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Mark Buraga, SEO and AI Visibility Consultant

I'm Mark Buraga. I run Growth Engine PH, an independent SEO and AI visibility practice for professional services firms.

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Mark Buraga

Independent SEO consultant

Previously: Performance marketing agency
Education: Ateneo GSB · UST
Location: Metro Manila, Philippines
Capacity: 6 to 8 clients with AI-native delivery

"Being an SEO is like being a doctor, and the websites are the patients."Mark Buraga

Experience

I've worked in SEO since 22 June 2020, when I started as an SEO Specialist at OOM, a Singapore digital marketing firm.

At OOM I became head trainer for on-page SEO, designing and running the training for its specialists. I then spent years as an SEO consultant on client accounts across several markets, before setting up Growth Engine PH as an independent practice.

Before SEO, I ran my own office supplies business, so I know what a marketing bill looks like from the owner's side.

What I work on

Strategy, AI visibility and the systems that do the legwork.

SEO strategy for professional services firms.
AI visibility: citations and mentions, tracked every week.
AI systems built in-house for research, briefs, drafts and checks.

Education

BSBA in Marketing from the University of Santo Tomas, with further study at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. Google Analytics certified.

Where to find me

On LinkedIn and the Growth Engine PH YouTube channel. Clutch follows when that profile is live.

Recent writing is listed below.

Articles by Mark Buraga

48 articles

October 2026Before You Pay for an SEO Audit Report: How to Tell a Real One From a Tool Export October 2026Is SEO Dead? What AI Replaced, and What Still Needs a Strategist October 2026SEO Packages Compared: What to Look for Beyond the Tier Name October 2026Google September 2026 Spam Update: Two Weeks, No Named Targets, and Rank Trackers You Shouldn’t Trust October 2026Before You Hire an AI SEO Agency, Look at What It Counts October 2026Nobody Wins “Best Agency” Queries in AI Search. Listicles Do.October 2026How We Measure AI Visibility, Published in Full So You Can Check It September 2026We Measured AI Overviews Volatility on Our Own Site. The Score Moved More Than Anything We Did.September 2026The Google goto Redirect Broke Our AI Citation Tracking in a Single Week August 2026We Counted 8 Weeks of AI Citations. Reddit and LinkedIn Won.August 2026Our AI Search Visibility Is 39 of 40 and 5 of 80. Both Numbers Are Real.August 2026The Coming GEO Reversion: When AI Engines Start Punishing AI-Heavy Content August 2026Every SEO Dashboard Built Before 2026 Measures the Wrong Half of AI Search July 2026Most Sites Don’t Have an SEO Problem, They Have an Entity Problem July 2026The Highest-Ranking Sites Are Getting the Fewest AI Citations July 2026Mention Mechanics: Why Reddit Earns AI Answer Mentions and You Don’t July 2026Citation Architecture: The Page-Level Signals AI Mode Actually Reads July 2026Entity Coherence: The SEO Audit Most Sites Skip (And Why It’s Now Load-Bearing for GEO)July 2026Google June 2026 Spam Update: What It Targets and How to Respond July 2026AEO Is Marketing, Not SEO (And Why That Changes Who Owns It)July 2026What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? (And How to Actually Start)June 2026Featured Snippets vs AI Overviews: What Actually Changed (And What To Do Now)June 2026What Is Zero-Click Search? (And How to Win It Anyway)June 2026How to Choose an SEO Consultant in the Philippines (A Buyer’s Guide)June 2026How Much Does SEO Cost in the Philippines? (Real 2026 Pricing)June 2026How to Test If Your Content Is Cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews June 2026How AI Overviews Are Reshaping SEO (And Why the Click Drop Is a Diagnostic, Not a Death Sentence)June 2026How to Rank in Google AI Overviews (Without Chasing a Trick That Does Not Exist)June 2026What Is Answer Engine Optimization? (And the Build Order to Actually Do It)June 2026How to Track Keyword Rankings When the Result Moved Into an AI Answer June 2026SEO Services in the Philippines, Without the Empty Promises June 2026What Is SERP Optimization in 2026? (It Stopped Meaning What You Think)June 2026Three SEO Workflows the AI Era Reshaped (And Two That Still Look the Same)June 2026The 11 SEO Content Failure Modes That Should Block a Publish Before It Ships June 2026The 6-Block GEO Diagnostic: How to Audit Why a Site Isn’t Cited by AI Engines June 2026How AI Engines Decide Who to Cite (And Why Most GEO Plans Miss It)June 2026AEO vs SEO vs GEO vs AIO: What Each Acronym Actually Means in 2026 (And Which Are Worth Optimizing For)May 2026Google just changed how search works. Most websites haven’t caught up.May 2026What Bar Rules Actually Permit for Boutique Firm Marketing (2026)May 2026Schema Markup for AI Search Visibility: What Boutique Firms Are Missing May 2026Why AI Overviews Are Routing Your Firm Into Directory Listings May 2026Why Boutique Law Firms Aren’t Cited in ChatGPT (And How to Fix It)April 2026Why We Don’t Build Links Before Month 3 April 2026The SEO Agency Model Is Broken. Here’s What Replaces It.April 2026How We Use AI to Write 100 Articles Without Losing the Human Signal April 2026Technical SEO Audit in the Philippines: What You Are Actually Paying For April 2026Generative Engine Optimization: What It Is and Why Philippine Businesses Can’t Ignore It April 2026Why AI Overviews Are Reshaping What “Ranking #1” Actually Means

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