Independent consulting / SEO · AEO · GEO
Bring the buyer question, visibility gap, or specific constraint. I help growth teams establish the evidence, choose the most useful next change, and put it into action alongside their existing team or agency.
Enterprise search experience.
Applied to AI discovery.
SEO, answer engine optimization (AEO), and generative engine optimization (GEO) share a practical question: can the right buyer find, understand, and act on what you offer?
Start with the decision
A useful starting project does not have to become a retainer.
Where should we focus?
Map priority buyer questions to your pages, inspect search and AI answers, and identify the constraints worth addressing.
You leave withA dated baseline, a prioritized action plan, and implementation-ready briefs.
We know something is wrong.
Investigate a specific visibility, content, crawlability, or measurement issue. Start with the problem, not a mandatory full-site audit.
You leave withA diagnosis, a focused change or specification, and clear acceptance checks.
What changed, and what now?
Track an agreed set of buyer questions and sources over time. Review brand mentions, citations, answer accuracy, and observable referrals.
You leave withA repeatable readout: what changed, what is uncertain, and what to do next.
Did our changes help?
Define success before release. Choose a practical comparison, check the data, and separate observed movement from an effect we can support.
You leave withA measurement plan and an evidence-based decision to continue, revise, or stop.
The working method
Every priority needs evidence, an owner, and a way to check the work.
One buyer, market, and business decision.
Questions, answers, pages, and available analytics.
The most useful change your team can make.
A named owner and explicit acceptance checks.
Verify the release, review results, choose what is next.
A clearer high-intent page. Better product evidence and answers to buyer questions. More useful internal links. A repair to rendering or crawl access. A cleaner conversion handoff. The diagnosis determines the work; more content is not the default answer.
I work with your marketing, content, product, engineering, or agency owners. Hands-on implementation, publishing, and ongoing support are agreed separately, with reusable briefs and team enablement where useful.
Visibility is a signal, not the finish line
These are separate measures, not a fully observed buyer journey. A sampled question panel is not all AI demand. Rankings, citations, and revenue are not guaranteed.
Your consulting partner
Fourteen years connecting search, data, and implementation across in-house, agency, and enterprise platform roles. My work spans technical SEO, content and page systems, internal linking, measurement, and cross-functional delivery.
I bring that experience to independent engagements through Targeted Impressions, working directly with the people responsible for making the change.
Explore my career and workI start with your existing tools and useful exports. Google Search Console and GA4 are preferred; a narrower public-source baseline is possible when direct access is unavailable.
Yes. We agree responsibilities and the handoff before work begins. The aim is to make their next decision and implementation clearer, not duplicate an existing engagement.
Only the data relevant to the agreed question, using the minimum practical read-only access or exports. Implementation permissions are separate. Do not send credentials or confidential customer records by email; we agree secure access and handling during onboarding.
Start a conversation
Tell me your website, who you need to reach, and the question your team is trying to answer. A short introduction is enough.
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