I'm Saurabh Tiwari, an SEO consultant with 13+ years of hands-on experience working directly with founders and technical teams — no account managers, no junior handoffs. Technical SEO, content strategy and AI search visibility for Kochi's export, IT and tourism sectors.
The years, certifications and client case studies on this site are checkable — the case studies with published keyword data are the more recent engagements, linked from the results page.
Kochi runs on three exports, and only one of them is a product.
Kerala's spice trade is centred here, and it's a genuinely international, B2B buyer — importers researching a supplier's certification, quality grading and export capability months before a purchase order, in exactly the RFQ-driven pattern we've seen work for industrial and manufacturing clients elsewhere.
Infopark and the wider Kochi IT corridor is real, not a footnote — a growing product and services sector competing in the same national market as every other tech hub, but with far less agency competition currently chasing it than Bangalore or Pune.
And Kochi is a genuine tourism and backwaters gateway, plus a working port and marine services base — a third buyer again, searching by destination, season and experience rather than specification or feature.
Every engagement starts with an audit. What follows depends on what the audit finds — not on a package decided before seeing your site.
Certification and specification content, indexed capability pages, and the RFQ-stage searches international spice and commodity buyers actually use.
B2B SEO →Comparison and feature content, technical SEO and topical authority for the Infopark corridor's technology sector.
SaaS Link Building →Destination and experience-led content for backwaters, houseboat and hospitality businesses competing for direct bookings over aggregators.
Local SEO Services →Crawlability, indexation, JavaScript rendering, Core Web Vitals, schema and canonical hygiene.
Technical SEO →hreflang architecture and per-market keyword sets for Kochi exporters and tourism businesses reaching Gulf, European and North American buyers.
How scope is priced →Most SEO work optimises for Google alone. This is built for Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity too — where both procurement and trip research increasingly start.
AEO & GEO Services →On the technical side I work across WordPress, Shopify and headless React or Next.js front ends. On Kochi export sites the recurring problem is certification and grading detail sitting in a PDF that never indexes. On tourism sites it's usually the opposite — heavy image galleries with no structured content underneath them for search engines to actually read.
This isn't the whole scope — that depends on the audit — but these are the fundamentals every Kochi engagement is built on, regardless of sector.
Three genuinely distinct economies sharing one port city, each with its own search behaviour.
International B2B buyers checking certification, grading and export capability months ahead of a purchase order.
Kochi's technology corridor, competing nationally with less agency saturation than the larger metro tech hubs.
Destination search from domestic and international travellers, converting on experience and trust rather than specification.
A working port and marine services base feeding a broader logistics and export ecosystem.
Every figure below comes from a real client engagement. Nothing here is illustrative, rounded up, or invented.
A technical industrial supplier selling on certification and specification into an international market — the closest available analogue to Kochi's spice and commodity export trade. Clicks grew from 24 to 110 over the reporting period.
Ongoing engagement covering technical SEO, an AEO/GEO content audit, competitor gap analysis and 20+ international landing pages — the relevant analogue for Kochi's IT and Infopark sector. Ranking data is not published for this client.
A national head term in one of India's most competitive ecommerce categories, moved onto page one.
Moved from outside the top 100 to position 3 on a core B2B export-manufacturing term — the same specification-led approach that applies to Kochi's spice and commodity exporters.
Current certifications, each issued with a verification code.
HubSpot Academy · valid to Aug 2028
HubSpot Academy · valid to Apr 2027
Semrush Academy · valid to Aug 2027
Contributing author · featured in Forbes India
The most common mistake I see on Kochi sites is generic "SEO services" copy applied identically to a B2B exporter and a tourism business. Three questions worth asking before you commission anything.
An international spice buyer checks quality grading and export certification before ever making contact. If that content only exists as a PDF sent on request, it's invisible to both Google and the buyer doing quiet research.
A backwaters or houseboat site with beautiful galleries and no structured, indexable text underneath them gives Google nothing to rank. The images sell the experience; the text is what gets found.
An export buyer's decision moment is a specification match. A tourism buyer's is trust and itinerary fit. The same page copy can't credibly answer both, and trying usually means it answers neither well.
There's no fixed price list, because an export supplier's site and a tourism business's site need entirely different scopes. These are the variables that actually change the number.
A certification-led B2B export site and an experience-led tourism site behave, and cost, very differently.
Kochi's KD for this term is genuinely low — a realistic timeline here is shorter than most of the cities I cover.
Certification-led export content and destination-led tourism content are different skills entirely.
Reaching Gulf, European or North American buyers adds hreflang, localisation and separate keyword sets per market.
I'm based in Lucknow and work with businesses across Kochi and the wider Ernakulam district remotely — calls, shared dashboards and documented deliverables. No local office, and I'd rather say that than imply otherwise.
Same remote model, same audit-first approach — the strategy just shifts to match each city's own industry mix.
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SEO Expert in Chennai →The work splits into three parts, but the priority order depends heavily on your sector. Technical SEO fixes crawl and indexation issues — on Kochi export sites this usually means certification content stuck in a PDF, on tourism sites it's often image-heavy pages with nothing structured underneath. Content targets the queries your specific buyer uses. Authority building earns the links that let you compete. The audit determines where to start.
Yes, and I'd rather say that plainly than undersell it. Kochi's difficulty for this term is genuinely the lowest of any city in my current coverage, which usually means less established competition and a shorter realistic timeline to visibility. It's still real work, but the market itself is favourable.
Yes. International buyers of spices and commodities typically research certification and export capability quietly before making contact. AFT Saudi's move from position 100 to 9 on a technical, certification-led term is the closest available proof of that approach working, alongside New Barouliya Aromatics' move to position 3 on a similar B2B manufacturing term.
Yes, and it requires a different content approach from B2B export work — structured, indexable destination content rather than image galleries alone, and trust signals like reviews and itinerary detail that convert a browsing traveller into a direct booking rather than a lost enquiry to an aggregator.
Anyone quoting a monthly figure before seeing your site is guessing. Cost is driven by site type, category competitiveness, the authority gap, content requirements, and whether you're targeting India alone or internationally. I scope after the audit so the number reflects real work.
Technical fixes can show movement within weeks. Given Kochi's lower competition for this term, commercial keywords can move faster here than in a harder metro market — though B2B export terms still carry a longer decision cycle than tourism or IT terms. Anyone promising page one in thirty days regardless of category is either targeting keywords nobody searches or not telling you the truth.
No. I'm based in Lucknow and work with Kochi clients remotely. For SEO this makes very little practical difference — the work happens in your CMS, your Search Console and your analytics, not in a meeting room. If you specifically need someone who can attend in-person meetings in Kochi, I'd rather tell you upfront that I'm not the right fit.
Yes. For export buyers, being cited as a capable, certified supplier in an AI-generated answer can shortlist you before a human visits the site. For tourism, travellers increasingly ask an assistant for destination and itinerary recommendations. Both require content structured for extraction and entity signals that make a brand recognisable. One client, AFT Saudi, is now cited by ChatGPT for supplier queries in its category.
I look at your site properly — crawl and index status, technical issues, whether your content matches how your actual buyer searches, your authority position against whoever currently outranks you, and where the realistic opportunities are. You get a written summary of what I found and what I'd prioritise. If the honest answer is that SEO isn't your bottleneck, I'll say so.
Send me your URL and your sector — export, IT, tourism, or something else. I'll audit the site properly and tell you honestly what's winnable, what isn't, and what I'd fix first.
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Based in Lucknow and working with clients in these markets remotely — calls, shared dashboards and documented deliverables. No local office outside Lucknow, and that is stated rather than implied. Looking for a service rather than a city? See B2B SEO, D2C & ecommerce SEO, industrial & manufacturing SEO, healthcare & hospital SEO, local SEO or AEO & GEO services.