Nicolas Rabouille is Co-Founder & CEO of Rablab, an agency specializing in AI visibility, organic & paid search.

He's been doing SEO for 15+ years and has spent the last decade helping mid-size and large companies win in search.

In today's episode of E-Coffee with Experts, Nicolas joins our host Ranmay Rath to talk about building a search agency that grows through focus, qualification, and repeatable delivery. Nicolas shares how he moved from affiliate marketing and web development into agency leadership, why Rablab says no to most inbound leads, and how defining an ideal client can improve retention.

The conversation also looks at the relationship between SEO and GEO. Nicolas explains why strong SEO fundamentals remain the base, then breaks down the marketing clarity, case studies, server-log analysis, sales-call FAQs, pillar content, mentions, and digital PR that can help AI systems understand and recommend a business.

He also discusses a broader scorecard for AI search, including grounding crawler activity, branded queries, AI Overviews, citations, and conversions.

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In this episode, we discuss:

00:00 - 01:20: Introduction

01:20 - 02:57: From factory work to Rablab

02:57 - 04:21: Building agency culture and scaling

04:21 - 05:46: From technical operator to CEO

05:46 - 07:15: Brighton, speaking in English, and prompt tracking

07:15 - 10:34: Qualifying clients for long-term retention

10:34 - 11:54: Retention metrics and productized services

11:54 - 14:14: SEO fundamentals are the base of GEO

14:14 - 16:23: Grounding crawlers and server-log analysis

16:23 - 17:03: Mining FAQs from sales calls

17:03 - 18:36: Pillar content, mentions, and digital PR

18:36 - 20:47: Measuring AI visibility and conversions

20:47 - 22:57: The next disruption: AI-assisted buying

22:52 - 24:47: Rapid-fire questions

 Connect with Nicolas Rabouille

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-rabouille/

 https://rablab.ca/audit-geo-iao-gratuit/

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