Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)
- FAQ, HowTo & Article schema
- Question-led content structure
- Featured snippet & AI Overview capture
- Concise, chunkable answers
- Speakable markup
Senior PPC, AI search optimisation and technical SEO for mid-market businesses across Asia-Pacific, delivered remotely from the United Kingdom. Built to win Google and AI search in 2026. One practitioner, every channel, run to your market's clock. Zero compromise.
Mid-market businesses across Asia-Pacific meet the same failure from PPC agencies and SEO agencies the world over: technically active accounts, commercially adrift results. Account managers rotate. Junior staff run the work. Nobody holds the full picture.
The Crane Consultancy is a senior-led PPC and SEO consultancy, not an agency. One practitioner holds the entire engagement: paid search, paid social, server-side tracking, technical SEO and the financial logic that connects them. Every decision is filtered through one question: does this compound your profit? In 2026, with paid auctions tighter and search itself splitting between Google and AI answers, that question carries more weight than it ever has.
Asia-Pacific is the most varied region on earth, and the practice builds for that difference rather than averaging it away. From Australia and New Zealand to Singapore and Hong Kong, India and the fast-growing economies of South-East Asia, demand splinters by market, by language and by platform, over a population that is strongly mobile-first. A single regional setting that ignores this wastes budget in every market at once; mobile experience, local intent and per-market structure are where the result is actually won or lost.
Delivery from the United Kingdom is a practical strength here rather than a compromise. Because one senior practitioner owns the work end to end, it runs asynchronously and to your market's clock, with scheduled overlap windows and a direct line for anything live. At this level distance is not the variable that decides a result; senior, undivided ownership is.
Search in 2026 no longer ends at a list of blue links. Asia-Pacific buyers now put their questions to Google AI Overviews, to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, and act on a single synthesised answer. If your business is not named in that answer, a competitor is.
This is the discipline of AI search optimisation: the architectural work that decides whether large language models can read your business, trust it and cite it. It divides into Answer Engine Optimisation, AEO, the structure that wins direct answers and AI Overviews, and Generative Engine Optimisation, GEO, the entity and authority signals that make a model recommend you by name. It is a technical exercise, not a content mill. Most websites lose here for the same handful of reasons: weak entity signals, missing or broken schema, and pages an AI reads as plain text rather than a defined business with services, locations and proof.
The practice treats this as core engineering. Structured data, a coherent entity graph, machine-readable content, an llms.txt discovery file, fast Core Web Vitals and disciplined crawl-budget hygiene are built so the model finds you, parses you and quotes you. The work is grounded in how classic search, AI Overviews and answer engines behave today, and built to still hold in 2027 rather than be unpicked a year later.
Most Asia-Pacific SEO agencies optimise for rankings. The Crane Consultancy optimises for revenue. Technical SEO, server-side tracking and conversion architecture are built to serve the paid media stack, not compete with it. With a strongly mobile-first audience across the region, mobile experience and Core Web Vitals are treated as commercial levers, not afterthoughts, and the measurement beneath it all is engineered to stay accurate where browser analytics quietly fail.
The practice works with mid-market Asia-Pacific businesses across the following sectors. B2B lead generation and full omnichannel e-commerce engagements are both accepted.
Track record includes the global digital transformation of LUSH Cosmetics across sixteen markets. The same forensic commercial discipline applied to that programme is applied to every Asia-Pacific engagement, regardless of size.
Architect of the LUSH Cosmetics global digital transformation across sixteen markets, recognised by Welocalize as Best Global Client Team. Former Paid Media Enablement and Commerce Lead at Adapt and Head of Paid Media at Navigate, leading programmes across attraction, conservation and tourism portfolios.
Most recently engaged as Digital Data and Analytics lead through the Everywhen brand launch, securing data integrity across a migration spanning Towergate Insurance and forty other brands. A power user of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and GTM, now applying that technical depth to AI search optimisation: structured data, entity signals and the machine readability that decides visibility in Google AI Overviews and answer engines. Meta Advanced Media Buying Professional. Google Partner. Amazon Ads Partner.
The practice is based in the United Kingdom and works with Asia-Pacific businesses remotely, from first audit to weekly optimisation. Because one senior practitioner owns the account end to end, the work runs to your market's clock, with scheduled overlap windows rather than a handover into a void.
The senior mind that wins the work is the senior mind that does the work.
The typical PPC agency and SEO agency model has a structural flaw: the senior practitioner who wins the pitch is not the person who runs the account. Whoever has capacity inherits the work, while the senior who pitched moves to the next sale.
Geography has never been the thing that decides a paid-media result; seniority is. The best partner for an Asia-Pacific business is not the largest agency in the nearest hub but the one senior operator who holds the account without interruption, reviews it every week, and filters every decision through commercial profit rather than vanity metrics. A single owner makes distance a non-issue: the work runs to your clock, asynchronously and without the fragile cross-office handovers that sink so many regional engagements. You get one practitioner who has run global programmes for household names, available directly, with none of the agency layers that put a junior between your budget and the expertise you contracted.
Every engagement runs on four standing commitments, each a deliberate departure from how agencies typically operate.
Every ad account, tag manager, analytics property and dashboard sits under your ownership. Always. We do not gatekeep your data.
The senior named on the proposal is the senior who does the work. No handover to a junior. No silent reassignment after the contract signs.
Performance dashboards updated frequently and always available in your time zone. No vanity PDFs assembled the night before a quarterly review.
WhatsApp access to Nicholas, not a ticket queue. Ask the difficult question when you need to, on your clock.
Asia-Pacific engagements are held to the same standard as the practice's UK work: one senior practitioner, profit-first, with measurement built to hold every channel accountable. The same senior-led PPC, AI search and SEO consultancy serves Bath, Bristol, London and cities across the United Kingdom.
The Crane Consultancy provides senior-led PPC, AI search optimisation and technical SEO consultancy to mid-market businesses across Asia-Pacific, delivered remotely from the United Kingdom. It is a trading name of Crane Consultancy Limited, registered at Companies House under number 15526285, VAT number GB466677439, founded in 2024. The practice operates from Bath, Somerset, with a registered office at 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4JL. Asia-Pacific clients are served entirely remotely, with the work run to each market's clock and direct access to the founder.
Every Asia-Pacific engagement is held by one senior practitioner, the founder Nicholas Crane, from audit to invoice, with no account manager rotations and no junior handovers. Services include PPC across Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube and Amazon; technical SEO; Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) for visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot; consent-aware server-side tracking; and conversion rate optimisation. Nicholas Crane is a Google Partner, Stape Partner and Amazon Ads Partner, and led the LUSH Cosmetics global digital transformation across sixteen markets.
Capacity is deliberately limited. If you are a mid-market Asia-Pacific business ready to replace agency faith with commercial certainty, use the form below.
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