Why this practice exists.
Web Cited is run by a search practitioner whose first optimization work shipped in 1995 - hand-tuning meta tags for AltaVista and Lycos before Google existed. The discipline has been reinvented three times since: PageRank and backlinks, intent and entities, and now the generative-citation era.
A decade ago, Web Cited's founder led discoverability work on an early voice-controlled AI-wearable product - optimizing for voice queries, structured product data, and third-party review citations years before most marketers had vocabulary for any of it. Thirty years of search history plus a decade of hands-on AI-product work is exactly what the post-ten-blue-links web rewards, and exactly what every Web Cited audit brings.
What we believe.
The last decade of marketing spend was allocated against a search model that is quietly being replaced. The next five years belong to teams that understand which surfaces actually answer their buyer's questions - and put real work into winning those surfaces.
We think a single, well-made audit is worth more than a year of retained content effort that nobody measured. We think a fixed price forces a better deliverable than an hourly one. We think if the answer you need is "keep doing what you're doing," we should be honest enough to say so.
Operating principles.
Four commitments that shape every engagement. If any of these are incompatible with your buying process, we're not the right fit - and we'll tell you by email before invoicing.
- Fixed scope
- The audit is a product. The scope is written down. Changing the scope mid-engagement requires a new agreement - it does not happen quietly on an invoice.
- Senior delivery
- The person who sells the engagement is the person who delivers it. No account manager layer. No junior pyramid.
- Opinionated output
- Every finding has a recommended action. The report is meant to be acted on, not filed. If a recommendation is low-confidence, we say so explicitly.
- No retainer path
- We don't propose ongoing managed services at the review call. If you need implementation help, we recommend specialists we've worked with - we don't take referral fees.
The discipline is the product. Not the retainer after it.
Fit criteria.
We built this practice for a specific buyer - a marketing, SEO, or product lead at a mid-market or enterprise company whose audience is already partially researching in AI tools.
Good fit
- B2B SaaS, fintech, healthcare-tech, and other high-consideration categories
- Companies with existing SEO infrastructure and an internal implementer
- Marketing teams reporting to a CRO or CMO who cares about pipeline influence, not ranking reports
- Buyers who can make a $5,000 decision without a six-person committee
Not a fit
- Pre-product-market-fit startups with under ten customers
- Brands looking for ongoing content production or link building
- Teams that want a 100-point "SXO score" dashboard
- Organizations requiring a three-month procurement cycle for a $5,000 engagement
The work behind the work.
Web Cited's methodology is distilled from 2008-2021 inside Fortune 500 marketing teams - regulated healthcare, global hospitality, and category-defining consumer eyewear.
One regulated-category engagement.
The categories where AI citation share moves the needle hardest are also the ones Google holds to its tightest scrutiny - YMYL topics where E-E-A-T signals decide whether a page is quoted or ignored.
One engagement in regulated medical diagnostics produced a 362% year-over-year gain in share of LLM citations on buyer-intent queries, measured against named direct competitors in the category.
Results are not guarantees. Categories behave differently, and model behavior moves month to month. What we will commit to is doing the work and showing the math.
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One audit. Fixed scope. Fixed price. Senior delivery, end to end.