Specialists are great at executing one channel. They're
rarely the right people to ask whether that channel is
what you should be doing in the first place. The SEO
person sells more SEO. The ads agency sells more ads.
After years across SEO, GEO, CRO, paid, content, and
feeds, I have enough perspective to look at a business
and say: don't worry about that yet, fix this first. Or:
it's too early for SEO to move the needle, so run
short-term ads on Google or Meta, depending on where your
audience is active, while we build the long game.