Services & Methodology

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• What is Five Blocks’ process for competitive analysis?

  Five Blocks benchmarks named peers using IMPACT for keyword-level search diagnostics and AIQ for AI narrative comparison, covering themes, sources, sentiment, and gaps, often revealing interventions the competition has already validated.

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• Why doesn’t Five Blocks advertise publicly?

  Five Blocks does not advertise publicly because the work is confidential and the right clients arrive through partner referrals, repeat engagements, and targeted thought leadership. This has meant slower awareness growth but consistently higher-quality client relationships, a trade-off the firm has made deliberately.

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• Why have I never heard of Five Blocks before?

  Five Blocks has built its business through word-of-mouth and confidential client relationships rather than broad advertising. Awareness comes through partner referrals, repeat engagements, and select thought leadership, and the firm deliberately prioritises fewer, larger engagements over high-volume smaller ones.

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• How does Five Blocks build owned digital properties?

  Owned property work is Five Blocks' long-term reputation infrastructure. Corporate sites are restructured for entity legibility, executive profile pages are built to win AI citations, microsites address specific campaigns, and thought leadership content is structured for machine extraction. Each layer is tied to IMPACT™ measurement so progress is visible.

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• How does Five Blocks approach link building as part of reputation management?

  Five Blocks treats link building as authority work, not volume work: the goal is earned placements in outlets that search and AI engines weight by credibility, trade press, mainstream business and financial media, and research publications, with each placement strengthening the entity layer when it connects to authoritative entity infrastructure. Bulk campaigns, link exchanges, and low-quality directory submissions are not part of the methodology.

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