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 · Northampton
PPC, AIO & SEO Consultancy · Northampton
Commercial Velocity. In Northampton.
Senior PPC, AI optimisation and technical SEO for mid-market businesses across Northamptonshire. Built to win Google, AI Overviews and answer engines in 2026. Face-to-face in Northampton. No junior handovers.
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PPC Consultancy in Northampton
The Northampton PPC consultancy
The Northampton PPC consultancy
built around profit.
Mid-market businesses in Northampton 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 Northampton 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.
Northampton sits at the centre of the national logistics network, the so-called golden triangle, with a strong distribution, financial-services and manufacturing base. Its commercial gravity is national, not local, with warehousing and fulfilment operations chosen for their reach across the whole country. The town's address is incidental to the market its firms actually serve.
At the centre of the logistics triangle, businesses compete on national reach and operating margin, never on a local pin, so a campaign optimised to local visibility optimises the wrong thing. Northampton accounts are run to protect profitability across paid search, paid social and organic, with attribution exacting enough to keep a sprawling media operation honest about what each channel returns. That whole picture is owned by one senior practitioner rather than divided across a team that sees only its slice.
AI Search Optimisation in Northampton
Win the AI search era
Win the AI search era
in Northampton.
Search in 2026 no longer ends at a list of blue links. Buyers in Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton
Technical SEO consultancy
Technical SEO consultancy
for Northampton businesses.
Most Northampton 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
Northampton Sector Experience
PPC and SEO for Northampton
PPC and SEO for Northampton
across every sector.
The practice works with mid-market businesses in Northampton and Northamptonshire across the following sectors. B2B lead generation and full omnichannel e-commerce engagements are both accepted.
Logistics
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Financial Services
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Manufacturing
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Retail
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Historical Execution
Proven at global scale.
Proven at global scale.
Applied in Northampton.
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 Northampton 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 Northampton and across Northamptonshire 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 Northampton
Why Northampton businesses leave
Why Northampton businesses leave
PPC agencies for senior consultancy.
The typical Northampton 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. What you signed for and what runs the account quietly become two different people.
The Crane Consultancy travels to Northampton 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 Northampton account are what drive results. At roughly 86 miles from the practice's base in Bath and North East Somerset, Northampton sits comfortably within reach for face-to-face sessions whenever they add value.
Operating Standards
What every Northampton engagement
What every Northampton 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 Northampton Businesses
PPC and SEO in Northampton:
PPC and SEO in Northampton:
common questions.
Are you a PPC agency or PPC consultancy in Northampton?
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 Northampton 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 Northampton?
Yes. The practice travels to Northampton and across Northamptonshire for face-to-face client sessions. All Northampton 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 Northampton PPC agency?
Most Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton?
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 Northampton businesses, anchored to a single profitability model rather than managed as separate channel siloes.
Can you help my Northampton business appear in AI search and Google AI Overviews?
Yes. This is a core part of the practice. Buyers in Northampton 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 Northampton businesses it is an architectural and technical exercise, not a content mill, and it sits alongside PPC and technical SEO in every engagement.
Beyond Northampton
Senior PPC, AIO & SEO consultancy
Senior PPC, AIO & SEO consultancy
beyond Northampton.
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About The Crane Consultancy in Northampton
The facts, plainly stated.
The Crane Consultancy provides senior-led PPC, AI optimisation (AIO) and technical SEO consultancy to mid-market businesses in Northampton, Northamptonshire. 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 Northampton for face-to-face sessions and delivers the rest remotely.
Every Northampton 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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