Independent SEO Consulting Services

Technical audits, content strategies, and brand authority building for business needs.

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Independent SEO consultant offering:

  • Technical website audits:
    • Focus: indexing, page experience, mobile friendliness
    • Benefits: user experience, content visibility, prioritization by impact
  • Content audits, calendars, and outlines:
    • Focus: content pruning and refreshes, helpful content, pillar-cluster model
    • Benefits: people-first content that aligns with customer search journeys
  • Brand authority and E-E-A-T alignment:
    • Focus: knowledge graph presence, backlinks, digital PR, socials
    • Benefits: brand awareness and authority for search engines and AI chat citations or generative-AI summaries

Let’s set your business up for SEO success, both for today and the future!

I’m Ethan Lazuk, an independent SEO consultant who creates custom and holistic SEO strategies designed to meet your business needs through increased brand authority, qualified traffic, and conversions from Google Search, other search engines, plus AI chatbots and answer engines.

Ethan and Dania Lazuk with their dog Wuffiyah.
Meet the crew: Ethan, Dania, and Wuffiyah.

If there’s one thing I learned from working for 8+ years at multiple digital marketing agencies before starting my own independent SEO company, it’s the value of working with someone who has specialized knowledge.

I started consulting for clients full-time in January of 2024 because, to be blunt, I wasn’t down with how I saw SEO services delivered at the agencies I worked at. I knew I could help businesses better by working with them directly, uninhibited by agendas or limitations.

My SEO approach overall involves a modern, people-first philosophy, based on the “time-to-value ratio” for the post-HCU world. With me, there are no checklists. We won’t throw SEO tactics at the wall haphazardly just to see what sticks. We won’t focus on metrics that don’t matter for your business’s success.

We’ll have one goal with your SEO strategy, and that’s to increase the metrics that matter — sales, sign-ups, brand awareness — by giving your customers the most value in exchange for their time.

I follow this approach on my own website. You can see the growth below since I went out on my own in January:

Ethan Lazuk's website traffic in Ahrefs for the last year.

But let’s also keep perspective: Today’s SEO goals are not about keyword rankings or even traffic alone; it’s not about backlinks or target keywords. That’s old school.

The harsh truth: Google SGE (AI answers) and AI chatbots (like ChatGPT) will replace a sizable amount of organic traffic from search engines. Meanwhile, younger customers are moving toward alternatives, like social media (namely TikTok), as well as other video content.

The good news: This all makes SEO more valuable, if you take advantage. With my approach to SEO services, we’ll plan for the future. Your website will align better with how Google’s AI-driven ranking systems evaluate content today, and we’ll focus on getting your brand more visibility “with qualified customers” along conversational and multi-touchpoint search journeys that include AI answers (SGE), summaries (Perplexity, Copilot), and chat replies (Gemini, ChatGPT).

In short, times change. Your SEO work should, too. I offer semantically driven and user-first SEO strategies that align with modern search engines and AI answer engines and are custom to your brand, audience, and business needs.

Interested to learn more? I’d love to explore your needs and discuss how I can help your brand reach its largest audience of customers online.

>>Contact me today for a consultation!<<

Ethan Lazuk Consulting is an independent SEO company that specializes in custom audits and holistic strategies based on the modern needs of businesses given Google’s machine learning-based ranking system, semantic search technologies, and alternative avenues for content visibility, like social media, shopping graph features, or AI answer engines.

I’ve worked with 100+ clients of all sizes and verticals across the U.S. and globally in my career. Together, we’ll create a modern strategy for sustainable visibility.

My areas of specialization include:

A modern SEO strategy focuses on users first and accounts for semantic search (knowledge graph) and AI (machine learning-based) technologies.

Doing SEO this way is a smart business investment because it future-proofs your brand’s reputation and organic visibility with your target audience, giving you short- and long-term results that meet business needs.

Hierarchy of SEO services with Authority, Helpful Content, and Technical Website Foundations

My holistic SEO services focus not only on organic traffic and keyword rankings on Google Search but also organic visibility across other Google surfaces, like Discover, Perspectives, People also view, and SGE (AI answers) as well as citations in AI chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT and AI answer engines, like Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot with Bing.

I focus on revenue-driving conversions, with incremental goals of increasing brand awareness and qualified clicks from target customers.

KPIs I can help you achieve include:

  • Business revenue
  • Organic traffic
  • Keyword rankings
  • Brand visibility
  • Calls, signups, form fills, and other conversions

Since my SEO services are approach-driven with custom audits and strategies and based on today’s best practices in general, I can work with businesses of nearly all types, sizes and verticals.

I’m available to work with clients across the U.S. and globally, as well as in-person locally in Orlando.

As an independent consultant (and with 8+ years of prior agency experience), I’ve helped countless businesses achieve their KPIs and goals.

Businesses I’ve helped with SEO:

  • National and global brands (financial institutions, B2B, franchises, SaaS, sports, education)
  • Health and medical (physicians, dentists, cosmetic surgeons, pharmacies, caregivers, equipment)
  • Ecommerce (cosmetics, health, food, fashion/apparel, technology)
  • Professional services (law firms, banks, investment institutions, technicians, consultants)
  • Real estate (student housing, senior living, commercial, apartments, home builders)
  • Entertainment (authors, filmmakers, artists)
  • Government and nonprofit (local, regional, and statewide agencies and organizations)

Website CMS I’m familiar with:

  • WordPress (and WooCommerce)
  • Shopify
  • Sitefinity
  • HubSpot
  • Nopcommerce
  • Wix
  • Contentful
  • Magento

Marketing channels I’ve collaborated with:

  • Paid ads (search and social)
  • Organic social media
  • Email
  • Influencer
  • Public relations
  • CRO specialists
  • Designers/developers

Pricing

I use a fixed rate per project or for each milestone along the way. This pricing model ensures we have time and budget to accomplish your goals without limitations.

I can also offer monthly retainers for ongoing services. The typical cost breakdown of my services is around $150 per hour.

I also offer free help to nonprofits as well as artists, creatives, and musicians. No strings attached.


I started this consulting company to offer the type of modern and user-first SEO services that I believe work best for search engines like Google plus newer AI search experiences today.

Holistic SEO Strategies

My holistic SEO strategies aim to achieve your business goals by focusing on a technical audit, content evaluation, and competitor analysis, plus incorporating audience and sales insights.

SEO strategies are the service I specialize in, which include all aspects of SEO work, measured with custom KPIs, and forming a smart investment that also supports your overall marketing, brand-building, and business objectives.

Technical Audits

Technical website audits identify errors or issues that can impact your user’s experience or search rankings.

Topics of interest can include content indexability, canonicalization, broken links, or page experience signals, such as HTTPs, Core Web Vitals, or mobile-friendliness.

I can create an audit document with instructions for your team, or I can assist in addressing the items on your website.

I also ensure all technical items make a difference to your business goals — not just export a PDF from a tool and call it a day. 😉

Content Strategy

Content audits and strategies are probably the most consequential SEO work I offer. They include evaluating your site’s best and worst-performing content to find opportunities for content refreshes or pruning.

I can also assist with new content ideas for blog posts, service or product pages, and more based on keyword, competitor, and audience research, as well as creating outlines for how to create each piece of content with SEO value.

I specialize in what Google calls creating helpful, people-first content and also in selecting topics along a buyer’s journey that will have business value.

I also advise on how to align content with E-E-A-T, anticipate the impacts of generative AI (like Google SGE), and even get more organic visibility with alternative content types, like social media.

Authority Building

Authority building goes far beyond earning backlinks to your website. It involves focusing on your brand’s entire online reputation and presence.

This service can include building your entity in Google’s knowledge graph, earning positive coverage, like from reviews or press mentions, as well as ensuring your business’s information is consistent across the web.

Achieving authority online builds trust with users and helps make your SEO investment more efficient and productive.

Local SEO

Local SEO services include optimizing your business for local search results where customers are looking for your products or services in nearby locations you serve.

This can include Google Business Profile (GBP) optimization, location pages (unique and high quality), customer review generation, and building local listings or press mentions.

Local SEO can apply to small businesses up to large or multi-location franchises or organizations.

Enterprise SEO

SEO for enterprise businesses involves larger strategic recommendations that focus on business outcomes and objectives while utilizing a company’s internal resources.

For example, enterprise businesses often have teams of developers or content creators, so SEO recommendations might involve those teams while leveraging large-scale initiatives, like page template updates that improve internal linking or content quality.

Other enterprise services can include recommendations for better alignment with E-E-A-T, competitive analysis, streamlining page indexability, or creating content topics and strategies to focus on core topics for buyer’s journey and conversions.

International SEO

International and multilingual SEO helps businesses maximize their organic visibility with the different audiences they serve.

These services may include creating high-quality content for each audience, having an organized site architecture with internal linking, or using hreflang tags to help search engines surface the right versions of content in the correct markets.

Brand consistency and user journeys also play important roles in international business, especially for converting users.

I can work with businesses from across the world, and I also specialize in helping Arabic and Middle Eastern businesses with help from my wife, Dania.

Ecommerce SEO

Today’s online stores require a holistic approach to ecommerce SEO strategies that incorporate all of the possibilities for organic visibility on Google’s surfaces powered by shopping graph data as well as additional surfaces, like alternative search engines, AI answer engines, or LLM chat results.

My approach to ecommerce SEO focuses on technical website foundations for indexing, helpful and people-first content, and incorporating relevant structured data, Merchant Center optimizations, as well as multimedia (videos and images) and UGC (customer reviews and testimonials) to build a holistic presence through a customer’s journey.

I’m familiar with WooCommerce (WordPress), Shopify, nopCommerce, and other ecommerce CMSs, and I’ve worked with dozens of types of online stores, from single product vendors to global sellers.

More Offerings

Other SEO services I offer can include:

  • Performance monitoring and reporting, such as dashboards to monitor KPIs with monthly analysis
  • Standard operating procedures (SOPs) for internal teams or marketers to do SEO work
  • Training junior SEO team members or business owners in basic SEO skills, such as using Google Search Console
  • Modernizing existing SEO strategies to help future-proof your brand’s online presence and get better aligned with user expectations and how Google’s AI-based ranking systems work today.

Have questions or ready to get started?

The best way to learn how I can help is to contact me so we can discuss opportunities.

Why I started an independent SEO company

I believe I have the most impact on businesses when I work with them directly as an independent strategist and consultant.

One of my biggest takeaways from working 8+ years in digital marketing agencies is that effective SEO services require specialized knowledge.

I do SEO differently.

My user-centric approach is based on how Google’s AI-based ranking systems work today, accounting for dynamic search results can be.

Rather than chase ranking algorithms or gaming individual factors, I create holistic strategies to fulfill user expectations and achieve business goals.

I can help identify low-hanging fruit opportunities for quicker results (for example, title tag improvements) as well as longer-term content and authority-building work to grow brand awareness and qualified traffic.

Every service is also uniquely applied to meet your business goals — there are no checklists here.

>> Visit my main company page to watch a video about my philosophy. <<

If you search on Google right now for “weekly SEO news,” you’ll see my website in the top results. Here’s an example from April 8th, 2024:

Google desktop SERP for weekly SEO news.

When I’m not working on client work or contributing to my blog, I’m following SEO and AI news, articles, and other resources. I also share a free weekly newsletter with my findings.

In practical terms, staying at the forefront of SEO industry trends allows me to combine innovative tactics (such as using generative AI tools to perform data analysis or gain efficiencies) with timeless SEO best practices.

Current knowledge of semantic search, knowledge graphs, and generative AI technologies is especially important as Google’s AI features (such as SGE and Gemini) are constantly evolving and changing our world of Search at a faster clip.

Even still, the acts of building brands, satisfying user intents, and fulfilling business goals are timeless SEO fundamentals.

Schedule a consultation today!

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I look forward to growing your business together!