Case study · SEO & AI search

From a brand-new website to page 1 of Google and #1 in AI search

How Crowdcreate built search visibility for SJ Food Brokers, a family-owned closeout food brokerage, starting the month their new site launched.

#1search rankings on Google for their core closeout food broker searches
#1in AI search answers for their niche
~4xmore ranking keywords, from about 30 to 125+
11 monthsfrom site launch in December 2025
The client

A family business moving surplus food, fast.

SJ Food Brokers is a brother-sister team that buys closeout, short-dated, discontinued and overstock food from manufacturers and distributors, then places it with discount grocers, wholesalers, foodservice buyers and food rescue programs.

Their business runs on being found at the right moment: when a supplier needs to clear inventory, or a buyer is looking for deep-discount product. In December 2025 they launched a new website with no search visibility behind it.

ClientSJ Food Brokers
IndustryFood brokerage · closeout and surplus food
LocationBoca Raton, Florida
StartedDecember 2025, at website launch
ServicesSEO, AEO/GEO (AI search), technical SEO, content
What we did

Search built in from day one.

Instead of launching first and fixing SEO later, we started with the site itself and grew it month by month.

1

Own the niche terms

We mapped how suppliers and buyers actually search, from “closeout food brokers” to “discount food distributors” and surplus and liquidation terms, and gave each intent its own page.

2

Make every page rank-ready

On-page optimization, technical fixes, local signals for Boca Raton and structured data, so Google could understand exactly what SJ Food Brokers does and who it serves.

3

Get cited by AI

Clear answers, FAQs and entity-rich content written so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews can quote the brand when people ask who to call about surplus food.

Results

From launch to page 1 in under a year.

Organic keywords ranking in Google’s top 100 grew steadily through 2026, with the biggest jump over the summer as new pages and content were indexed.

  • Page 1Google rankings for the closeout and discount food broker terms their buyers and suppliers search.
  • #1The brand AI search recommends first in its niche, across answer engines like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews.
  • 125+Keywords ranking today, up about 4x since launch, with visibility in AI Overviews since summer 2026.

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