Fifteen-plus years of turning search visibility into pipeline.
Advise Optimization was built around one idea: search strategy should be led by someone who has actually run it — through algorithm updates, platform shifts, and now, the arrival of AI answers.
Naga Basava · Founder
Naga Basava
Naga is a Hyderabad-based digital marketing strategist who has spent over fifteen years helping brands connect with their audience through organic search, content and paid media. His early career included leading audience-growth and organic-search initiatives at MakeMyTrip, one of India's largest online travel platforms, where his team's work on search and content became a reference point for how the company approached organic discovery.
Since then, he has advised and led SEO programs across a wide range of industries — including dining and reservations platform EasyDiner, logistics marketplace Trukky, and automotive platform NumberDekho — building in-house search teams, setting technical standards, and translating ranking data into decisions that marketing leadership could act on. He also founded and grew Indian Digital Guru, his own digital marketing training and content platform.
Advise Optimization is his answer to a market that has changed shape twice: first when search became mobile-first and content-driven, and now as AI Overviews, chat assistants and generative engines rewrite how people find answers. The consultancy applies the same fundamentals — technical soundness, structured content, genuine authority — to all four surfaces at once.
What Naga is known for
Building and scaling in-house SEO teams, diagnosing technical issues other audits miss, and translating search data into decisions non-specialists can act on.
How Advise Optimization works
No templated audits or recycled checklists — every roadmap is built from your analytics, your competitors and your industry's specific search behavior.
Three principles behind every engagement.
Rankings are a means, not the goal
We report on traffic, leads and revenue influence — not just position tracking that looks good in a slide deck.
White-hat, always
No link schemes, no cloaking, no shortcuts that put your domain at risk. Sustainable visibility only.
AI didn't replace SEO — it added three more surfaces
We treat AEO, AIEO and GEO as extensions of solid SEO fundamentals, not a separate discipline built from scratch.