Paid Media, SEO and AEO for Supply Chain
Your supply chain digital team. We run paid media and search for freight, logistics, and supply chain companies only, so your budget goes after the buyers who actually move freight and sign contracts.
The platforms your buyers use
Reach shippers, carriers, and procurement leaders by job title, company, and industry.
Capture the buyers who are already searching for what you move or make.
Keep your brand in front of target accounts across the sites they read. What is programmatic?
Three ways your buyers find you
Shippers, carriers, and procurement teams start with a search. More and more, they start with an AI answer. If you are not in the results, you are not on the shortlist. We cover all three places they look.
Buy the attention you can measure
Search, LinkedIn, and programmatic campaigns built around your ICP and the buyer journey, with different messages and formats for each funnel stage. No spray and pray.
- Campaign structure built for how the platforms learn
- Behavioral and account based targeting
- Ad copy tested with your SDR team
Own the searches shippers actually use
Intent-driven SEO built on keyword research, interviews with your subject matter experts, and pillar pages with interlinked content, plus the technical fixes that let search engines read it.
- Pillar pages and topic clusters
- Metadata, schema markup, internal linking
- Judged on pipeline, not traffic
Be the answer when buyers ask AI
Answer engine optimization makes your content easy for AI answer engines to find, understand, and cite, so your company shows up when a buyer asks a question instead of typing a keyword.
- Content structured for AI answers
- Tracking visits that arrive from AI tools
- Built on the same pillar content as SEO
Related reading: Answer engine optimization · AI referral traffic · Three strategies working in supply chain marketing
From ranking to being chosen
Buyers now get answers straight from AI tools, so the goal moves from ranking on a page of links to being the source the answer cites. AEO does not replace SEO. It is the next step on the same foundation: expert, trustworthy content on a well built site.
Answer the buyer's question
Direct, expert answers to the questions your buyers actually ask, written by people who know freight.
Give every page a job
Pillar pages and topic clusters with clear internal linking, so search engines and AI tools can see how your expertise fits together.
Let machines read it
Schema markup such as FAQPage, HowTo, Article, Product, and Organization tells search and AI systems what each page is.
Traffic alone no longer tells the story. We track visits from AI tools in HubSpot, tie deals back to SEO and AEO content, and watch share of voice and brand mentions in AI answers.
AI helps us cluster keywords, audit content, and draft outlines at scale. People set the strategy and own the intent behind every page.
The PR Funnel
The PR Funnel connects earned media to revenue. Trusted coverage becomes organic discoverability, AI visibility, and qualified traffic that converts, and every stage is measured.
Earned exposure
Press releases, bylined articles, media coverage, and newswire pickups.
Visibility and trust
Backlinks lift SEO, trusted outlets feed AI answers (AEO), and articles send referral traffic.
Audience engagement
Pageviews from earned sources, scroll depth, profile views, newsletter signups, and repeat visits.
Attribution and outcomes
Form fills, demo requests, sales qualified leads, and deals tied back to PR originated traffic.
How we measure it. We track referral sources in Google Analytics 4, search lift in Google Search Console, ChatGPT and Perplexity referrers for AEO, and CRM attribution to connect coverage to pipeline.
Paid buys speed. Search builds volume that compounds.
Paid media, SEO, and AEO are not three separate projects. They are the front door of the Revenue Engine, and they are only worth what happens after the click.
Show up where buyers look
SEO and AEO content earns position over time. Paid media puts your best proof in front of target accounts now.
See who responds
Every click, form fill, and AI referral is captured in HubSpot and tied to the account, so interest is visible instead of anonymous.
Get it to sales fast
Scoring and routing put hand raisers in front of sales and SDR teams while the interest is fresh. Most pipeline is lost in the follow up, not the ad.
Volume into the funnel, velocity through it, and value closed. Not impressions and not rankings on their own.
Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative
LeadCoverage won the Search Engine Land Award for Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative in the SEO category in 2025, for an intent-driven campaign for a logistics provider. The work was judged on pipeline it produced, not traffic it attracted.
Paid media and search case studies
What this looks like for supply chain and logistics companies.
SEO · Award winner
How intent-driven SEO earned a logistics provider page one rankings and pipeline
Paid media
From scattered ads to strategic growth: how we transformed a 3PL's paid media strategy
Results are specific to each client and are not guaranteed. See all case studies →
What exactly are paid media, SEO, AEO, and programmatic?
Ads you buy to reach target buyers
You pay for placement on platforms like Google and LinkedIn, and you choose who sees the message. It is the fastest way to reach a specific account list.
Earning rankings in search results
Search engine optimization improves your content and site so you appear when a buyer searches a term like "freight brokerage software." It takes longer than paid, and it keeps working after the work is done.
Being cited in AI answers
Answer engine optimization shapes your content so AI tools such as ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews can find it and name your company when a buyer asks a question.
Ads bought by software, in real time
Programmatic advertising uses software to place your ads across many websites and apps automatically. You define who you want to reach, such as target accounts or job titles, and the platform finds them where they browse.
What supply chain leaders ask us about paid media and search
What is programmatic advertising?
Programmatic advertising is the automated buying of ad placements. Instead of booking space on one site at a time, software bids for ad space in real time across thousands of sites and apps, and shows your ad to the audience you defined. For supply chain companies, it keeps your brand in front of target accounts between search clicks, with different creative for each stage of the buyer journey.
What is AEO, and how is it different from SEO?
SEO helps your pages rank in search results. AEO, answer engine optimization, helps AI tools find, understand, and cite your content when a buyer asks a question. They share the same foundation: clear, expert content on a well built site. We plan them together.
How do paid media and SEO work together?
Paid media gives you speed and control over who sees your message. SEO and AEO build visibility that compounds. Search terms that convert in paid campaigns tell us which pillar pages to build, and strong pages lower what each lead costs over time.
How do you measure AEO?
Rankings and traffic are no longer enough. We track visits that arrive from AI tools in HubSpot, review which landing pages those visitors enter through, and tie deals back to SEO and AEO content. We also watch share of voice and brand mentions in AI answers as new signals. See our AI referral traffic research
What are ABM and intent data, and how do they fit in?
Account based marketing focuses your spend on a defined list of target accounts instead of a broad audience. Intent data shows which companies are researching topics related to what you sell. Together they tell us which accounts to put in front of, so budget goes to buyers who are likely to be in market.
Why use a team that only works in supply chain?
Because the keywords, buyers, and sales cycles are different. A team that knows the difference between a broker, a 3PL, and a TMS buyer writes better ads, picks better terms, and talks to your sales team in their language.
Where do you run paid campaigns?
Where your buyers are: search, LinkedIn, and programmatic, combined with ABM and intent data so spend goes to target accounts. We choose channels by the buyer, not by habit.
How long does SEO take to work?
Longer than paid media. Search rankings build over months, and the pace depends on your site, your competition, and how much quality content exists today. That is why many programs start with paid media for near term pipeline while SEO and AEO content builds underneath it.
How do we know it is working?
We report on volume into the funnel, velocity through it, and value closed, tracked in HubSpot from first touch to revenue. Rankings and clicks matter only when they lead to pipeline.
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