About Your Ad Squad

Small by design.
Senior where it matters.

Your Ad Squad is a family-owned Michigan SEO and marketing firm founded in 2014. The company combines strategic judgment, authority-building experience, technical implementation, and quality assurance without pretending one tactic solves every growth problem.

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THE COMPANY

Built for the whole path

SEO was never only about a ranking.

A business still needs an offer worth choosing, a credible authority story, pages that answer the buyer, and a clean path from discovery to action.

Your Ad Squad was built around that broader reality. The work connects organic search and authority building with local visibility, conversion-focused websites, technical implementation, and the emerging recommendation layer created by AI-assisted answers.

Local AI Referrals operates as the focused practice for local-service businesses that want a bounded way to inspect AI referral visibility before deciding whether deeper work is justified.

Named responsibility

The people behind strategy and implementation.

No invented “50-person team” language. The public roles are clear, and specialist contributors can be added when the work requires them.

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Strategy + authority

Matt LaClear

Matt leads strategic interpretation, search and authority thinking, offer clarity, public proof, and the decision about what deserves deeper work.

  • SEO and authority strategy
  • Content and referral positioning
  • AI benchmark interpretation
  • Public media and published background
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Technical implementation + QA

Marc LaClear

Marc supports technical implementation, page structure, proof placement, functional testing, and quality assurance when approved recommendations move into production.

  • Website and technical implementation
  • Page structure and crawlable proof
  • Form, route, and interaction QA
  • Production verification

PUBLIC MILESTONES

A background you can inspect

No need to manufacture credibility when the public record is available.

2014

Your Ad Squad founded

A family-owned Michigan company providing SEO and marketing services for small businesses.

2018

DigitalMarketer Podcast appearance

Matt discussed SEO, testing the offer before scaling traffic, and relationship-based authority building.

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2026

Local AI Referrals specialist practice

A bounded, evidence-first path for local businesses evaluating AI recommendation visibility and related website work.

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Operating principles

What stays true when channels change.

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Clarity before traffic

More visibility does not rescue an offer or page nobody understands.

02

Evidence before scope

Do not prescribe a large engagement when a bounded check can clarify the decision.

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Authority before outreach

Create a credible reason for publishers, partners, customers, and systems to refer to the business.

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Implementation before theater

A polished deck is not a substitute for changes that survive production.

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Verification before victory laps

Check what went live, what works, and what the evidence still cannot prove.