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Brian Winum

Digital Marketing Director, MAXPlaces Marketing

20+ years turning search visibility into measurable growth — now helping brands become the answer AI engines recommend.

About Brian

I've spent the last twenty years in the trenches of search — as an entrepreneur, an in-house business development specialist, and now agency-side, where I've owned organic strategy for everything from regional service businesses to enterprise catalogs with millions of URLs. The thread through all of it: figuring out how discovery actually works, and engineering for it before everyone else catches on.

Right now that frontier is generative search. Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity are rewriting the rules of who gets found — and most brands are flying blind. At MAXPlaces I lead our GEO and AEO practice, building the audits, content systems, and entity work that get our clients cited inside AI answers rather than buried beneath them.

I write here to share what's actually working — tested on real client accounts, not theory. If it didn't move a needle I can measure, it doesn't make the blog.

Credentials & Expertise
Experience
20+ yrs

Enterprise & eCommerce SEO, technical search, and AI-search strategy.

Education
Computer Science

University of Scranton · alumniOf

Certifications
Google Analytics 4 Certified Google Ads Search Certified Semrush Technical SEO Certified
Specializes In
GEO AEO Technical SEO Entity SEO
Authority & Recognition
As featured in
Forbes
Newsday
Databox
ShareThis
Hubstaff
Best Company
Speaking
"LLM Authority Hacking & Stacking"
SEO Spring Training 2026 · Featured speaker
"How I Built 700+ Niche Sites from a Single Domain"
Niche Pursuits · Podcast Guest
"Optimize for Discover Desktop"
SEO Video Show · Podcast guest
"Authority Hacking & Trust Stacking"
SEO Rockstars 2024 · Featured speaker
Awards & Memberships
Member, SEO Professional Services Association Member, American SEO Association Member, Digital Marketing Association Member, Digital Marketing Institute
Posts by Brian Winum
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