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About Hiral Doshi
I am a digital marketing consultant in Mumbai, India. I help software and e-commerce teams get found in Google, get cited in AI answers, and turn that visibility into qualified leads.
What I do
I work on three layers of being found online: SEO (ranking in Google and Bing), answer engine optimization or AEO (being chosen as the direct answer in snippets and AI Overviews) and generative engine optimization or GEO (being understood and cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity). I also run paid ads on Google, Meta and LinkedIn, and I do the research, content and design work that supports all of it.
My work sits where marketing, design and research meet: find the questions people ask, shape a clear answer, and put it on a fast, accessible page.
Quick facts
- Role: Digital marketing consultant, trading as Digital Hiral
- Based in: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Working remotely with clients worldwide.
- Works with: mostly software tools and e-commerce brands, plus some B2B services and local businesses
- Certifications: Google Ads, Meta Blueprint
- Tools I use every day: Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console
- Current client: ExtCafe, maker of the SEO AI Assistant Chrome extension
- Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati
- Time zone: IST (UTC+5:30)
How I work
- Business results before rankings. We agree the goal first, usually qualified leads or revenue, and I report on that.
- No guarantees I cannot keep. Nobody controls a search ranking or what an AI model says. I remove blockers, make your content the clearest answer and show you the evidence either way.
- No purchased links. Link building means assets people want to cite and mentions that are relevant and real.
- No long contracts. Work is a fixed-scope audit or a month-to-month retainer.
- A small number of clients at a time, so each one gets proper attention.
What I write about
- SEO vs AEO vs GEO: what is different and what to do first
- robots.txt for AI crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot
- How to create an llms.txt file (and what it can do)
- AEO and GEO checklist: 25 checks for AI-ready pages
Get in touch
Email aio@digitalhiral.co.in or use the contact form. I reply within one to two working days.
Last updated 2026-10-07.