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SEO consultant and digital strategist based in the Boston area, with 12+ years of experience helping businesses grow their organic presence. A former school teacher of six years, he pairs hands-on SEO implementation with a teaching background to train teams and individuals.
I'm an SEO consultant and digital strategist based in the Boston area. I've had the privilege of working with brands like GEICO, Staples, Adobe, The New York Times, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Phillips & Cohen—solving algorithmic penalties, uncovering unseen technical issues, and building strategies that grow organic traffic and revenue significantly.
I'm also a former school teacher of 6 years. I leverage my skills in lesson planning and instruction to educate teams and individuals on all things SEO. Whether you need hands-on implementation or want to build internal capabilities, I meet you where you are.
Brian Gorman Consulting
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The SEO consulting and training practice of Brian Gorman. It offers SEO consulting, content strategy, social media consulting, SEO training, website builds, and AI integration, based in the Boston area and serving clients nationwide.
I help businesses build sustainable search visibility through strategic SEO consulting, content optimization, and hands-on training that delivers measurable results.
Strategic SEO consulting and training that delivers measurable results. Based in the Boston area, serving clients nationwide.
SEO Consulting
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Comprehensive SEO consulting that identifies opportunities, addresses technical issues, and creates a roadmap for sustainable organic growth, including technical audits, competitive analysis, and prioritized recommendations.
Comprehensive SEO consulting that identifies opportunities, addresses technical issues, and creates a roadmap for sustainable organic growth.
In-depth technical audits covering crawlability, indexation, and site architecture. Competitive analysis to identify gaps and opportunities in your market. Prioritized recommendations based on impact and implementation effort.
Content Strategy
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Data-driven content planning that aligns with search intent, fills content gaps, and builds topical authority, including keyword research, content gap analysis, and editorial calendar development.
Data-driven content planning that aligns with search intent, fills content gaps, and builds topical authority.
Comprehensive keyword research focused on intent and opportunity. Content gap analysis to identify missing topics in your coverage. Editorial calendar development with topic clusters and pillar content.
Social Media Consulting
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Channel and profile strategy for YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms, with audience research and platform-specific keyword and topic targeting tuned to how each platform's search and discovery works.
Evidence
Build and grow your presence on the platforms that matter most to your audience.
Channel and profile strategy for YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Keyword and topic targeting tuned to each platform's search and discovery.
SEO Training
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Customized SEO training programs that empower teams with practical knowledge. Drawing on six years as a school teacher, the programs use hands-on workshops, one-on-one mentorship, and curriculum tailored to a team's skill level.
Evidence
Empower your team with practical SEO knowledge through customized training programs.
Customized curriculum based on your team's skill level and needs. Hands-on workshops with real examples from your own site. One-on-one mentorship sessions for career development.
Website Builds
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SEO-first website development that builds a site optimized for search visibility and load speed from day one. Brian has built sites for martial arts schools, irrigation companies, nutrition bloggers, and individuals.
Evidence
SEO-first website development that ensures your digital foundation is built for search visibility from day one.
Beyond SEO consulting, I've built websites for martial arts schools, irrigation companies, nutrition bloggers, and individuals. I build them optimized for SEO and load speed from day one.
AI Integration
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Strategic use of AI tools to enhance content creation, analysis, and SEO workflows without losing the human touch.
Leverage AI tools strategically to enhance content creation, analysis, and SEO workflows without losing the human touch.
Search Engine Optimization
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Also known as: SEO
The practice of improving a website's organic visibility in search engines through technical, content, and authority work. It is Brian Gorman's core discipline, focused on ethical, sustainable methods rather than shortcuts or black-hat tactics.
Today, I focus on the work I find most rewarding: partnering directly with businesses who value strategic thinking and are ready to invest in sustainable growth. No shortcuts, no black-hat tactics. Just smart, ethical SEO that builds lasting results.
My SEO journey began over 12 years ago when I discovered the fascinating intersection of technology, content, and user behavior.
Technical SEO
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The discipline of optimizing site architecture, crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, and structured data so that search engines and AI systems can access and understand a site.
Deep expertise in site architecture, crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, and structured data. I identify and fix the technical issues holding your site back from reaching its potential.
Local SEO
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Optimization focused on ranking in a specific geographic market and the local map pack. Brian has driven #1 local pack rankings and large booking and lead increases for local service businesses.
Evidence
A regional irrigation company came to me with stagnant organic traffic and poor local visibility. Through technical optimization, content expansion, and local SEO strategies, we transformed their digital presence.
Keyword Research
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The process of selecting the right primary and secondary keywords for a page based on search intent and opportunity. Brian teaches a fundamentals series on choosing primary keywords, where to place them, and secondary keyword variations.
Evidence
Today we're talking about secondary keywords, which are basically variations on your primary keyword.
Comprehensive keyword research focused on intent and opportunity.
Topical Authority
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The credibility a site earns with search engines and AI systems by covering a subject area in depth. Brian builds it through content gap analysis, topic clusters, and pillar content.
Data-driven content planning that aligns with search intent and business goals. From keyword research to content audits, I help you build topical authority that drives qualified traffic.
Internal Linking
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Linking between pages of the same site to aid navigation, crawling, link equity distribution, and to signal relationships between pages. Brian focuses on structural internal links that appear sitewide or across page subsets.
Essentially, a structural link is one that can be found on every page of your website, or maybe a large number of pages, or maybe just a specific subset. These are great for navigation, they're great for crawling, distributing link equity, showing the relationships between pages, and also helping users understand where they are within the larger structure of your website.
Core Web Vitals
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Google's metrics for page experience covering loading, interactivity, and visual stability. Part of the technical foundation Brian audits and fixes.
Evidence
Deep expertise in site architecture, crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, and structured data. I identify and fix the technical issues holding your site back from reaching its potential.
Crawlability
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Whether search engine and AI crawlers can reach and traverse a site's pages. A core component of the technical audits Brian runs.
Evidence
In-depth technical audits covering crawlability, indexation, and site architecture.
Indexation
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Whether and how a site's pages are included in a search engine's index. A core component of the technical audits Brian runs.
Evidence
In-depth technical audits covering crawlability, indexation, and site architecture.
Algorithm Penalty Recovery
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Also known as: SEO Recovery
Diagnosing and reversing organic traffic loss caused by Google algorithm updates, penalties, or botched site migrations. Brian has led full recoveries for an online jeweler, a sports news site, and a law firm.
How a reputable online jeweler recovered from a devastating algorithm update to achieve record-breaking traffic and revenue through strategic, long-term SEO.
The client came to me immediately after making a significant update to their existing website. They were facing a classic migration disaster.
AI Search
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Also known as: AI Search Optimization
How brands earn visibility in AI-generated answers and AI-powered search surfaces such as Google AI Overviews and chat assistants. A growing focus of Brian's writing and consulting.
Search is expanding across channels. We know this is happening, and marketing is going to have to get more expansive and go beyond just websites.
You really want to be doing the long-term hard work to build a moat: build a brand, build yourself as an authoritative entity on the web.
Google AI Overviews
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Google's AI-generated answer summaries that appear above traditional results. Brian covers how to keep a brand visible and cited within them rather than dissolving into the answer.
Evidence
If you're thinking about Google's AI Overviews, don't just let your content dissolve into the answer without your brand mentioned.
AI Traffic Tracking in GA4
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Also known as: AI traffic in Google Analytics 4
Measuring referral traffic from AI sources like ChatGPT and Perplexity inside Google Analytics 4, using Traffic Acquisition reports and custom channel grouping.
Evidence
Today I want to show you how you can track traffic from AI sources in Google Analytics 4.
AI for SEO Workflows
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Also known as: AI tools for SEO
Using AI tools to speed up and improve SEO and content workflows, from content strategy to transcription and research, while keeping human oversight. Brian has published guides on tools like HARPA AI and Whisper AI.
Evidence
The best thing you can do with AI is give it a lot of context so the outputs aren't average or generic, and you want to supervise it every step of the way so it's not getting off course, hallucinating, and degrading trust in the brand.
Return on Investment
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Also known as: ROI
The business return a client earns on SEO investment, measured by revenue and profit rather than leading indicators like traffic. Brian's engagements are oriented to the bottom line, from a client's return to profitability to six-figure organic value in competitive markets.