Why "keyword targeting" is the wrong frame.
Modern Google does not rank a keyword. It ranks an entity matched against an intent. RankBrain reformulates the query; BERT parses the relationships between words; MUM blends signals across language, image, and context. If you wrote your page to win a keyword, you wrote it for a 2014 algorithm.
The Ferminius approach starts with the question — the actual question a buyer asks at the moment they have money and a deadline — and reverse-engineers the page from there. That is what programmatic SEO is supposed to mean. Not a thousand thin pages cloned from a spreadsheet.
What the engagement actually delivers.
- Intent map. Two weeks of work. Every commercial query in your vertical, mapped to the buyer's stage (problem-aware, solution-aware, decision-ready) and to the SERP shape Google currently rewards.
- Topical architecture. A site structure where each pillar page has a defensible reason to exist, and each cluster page answers a real sub-question — not a synonym variant.
- Programmatic templates. 50 to 800+ pages generated from a structured data source (locations, conditions, products, use-cases). Each page validated against a quality threshold before it ships to the index.
- Schema layer. JSON-LD for Article, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, Service, BreadcrumbList — whichever the page type warrants. Validated, not just installed.
- Internal linking system. Programmatic, density-aware, and reviewed manually for the top 5% of pages by traffic potential.
What we don't do.
We don't ship AI slop. The model writes the first draft; a human (me, usually) decides whether the page deserves to exist. If a programmatic page can't earn at least one click per month within 90 days of indexing, it gets removed. The index is not a landfill.
We don't chase volume metrics. Sessions, bounce rate, time-on-page — these are vanity unless tied to a downstream commercial event. The dashboards we ship measure organic-attributed leads, organic-attributed revenue, and cost per organic acquisition. Three numbers.
Verticals where this works.
- Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine — procedure × city × condition pages.
- Real estate — neighborhood × property-type × price-tier pages.
- E-commerce — collection × use-case × audience pages.
- Local services — service × neighborhood × intent pages.
- SaaS with a long-tail comparison surface — vs-pages, alternatives, integrations.
The first 21 days.
Diagnostic.
Crawl, log analysis, intent inventory, competitor SERP teardown. We finish with a thesis: where the 80% of organic upside actually lives.
Architecture.
Topical map drafted, validated against query data, signed off. Programmatic templates designed, not yet generated.
First batch live.
50–150 pages indexed, schema validated, internal links wired. First measurable ranking movement is the gate to the second batch.