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Rise at Seven Rise at Seven creates category leaders on every searchable platform - Google, TikTok, ChatGPT, YouTube, Meta, Amazon, Reddit, Pinterest and even Giphy.

Nobody searches once and buys.They Google “oversized t-shirt.” Watch a haul and sizing review on YouTube. Scroll Instagr...
01/10/2026

Nobody searches once and buys.

They Google “oversized t-shirt.” Watch a haul and sizing review on YouTube. Scroll Instagram for outfit inspiration, pin neutral streetwear on Pinterest, then check TikTok for ways to style it.

That’s five platforms, five searches, and one purchase decision, all before anyone hits “add to bag.”

The brands that win aren’t just ranking for one keyword.

They’re showing up at every step of the journey, with the right content on the right platform at the right moment.

That’s Search Journeys. We map how your audience actually searches, then engineer the content that gets you found at every stage.

Journeys? We engineer them.

We’re heading to brightonSEO next week 🌊No stage this time and no booth. We’re going as attendees, and that’s deliberate...
30/09/2026

We’re heading to brightonSEO next week 🌊

No stage this time and no booth. We’re going as attendees, and that’s deliberate.

We want to sit in on the talks, soak up what the industry’s learning, and spend two days in proper conversations with the brands and agencies shaping search right now.

Search is changing fast ⏩

AI answers, new discovery behaviours, and shifting expectations of what good looks like. The best way to make sense of it is to talk it through with the people living it.

If you’re at BrightonSEO on 8th-9th October, come and say hello.

Rise at Seven has been at the front of search for years, and we’re always up for a proper conversation about where it’s going next.

Bring your questions, your challenges, and your hot takes. We’ve got plenty of our own.

See you in Brighton. 👋

Last week, our new Organic Strategy Lead in Organic Media in Europe, Chris Krizsak, headed to SEO Wiesn in Munich, hoste...
29/09/2026

Last week, our new Organic Strategy Lead in Organic Media in Europe, Chris Krizsak, headed to SEO Wiesn in Munich, hosted by our brilliant client SIXT .

Seeing our slides presented to the SIXT team? A proud moment.

We work across European markets every day.

Having people on the ground in Europe changes everything.
It means we’re not just a digital partner.

We’re in the room. With local speakers, people who know the culture.
That’s what being global actually looks like.

Who leads the tech categories? 👀Here are the brands on top of the Category Leaderboard right now:📱 iD Mobile : contract ...
28/09/2026

Who leads the tech categories? 👀

Here are the brands on top of the Category Leaderboard right now:

📱 iD Mobile : contract phones
🍎 apple : used iPhone
🛒 Amazon UK : camera equipment & smart watches
💻 Currys : laptops
🌍 EE : eSIM providers
🔔 Ring : home monitoring
🎨 Canva UK : portfolio websites
🎹 Steinberg : music software
⚙️ microsoftuk : workflow automation
💳 Square : EPOS systems

What’s the Category Leaderboard? It’s our first-of-its-kind tool, built with Ahrefs , that ranks brands by category leadership.

We combine search visibility, brand demand and AI visibility into one score. The lower the score, the stronger the position.

Where does your brand rank?

Search your category via the link in our bio 🔗

Search doesn’t sit in a team. It runs through all of them.Our Managing Partner Phil Clark  breaks down why the brands fl...
25/09/2026

Search doesn’t sit in a team. It runs through all of them.

Our Managing Partner Phil Clark breaks down why the brands flooding us with RFPs right now aren’t asking for an SEO agency; they’re asking for something bigger.

To be discoverable at every touchpoint their audience searches, asks and scrolls through.

It’s a shift we’re seeing play out daily: Demand and Discovery, treated as one lever instead of two separate teams that don’t talk to each other.

The brands getting this right aren’t just being found.

They’re becoming category leaders.

Full read via link in the comments. 🔗

 took the stage at Scroll Forward (by pretty little marketer ) this week 👀His opening line:People search across 3.5 plat...
23/09/2026

took the stage at Scroll Forward (by pretty little marketer ) this week 👀

His opening line:
People search across 3.5 platforms before deciding.

That means most strategies are built on half the story. Surveys, focus groups, and consumer data only reveal what someone wants you to know.

Search tells you who they actually are.

Ray broke down how we’re helping brands show up across every searchable platform and how real search insight (not assumptions) shapes a strategy.

We help brands own their category.

This is how.

Find out more in our bio!

22/09/2026

“All of these different touchpoints have to be saying the same thing.”

Our US SEO Director Jake Gauntley took the stage at BrightonSEO San Diego to unpack a pivotal shift in SEO: the power has moved offsite.

His talk, Why offsite signals decide who gets seen in AI search and how brands can build the entity authority that gets them there, is essential viewing for anyone thinking seriously about AI search and entity authority.

We will be posting more clips from his talk at brightonSEO San Diego over the coming weeks.

Big news 📣Our Founder & CEO Carrie Rose 🌻 is taking to the stage at Spotlight 2026, Semrush’s flagship marketing confere...
01/09/2026

Big news 📣

Our Founder & CEO Carrie Rose 🌻 is taking to the stage at Spotlight 2026, Semrush’s flagship marketing conference, in London on October 13th.⁠
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Spotlight is all about brand visibility in the age of AI, and how customers discover and choose brands now. Carrie will be joining an incredible speaker lineup, including names from Adobe, OpenAI, LinkedIn and more.⁠
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Catch her session and come say hello 👋⁠

Semrush
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26/08/2026

A win worth sharing 🌍

Late last month, we found ourselves in one of the toughest new business processes we’ve run this year: a global pitch spanning 7 countries, with 7 agencies each fighting for a different market.

We got handed the market everyone said was the hardest to crack 😅

We won it.

What made this one different: the client had come up agency-side themselves, so they knew exactly what a pitch like this costs a team in time and energy. Their approach: pay every agency involved, and let the strongest results, partnership and collaboration decide who takes it forward.

More brands should operate this way. Respect to this one for actually putting money behind that principle 👏

Here’s how it played out…

One of the biggest names in American grocery was losing gift card searches on Google.  assumed the audience was shrinkin...
25/08/2026

One of the biggest names in American grocery was losing gift card searches on Google.
assumed the audience was shrinking.

They weren’t.

They’d just moved to TikTok.

Here’s what search-led social delivered:

📈 15M monthly TikTok views on gift card content vs just 30K on Google
🎥 38 creator videos live across 2025, reaching 6.9M people
💰 920 conversions and an estimated $161K in social-driven revenue
📊 115,000 sessions from organic and paid social
🏆 Content ranking organically against Netflix, DoorDash and McDonald’s gift card terms, some from creators with zero local stores

We didn’t chase reach for reach’s sake.

We paired search data with native creator storytelling, built a seasonal playbook around real cultural moments, and proved a category leader doesn’t need Google alone to hold its position.

The results speak for themselves, but the details are in the case study. Link in the comments.

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