Food & Beverage

Food and beverage, judged on taste and on the delivery date.

Food is bought on taste, on what is in it, and on how fast it arrives. We work on product discovery and turn one-off orders into subscriptions or reorders.

What they ask

  1. AI assistant What beans do Italians use for espresso?
  2. Google What is the 15-15-15 rule for coffee?
  3. Paid result What is the best coffee for an espresso?
  4. Your collection Which decaf coffees do not use methylene chloride?
  5. Your product Is it okay to drink decaf coffee every day?
  6. Addition works the whole search journey for you, all the way to the order. Where would you like us to start? Runs under all of it:Conversion rate optimization

Addition is a marketing agency for ecommerce and B2B brands

We turn your searches into paying customers.

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Search is not one place anymore.

  • Google
  • AI Mode
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Claude
  • Google Ads
  • YouTube

Hard problems we solve in search for Food & Beverage.

Do you say even one of these?

  • We cannot rank for the keywords that bring revenue.
  • Our site reads like it was written for Google, not for the people buying.
  • People research inside ChatGPT now, and we are not in that conversation.
  • AI cites us as a source but never recommends us.
  • I do not know which questions decide a purchase in our category.
  • We bid on keywords without knowing what the search is really asking for.
  • Performance Max spends the budget and I cannot see where it went.
  • The right people arrive and still leave at the checkout.
  • Traffic is up. Orders are not.

A roadmap no prompt can write.

Ideation, strategy and the roadmap all happen in these six steps. This is the part no AI can replicate, and it is where the value of our work comes from.

  1. Step 01

    Onboarding

    We review the main channels and pages in the food and beverage buying journey, then agree on the primary conversion metric.

  2. Step 02

    The audit

    We find where the journey leaves questions about taste or dietary fit unanswered, and where it hides the delivery time.

  3. Step 03

    Brand DNA

    Product copy describes the taste and backs the label with ingredient and nutrition data.

  4. Step 04

    Market & Competitors

    We read who ranks for the taste and dietary searches, who bids on them, and who an AI assistant names for the same occasion.

  5. Step 05

    Roadmap & Strategy

    Everything we found becomes one task list, and we agree together which jobs come first, so the work that earns from search soonest is the work that starts.

  6. Step 06

    Execution

    We move in weekly cycles and take the list in the order we agreed, so every week of work points at the one number.

Where do you need support?

Three promises. Hold us to them.

  1. We put your products in the searches about taste, occasion and what is in it, where they are chosen.
  2. We make the delivery date and the freshness promise readable before the cart, because that is the objection.
  3. We turn the first order into the reorder, with the timing built on when people run out.

Two ways to start.

Pick the one that sounds like you.

Option one

I need help with one channel.

Pick it below. You will see exactly what that work covers before anyone talks about price.

Rank where buying happens, and get named by AI

  • Searches that end in a sale
  • One job per page
  • Prompts that decide the purchase

Option two

I need support across the whole search journey.

Several channels at once, plus the site itself. One scope, one number, one team running it.

  • Every search channel that matters in your category
  • The site itself, tested for conversion
  • One roadmap across all of it, ranked by return
  • One weekly session, one place the reporting lives

Questions Food & Beverage brands ask before they start

Can a beginner do SEO for a food brand?

The basics, yes. What a food brand needs is harder than basics: the searches are "best coffee beans for espresso" and "how to store coffee beans", and the pages that win them are written by people who know the product. We find which questions your range can answer and write them with you.

Is $500 a month enough for Google Ads for a food and beverage brand?

For a subscription product with one clear search, sometimes. For a range sold by the bag it is under the floor the bidding needs, and a campaign that never leaves learning wastes the whole $500. We say before launch, and when the budget is under it we start on Maximize Clicks with a cap.

Can ChatGPT do SEO for a food brand?

It can draft a page, but it cannot tell you which searches your product is losing or whether your subscription page is unreadable to a crawler. ChatGPT answers questions such as "which coffee for a moka pot", and whether it names you depends on whether your product pages state roast, origin and grind in text. That is the work we do.

How does search work for a product people run out of?

After search brings in an order, reorder reminders bring the customer back. We plan both: the product pages for the first search, and the subscription and reorder pages so that the repeat purchase does not go back through a competitor’s ad.