SEO strategy: win the searches advertisers pay most for.
A search is worth what advertisers pay for its click. The expensive ones with little competition come first, even at low volume.
Articles, links and audits come after the searches are chosen.
A company can ask for articles, links or an audit before anyone knows what they could change. Search volume shows how many people look. Cost per click is what the visit is worth: advertisers pay it because the search sells. Google's first page shows what kind of page satisfies the search. Margin and conversion decide between two searches that are close.
If nobody searches for what you most want to sell, SEO will not sell it.
When one offer has real demand and another has almost none, the second does not become the SEO priority because the business would rather sell it. When the two are close, margin, conversion, repeat purchase or capacity decide.
Google's first page shows which kind of page wins the search.
A search full of product categories is not an article opportunity, and a local result set will not take a national service page unchanged. We compare the pages that rank, what they answer, their proof and the sites behind them, to see whether your business can publish a better page of the right kind. The work needs access to the site and your yes on structural changes.
The chosen searches need a page that answers them, with its title, H1, content and internal links saying so. Where pages overlap, the content audit template decides what to keep, improve, merge, redirect or remove. Keyword match types decide which searches trigger an ad, while organic pages group searches by the answer, so several variations share one page and topical authority comes from one owner per question. The content architecture case study shows that work on a two-sided marketplace that went from 27,000 to 62,000 visits a month.
Technical SEO checks that each decision reaches the live page, SEO reporting reads the pages and searches it affected, and an SEO retainer keeps the work going month to month.
Which searches should be bringing you customers?
Send the site and what you sell.
We work on a monthly retainer, from $2,000 a month. If you are not ready for that, please don't apply.