Search marketing

What We Do + Why We Do It

Search and AI visibility for real estate and finance brands

Turning organic into pipeline

Before your buyers buy, they ask. Google and AI assistants answer. And when they do, they recommend companies with original content, third-party buzz and a crawler-friendly site. Without all three, it’s impossible to show up in the algorithms that move pipeline — especially for brands operating in high-stakes markets like yours.

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The big picture for real estate and finance leaders

Challenges

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  • Long sales cycles
  • Multiple stakeholders
  • Heavy regulatory requirements
  • Expensive, complex offerings

Needs

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  • Deep insight into customer needs and behaviors
  • A content strategy that enables you to effectively connect with and engage those customers
  • Organic you can measure against leads and revenue

Solutions

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  • Expert content
  • Earned credibility
  • Technical foundation

Be the brand AI recommends

To improve AI visibility, you need more than a competent site with heaps of links driving to it. You need a strategic framework that helps you put that site to work. We provide SEO and content support that enables you to build it, strengthen it over time and turn it into revenue.

service 01

GEO / SEO

We don’t just optimize your content for algorithms. We help you create the kind of content algorithms want to surface.

service 02

Digital PR

We take a content-led approach to PR, ensuring your brand adds something unique — and uniquely valuable — to the conversations your audiences are having.

It’s a process

First, you need a strategy. Then, you need a partner who can run it. Our first 30 days is all strategy. If you're not interested in moving forward, just walk away. No harm done.

Like where we’re headed?
Let’s set up a monthly retainer to execute against it.

What you get

Month One

Strategy from real data

Month one
  • Stakeholder and customer interviews
  • Search, social and AI research
  • Competitive and audience analysis
  • Content-led growth strategy and editorial calendar
  • Technical SEO/AI audit and action plan
What you’d get

Month Two + Beyond

Content AI can’t write

Month two
  • Expert interviews and original research
  • Articles, pages, emails, whitepapers, webinars
  • EEAT: authors, sources, proprietary data
  • Compliance-aware editing for regulated topics
  • Flexible monthly editorial credits

Distribution far and wide

Beyond
  • Digital PR: earned placements, mentions and links
  • LinkedIn and social ghostwriting for your execs
  • Email and sales enablement
  • Live virtual events
  • Monthly AI visibility monitoring and full-funnel reporting
What clients say
“I’m not sure where our SEO & Content program would be without Matt and his team. They built one of our most profitable enduring assets and a world-class content team for us.”
Sumant Sridharan
COO @ Homelight
“They’ve worked with my team and me on two Content-led PR projects. Both campaigns achieved some very positive results which we were quite pleased with.”
Michelle Levine
Sr. SEO @ Vista
“They’ve enabled us to rethink our approach to creating impactful content that resonates with our target audience, significantly boosting our marketing efforts.”
Shannon Canzanella
Marketing @ AccountingSeed

Start with a free diagnostic

Give us 20 minutes and we’ll conduct a thorough audit and content asset inventory — and make targeted, actionable recommendations that give each of your domains the best chance for success.

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Book a visibility review

We’ll assess brand visibility across Google, AI tools, your website and your customer journey.

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See the opportunity clearly

You’ll walk away with a clearer picture of what’s working, what’s not and what we’d fix first.

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Choose the right level of support

We’ll recommend the best path forward, from foundational strategy to a full content-led growth engine.

Get started

What We’re Asked

What do you do, exactly?

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We act as a fractional SEO and content marketing team for real estate and finance leaders.

We provide:

  • A strategy powered by customer and market data
  • A technical foundation your site can be read on
  • Expert-led content your competitors can’t copy
  • Distribution across press, social, email and events

All of it reports back to leads and revenue.

Who do you work with?

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Real estate and finance companies — including brokerages, lenders, iBuyers, title and financial services firms — and the proptech and fintech platforms that serve them.

All our clients share a similar set of challenges:

  • A complex product
  • A high-ticket sale with several stakeholders
  • A long cycle
  • A reputation (and regulator) to protect

If that sounds like you, we’re a fit — even if you’d never call yourself “proptech.”

If you’re a consumer brand or a local business, we’re probably not the right team and we’ll say so quickly.

What’s your take on GEO and AI search?

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It’s real, and it’s mostly just good marketing.

AI recommends the brands it’s encountered everywhere it looks: press, social, YouTube, reviews, editorial coverage and a site that clearly explains a complex product and why buyers should choose it.

That’s what we build for you. What we don’t do is just add a GEO hack to your marketing repertoire.

We won’t:

  • Chase formats modelled after last quarter’s trends
  • Publish “best of” lists nobody’s searching for
  • Flood your site with content written for machines

That stuff decays fast and takes your credibility with it. Our founder has written about this at some length.

How does the engagement work?

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We provide three tiers of support (Foundation, Scale Up, Dominate a Category), each financed by a monthly retainer with a set number of editorial credits and earned placements, 30-day termination and no long-term commitment.

Month One is strategy only: interviews, research, audits and a baseline analysis of how you appear across search and AI.

You decide whether to continue, adjust the scope or just walk away.

Production starts Month Two.

What’s an editorial credit?

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A capacity unit that lets you shift support as priorities change.

Each quarter we recommend the mix that best supports your goals. You can also choose from the menu or ask us to quote custom work.

How do you measure success?

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Leads and revenue, with leading indicators along the way.

From Day One, you get a full-funnel dashboard that includes:

  • Indexed pages
  • Rankings
  • AI visibility across Google and LLMs
  • Impressions
  • Engagement
  • Visits
  • Leads
  • Revenue
  • Return on investment.

Plus, two strategy check-ins a month and quarterly business reviews for top-tier execs.

How do you use AI internally?

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Where it makes the work better:

  • Research
  • Analysis
  • First-pass structure
  • QA at scale.

And not where it can’t:

  • Expertise
  • Original insight
  • Judgment

Every piece we publish is written and edited by humans who understand the industry and the compliance rules that govern it.

Can we see case studies?

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Of course.

Find HomeLight, Kickoff, Mark Spain and Allegiance Title case studies here. Just keep in mind that HomeLight was an in-house program our team built before Narrative Bent existed.

We’re happy to put you in touch with current clients.