
Andrew Weston
Co-Founder
Education
Bristol UWE | Cardiff Metropolitan University
About
Andrew Weston is the Co-Founder of Appear Online and an SEO strategist with a decade of experience helping businesses grow through organic search, digital PR, and AI-driven optimisation. His work spans ecommerce brands, service businesses, and international companies looking to build long-term visibility and authority. Andrew’s core strengths include on-page SEO, entity-based optimisation, link acquisition strategy, and AI search adaptation. His approach blends technical expertise with performance content, user experience, and modern search signals such as brand mentions, sentiment, and community influence. Over the years, Andrew has led strategies across multiple industries, including healthcare, legal, ecommerce, financial services, and home improvement, with a strong focus on scalable frameworks, search automation, and long-term value rather than quick wins. When he’s not working on SEO strategy or experimenting with emerging search models, you’ll usually find him travelling, training for his next race, working remotely somewhere warm, or testing new frameworks for the future of AI-search visibility.
Articles

Internal Linking for LLMs and AI Search
Internal linking plays a critical role in how AI systems understand content, hierarchy, and relationships. This guide explains how to structure links for LLMs, entities, and AI search visibility.

The 5 Best SEO Agencies for Peptide Businesses (2026)
A 2026 guide to SEO for peptide businesses, covering industry challenges, UK regulations, and the specialist agencies best suited to this highly regulated space.

The 13 Best UK Backlink Agencies for Construction Companies (2026)
This guide explains how backlink building works for construction companies, the risks to avoid, and which UK agencies are best placed to support authority growth.

Google AI Mode Is Live. What It Means for Search, SEO, and Content Strategy in 2026
Google has rolled out AI Mode, a new search experience built on generative answers, citations, and reasoning-based retrieval. This guide breaks down what it means for SEO and how to prepare your content and strategy.

Search Has Changed. Artificial Intelligence Search Engine Optimisation Is Here
Search has changed. This guide explains how artificial intelligence search engine optimisation works across Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude, Bing Copilot, and Llama, and provides a strategic framework for building AI ready visibility in 2026.

Hallucination Risk in AI Search - Why Accuracy Now Drives Visibility
Hallucination risk affects how AI search platforms represent your brand. This guide explains how hallucination impacts visibility, citations and ranking confidence, and how to prevent it through structured clarity and entity optimisation.

The Best 22 SEO Agencies in the UK (2026 Guide)
Cut through the noise and find a genuine SEO specialist in the UK. Our guide features top agencies with case studies and clear explanations of their effective strategies.

The 7 Best UK SEO Agencies for Vet Practices (2026)
A 2026 guide to SEO for vet practices, exploring industry-specific challenges, AI-driven search changes, and the best UK SEO agencies for veterinary clinics.
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The 7 Best UK SEO Agencies for Publishers (2026)
A practical 2026 guide to SEO for publishers, covering how search and AI discovery work today, what makes publisher SEO different, and which UK agencies specialise in content-led and editorial websites.
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Top 16 International SEO Agencies in the UK (2026)
A 2026 breakdown of international SEO, global expansion strategy and the top UK agencies specialising in multi-market search visibility.

How Long Does AI SEO Take to See Results?
AI SEO timelines differ from traditional SEO because artificial intelligence systems rely on clarity, authority, and entity consistency rather than ranking alone.

The Best 10 UK Digital Marketing Agencies of 2026 (Ranked + Reviewed)
A practical guide to the best UK digital marketing agencies, covering SEO, digital PR, AI search visibility and how businesses choose partners in 2026.

The 20 Best Pharmacy SEO Agencies UK 2026 (Ranked + Reviewed)
Pharmacy SEO in 2026 requires more than keywords. Search engines now prioritise accuracy, compliance aligned communication and strong local signals.

15 Best SEO Agencies for Hair Transplant Clinics in the UK (2026 Edition)
A complete 2026 guide to the best UK SEO agencies for hair transplant clinics, including AI search insights, local SEO signals, patient intent mapping and a six month clinic growth strategy.

AI Citations - How They Work and How to Earn Them
AI citations are becoming the new authority signal in search. This guide explains how citations work in AI-powered environments and how to optimise content so that large language models reference your site in summaries, comparisons and reasoning-based answers.

12 Best SEO Agencies in the UK for Chiropractors (2026 Edition)
Choosing the right SEO agency is essential for chiropractors in 2026. This updated guide covers the top UK agencies for MSK and healthcare SEO, the latest AI and local ranking signals, and a structured six month plan to boost visibility and patient bookings.

E-E-A-T and Brand Authority in the AI Search Landscape
Artificial intelligence systems are reshaping how authority influences search visibility. This analysis explores how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode interpret expertise, trust signals, and entity strength.