Charles Floate
SEO practitioner and CMO of PressWhizz
Charles Floate is an SEO specialist based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Charles Floate is an SEO practitioner and entrepreneur with more than 17 years of experience across organic search, link building, affiliate SEO and AI search optimisation. He built his reputation through practical ranking experiments and detailed case studies on The God of SEO. He is CMO of PressWhizz, creator of AI Visibility Seeding, and has managed more than $25M in client search and digital marketing spend. He has delivered over 1,000 link campaigns and published hundreds of SEO articles grounded in active testing.
- Based in
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Specialisms
- AI SEO, Link Building
Charles Floate started in search at twelve and has worked through every major shift in organic search since, a span of more than 17 years. He built his standing through The God of SEO, publishing ranking research and case studies drawn from live campaigns rather than hypotheticals. He has written more than 500 blog posts and over 20 eBooks, and his training has reached tens of thousands of freelancers and businesses. He has consulted for Fortune 500 and Inc. 500 companies and directed more than $25M in combined client SEO and digital marketing spend.
His method is to build search infrastructure and test ranking theories against commercial outcomes, discarding what fails. He has delivered more than 1,000 link building and digital PR campaigns and is CMO of PressWhizz, where he helped grow the marketplace beyond 40,000 publishers across more than 90 countries to over $10M ARR inside 18 months, on an editorial turnaround of 18 to 24 hours.
His operating experience runs wider than client services work. He holds a portfolio of more than 30 multilingual websites and carries responsibility for the eCommerce and IT infrastructure of a $70M family business, which is an operator’s remit rather than a consultant’s.
His current research concentrates on AI search. Floate created AI Visibility Seeding, a proprietary methodology for raising brand visibility across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. He proved it on PressWhizz before selling it to anyone, taking the marketplace to number one in ChatGPT for “link building marketplace”, and separately holds the number one ChatGPT position for “best black hat SEO”.
Areas of expertise
Charles Floate specialises in AI SEO and Link Building.