A portrait of Michael Arrieta taken in 2025, heather pink duotone filter.

I am a 10-year veteran of the organic search landscape, specializing in bridging the critical gap between complex web development and high-level business outcomes.

Since 2019, I’ve committed myself to establishing a mastery of organic demand acquisition & protection with accolades as recent as 2026 for my work driving high-stakes web projects for fortune 30 brands, establishing brand positioning guidelines that promote retention and approachable onboarding processes for seasoned teams integrating search strategies that capitalize on emergent AI user and search engine crawler behaviors.

In short, I leverage my expertise to serve as a business development asset for equitable organic growth and an expert consultant for in-house teams as well as agency partners seeking a competitive edge.

What I’m Working On Right Now

My work makes complex ideas and concepts approachable so business owners can do what they do best.

  • Building free SEO tools that make technical and structural problems visible, especially the ones modern platforms introduce subtly.
  • Writing and research focused on how AI systems retrieve, weight, and reason over web content.
  • Consulting with brands and teams who need their sites to scale without collapsing under technical debt or vague strategy.

How I Think About Search

I approach search strategy as a applied data analysis & outcome driven storytelling.

My job is to ensure your brand story makes sense for your human and bot audiences. This is where the ROI Search is known for is unlocked in modern Search programs.

  • Information architecture and taxonomy design
  • Entity modeling and schema strategy
  • Technical diagnostics that go beyond surface-level audits
  • Intent-focused optimization that aligns content with how it’s actually retrieved
  • Opportunity discovery and communication through data dives and dashboarding.

The goal is developing an ownable and predictable Search pipeline that grows alongside profits.

AI, Search, and Automation

I experiment and record results across JavaScript/JSON, AI automation, and data blending use cases to help business owners and teams understand:

  • How AI systems consume and summarize web content
  • Where traditional SEO signals still matter
  • Where new types of optimization are needed, and thus what skills new SEO team additions should own
  • Most importantly; how it all ties back to the business objectives

I might be a good fit for

  • Brands that want to improve visibility without inflating content volume.
  • Companies that want to assess AI-readiness; that need help identifying and fixing structural and technical gaps.
  • Website owners who want to make their sites easier for both humans and machines to understand.
  • C-suite directors seeking enhanced decision making competencies using data insights that unambiguously link effort to profit (e.g., forecasting, analytics stack evaluation and lead pipeline auditing)