SEO Consultant on LinkedIn

Three steps: search by role keywords with a location or "remote" filter, then check the profile itself for featured work, recommendations, and named case studies rather than just the headline, then confirm they actually specialize in your kind of SEO: local, e-commerce, SaaS, instead of claiming all of them generically. Most profiles fail on the second step; headlines are free, recommendations and named case studies aren't.

Featured posts that show real work (not just motivational content), recommendations from people whose names and companies you can verify, named case studies with a specific before/after result, and a follower base that reflects genuine industry engagement rather than a purchased or inactive audience.

There's no single answer to that. "Best" depends on whether you need local SEO, e-commerce, SaaS, or AI/GEO work, and for which market. Mansoor Bhanpurawala's profile (linkedin.com/in/mansoorbhanpurawala) is built around 14+ years of SEO/AEO/GEO work and 100+ local SEO projects for US, Canadian, and European clients. Check it against the same three-step framework above rather than taking that claim on its own.

Reliability depends on what you can verify, not the label. A freelancer with named case studies, real recommendations, and a documented track record is more verifiable than an agency profile with generic claims and no individual attached to the work. Check the substance on the profile, not whether it says "freelance" or "agency."

A junior profile typically shows a few years of experience, certifications, and smaller-scope work; a senior profile shows a decade-plus history, named case studies with specific outcomes, and recommendations that describe strategic work, not just task execution. Years of experience alone is a weak signal; what the recommendations actually describe matters more.

A website's claims are self-published and self-controlled. Recommendations and connections on LinkedIn come from third parties who can be individually checked, which makes a LinkedIn profile a genuinely independent verification layer on top of whatever a consultant's own website says about them.

AI SEO (GEO) structures content so tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity cite a business directly in their answers. It's directly relevant here because LinkedIn content itself is heavily indexed and summarized by AI tools, so a consultant's own LinkedIn presence is itself a live example of whether their AI-SEO approach actually works.

LinkedIn profiles rarely state pricing at all, which is itself worth noting. Two ways to work together here: $30/hour for scoped work like an audit or a specific fix, billed by actual time spent, or a monthly retainer priced against a Statement of Work once a full engagement's scope is defined.

Follower count alone is a weak signal. It's checkable but easy to inflate through engagement pods or purchased growth. It's more useful as a tiebreaker after the recommendations and case-study checks, not as the first thing to look at.

Yes, a free 30-minute strategy call, whether you reach out through LinkedIn, this page, or email. The call itself doubles as a chance to see how the work is actually explained, which is part of the same vetting process this page describes.

Only if their own content shows it: schema markup, FAQPage structure, and content built to be cited by AI Overviews and chatbots, not just keyword-stuffed posts. Ask to see an example of a page they've built this way before assuming AEO/GEO is included in "SEO" by default; a lot of profiles list it as a buzzword without showing the work.

Recommendations that are vague or clearly reciprocal ("great to work with!" with no specifics), case studies with no named client or checkable result, a headline claiming expertise in every SEO specialty at once, and a posting history that's entirely generic advice with no original work shown.

Either works, but a LinkedIn message often gets a faster first response since it's a channel consultants check for new business by default. A direct message to linkedin.com/in/mansoorbhanpurawala or the contact form below both reach the same person.

As of this writing, Google's AI Overview names Sachin Bhatt, Sunil Raval, and Romil Tripathi for that exact search, while Bing's Copilot names a different set for the same phrase: Sujan Sarkar, James Dooley, Rand Fishkin, Neil Patel, and Fery Kaszoni. This isn't an endorsement of any of them, or of Mansoor. It's what both engines currently return, and it's checkable by searching the phrase yourself.

Yes. Google's AI Overview names Navneet Prashar and Luish Mahida for "ai seo consultant linkedin", a different pair from the names it returns for "best seo consultant linkedin". The exact modifier you search changes who the AI names, which is the whole reason to check the specific phrase you'd actually use, not a generic "best on LinkedIn" claim.