Outline Technologies — SEO, AEO & GEO Agency
Search Engine Optimization

If Google Can't
Find You, Nobody Can.

SEO is the starting point for everything. Before AI citations, before voice search, before answer boxes. There's Google. And if your website isn't performing there, nothing else we do will hit as hard as it should.

340%
Average traffic increase
First 6 months
<12
Weeks to first results
From audit to impact
98%
Client retention rate
Year over year
50+
Projects delivered
Since 2015

So What Even Is SEO in 2026?

Let's get something out of the way. SEO hasn't died. Every year since 2010, somebody publishes a blog post saying "SEO is dead" and every year organic search keeps sending more traffic to websites than any other channel. Google processes something like 8.5 billion searches per day. That number went UP in 2025, not down.

But here's what DID change. The bar got higher. Way higher. In 2016, you could rank a page by stuffing keywords into headers and buying a few links from guest post farms. Try that today and Google will bury you on page 47 next to websites that haven't been updated since Obama was president.

Modern SEO is about three things: technical health, content quality, and earned authority. Get all three right and Google rewards you. Get one wrong and the other two can't fully compensate.

We've been engineering SEO systems since 2015 and the biggest lesson we've learned is this: the agencies that treat SEO like a checklist lose to the agencies that treat it like an ecosystem. Everything connects. Your site speed affects your bounce rate. Your bounce rate affects your rankings. Your rankings affect who links to you. Who links to you affects your domain authority. It's a circle, not a line.

And now, with AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity pulling from the same web that Google indexes, your SEO work directly feeds your AI visibility too. We call this the SEO-GEO Flywheel. Strong search rankings build the authority that AI trusts. AI citations drive more traffic. More traffic strengthens your rankings. The whole thing compounds.

The Four Pillars

How We Break It Down

Pillar 1

Technical SEO

The invisible wiring behind every great website. We crawl your entire site looking for broken things, slow things, and things Google can't read properly. Stuff like broken canonical tags, missing hreflang, orphan pages nobody can reach, and redirect chains that loop forever. We also fix Core Web Vitals because Google literally tells you they matter and most agencies still ignore them.

Full crawl analysis with custom scripts
Core Web Vitals optimization (LCP, CLS, INP)
Canonical tag and URL structure cleanup
Schema markup implementation (JSON-LD)
Internal linking architecture
XML sitemap and robots.txt configuration
Page speed optimization (server and client side)
Mobile responsiveness verification
Pillar 2

Content Strategy

Content without strategy is just noise. We research what your actual audience is searching for (not what you think they're searching for, big difference) and build content that answers their real questions better than anyone else. Each piece has a job. Some attract top of funnel searches, some capture buying intent, some exist just to strengthen topical authority. Nothing is random.

Keyword research and intent mapping
Content gap analysis vs. competitors
Topic cluster and pillar page architecture
Search intent alignment per page
Content brief creation with target structure
Competitor SERP analysis
Featured snippet targeting
Content refresh and pruning strategy
Pillar 3

Off Page & Authority

Google still cares a lot about who links to you. But we don't buy links from random directories in 2026. We earn them. Digital PR, strategic guest publications, brand mentions on authoritative sites, and making sure your business profiles are consistent everywhere they exist. The goal is building a link profile that looks natural because it IS natural.

Link profile audit and toxic link cleanup
Digital PR and journalist outreach
Guest posting on relevant publications
Brand mention monitoring and link reclamation
Local citation building and cleanup
Business profile consistency audit
Competitor backlink gap analysis
Social signal amplification
Pillar 4

Reporting & Analytics

We don't send you a 50 page PDF full of charts nobody reads. You get a dashboard that shows the numbers that actually matter. Rankings that moved, traffic that grew, conversions that happened. Every month we review what worked and what didn't, and we adjust the plan based on real data, not hunches. If something isn't working, we tell you within two weeks, not three months later.

Custom performance dashboards
Monthly ranking and traffic tracking
Conversion attribution analysis
Competitor movement monitoring
Quarterly strategy reviews
AI visibility cross referencing
ROI measurement and CAC tracking
Weekly automated insight reports
The Process

How an Engagement Actually Works

No hand waving. No vague promises. Here's literally what happens from the moment you say yes.

01
01

The Deep Scan

Before we change a single character on your site, we run our 30 point audit across every page, every URL, every piece of structured data. We check how Google sees you, how AI sees you, and where the gaps are. This usually takes about a week and tells us exactly what needs fixing first.

02
02

Fix the Foundation

Here's a truth most agencies won't tell you: content strategy doesn't matter if your site takes 6 seconds to load or has 200 redirect loops. We fix the technical stuff first. Site speed, crawling issues, broken pages, schema errors. Once the foundation is solid, everything else works 10x better.

03
03

Build the Content Engine

Now we build. Keyword research informs every piece of content. Each page targets a specific search intent. We create topic clusters that prove to Google you actually know what you're talking about. And every single piece is structured for both traditional search AND AI citation quality. Two birds, one content strategy.

04
04

Grow the Authority

With technical health and great content in place, we start amplifying. Digital PR gets you mentioned on sites that matter. Guest publications put your expertise in front of new audiences. Brand mentions on the right platforms feed both Google's algorithm and the training data that AI models pull from. The flywheel starts spinning.

05
05

Measure, Learn, Repeat

SEO is not a project you finish. It's a system you run. Every month we look at what moved, what didn't, and why. We find new keyword opportunities. We watch what competitors are doing. We prune content that isn't earning its keep and invest more into what's working. The strategy evolves because the search landscape never sits still.

Questions

Things You're Probably Wondering

How long does SEO actually take?+
Here's the honest answer: it depends on where you're starting. If your site has major technical issues, we'll see improvements from fixing those within weeks. Content and authority building takes longer. Most of our clients see meaningful traffic growth in 3 to 6 months. If someone promises you page one rankings in 30 days, run. That's either a lie or they're doing something that'll get you penalized later.
We already have an SEO agency. Why switch?+
We hear this a lot. And honestly, maybe you shouldn't switch. If your current agency is getting results, keep them. But if you're reading this, something probably isn't clicking. The most common issue we see is agencies that do the basics but don't evolve with the industry. SEO in 2026 isn't just about Google rankings anymore. If your agency isn't talking about AI citations and GEO, they're already behind.
Do you guarantee rankings?+
No. And neither should anyone else. Google's algorithm considers hundreds of factors, many of which change without notice. What we do guarantee is that every action we take is based on data, follows best practices, and is designed to improve your visibility over time. We've been doing this since 2015 and our track record speaks for itself. But promises about specific ranking positions? That's snake oil.
How is your SEO different from what we can do in house?+
You absolutely can do SEO in house. The question is whether you want to. We bring a decade of pattern recognition across dozens of industries. We've seen what works and what doesn't hundreds of times. We also have tooling that would cost you $2,000+ per month in subscriptions alone. For most businesses, the math just works better with an agency until you're big enough to justify a full time SEO team.
What's the minimum engagement period?+
Six months. Not because we want to lock you in, but because SEO compounds over time and three months isn't enough to see the full picture. That said, we provide monthly reporting from day one so you can see exactly what we're doing and whether it's working. If after three months you don't see progress, we'll have an honest conversation about it.
Do you also handle content writing?+
Yes. We have separate Content and Authority Building service for the heavy lifting, but every SEO engagement includes content strategy and content briefs. For basic content needs, we handle the research, outlines, and optimization in house. For larger content production needs, we'll recommend you add the content service as well.

Ready to Actually Rank?

We'll start with an audit so you know exactly where things stand. No commitment. Just clarity.