Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)
- FAQ, HowTo & Article schema
- Question-led content structure
- Featured snippet & AI Overview capture
- Concise, chunkable answers
- Speakable markup
Face-to-Face Available · Leeds
PPC, AIO & SEO Consultancy · Leeds
Commercial Velocity. In Leeds.
Senior PPC, AI optimisation and technical SEO for mid-market businesses across West Yorkshire. Built to win Google, AI Overviews and answer engines in 2026. Face-to-face in Leeds. No junior handovers.
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PPC Consultancy in Leeds
The Leeds PPC consultancy
The Leeds PPC consultancy
built around profit.
Mid-market businesses in Leeds keep encountering the same failure from local PPC agencies and SEO agencies: 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 Leeds 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.
Leeds is the financial and legal capital of the North, with major professional-services firms, strong retail and a fast-growing technology and media sector. It is a large, affluent and highly competitive market, where national advertisers and capable local firms contest the same high-value professional audiences. The auctions here are well funded and unforgiving.
Finance and law draw deep-pocketed national advertisers and competent local firms into an intense, expensive contest that punishes weak execution quickly. Every Leeds account is run with senior ownership and real discipline across PPC, technical SEO and tracking, because beating a market this resourced takes expertise rather than a heavier budget. The practitioner who wins the brief deploys the spend, with nothing handed to a junior to manage out of sight.
AI Search Optimisation in Leeds
Win the AI search era
Win the AI search era
in Leeds.
Search in 2026 no longer ends at a list of blue links. Buyers in Leeds 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 optimisation, AIO: 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 Leeds 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. For a Leeds business, that is the difference between being the answer and being invisible.
Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)
- Entity graph & knowledge signals
- E-E-A-T & verified authorship
- Citation likelihood
- Brand sentiment & share of voice
- Consistent NAP & identifiers
Machine-Readable Foundations
- Schema.org structured data
- Open Graph & card integrity
- llms.txt & semantic HTML
- Core Web Vitals
- Crawl-budget & indexation hygiene
SEO Consultancy in Leeds
Technical SEO consultancy
Technical SEO consultancy
for Leeds businesses.
Most Leeds 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.
Paid Media
- Google Search & Shopping
- Microsoft Advertising
- Meta (Facebook & Instagram)
- LinkedIn B2B Acquisition
- YouTube & Display
- Amazon Performance Ads
Technical SEO
- Technical Site Audits
- Core Web Vitals
- Schema & Structured Data
- Crawlability & Indexation
- AI Crawl Readiness
- On-Page Optimisation
Commercial Intelligence
- Server-Side Tracking
- Attribution Modelling
- Conversion Rate Optimisation
- Advanced Data Analytics
- Bespoke Reporting
Leeds Sector Experience
PPC and SEO for Leeds
PPC and SEO for Leeds
across every sector.
The practice works with mid-market businesses in Leeds and West Yorkshire across the following sectors. B2B lead generation and full omnichannel e-commerce engagements are both accepted.
Financial Services
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Legal
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Retail
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Technology
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Historical Execution
Proven at global scale.
Proven at global scale.
Applied in Leeds.
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 Leeds engagement, regardless of size.
One practitioner.
Every channel. Every week.
Nic Crane · Founder
A decade engineering profit at scale.
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 Bath and North East Somerset and travels to Leeds and across West Yorkshire for face-to-face client sessions.
The senior mind that wins the work is the senior mind that does the work.
PPC Agency vs PPC Consultancy in Leeds
Why Leeds businesses leave
Why Leeds businesses leave
PPC agencies for senior consultancy.
The typical Leeds 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 account, while the senior who pitched moves to the next sale.
The Crane Consultancy travels to Leeds for face-to-face sessions when the engagement calls for it. But proximity is never used as a substitute for expertise. Forensic data, disciplined capital deployment and a single undivided senior mind holding the Leeds account are what drive results. At roughly 171 miles from the practice's base in Bath and North East Somerset, Leeds sits comfortably within reach for face-to-face sessions whenever they add value.
Operating Standards
What every Leeds engagement
What every Leeds engagement
guarantees.
Every engagement runs on four standing commitments, each a deliberate departure from how agencies typically operate.
i.
You own everything.
Every ad account, tag manager, analytics property and dashboard sits under your ownership. Always. We do not gatekeep your data.
ii.
No bait-and-switch.
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.
iii.
Live, not laminated.
Performance dashboards updated frequently. No vanity PDFs assembled the night before a quarterly review.
iv.
Direct line to the founder.
WhatsApp access to Nicholas, not a ticket queue. Ask the difficult question on a Sunday if you need to.
Questions from Leeds Businesses
PPC and SEO in Leeds:
PPC and SEO in Leeds:
common questions.
Are you a PPC agency or PPC consultancy in Leeds?
The Crane Consultancy is a senior-led PPC and SEO consultancy, not a traditional PPC agency. The structural difference matters: one senior practitioner holds every Leeds engagement from audit through to ongoing optimisation. There are no junior account managers, no team rotations and no handover documents. You work directly with the founder, Nicholas Crane, throughout the engagement.
Do you offer face-to-face PPC and SEO consultancy in Leeds?
Yes. The practice travels to Leeds and across West Yorkshire for face-to-face client sessions. All Leeds engagements include full remote capability as standard: direct WhatsApp access to the founder, live performance dashboards and video sessions.
What makes The Crane Consultancy different from a Leeds PPC agency?
Most Leeds PPC agencies and SEO agencies operate the same model: a senior practitioner wins the pitch, junior staff run the account. The Crane Consultancy removes that structure entirely. One senior practitioner, with a track record including the global digital transformation of LUSH Cosmetics across sixteen markets, holds every Leeds engagement. The person who audits the account is the person optimising bids, reviewing technical SEO and reporting to the board every week.
What PPC and SEO services does The Crane Consultancy offer in Leeds?
The practice offers PPC consultancy across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube and Amazon, alongside technical SEO consultancy, server-side tracking, attribution modelling and conversion rate optimisation. All services are delivered by one senior practitioner to Leeds businesses, anchored to a single profitability model rather than managed as separate channel siloes.
Can you help my Leeds business appear in AI search and Google AI Overviews?
Yes. This is a core part of the practice. Buyers in Leeds increasingly ask Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot for recommendations and act on a single synthesised answer. The Crane Consultancy builds the technical foundations that let those systems read, trust and cite your business: structured data and schema, a coherent entity graph, machine-readable content, an llms.txt discovery file and fast Core Web Vitals. This is the discipline of AI optimisation, AIO, made up of Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO).
What is AI optimisation (AIO), and how is it different from SEO?
Traditional SEO earns rankings in a list of links. AI optimisation, AIO, earns visibility inside AI-generated answers, in Google AI Overviews and in large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. It splits into Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO), the structure that wins direct answers, and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), the entity and authority signals that make a model recommend you by name. For Leeds businesses it is an architectural and technical exercise, not a content mill, and it sits alongside PPC and technical SEO in every engagement.
Beyond Leeds
Senior PPC, AIO & SEO consultancy
Senior PPC, AIO & SEO consultancy
beyond Leeds.
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About The Crane Consultancy in Leeds
The facts, plainly stated.
The Crane Consultancy provides senior-led PPC, AI optimisation (AIO) and technical SEO consultancy to mid-market businesses in Leeds, West Yorkshire. 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 and North East Somerset, with a registered office at 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4JL. It travels to Leeds for face-to-face sessions and delivers the rest remotely.
Every Leeds 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; 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.
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