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B2B SEO built around
the people who sign.
In B2B, the searches that matter are a short list with high value attached, and the deal closes months after the click. We build the search work around the people who can actually sign, and we measure it against qualified leads and pipeline rather than sessions.
Long cycles. Longer relationships.
B2B results arrive on the buyer’s timeline, not on the reporting month. The work that puts you on a shortlist in March is what shows up as pipeline in July – and it keeps compounding from there.
What does a B2B SEO partnership look like?
We build search around the people who can sign – and measure it against qualified leads and pipeline rather than sessions.
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Free B2B SEO audit
Where you are visible on the terms your buyers actually use, which of those terms are commercial and which are job seekers, what your competitors are taking, the technical state of the site, and whether your measurement can connect a click to a deal. You keep the findings whether or not you hire us.
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Priority order, then build
Ranked by effect on pipeline rather than on traffic, with an honest note on which parts your own team could do. Measurement goes first – in a long-cycle business a decision made on bad attribution stays expensive for a year – then the bottom-of-funnel pages, then the technical work.
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A monthly rhythm you can call
A named specialist you can reach on UK hours, reporting that leads with qualified leads and pipeline instead of sessions, and a three-month trial you can end at any point.
The work itself
Everything B2B search needs in one team – keyword sets, bottom-of-funnel pages, technical work, authority and the measurement that ties it to pipeline. Nothing gets dropped.
Get your free B2B SEO auditWe cluster terms by the results they genuinely share, so one page owns one intent instead of three pages splitting it. Then we sort what is left by who is searching and how close they are to a decision – and tell you which parts of the list are not worth your money, even though they have volume.
Comparison and alternatives pages, integration and compatibility pages, use case and industry pages, and the pages that answer the questions that appear once someone senior joins the conversation. They rank faster than the category term and convert at a different rate entirely.
Your buyer evaluates suppliers for a living and can tell within a paragraph whether the writer has done the work. Specificity, numbers with a source and a date, honest limitations and documentation-grade detail – briefed by people who have read your category and signed off by someone accountable for it.
Marketing site, documentation and an application on a subdomain – often on a framework that makes a crawler work for the content that matters. Plus the gating decision: what sits behind a form, what does not, and what that costs you in visibility. We show you the trade-off rather than make it for you.
Buyers now ask ChatGPT or Gemini for a supplier shortlist before they open a results page, and the model names a handful of sources. We work on being one of them: the entity and structured-data work that tells a model what you are, plus the content properties that make you quotable.
In a category where buyers are professionals, links follow from work that is genuinely worth citing: original data, real expertise, partnerships and the trade press that covers your sector. We tell you where every link came from – and if your category can be won without a link programme, we say so.
A qualified lead defined before anything else, the visit connected to the outcome across a window long enough to hold your real sales cycle, and a monthly report that leads with qualified leads and pipeline rather than sessions.
Free B2B SEO audit
Nils Fridlund, with 14 years in search, goes through your site manually and shows what is keeping your buyers from finding you – in Google and in AI answers. You get it presented in 30 minutes. For established B2B and SaaS companies.
Here is what you take away:
- Which searches in your category are commercial – and which are job seekers and students
- What is technically holding your important pages back – and what that is costing you
- How you stand against your competitors in Google and in AI answers
- Whether your measurement can connect a click to a deal – plus a prioritised action list
“With their SEO help we have reached top positions on practically every relevant keyword.”Allakando
You speak directly to Nils
No salespeople. You speak directly to Nils. Call, email or book 30 minutes.
Nils Fridlund
Scalable AI. Human precision.
Senior search specialists plus 30 systems we built in-house, reading and drafting at a scale a team cannot match – and a person signs off everything that reaches your site.
Sunbird’s B2B search team
Senior search specialists – the same people over time, with Nils operationally responsible for your search. Backed by analysts, technical specialists and our performance marketing team when it is needed.
Our philosophy
Four promises that shape Sunbird, and what it is like to work with us.
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Data you understand
You should be able to trust the numbers and defend them, to yourselves, to the leadership team and to the board. No black box.
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Results you can feel
Growth should be felt in the conversations your sales team has, and visible in pipeline and revenue – not in clicks and impressions.
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Partnership, not delivery
We build an environment to grow and accelerate in. Where we understand you better every day, and results build instead of tailing off.
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We want more
Because we cannot help ourselves. And because we only win when you do. Our job is to stay at the front, so you never have to wonder whether your agency is keeping up.
14 years in search taught us one thing: in B2B, pipeline is the only report that matters.
We measure results in qualified leads and pipeline – not in curves that point upwards while sales stand still. A form submission is not a lead, and an attribution window that ends before your sales cycle does will always undervalue the work that produced the deal.
That is why the first three months are a trial you can end at any point, and why there is no minimum term after it. You stay because it works and you are growing.
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