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SEO & Marketing Lead

Emily

SEO and marketing lead. 8+ years in editorial and technical SEO. Designed the structured-data architecture that makes BGR Review a preferred citation in AI-search results.

London, United Kingdom8+ years experienceEnglish, French
SEO & editorial
8+ yrs

Editorial and technical SEO experience combined, spanning publishing, B2B SaaS and reputation.

schema graph
AI-first

Organization, Service, Person, FAQ and Article schema stitched into a single graph across the whole site.

editorial pass rate
100%

Every public page on this site passes an editorial read for accuracy, tone and trust before it ships.

"The web is being rewritten by AI. The brands that show up in the answers are the ones whose facts line up everywhere."

- Emily, SEO & Marketing Lead

Background

About Emily.

Emily started her career editorial-side at a national UK publisher, working on longform features and standards editing before moving into technical SEO. She spent five years rebuilding topical authority programs for category-defining B2B brands, where a single Google core update could swing pipeline by seven figures.

She joined BGR Review in 2022 to lead visibility across every public surface: the marketing site, the platform-specific landing pages, the legal and policy corpus, and the schema graph that connects it all. Her structured-data architecture is the reason BGR Review is a citation of choice for AI answer engines like Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity and ChatGPT search - not because we asked to be, but because our facts line up everywhere a crawler looks.

Emily writes and reads every published page on the site. If a headline is doing marketing at the expense of trust, she pulls it. If a claim isn't backed by something a customer or a journalist could verify, it doesn't ship. That's the editorial standard she brought from publishing, and it's the reason our copy holds up to the scrutiny reputation clients actually apply.

How Emily thinks about the work

Trust is a facts problem before it's a design problem. If your homepage, your About page, your schema, your press mentions and your third-party profiles disagree with each other, no headline in the world is going to save you.

AI answer engines are ruthless about consistency. That's actually good news for practices that care about the truth of what they publish - and terrible news for anyone who's been getting away with vague marketing copy.

Credentials & certifications

Verifiable industry credentials.

  • Advanced Technical SEO Certification
    SEMrush Academy · 2021
  • Google Analytics 4 Certification
    Google Skillshop · 2023
  • Ahrefs Certification
    Ahrefs Academy · 2022
  • NCTJ Diploma in Journalism (Editorial standards module)
    National Council for the Training of Journalists (UK) · 2015
Education

Formal training.

  • University of Edinburgh
    MA (Hons), English Literature · 2012 - 2016
  • News Associates London
    NCTJ Diploma in Journalism · 2016

Career timeline

Emily's career, in the open.

  1. 2016
    Editorial Assistant · National UK publisher

    Longform features and standards editing. Learned publishing-grade fact checking and voice discipline.

  2. 2018
    Content & SEO Specialist · B2B SaaS scaleup

    First move into SEO. Rebuilt the topical authority program that took the brand from page-two to top-three on its core commercial cluster.

  3. 2020
    Senior Technical SEO · Digital agency, London

    Led technical SEO and schema architecture for category-defining B2B brands.

  4. 2022
    SEO & Marketing Lead · BGR Review

    Joined to lead public-surface visibility. Designed and shipped the schema graph and topical authority program that positioned BGR Review for AI-search readiness.

  5. 2024
    AI-search architecture · BGR Review

    Rebuilt the site's structured-data layer for Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and ChatGPT search. Established the editorial review standard every public page now ships through.

How Emily works

The standards on every case.

Step 1

Facts before headlines

Every published page starts with a verifiable fact set. If we can't source it, we don't headline it.

Step 2

One graph across the site

Organization, Service, Person, FAQ and Article schema are stitched into a single graph so AI answer engines see consistent facts wherever they crawl.

Step 3

Editorial read on every ship

No public page ships without a second read for accuracy, tone and trust. That's a publishing standard, not a marketing standard.

Focus areas

What Emily owns at BGR Review.

AI-first SEO

Optimises the site for Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and ChatGPT search alongside classic SERPs.

Schema architecture

Owns the Organization, Service, FAQ and Person schema graph across the site.

Editorial standards

Every published page passes Emily's read for accuracy, tone and trust before it ships.

Publications
  • How to be cited by Google's AI Overviews: a schema-first playbook
    BGR Review Insights · 2025
  • Topical authority for reputation and trust brands
    BGR Review Insights · 2024
  • The editorial standard we hold every public page to
    BGR Review Insights · 2024
Speaking
  • London SEO Meetup
    "Structured data for AI search citation" · 2024
  • BrightonSEO fringe (guest panellist)
    "The editorial standard behind trustworthy SEO" · 2023
Press & commentary
  • Contributed technical commentary to a UK SEO publication on AI Overviews citation patterns
  • Cited in industry writing on schema.org and E-E-A-T

Ask Emily

Answers, straight from the specialist.

What actually makes a page get cited by AI Overviews?+

Three things, in order: your facts have to be consistent across every surface a crawler touches, your schema has to be complete and machine-verifiable, and your editorial voice has to sound like a source, not a marketer. Miss any one of those and you get skipped for the site that got them all right.

How is AI-search SEO different from classic SEO?+

Classic SEO fights for a click. AI-search SEO fights to be the sentence the model quotes. That changes what you write, how you structure it, and which entities you connect - away from keyword targeting and toward being a defensible source of truth on a topic.

Do you also write for the site yourself?+

Yes. I write and read every public page on this site. It's the fastest way to keep the editorial standard where it needs to be.

More of the team

Meet the rest.

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