Technical founder trying to do SEO / AEO in-house for 6 months before hiring agency — what should I set up?
Hey, my company is doing fractional revenue operations, CRM cleanups, migrations, tons of agentic workflows, that kind of stuff.
But me and my cofounder only really have sales / tech experience. We did a bit of work on content and have automatic posting for LinkedIn already. I promise it looks human lol. We do it in a human-in-the-loop type way, so everything still feels 100% personal.
The problem is we have basically no real content / SEO / AEO strategy.
We thought about hiring an SEO agency to handle this, but right now it’s either that or adding a senior person to the team who could basically double our capacity on more technical projects. So we’d rather go with the senior person for now, do SEO in-house because of budget constraints, and then probably hand it over to an agency in the next 6 months.
I’m a technical guy with a sales background and a pretty fast learner. Does anyone have recommendations on what I should set up first?
We want to go very sciency and avoid anything flashy at all cost (ai agent replaced my mom).
My current idea is to turn all our standardized work into blog posts, for example:
- Signaling, CRM cleanup workflows, nurturing workflows, etc.
- Record quick videos on how to set them up and put them on YouTube.
- Take all the internal materials we already have that are not public and turn them into a ton of blog posts.
- I guess I have to do keyword research first, right?
- Do I also need to care about backlinks at this stage?
- What should I prioritize now? YT, Blogs, My own linkedin content?
I’m kinda all over the place with this, so would appreciate any advice from people who actually built this from zero.
What would you set up first if you had to do this in-house?