Local SEO, AI Search, and Organic Growth

SEO Built for How People Actually Search Now

Search is now more nuanced than ever. Search isn’t just a results page listing. It’s Google AI Overview, it’s someone asking ChatGPT for apartment recommendations. It’s the “three pack” features in Google maps. Boxley Marketing builds organic visibility for multifamily, senior living and real estate businesses across traditional search rankings and AI-generated answers that are increasingly showing up in front of them.

What’s included, built to your portfolio’s needs:

• Google Business Profile management and directory listings. This is a key part of local SEO that helps keep you accurate, complete, and active with photos, posts, and responses as well as consistent and accurate listings in the directories that carry weight.
• On-page SEO. Location specific phrases, optimization of title and meta descriptions, page structure that is clear to users and bots around how people actually want to search both on your site and across the web.
• AI Search optimization. This is about structured content that points to LLM’s with a direct answer for common questions, schema markup, and clear signals that indicate consistency across the web.
• Local content. This is about guides and on-site content built around the real questions your prospects might have.
• Review management. Build the volume and response patterns that build trust with both prospects, agents, and the algorithms.

Build SEO Authority

SEO that works long term is taking the perspective in all things of “being a good citizen”. At the same time, you work to provide real, human-written content and correct technical fundamentals done consistently over many months.

Boxley Marketing handles ongoing work, content technical fixes, citation management, and adjusting as we the search results evolve.

Proven Results

Before Boxley Marketing, Scott drove organic traffic up 764% year over year for one Houston multifamily property. In addition, a 570% increase in website sessions in the same period.

Scott has been a part of a large number of digital marketing performance initiatives that encompass paid and organic initiatives that are intended to work together to bring about the desired result – more qualified leads, opportunity, and pipeline.

Why Operators Choose Boxley Marketing for SEO

SEO for growing occupancy and tenants, regardless of whether it’s senior living or multifamily, has increasingly limited options for strategy outside of the automated approaches bundled into a data platform like Yardi, Entrata, or RealPage. They are pushing for convenience rather than a system built to understand your needs and build an effective strategy.

Boxley Marketing brings real estate industry knowledge to SEO strategy, and is ready to partner with the right team that is looking for a strategic partner. We are considering what searchers actually want, something a canned, out-of-the-box program can’t offer.

Common Questions About SEO & AI Search

What’s the difference between traditional SEO and AI search optimization (AEO/GEO)? Traditional search engine optimization is still relevant. The changes in terms of AEO/GEO are more focused around schema markup, building authority off-site and on-site and considering other factors that weigh differently compared to what is historically the case, for example, if you were doing traditional SEO. AI search optimization is about getting your content pulled into the actual answer when someone asks ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overview a question, it requires structured, answer-first content and accurate entity signals.

How long does SEO take to show results? Local SEO includes a variety of factors. Improvements can show up within a few weeks depending on the type of problem you are currently facing. Broader organic authority building takes months, since you’re earning rankings rather than buying a paid placement, for example. We can provide an audit to help you understand what is the low hanging fruit and a realistic timeline for your market and competitive set. focuses narrowly on multifamily and doesn’t have a senior living vertical at all.

Is Google Business Profile and directory listings really that important? For local searches, your listings on reputable listing sites and on Google Business is some of the first places you will be seen, often before your website. An accurate and active profile improves your visibility and more importantly, your authority.

Will AI search actually replace traditional search results? The short answer is no. Over time we should continue to see more adoption of AI LLM’s like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Gemini. But, search will continue to evolve as it always has. In terms of which to choose from, we recommend you consider both. Don’t ignore AI search optimization. Build toward the signals and writing structured content now.

Do you write the content, or just optimize existing pages? We do both. Technical and on-page fixes to what exists, plus new content built around the questions your prospects are actually searching for.

How do you measure SEO success? Organic traffic and keyword rankings for the terms that actually drive leads, informational and commercial terms, and ultimately inquiries and leases traced back to organic search.

Do you work with a single property or a whole portfolio? Both. Strategy for a single community looks different from strategy across a multi-property portfolio and based on the needs of a local market. Shared content and citation structure across properties, individual optimization for each location, and reporting rolled up based on the needs of the business and your specific goals.

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