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Case Study · Mortgage Broking · SEO & AEO

SEO Leads in 2 Months, Not 12

The mortgage brokers we work with start receiving leads from Google organic search and AI search within two months. Some of them had already paid other agencies for six to twelve months — and never received a single one.

Mortgage Brokers Google Organic AI Search Across MAP Clients
2 mths
to first leads from Google and AI search
6–12 mths
what some paid previous agencies — for zero leads
80–90%
of organic leads become meaningful conversations
2
front doors covered — Google and AI engines
The Problem

Burned by “SEO Takes Time”

Several of the brokers who came to us had already done SEO — or paid for it, at least. Six months with one agency. Twelve with another. Monthly reports full of rankings, impressions and “visibility scores”. And in all that time, not one lead they could point to.

“SEO takes time” is true — and it’s also the industry’s favourite place to hide. What actually takes time is authority. What doesn’t take time is targeting searches a broker can win now, putting a page in front of them that converts, and being present in AI engines that don’t make you wait years to be cited.

What We Do Differently

Built to Produce Leads Early

01

Win the Winnable First

Most agencies chase the giant keywords a new campaign can’t win for years — “home loans”, “mortgage broker” — and call the wait inevitable. We start where a specialist can rank fast: specific loan types, borrower niches and local terms with real intent and beatable competition.

02

Pages for Borrowers, Not Just Google

Every page is written for the specific situation the borrower is in — refinancing, investing, self-employed, buying with a small deposit — with a clear next step. A page that ranks but doesn’t convert is a report line, not a lead.

03

AEO From Day One

AI engines like ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers cite well-structured, genuinely useful content — and they don’t wait for years of domain authority the way traditional rankings can. That’s why AI search leads arrive alongside the first Google leads, not years later.

04

Leads Counted, Not Clicks

Forms tested, tracking installed and every enquiry traced to the page that produced it — from day one. When the first lead lands, everyone knows. If an agency can’t show you leads, ask what their reports are for.

The brokers who came to us after a year of zero leads didn’t need more patience. They needed a different plan.

The First 60 Days

What Happens, and When

Weeks 1–2

Foundations and Targets

Technical audit and fixes, conversion path checked end to end (yes, we test the enquiry form — we’ve found them silently broken), and the winnable keyword map built: loan types, borrower niches and locations this broker can actually rank for now.

Month 1

The First Cluster Goes Live

High-intent pages published and indexed — structured for Google and for AI engines from the first draft. Tracking live, so every future enquiry is attributed to the page that produced it.

Month 2

The First Leads Arrive

Early rankings land on the winnable terms, AI engines begin citing the content, and the first enquiries come in from both — real borrowers, for real loan types. Not a projection: this is the pattern across our broker clients.

Month 3+

Compounding Begins

The early wins fund patience for the bigger ones: harder keywords climb, clusters deepen, and lead flow builds month on month. This is where “SEO takes time” becomes true in the good way — the asset keeps growing. One client went from zero to 30+ leads a month; another now ranks 2,000+ keywords.

The Results

Leads While Others Were Still “Building”

  • First organic leads within two months — from Google organic search and AI search — across the mortgage brokers we run this playbook for.
  • AI search leads from day one of visibility, with borrowers asking ChatGPT and Google’s AI about refinancing, investment loans and bridging finance and being pointed to our clients.
  • Quality holds up: 80–90% of organic and AI-search leads become meaningful conversations — these are borrowers who chose the broker, not a shared list.
  • And it compounds from there. Two months is the start line, not the finish: the same system has taken brokers to 30+ leads a month and thousands of ranking keywords.

If you’ve paid for six months of SEO and can’t name a single lead it produced, the problem isn’t SEO. It’s the plan.

MAP Group

Two Months to Your First Organic Leads

We’ll show you the winnable searches in your market and exactly how we’d get you leads from Google and AI search — before you commit to anything. No lock-in contracts. If it’s not working, you can leave whenever you want.

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