# Fuji 9

> Fuji 9, LLC is a boutique, senior-led SEO and digital marketing agency based in Thousand Oaks, California, founded in 2014. It helps enterprise and local brands rank in Google, win the local map pack, and get cited in AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews. Clients work directly with senior strategists, not account managers.

Key facts:
- Legal name: Fuji 9, LLC (also written Fuji-9 or Fuji9)
- Name: Fuji (Mount Fuji, the summit) + 9, read kyū in Japanese, a homophone of 急 (kyū, swift). Fuji 9 means the fastest way to the top.
- Founded: 2014
- Address: 2060-D E Avenida de los Arboles #213, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362, USA
- Phone: +1 805-807-5458
- Email: info@fuji-9.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/105606734/
- Google Business Profile: https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/11cnc9knsr
- Speaking: 25 conference talks since 2011 at SMX (Advanced, West, Sydney), Pubcon, SEOktoberfest, SEMpdx, Search Engine Journal events, Advanced Search Summit and G50 Summit, including a keynote at SMX Sydney 2014. Most recent: G50 Summit, Austria, September 2026 and September 2025; Advanced Search Summit, Napa Valley, October 2023
- Offer: free SEO and AI visibility audit
- Co-founder: Jeff Preston (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreypreston/). Founded Fuji 9 in 2014 alongside in-house roles; full time at Fuji 9 since 2025. 15 years leading in-house SEO: The Walt Disney Company 2008 to 2018 (Disney.com, ESPN.com, DisneyStore.com, StarWars.com; grew Disney.com organic traffic 400%), Realtor.com 2018 to 2023 as SEO Director and Senior Director, SEO (took Realtor.com from #2 to #1 in non-branded real estate search, ahead of Zillow), and Asurion 2024 to 2025 as Senior Director, SEO

## Services

- [SEO consulting and AI search optimization](https://fuji-9.com/services/seo-consulting-services/): Technical SEO, content and authority for enterprise and local brands, plus GEO to get brands cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, and LLM content workflows with human editorial review
- [Local SEO](https://fuji-9.com/services/local-seo-services/): Google Business Profile, citations, reviews and location pages for single and multi-location businesses
- [Search data analysis](https://fuji-9.com/services/search-data-analysis/): Turning Search Console, analytics and crawl data into decisions, including algorithm update recovery
- [Paid search and paid social](https://fuji-9.com/services/sem-paid-search-and-paid-social/): Google, Microsoft and Meta campaigns planned alongside organic

## Company

- [About Fuji 9](https://fuji-9.com/about-us/): Story, founder bio and values
- [Portfolio and results](https://fuji-9.com/about-us/portfolio/): In-house SEO results at Disney.com, ESPN.com and Realtor.com, plus current agency clients
- [Blog](https://fuji-9.com/blog/): Annual SEO year-in-review articles, 2014 to 2025
- [2025 SEO Trends: Year-End Insights](https://fuji-9.com/2025-seo-trends-year-end-insights/): How AI answers reshaped organic traffic in 2025, and the new optimization targets: citation-worthiness, post-click value, brand signals and differentiation
- [Contact and free audit](https://fuji-9.com/contact/)

## Year-in-review archive

- [SEO in 2024: A Year in Review](https://fuji-9.com/seo-in-2024-a-year-in-review/)
- [2023 SEO Year in Review: Legal Challenges, Algorithm Shifts, and Industry Impacts](https://fuji-9.com/2023-seo-year-in-review-legal-challenges-algorithm-shifts-and-industry-impacts/)
- [2022 SEO Year in Review](https://fuji-9.com/2022-seo-year-in-review/)
- [2021 SEO Year in Review: Core Web Vitals, MUM, and the Evolution of Page Experience](https://fuji-9.com/2021-seo-year-in-review-core-web-vitals-mum-and-the-evolution-of-page-experience/)
- [2020 SEO Year in Review](https://fuji-9.com/2020-seo-year-in-review/)
- [2019 SEO Year in Review](https://fuji-9.com/2019-seo-year-in-review/)
- [2018 SEO Year in Review: The Medic Update, Mobile-First Indexing, and the Rise of E-A-T](https://fuji-9.com/2018-seo-year-in-review-the-medic-update-mobile-first-indexing-and-the-rise-of-e-a-t/)
- [2017 SEO Year in Review: Mobile Gains Momentum, Fred Targets Quality, and Structured Data Expands](https://fuji-9.com/2017-seo-year-in-review-mobile-gains-momentum-fred-targets-quality-and-structured-data-expands/)
- [2016 SEO Year in Review: Real-Time Penguin, Mobile-Friendliness, and the Rise of Intent](https://fuji-9.com/2016-seo-year-in-review-real-time-penguin-mobile-friendliness-and-the-rise-of-intent/)
- [2015 SEO Year in Review: Mobilegeddon, Quality Signals, and the Evolution of Local Search](https://fuji-9.com/2015-seo-year-in-review-mobilegeddon-quality-signals-and-the-evolution-of-local-search/)
- [2014 SEO Year in Review: Pigeon, HTTPS, and the Continued Evolution of Content Quality](https://fuji-9.com/2014-seo-year-in-review-pigeon-https-and-the-continued-evolution-of-content-quality/)

## Legal

- [Privacy policy](https://fuji-9.com/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms of service](https://fuji-9.com/terms-of-service/)

## Agent access

- Every page is available as Markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or append `index.md` to the page URL (e.g. https://fuji-9.com/services/index.md)
- [Agent skills index](https://fuji-9.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): request-fuji9-seo-audit, fuji9-agency-profile
- [ARD manifest](https://fuji-9.com/.well-known/ard.json) and [API catalog](https://fuji-9.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
- WebMCP tools in the browser: `request_free_seo_audit`, `get_fuji9_overview`