Mike Price
SEO Director · Search Engineering · AI Search (AEO / GEO)
SEO Director and search engineer specializing in technical SEO, AI search visibility, search-market strategy, and automation. Promoted to SEO Director within 90 days at AdsIntelligence, where I lead SEO and AEO/GEO strategy across a portfolio of real estate developers, homebuilders, and property managers.
I build the systems behind the strategy as well as the strategy itself - from search-market analysis, site architecture, and structured data to custom AI-search intelligence platforms, API integrations, automated workflows, and measurement frameworks. Experienced translating complex search data into prioritized growth initiatives and building the technical infrastructure required to execute them.
- Direct SEO strategy and operating priorities across a portfolio of real estate developers, homebuilders, and property managers, translating business objectives and search-market intelligence into quarterly growth strategies and prioritized roadmaps.
- Developed a market-driven SEO strategy framework that connects business objectives, search demand, SERP competition, current organic capture, performance gaps, site constraints, and prioritized growth initiatives.
- Lead search-market and SERP analysis for inventory-driven businesses, evaluating demand, intent, competitive positioning, site architecture, and opportunities for first-party brands to capture relevant local and market-level search demand.
- Established campaign measurement around strategic target keyword sets, longitudinal ranking and visibility tracking, and adjacent AI prompt measurement to evaluate traditional and AI-search performance over time.
- Own technical SEO for large, inventory-driven real estate websites, including site architecture, crawlability, structured data, internal linking, technical audits, and collaboration with web development teams on implementation.
- Built and maintain a custom AI-search intelligence platform using Node.js, integrating DataForSEO, Google APIs, and four LLMs - 350+ API endpoints and 70+ data tables - used by the SEO team to track AI visibility, brand share of voice, citations, rankings, Google Business Profile map grids, technical audits, and reporting. See the platform →
- Replaced the agency's third-party SEO SaaS stack with internally developed tooling, reducing software costs by approximately $2,000 per month while consolidating SEO data and workflows into a single platform.
- Established the SEO program's operating systems, processes, architecture, prioritization framework, and deliverable standards for a high-touch client service model.
- Build and evaluate AI-search analyses covering brand visibility, citations, competitive sources, search presence, and AI-answer surfaces, translating findings into areas for deeper research and strategic action.
- Manage and train an SEO specialist while coordinating SEO execution across web development, design, and other cross-functional teams.
- Present SEO strategy, performance analysis, competitive insights, and recommendations directly to clients during recurring strategy and performance calls.
- Managed 30+ local SEO clients as project manager and strategist, coordinating campaign execution, client communication, and recurring SEO deliverables.
- Introduced scalable SEO automations and SOPs using Make, Zapier, and ChatGPT to reduce manual work and standardize recurring processes.
- Built repeatable workflows for local SEO operations, improving consistency across a multi-client portfolio.
- Founded and operated a boutique SEO consultancy serving service-based businesses, owning strategy, client communication, campaign execution, and delivery.
- Developed repeatable SEO systems and processes spanning on-page, off-page, technical, and local SEO.
- Managed client relationships directly while translating business objectives into practical organic search strategies.
- Supported SEO campaigns for 20+ national e-commerce brands across on-page optimization, metadata, keyword research, content optimization, and structured data.
- Implemented structured data and contributed to client-specific SEO roadmaps across multiple enterprise e-commerce accounts.
- Worked at scale across multiple client environments while developing foundational technical and strategic SEO experience.