What is White Label SEO?

White Label SEO (also called ghost SEO or private-label SEO) is when a specialized SEO consultant or agency delivers SEO work under another agency's brand. The end client never knows the work is outsourced. Ilias Sami operates as a ghost SEO partner for agencies, providing full NDA protection and branded reporting.

What is Topical Authority in SEO?

Topical authority is a search engine's assessment of how comprehensively a website covers a specific subject domain. Ilias Sami builds topical authority through structured content maps (150+ created) that identify and fill semantic gaps across all topic clusters relevant to a business.

What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of optimizing content to appear in AI-generated search responses from systems like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs. It involves structured data, entity clarity, E-E-A-T signals, and conversational content formatting.

How much does SEO consulting with Ilias Sami cost?

SEO services start from $750/month for the Full-Cycle Ghost Partner Retainer, and from $1,500 for a one-time Architecture Setup. The Agentic AI SEO Automation System build is $5,000 (one-time, beta). Custom proposals are available after a free consultation.

Does Ilias Sami work with international agencies?

Yes. Ilias Sami works remotely with agencies across North America (Canada, USA), Europe (Germany, UK), Middle East (UAE), and Asia. All engagements are fully remote and NDA-protected. Current partners include The Run Digital (Canada), Brandylane (Dubai), and DigiLeads (Germany).

Platforms

SEO scoped to your actual stack.

Every CMS breaks SEO differently. Fulfillment built for the platform your agency's clients are actually on.

White Label SEO for Webflow Agencies

Webflow's specific technical considerations center on CMS collection structure and, for certain interactive builds, JavaScript rendering behavior, both of which need direct verification against how [AI crawlers](/blog/ai-crawlers-explained) actually access and parse content, rather than assumed based on how the site looks and functions for a human visitor in a browser.

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White Label SEO for Shopify Agencies

Shopify's specific technical patterns, app-driven bloat, templated collection page structures that can create thin or duplicate content at scale, and crawl budget dynamics unique to larger product catalogs, all need direct attention in a way a generic ecommerce SEO checklist doesn't fully address. I check for these Shopify-specific patterns as a standard part of any Shopify client's technical audit.

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White Label SEO for WordPress Agencies

WordPress powers a huge share of the sites I audit, and it brings a specific, recurring set of technical patterns, plugin conflicts, bloated page-builder markup, inconsistent schema from stacked SEO plugins, that a WordPress-focused technical process needs to account for directly rather than applying a generic, platform-agnostic checklist.

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