SEO

SEO and organic rankings for companies that sell to other businesses

Get found on Google and in AI answers by buyers who do their research before they call. It takes months of work, and progress is measured every month.

  • Google Partner
  • Hostinger Partner
  • Founded in Brazil, working remotely

In short

What can you expect from PHN’s SEO?

  • What it is: organic rankings on Google and citations in AI answers.
  • How: a sound technical structure, content under a named author’s byline, and local SEO.
  • Timeline: months of work, with no ranking promised.

PHN’s SEO is organic ranking work for B2B companies, on Google and in the answers of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. It combines the website’s technical structure, bylined content, and local SEO, with a monthly report on rankings, clicks, and inquiries.

Why SEO

Why do B2B buyers do their research before they reach out?

Because the purchase is expensive, and whoever makes the decision wants to walk into the meeting knowing who they are dealing with. A 2017 Gartner survey of 750 B2B buyers found that buyers spend only about 17% of the buying process meeting with potential suppliers. The rest is research.

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That changes the job of your website. The buyer researches the service, reads comparisons, checks who wrote the content, and asks ChatGPT which companies serve their industry. By the time they reach your form, they already have a short list. If your company doesn’t show up in those searches, it doesn’t make the list, no matter how warmly a referral recommends it.

02

SEO works to put your company on that research path: pages that answer the buyer’s questions, with a named author and a photo of that author, data with sources, and a technical structure that Google and AI tools can read. It is an investment that takes time to mature, and it can keep bringing in inquiries after paid media stops, for as long as the page keeps ranking.

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That is why PHN treats SEO as a company asset: the content, the domain, and the history stay with you, even if the contract ends.

No myths

What is SEO, and what isn’t it?

01

What SEO isn’t

Buying links, writing for robots, promising the first page, or a trick that works until Google’s next update.

02

What SEO is

A technically clean website, pages that answer the buyer’s real questions, clear authorship, and a consistent local presence.

03

The honest timeline

The first signals appear within weeks, rankings for commercial pages mature over months, and no serious professional promises a date. PHN shows the progress in the monthly report.

Areas of work

What does the SEO work cover?

01

Technical SEO

Speed, indexing, the sitemap, structured data, and fixing whatever keeps Google from reading the site.

02

Content

Service pages and articles that answer the buyer’s questions, written under a named expert’s byline, with sources and dates.

03

Local SEO and AI

Your Google Business Profile, a consistent name, address, and phone number everywhere, and copy written to be cited by AI tools.

Part of the system

How does SEO work together with Google Ads and the website?

Google Ads shows within weeks which searches bring in contracts, and SEO uses that data to decide which pages to write. The website has to be built ready for SEO, and consulting decides beforehand which buyer the pages are written for.

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Working this way solves the most common SEO problem for service businesses: writing a lot about things few people buy. Without Google Ads data, the content plan comes from search-volume tools, which favor broad, informational terms.

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With that data, the content plan starts from the searches that have already brought in inquiries and contracts through paid media, and SEO works to win those same searches with no cost per click. It works the other way too: when an organic page reaches the top positions, the ad budget for that search can move somewhere else.

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The website is the technical foundation, because a slow or poorly structured page won’t rank, however good the writing is. Consulting sets the tone, the buyer, and what each page has to prove. Companies that want all three under one accountable person hire integrated digital marketing.

Process

What does the SEO process look like at PHN?

01

Audit

A technical and content audit, starting from what the site already ranks for in Search Console.

02

Keyword map

Searches with buying intent, grouped by page, so no two pages compete for the same search.

03

Technical fixes

Whatever is holding back indexing, speed, and structured data.

04

Content

Pages and articles written for the buyer, under a named expert’s byline.

05

Tracking

Rankings, clicks, and inquiries every month, with the plan adjusted as needed.

Fit

Who should invest in SEO now?

Companies that sell a service buyers research, and that can give SEO at least a few months. If you need inquiries this month, Google Ads comes first, and SEO starts alongside it.

The most common question

“If I stop paying for ads, what’s left?”

Whatever your company has built in organic search: pages that rank, content that AI tools cite, and a domain with a track record. That is why PHN recommends SEO alongside paid media, not in place of it.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about SEO

Google Ads pays for a spot among the sponsored results and stops bringing in inquiries when the budget runs out. SEO earns a position in the organic results and in AI answers, and it keeps bringing in visits once it is built, but it takes months to mature. PHN usually recommends both together, each with its own metric.
PHN does not promise a timeline. Technical fixes show up in Search Console within weeks. Rankings for commercial pages usually mature over months, depending on the competition for each search and the domain’s history. The monthly report shows how rankings, clicks, and organic inquiries are changing.
Almost always, to some degree. The initial audit shows what keeps Google from reading the site: slow load times, pages missing from the index, no structured data, or duplicate content. When the current site can’t support the fixes, PHN recommends rebuilding it before producing content.
A technical and content audit, a keyword map by page, technical fixes, pages and articles under a named expert’s byline, upkeep of your Google Business Profile, and a monthly report with rankings, clicks, and inquiries. Everything lives on your company’s domain, and you keep the content if the contract ends.
It does. AI tools cite pages that are clear, with authorship, sourced data, and direct answers to questions. PHN writes pages in that format: a summary at the top, questions as headings, and passages that make sense on their own. No one can promise a citation, but a well-structured page improves the odds.

Further reading

Related reading

Pablo Negri, founder of PHN

By Pablo Negri, founder and technical lead at PHN

SEO for B2B companies, from Search Console to AI answers

Pablo Negri has run PHN since 2018 and personally works with PHN’s clients. PHN has served more than 200 companies, and Pablo holds active Google Ads and Google Analytics certifications. Learn more about PHN or reach Pablo directly at pablo@phnseo.com or on WhatsApp, +55 11 96154-7083.

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