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93 Copilot citations in 28 days. 1,520 in the next 28.

Beaufort Society is a members’ club for high-net-worth and sophisticated investors, introducing them to private companies that are raising capital. We onboarded the account for SEO on 11 June 2026. In the 28 days from 10 August 2026, Bing’s Copilot cited beaufortprivateequity.com 1,520 times, against 93 in the 28 days before. On Google, keywords on page one rose from 17 in November 2025 to 132 in August 2026. Here is every month from 1 November 2025 to 31 August 2026.

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Bing Copilot citations, 28 days

1,520

10 August to 6 September 2026. Citations inside AI answers, not visits.

13 July to 9 August 202693

Client: Beaufort Society
Sector: Private equity club
Work: SEO + content plan
Onboarded: 11 June 2026
Measured: Nov 25 – Sept 26

WHERE IT STARTED

A narrow footprint and no education engine

In November 2025, the first full month in this window, beaufortprivateequity.com reached page one of Google for 17 keywords and earned 1,231 impressions. In the 28 days to 9 August 2026, Bing’s Copilot cited it 93 times. The keyword baseline below uses the first 90 days, 1 November 2025 to 29 January 2026.

The verified starting point

The search baseline

Page one keywords, Nov 2025: 17
Impressions, Nov 2025: 1,231
Keywords ranking, first 90 days: 104
Top 3 keywords, first 90 days: 23
Copilot citations, 13 Jul to 9 Aug 2026: 93

ProblemRoom for a learning hub.The site had no blog yet, and the client wanted one to keep members informed on the markets.
ProblemA content-led category.Other platforms in this space publish investor-education content at scale, so the plan was built around the questions investors and founders search.
ProblemInvestors search questions, not labels.Asked how ideal customers find them, the client listed searches such as how to start investing, investing in private companies and making money work better.
ProblemEvery word reviewed.Content goes through the client’s compliance review before it is published, so the plan had to work inside that rule from the start.

THE RESULT

Google and Bing, six numbers

Google figures come from Search Console for beaufortprivateequity.com, with keyword counts taken from the same data via Ahrefs. Citations come from Bing Webmaster Tools. Nothing modelled, nothing extrapolated.

Bing Copilot citations, 28 days01 / 061,52010 August to 6 September 2026, from 93 in the 28 days before
Keywords on page one02 / 06132August 2026, from 17 in November 2025
Impressions per month03 / 069,393August 2026, from 1,231 in November 2025
Ranking keywords04 / 06630most recent 90 days, from 104 in the first 90
Keywords in the top 305 / 0637from 23 in the first 90 days
Days cited by Copilot06 / 0625of 28 days, from 7 of 28 in the period before

The month it turned

The biggest step coincided with new articles

In July 2026, 40 keywords reached page one of Google. Between 22 and 31 July, articles answering investor questions went live on the site, among them how to invest in private companies in the UK and whether it is worth investing in private companies. In August, the first full month with them live, 132 keywords reached page one and impressions rose from 2,487 to 9,393.

Articles 22–31 Jul

July 2026

August 2026

132

MONTH BY MONTH

The full arc

Two measures, two charts. Keyword counts and impressions sit on very different scales, so putting them on one axis would flatter the story.

Keywords on page oneDistinct queries with an average position of 10 or better in each month. November 2025 to August 2026, ten full months.

132Aug 26

Impressions per monthEvery month here falls after Google’s mid-September 2025 reporting change, so all ten are counted on the same basis.

9,393Aug 26

SEARCH FOOTPRINT

From 104 keywords to 630

The monthly counts show the step. The 90-day view shows the breadth. This compares the first 90 days in the window against the most recent 90, measured in Search Console.

Keywords ranking

6.1× more

104630

On page one
163
In the top 3
37
Impressions per 90 days
13,822
A separate unit from the keyword bars: all Search Console impressions recorded inside each 90-day window.

The three keyword measures share one scale, with 630 as the widest measure. Impressions are shown separately. First 90 days: 1 November 2025 to 29 January 2026, starting with the first full month in Ahrefs’ Search Console sync for the site, which begins on 29 October 2025. Most recent 90: 3 June to 31 August 2026. Page one means an average position of 10 or better, top 3 an average position of 3 or better. Both windows fall after Google’s mid-September 2025 reporting change. Search Console data via Ahrefs.

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See the site behind the numbers

Every result in this case study was measured on beaufortprivateequity.com. This is its homepage on desktop and on a phone.

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Beaufort Private Equity homepage on desktop, with the headline Founder-First Private Equity And Curated Investor Opportunities over an event photo, a gold Contact Us button, a Become An Investor button and gold stat cards starting 37, 1,079+ and 100%

Beaufort Private Equity homepage on a phone, with the headline Where The Expertise Creates Excellence, an outlined investor button and gold stat cards for 37 Countries Represented and 1,079+ High-Net-Worth Members

THE WORK

An evidence-led plan. Then question-led articles.

Taken from our project records, with article dates from the published pages. The records hold the onboarding, the plan and its rules rather than a dated task log, so this is what they support and no more.

01From June 2026
Onboarding and the keyword plan
- Onboarding questionnaire 11 June 2026: more leads, traffic, topical authority and brand awareness, with search engines and AI visibility both in scope
- Market keyword research reviewed to find the explainer topics investors search
- A keyword workbook of about 82 informational keywords mapped to about 69 articles
- Commercial terms reframed as the questions investors ask, such as “how to invest in private companies UK”
- One page per intent, each with a primary keyword and its secondaries, so articles do not compete with each other
104 → 630keywords ranking, first 90 days against the most recent 90
02July 2026
Question-led articles, reviewed first
- Every keyword in the plan flagged clear, caution or high risk for compliance
- Completed pieces go to the client’s compliance contact for review before publishing
- Six question-led articles published between 22 and 31 July 2026
- Topics include how to invest in private companies in the UK, whether it is worth it, how to value a private company and what pre-IPO investing is
40 → 132keywords on page one, July against August 2026, the first full month with the articles live

THE FULL RECORD

Month by month

Ten full months of Search Console data, November 2025 to August 2026.

Month	Keywords on page one	Ranking keywords	Impressions
Nov 25	17	35	1,231
Dec 25	11	30	1,138
Jan 26	42	81	4,066
Feb 26	50	76	2,377
Mar 26	47	83	2,436
Apr 26	35	78	2,587
May 26	22	78	1,861
Jun 26 Onboarded 11 June	33	82	2,062
Jul 26 Articles 22–31 Jul	40	150	2,487
Aug 26	132	529	9,393

Window: 1 November 2025 to 31 August 2026. Impressions come from the Search Console export for beaufortprivateequity.com. Keyword counts are distinct queries per month in the same data via Ahrefs, whose sync for the site begins on 29 October 2025, which is why the window starts in November. Page one means an average position of 10 or better within the month. Every month is after Google’s mid-September 2025 reporting change.

What it added up to

From 17 page-one keywords to 132, and 1,520 Copilot citations in 28 days

01 / 04Cited in AI answersBing’s Copilot cited the site 1,520 times between 10 August and 6 September 2026, against 93 in the 28 days before. It cited the site on 25 of those 28 days, against 7.
02 / 04Page one, widened132 keywords reached page one in August 2026, against 17 in November 2025. Impressions rose from 1,231 to 9,393 a month over the same span.
03 / 04The step coincided with the articlesThe largest monthly step, 40 to 132 page-one keywords, came in August 2026, the first full month after question-led articles went live in late July. The timing is the signal here, not a claim of causation.
04 / 04Measured the whole wayEvery Google figure here comes from Search Console, and every month in the window is in the table. Bing figures are labelled as Bing. No modelling, no projections.

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Where the numbers come from

Figures: Google Search Console for beaufortprivateequity.com, 1 November 2025 to 31 August 2026, with keyword counts via Ahrefs, Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance data from 13 July to 6 September 2026, article dates from the published pages, and Webtec project records.

Bing Copilot citations, 28 days: 1,520
Keywords on page one: 132
Impressions per month: 9,393
Ranking keywords: 630

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