A studio built by a business owner

Hi, I'm Moe Tarakji

I founded Bold SEO Labs in Los Angeles. Before this was an agency, I built and optimized the websites for a flight school at Van Nuys Airport, an aircraft ferry service and a luxury dog boarding service in LA. You can see all three on our work page.

Along the way I learned what actually moves the needle: sites that load fast, pages that answer real customer questions, structured data that search engines can read, and making sure nothing silly, like a stray noindex tag, is quietly hiding you from Google.

Then the way people search started to change. More customers now ask ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews and get a short answer that names just a few businesses. Optimizing for those answers (AEO) is a relatively new science, and I believe the businesses that start early get a real edge. That's why I started Bold SEO Labs.

I'm also an FAA Gold Seal Flight Instructor, so I'm used to checklists, precision and explaining complex things in plain English. That's how we work: clear plans, honest reporting, no made-up numbers.

Hands-on experience

• Harvest & Hound: found and removed a noindex tag that was blocking Google, then added guides, schema and a working booking form.
• Gold Seal Ferry: built a new site from scratch with pricing, FAQ and guide pages, llms.txt files and detailed structured data.
• The Flight Academy of California: moved an aging WordPress site to a fast, hand-built static site.

How we research and write

• Primary sources first. Our guides are based on official documentation from Google Search Central, OpenAI, Perplexity and the Google Business Profile help center, and each one lists its sources.
• No invented numbers. We don't publish made-up statistics, testimonials or results. When we quote data, we link to where it came from.
• Dated and maintained. Every guide shows when it was last updated, and we revise guides when platforms change.
• No guarantees we can't keep. No one controls Google rankings or AI citations. We say so.