AI search
Crawler access and eligibility, citable structure, brand narrative in AI answers, visibility measured apart from rankings.
Available for freelance
Brands get foundby people and AI.I do SEO for both.
White-label AI SEO for agencies: SEO and AI search work, delivered under your brand. And local SEO for businesses that serve an area.
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What you can hire me for.
All services
White-label AI SEO
AEO and GEO work for your clients, under your brand
White-label SEO
SEO and AI search for agencies, under your brand
AI SEO services
Being findable inside AI answers, measured on its own
Local SEO
Your site, your Google listing and your area, read together
SEO audit services
The whole site, SEO and AI search, every finding re-tested
B2B SaaS SEO
Crawl access, rendering and AI answers for software sites
D2C e-commerce SEO
Catalogue, product data and the pages stores forget
WordPress SEO
What the SEO plugin does not fix
SEO consultant, Chennai
Based here, working with brands here and abroad
Freelance SEO, India
Independent, SEO and AI search, for businesses and agencies
Hire an SEO freelancer
What to check first, and how working with me starts
For agencies: what white-label means here
You keep the client, the pricing and every conversation. I do the audit, the checking, the fix specifications and the reporting, in your template or in mine with no name of mine on it. It starts with free findings on one of your client sites, so you can judge the work on a client you already know.
A question that keeps coming up in agency forums this year is what to sell clients who ask whether they show up in ChatGPT. That work is part of every audit here: whether AI crawlers can reach the site, whether the content is in the HTML, and what the AI tools actually say when asked.
The whole job, not just the crawl.
A crawler report is one input. The work is connecting what a site gets wrong to what the business is actually trying to sell, then fixing both in the same programme.
Keyword & topical strategy
Keyword research and intent mapping, topical maps and clustering, TOFU/MOFU/BOFU content plans, editorial calendars and trackers.
On-page & content
Titles, headings and metadata, page structure, content integrity and factual checking, E-E-A-T, trust pages.
Competitor & gap analysis
Five to twenty brands per niche, page-type and architecture mapping, content gaps, SERP composition.
Site health & indexing
Crawl and index coverage, canonicals, sitemaps, redirects, Core Web Vitals, structured data, security headers.
Measurement
Search Console and GA4, a baseline before the work starts, re-audits against it, reporting a client can check themselves.
Eight engagements, 2026.
All eight case studiesClients are described by sector only. Nothing here claims a traffic, ranking or conversion number. On most of these engagements analytics access was never granted, and a case study should not invent what an audit could not measure.
D2C food e-commerce, India
Aug 2026
D2C packaged-food brand
Full technical, content, schema and AI-search audit, then two re-audits to track what the client's team fixed, followed by keyword research and a competitor gap analysis.
C4H5M5L3
Audit delivered, then re-audited twice.
Web development studio, India
Jul – Aug 2026
Web and AI development studio
Full technical audit of every reachable URL. My pre-send check caught five false findings, so I withdrew the draft and reissued it corrected — then a full SEO and AI-search report with a 90-day proposal, a topical map and a 30-day blog plan.
C1H7M4L4
Audit delivered; fixes not yet implemented.
Digital marketing agency, Chennai
Aug 2026
NeoArk Digital (my own agency)
A baseline audit of my own agency's site across six specialist passes, cross-checked against each other, then a full re-audit after the site was rebuilt, with an action plan for each.
C5H8M12L14
Audited in August 2026, then re-audited after the rebuild.
B2B SaaS, renewable energy
Aug 2026
B2B software company, energy sector
Full technical, schema, performance and AI-search audit with a phased action plan. When the top finding was challenged, I re-tested it against independent third-party crawl data — it held.
C1H6M10L2
Audit delivered; fixes not yet implemented.
The systems are fast. I am the part that is slow.
I run audits through systems I designed for the job: collection, competitor mapping, keyword workflow, re-audit against a baseline. That is why the work covers more ground than a solo consultant usually can.
It is also why the verification pass matters. Automated tooling is wrong in patterned, predictable ways. A crawler that finished hundreds of URLs in seconds never executed JavaScript, so every missing meta description it found is an artefact. A thousand broken links all returning the same status from one host is bot blocking, not broken links. I keep a register of fourteen categories of this.
So every finding is re-tested against the live site before the report is released, and labelled Confirmed, Likely or Unverified with a step you can run yourself. On one engagement that pass caught five false findings in a finished report. I withdrew the draft hours before release and reissued it corrected. Every case study states how many claims were dropped.
- Re-tested, not re-read
- Every finding is run again against the live site before release.
- Labelled by confidence
- Confirmed, Likely or Unverified, each with a check you can reproduce.
- Withdrawn claims published
- Each case study states how many first-draft findings were corrected or dropped.
- Credit where it is due
- Fixes are credited to whoever made them. I specify; your team or I implement.
Who I work with
Two kinds of client, and the work is the same for both: find what is actually wrong, prove it, and get it fixed.
- Agencies
- White-label delivery. You sell SEO and AI search to your clients; I do the audits, fixes and reporting under your brand, and you keep the client.
- Local businesses
- Clinics, restaurants, contractors, studios: any business that serves an area. Your site, your Google Business Profile and your listings, checked against each other.
- Brands selling online
- D2C stores and software companies. Past work covers WooCommerce, Wix, WordPress and React sites.
- Where
- Based in Chennai and working remotely, with clients in India and abroad.
Before going freelance I co-founded a small agency and led a ten-person team across concurrent client accounts, which is why the agency work is the part I understand from both sides.
How an engagement runs
It always starts free: you send a site address, and three to five verified findings come back within two working days. If you want more, the work follows six phases, and the audit is only the first.
| Phase | What happens | What you receive |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Audit | The whole site is checked: indexing, canonicals, structured data, speed, images, AI search readiness, and the copy itself for factual errors | A report and workbook, every finding verified and labelled |
| 2. Fix specification | Fixes are put in order, each written for whoever will make it | An action plan where every fix has a way to prove it landed |
| 3. Competitor gap map | Five to twenty brands in your niche: what works for them, what page types they run, what your site is missing | A map of gaps worth closing |
| 4. 90-day plan | Twenty to fifty searches with real demand behind them, grouped into clusters | A roadmap committed to dates |
| 5. Execution | New pages, articles, title and description rewrites, on-page changes | The work, shipped across the ninety days |
| 6. Re-run | The audit runs again against the baseline | A before-and-after, then the next cluster |
The last phase matters most. A baseline is taken before anything changes, so when the audit runs again there is something honest to compare it with.
The work so far, in one table
| Sector | Platform | Pages audited | Findings | Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2C food e-commerce, India | WordPress + WooCommerce | ~60 | 17 | 4 |
| Web development studio, India | React single-page app, no server-side rendering | ~30 | 16 | 1 |
| Digital marketing agency, Chennai | React single-page app, rebuilt on Next.js | 5 | 39 | 5 |
| B2B SaaS, renewable energy | WordPress + Elementor | ~20 | 19 | 1 |
| B2B telecom, India | WordPress with a page builder and SEO plugin | ~175 | 14 | 2 |
| Financial advisory, India | React single-page app | ~25 | 19 | 3 |
| D2C and B2B e-commerce, India | Wix | ~55 | 17 | 3 |
| Events and catering, South India | Hand-coded static HTML | under 10 | 18 | 4 |
Each row has its own case study with the report and the workbook attached, so you can check a finding yourself before you ask me anything. Clients are described by sector only.
Research I publish
I would rather measure a claim than repeat it. Four pieces of my own research sit behind the advice on this site, each with its method and its limits written down.
- 125 Chennai business websites
- 56% had no structured data and 94.4% lacked a recommended security header. The first sample was thrown out when it turned out to include the wrong businesses.
- 42 startup websites
- 14,023 pages crawled from the outside. Three in four had internal links passing through a redirect; four sites came through every check clean.
- 50 sites made with AI site tools
- Of the 32 with enough content to judge, 20 depended on JavaScript for their text, and most of those sent a crawler almost nothing.
- 603 AI search citations
- At the same ranking, a table of contents and a real updated date were linked with being cited. FAQ markup was not.
What one finding looks like
Every finding I report carries its own proof. For a problem you can see, that is the page address and the words to look for on it. For one you cannot see, such as structured data, a redirect or an indexing rule, it is the raw evidence quoted in the report plus a command or a free browser tool that reproduces it.
It also carries two labels: how serious it is, and how sure I am. Confirmed means I reproduced it by hand on the live site. Likely means strong evidence that was not independently reproduced. Reports get forwarded, and a claim the next reader cannot check is worth nothing to them.
For local businesses: what gets checked
Google's own help page says local results are mainly based on relevance, distance and popularity, and that there is no way to pay for a better local ranking. Two of those three come down to information being complete, accurate and the same everywhere.
So a local audit compares three places: your website, your Google Business Profile and the listings that mention you. It also follows the path a customer takes, all the way to the enquiry form. On one local business site in my case studies, the only form on the site could not send anything.
Why work with me
I help businesses and agencies improve their visibility in search and in AI answers through research-led SEO, run on systems I designed, without the overhead of an agency. Here is what that means in practice, with a way to check each claim, because a claim you cannot check is not worth much.
| What you get | Why it matters | How to check it |
|---|---|---|
| Systems designed for the job | The audit, competitor and keyword work runs through systems I designed and direct, so one person covers more ground than a solo consultant usually can | The method page sets out each step |
| Work done before, with a before and an after | Eight engagements are published. On one, the site was re-audited twice after the client's own team made the fixes | Each case study includes the report and the workbook |
| Decisions led by research | Advice is graded by its evidence before I use it, and I measure claims myself. Four of my own studies are published | Each study states its method and its limits |
| Every finding checked by hand | 16 first-draft findings were withdrawn before any client saw them | The withdrawn findings are listed by engagement |
| No overhead | You deal with the person doing the work. There is no account manager, and prices are published as ranges | The price table on this page |
| Time for your site | I take on a small number of sites at once, so yours is not passed to someone else | Ask what I have on this month |
And what is not included, so there are no surprises: guaranteed rankings, traffic, leads or revenue; unlimited revisions or unlimited implementation; and third-party software or advertising costs, which stay yours and are agreed separately.
What it costs
The first step costs nothing. After that, per site, in ranges:
| Option | What it includes | Abroad (USD) | India (INR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free findings | Three to five verified findings on one site, each with a check you can run. Within two working days. | Free | Free |
| SEO and AI search sprint | A full audit within 48 hours of access, verified by hand, and the fixes within 7 days. | $300 to $500 | ₹20,000 to ₹35,000 |
| Monthly SEO and AI search | Ongoing work against an agreed list: fixes, content briefs, re-audits and a monthly report against the baseline. | $500 to $800 a month | ₹25,000 to ₹40,000 a month |
These are ranges, not packages. Where a site falls depends on its size and what the free findings show, and the quote comes after them. No price on this site buys a ranking, a traffic figure or an AI citation.
Questions people ask before getting in touch
What do you actually do?
SEO and AI search, as a freelancer. I audit a site, check every finding by hand, specify the fixes, plan the content, and measure what changed. For agencies I do the same under their brand.
Are you a technical SEO consultant?
No. The technical checks are part of every audit, but they are about half the job. The rest is what the pages say, whether it is true, whether AI answers can draw on it, and whether a visitor can reach you.
Do you write code?
No, and I do not claim to. I design the systems, specify the work, direct AI tooling through it and verify every output. Fixes are made by your developer, or by AI under my direction.
Can you guarantee rankings or AI citations?
No. Google's own guidance says: "No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google." The same is true of AI answers. What I can promise is the work, and a way for you to check each piece of it.
How much does it cost?
A one-off sprint is $300 to $500 for sites abroad and ₹20,000 to ₹35,000 in India. Ongoing work is $500 to $800 a month, or ₹25,000 to ₹40,000 a month. The first three to five findings are free.
How do I start?
Send your site address. Three to five verified findings come back within two working days, free, with no call required. If there is nothing worth fixing, I will tell you that.
Do you work with agencies?
Yes, as a white-label partner. Reports carry your brand, and I do not contact your client unless you ask me to.
Ask an AI about your brand. See what it says.
Crawler access, citable structure, brand narrative and measurement. Including a machine view of this site you can open right now.
Send me your URL. I will send back what I find.
Three to five real findings from your site, verified by hand, each with a way for you to check it yourself. No charge and no call required. If there is nothing worth fixing I will tell you that instead, which happens.
- You send a URLThe site, and anything you already suspect is wrong with it.
- I audit it by handRun through my systems, then verified by me. Not an automated report.
- You get the findingsThree to five, each with a reproducible check. Yours to act on with or without me.