SearchAdvisory · Tier 1 of 3
How You Are
Found Now.
An SEO reading that measures the AI answers too: Search Console, Analytics and Bing joined, your buyers’ questions asked live, in two weeks.
- What It Is
- an SEO and AI-visibility reading
- For
- a firm that pays to be found
- Needs
- read-only access
- The Time
- two weeks
A Year of SEO Retainer,
and Nothing Moved.A firm selling abroad paid an agency for a year and followed every recommendation. The reading found what the retainer had kept: the demand the firm already had. Buyers who searched for what it makes without its name were never reached. The case: What the Retainer Was Buying.
Page One
Is Not the Point.
Across three of the studio’s sites, brand searches left out, position one drew under one click per hundred impressions: fewer than positions eleven to thirty.
The numbers
| Average position | Clicks per hundred impressions |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.4 |
| 2 | 1.0 |
| 3 | 0.8 |
| 4 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 0.7 |
| 6 | 0.7 |
| 7 | 0.7 |
| 8 | 0.5 |
| 9 | 0.4 |
| 10 | 0.3 |
| 11–20 | 0.9 |
| 21–30 | 2.1 |
| 31+ | 0.4 |
Your page
The curve most reports quote
0clicks a month. The curve: Backlinko’s study of four million Google results, updated April 2025.
Measured on three of the studio’s sites
0clicks a month. Search Console, brand searches left out, 1,506,928 impressions.
The difference is the question a buyer asks, not the place a page holds. Your own curve is in your Search Console: a reading measures it.
Four Plain
Questions.
Who does the reading?
The studio, from your firm’s own data.
Do we pay every month?
No. One reading, a fixed scope.
What do we keep?
Two reports, the question list with the page that should answer each, and the record, archived before the sources drop their history.
What happens after?
Position or Alignment if the reading says so, a site if it asks for one, or nothing: the reports are yours either way.
Four Sources,
One Record.
Everything joined page by page into one record, kept before the sources drop their history.
- 01
Search Console
What Google shows, for which searches, page by page.
- 02
Analytics
What visitors do, and which pages bring enquiries.
- 03
Bing
The second engine, and the source of Copilot’s answers.
- 04
The AI Answers
Asked live with your buyers’ questions.
Two Reports
and a Record.
In your own brand style, so they can travel inside the firm and to whoever runs your search.
The Search Report
Where demand comes from, which pages turn it into enquiries, what changed and when, every number recomputed from its file.
The AI Visibility Report
Which buyer questions get an answer, which firms are named, which pages are quoted, and which page of yours should own each answer.
The Question List
Your buyers’ questions, each with the page that should answer it, in the order worth doing.
The Record, Kept
Every source joined page by page and archived; Search Console alone drops whatever is older than sixteen months.
From You
- read-only access to Search Console, Analytics and Bing
- the questions your buyers ask, in their words
- the pages that sell
- one hour to read the reports with us
A Question,
Asked Live.
Your buyers’ own questions put to the AI answers, every answer recorded: whether it names a firm, which pages it quotes.
- 01
The Question
In the words your buyers use.
- 02
The Answers
Google’s AI and Copilot, asked live.
- 03
Who Is Named
Your firm, another, or no one.
- 04
The Page That Owns It
Which of your pages should carry the answer.
One Question,
Read Twice.
Search ranks pages; the AI answers quote a claim. The page that states the answer plainly is the one both of them find.
- 01
The Question
Asked once, in the words your buyers use.
- 02
Search Ranks Pages
A list, and the one result that is clicked.
- 03
The Answer Quotes a Claim
One sentence, and the page it cites.
- 04
One Page, Both
The page that defines the term. On the studio’s network, pages like it drew half of Copilot’s citations.
A Reading Shaped
by Your Feedback.
Two weeks from access to the reading. The first reading goes to you; your questions decide what the second pass reads.
- 0
Access
Read-only access to Search Console, Analytics and Bing. Nothing on the site changes.
- 7
The Record
Every source joined, page by page, and kept; the AI answers asked live.
- 14
The Reading
The two reports and the question list, read with you.
- →
What Next
Position, Alignment or a site, if the reading says so.
A Ranking Report,
or a Reading.
A Ranking Report
- The Question
- Where do we rank?
- The AI Answers
- Left out.
- The Data
- A tool’s estimate.
- The End
- A list of fixes.
Search
- The Question
- What does being found bring the firm, and from which pages?
- The AI Answers
- Asked live, recorded, page by page.
- The Data
- Your own Search Console, Analytics and Bing.
- The End
- Two reports and the page that should own each question.
Three Depths
of One Reading.
Search reads how the firm is found. Position adds what buyers need to hear. Alignment sets one direction. Each contains the one before it.
Search,
Explained.
What the studio has written about search and the AI answers, from its own records: the papers, and the terms they define.
Every Engine Keeps Its Own Record
Two years of one reference network, read from its own accounts: what Google, Bing and the AI answers each did with the same pages, and what it means for any firm that wants to be found.05 · Advisory · Search · · 14 min readWhat Are You Actually Paying For?
The question every reading starts with, what a year of retainer usually buys, and how to find out from your own accounts.02 · Advisory · Search · · 12 min readThe Page the Machine Quotes
How an AI answer chooses the page it cites, what the studio’s own measurements show on three kinds of site, and how a page earns the quote.03 · Advisory · Alignment · · 12 min read
Asked First,
Answered Plainly.
Is Search an SEO service?
It is the reading before any SEO work: what search and AI answers show today, which pages bring enquiries, which page should own each question.
Which access do you need?
Read-only access to Search Console, Analytics and Bing. Nothing on the site changes, and the access can be removed the day the reading ends.
How are the AI answers measured?
Your buyers’ questions are put to the AI answers live, and every answer is recorded: whether it names a firm, and which pages it quotes.
How long does it take?
Two weeks: the record by day 7, the reading by day 14.
What if we have no Search Console?
It is set up first, with your permission, and the reading uses the history each source holds.
Who sees the reports?
You, and whoever you choose. They come in your own brand style.
See How You
Are Found.
Tell us the site and who works on it now. The reply comes from a person, within two working days.