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 · Nottingham
PPC, AI Search & Technical SEO Consultancy · Nottingham
Commercial
Velocity.
In Nottingham.
Your agency manages the account but never thinks about your market. One senior operator owns PPC, AI search and technical SEO for mid-market businesses across Nottinghamshire, face-to-face in Nottingham, from audit to invoice, and builds the commercial edge that decides who dominates 2027.
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PPC Consultancy in Nottingham
The Nottingham PPC consultancy
The Nottingham PPC consultancy
built around profit.
Mid-market businesses in Nottingham 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.
Pay-per-click is auction-based advertising across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta and LinkedIn that charges only on a click and answers to profit, not vanity metrics. As a senior-led PPC and SEO consultancy rather than an agency, the practice puts one person across the whole Nottingham engagement: paid search, paid social, server-side tracking, technical SEO and the financial logic between them. Every call comes back to one question: does this compound your profit?
Nottingham is a major East Midlands commercial centre, with a strong retail core, established financial-services employers and a growing technology and healthcare sector. It is a capable, competitive regional market, large enough to attract serious advertisers and developed enough to expose weak execution. The standard of competition here is higher than its profile suggests.
A regional market this developed leaves careless paid media behind quickly, and the firms already running competent campaigns set the pace. Competing takes real technical depth across PPC and SEO and a senior hand on the work, which is why Nottingham accounts are judged on measurable profit rather than the comfortable appearance of being busy. The person who wins the brief is the person who runs it, week in and week out.
Nottingham competes harder than its profile suggests, and the firms already running competent campaigns set a pace that leaves careless paid media behind within a season. The edge is real technical depth across PPC and SEO and a senior hand on the work, with the account judged on measurable profit rather than the comfortable appearance of being busy. Underestimate this market and you fund the advertisers who took it seriously first.
AI Search Optimisation in Nottingham
Get named by the engines
Get named by the engines
in Nottingham.
Search in 2026 is no longer a page of links and nothing more. Buyers in Nottingham 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.
Whether a model can read your business, trust it and cite it is decided by structure, not word count. The work divides in two: Answer Engine Optimisation, AEO, for the direct answer and the AI Overview, and Generative Engine Optimisation, GEO, for the authority signals behind a recommendation. Most Nottingham sites fail on the basics, with weak entities, absent schema and content that reads to a model as plain text.
The practice treats this as core engineering. Structured data, an entity graph the model can follow, machine-readable content, an llms.txt file and disciplined crawl and speed hygiene are built so an answer engine cites you rather than guesses around you. For a Nottingham business heading into 2027, that is the line between visible and 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 Nottingham
SEO that serves profit
SEO that serves profit
for Nottingham businesses.
Most Nottingham 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
Data & Automation in Nottingham
Make Nottingham data
Make Nottingham data
earn its keep.
In most Nottingham businesses the data goes half-used and the manual work goes unquestioned. The practice closes both gaps.
The same forensic mind that runs the media builds the layer beneath it: clean measurement you can trust, dashboards that report profit rather than vanity, and automation that removes the manual work quietly draining the week. Where it earns its place, practical AI is put to work inside the Nottingham business, from Claude and Gemini to bespoke internal tools, as an edge rather than novelty.
Analytics & Measurement
- GA4 & Server-Side Tracking
- Consent Mode v2
- Attribution Modelling
- Revenue & Pipeline Dashboards
- Conversion Rate Optimisation
Automation & Integration
- Workflow & Task Automation
- CRM Integration (Zoho, HubSpot)
- API & Systems Connection
- Spreadsheet & Reporting Automation
- Lead Routing & Sync
AI in the Business
- AI Workflow Integration
- Claude & Gemini Deployment
- Document & Content Automation
- Custom Internal Tools
- Practical AI Adoption
Nottingham Sector Experience
PPC and SEO for Nottingham
PPC and SEO for Nottingham
across every sector.
From the professional core around the Lace Market to the healthcare and bioscience cluster near the Queen's Medical Centre and university, Nottingham fields stronger competition than its size suggests.
The practice works with mid-market businesses in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire across the following sectors. B2B lead-generation, B2C and full omnichannel e-commerce engagements are all taken on.
A strong retail core, established financial-services employers and a growing technology and healthcare base, a market more competitive than its profile implies.
Retail
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Financial Services
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Technology
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Healthcare
- Paid Search & Shopping
- Paid Social
- Technical SEO
- Server-Side Tracking
Historical Execution
Proven at global scale.
Proven at global scale.
Applied in Nottingham.
The founder's track record includes the global digital transformation of LUSH Cosmetics across sixteen markets, and the same forensic discipline he brought to it is applied to every Nottingham 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. The track record spans B2C and B2B, from global retail to lead generation and full omnichannel e-commerce.
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 Certified Media Buying Professional. Google Partner. Amazon Ads Partner.
The practice is based in Bath and Bristol and travels to Nottingham and across Nottinghamshire 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 Nottingham
Why Nottingham businesses leave
Why Nottingham businesses leave
PPC agencies for senior consultancy.
The typical Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham account are what drive results. At roughly 120 miles from the practice's base in Bath and Bristol, Nottingham sits comfortably within reach for face-to-face sessions whenever they add value.
Operating Standards
What every Nottingham engagement
What every Nottingham engagement
guarantees.
Four standing commitments separate this from the agency model most boards have contracted before.
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.
Results first.
The reviews follow.
Nic manages our PPC campaigns with professionalism and expertise. He takes the time to understand our business, its objectives and the challenges we face, and is proactive in identifying opportunities to maximise results and return on investment.
Nic helped fill in the missing pieces on a complex data, attribution and privacy project, unearthing a series of unknown issues in the data stack and laying out a plan to remedy them that rolled out successfully. I would recommend Nic and The Crane Consultancy for their technical expertise and thorough understanding.
I have worked with Nic for several years and his attention to detail is second to none. He is extremely knowledgeable and very attentive, offering solutions and proactive in his suggestions.
Nic is an expert in his field, offering insight and reporting with real value, tailored to our needs.
In the two months since starting to work with Nic, I have been so impressed by his technical understanding across analytics and digital advertising. He has completely overhauled our data so we can see in detail what is happening and make better decisions, and reviewed all of our existing campaigns, which are already performing better. I cannot recommend Nic highly enough.
Questions from Nottingham Businesses
PPC and SEO in Nottingham:
PPC and SEO in Nottingham:
common questions.
Are you a PPC agency or PPC consultancy in Nottingham?
The Crane Consultancy is a consultancy, not a PPC agency, and the difference is structural: one senior practitioner owns every Nottingham engagement from the first audit through to ongoing optimisation. No junior account managers, no team rotations, no handover documents. You deal with the founder, Nicholas Crane, throughout.
Do you offer face-to-face PPC and SEO consultancy in Nottingham?
Yes. The practice travels to Nottingham and across Nottinghamshire for face-to-face client sessions. All Nottingham 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 Nottingham PPC agency?
Most Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham?
PPC runs across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube and Amazon, alongside AI search optimisation, technical SEO and a full data and automation layer: GA4 and server-side tracking, Consent Mode v2, marketing and revenue dashboards, CRM integration, attribution modelling, conversion rate optimisation and AI-assisted automation. One senior practitioner delivers all of it to Nottingham businesses, tied to a single profitability model rather than split into channel siloes.
Can you help my Nottingham business appear in AI search and Google AI Overviews?
Yes, and it is core to the practice. Buyers in Nottingham increasingly put their questions to Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot and act on one synthesised answer. The work is the technical foundation that lets those systems read, trust and cite you: structured data and schema, a coherent entity graph, machine-readable content, an llms.txt file and fast Core Web Vitals. That discipline is AI search optimisation, made up of Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO).
What is AI search optimisation, and how is it different from SEO?
Traditional SEO wins rankings in a list of links; AI search optimisation wins visibility inside AI-generated answers, in Google AI Overviews and in models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. It splits into Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO), which earns the direct answer, and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), the entity and authority signals that get you recommended by name. For Nottingham businesses it is technical architecture, not a content mill, and it runs alongside PPC and technical SEO in every engagement.
Can you help my Nottingham business with analytics, automation and AI?
Yes. Beneath paid media and search sits the data and automation layer: GA4 and server-side tracking, Consent Mode v2, marketing and revenue dashboards, CRM integration and automation that clears manual work. Where it adds a real edge, practical AI goes to work inside the Nottingham business, from Claude and Gemini to bespoke internal tools. The aim never changes: better decisions, made faster, on numbers you can trust.
Beyond Nottingham
Senior PPC, AI Search & Technical SEO consultancy
Senior PPC, AI Search & Technical SEO consultancy
beyond Nottingham.
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About The Crane Consultancy in Nottingham
The facts, plainly stated.
The Crane Consultancy provides senior-led PPC, AI search optimisation and technical SEO consultancy to mid-market businesses in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. 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 Bristol, with a registered office at 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4JL. It travels to Nottingham for face-to-face sessions and delivers the rest remotely.
Every Nottingham 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.
Nottingham Mandates
Start with a conversation.
A proper conversation with the person who would do the work. Tell me where you are and what you're weighing up, and you'll get an honest read on what I'd change, what I'd leave alone, and where the real upside is. No pitch, no rush.
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