ranking factor→ Performance engineering pipeline, Lighthouse CI rollout
The platforms we run.
Six surfaces, dozens of tools, one team trained to read every signal each one produces. We don't pick favorites — we instrument everything.
- Screaming Frog
- Sitebulb
- Botify
- JetOctopus
- Ahrefs
- Semrush
- Majestic
- Moz Pro
- Google Search Console
- Bing Webmaster
- Yandex Webmaster
- GA4
- BigQuery
- Looker Studio
- Mixpanel
- PageSpeed Insights
- WebPageTest
- Lighthouse CI
- Calibre
- Perplexity Pages
- ChatGPT Search
- Profound
- AthenaHQ
Ready to outrank the competition?
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