SEO and AI search agency for Africa

The SEO & AI Search Partner for Africa's Growing Brands

We get your brand ranking on Google and recommended by AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity, then turn that visibility into leads and sales.

Stanley UdegbunamLed by Stanley Udegbunam, who has spent 10+ years leading SEO for companies in the US, UK, Ireland and Australia.

GoogleChatGPTPerplexityAI OverviewsGeminiClaude

Track record

Growth measured in revenue, not rankings

The numbers behind the team you hire: years of leading SEO inside software companies that had to answer for every dollar search brought in.

$11.2M+

ARR attributed to organic search

10+

Years leading SEO

20+

SaaS, fintech and technology clients

4

Continents of in-house SEO leadership

Revenue and growth figures include in-house roles our founder held before starting RexIgnite.

What we do

How we make African brands discoverable

Traditional SEO and AI search, run as one plan, so you are the recommended choice wherever your buyers look.

01

Search engine optimisation

Technical fixes, content strategy and links that move your pages up Google for the searches your buyers make.

  • Technical audits
  • Keyword strategy
  • Landing pages
  • Schema
  • Link building
02

AI search optimisation

Get named when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews who to choose in your category.

  • AI visibility audits
  • Entity optimisation
  • Citation building
  • Answer-ready content
03

Content marketing

Content that earns traffic, builds authority and turns readers into enquiries, planned around what your buyers search.

  • Topic clusters
  • Comparison pages
  • Case studies
  • Editorial guidelines
04

Local and multi-market SEO

Win your city first, then expand. Each market gets its own plan, from Lagos and Abuja to Accra, Nairobi and Francophone West Africa.

  • Google Business Profile
  • Local pages
  • Citations
  • Multi-market rollout
05

Digital PR and authority

Stories and data journalists want to cover, so your brand earns mentions and links from trusted publications.

  • Media outreach
  • Original research
  • Founder profiling
  • Brand mentions
06

SEO consulting and training

Already have a team? We audit your search presence, hand over a ranked roadmap and train your people to run it.

  • Search audits
  • Roadmaps
  • Team training
  • Hiring support

Projects start from $2,500

Every project starts with a fixed scope and a fixed quote, so you know the cost before anything begins.

Talk to us about your goals

Production and distribution

Scale your content team without hiring one

We learn your product, your market and how you sell, then plan, write, edit and publish content that ranks and converts. Your team stays in control of the voice.

  • Briefs built on search data: every article starts with the questions your buyers ask on Google and in AI tools.
  • Writers who know your sector: SaaS, fintech and technology specialists, edited to one standard.
  • Publishing and distribution: formatted, optimised and pushed out, with refreshes when rankings slip.
60+Writers managed
7Time zones
28Language sites
Nichole Mckinney
“They don't just understand SEO, they understand our business model and optimize for actual conversions.”
Nichole MckinneyManaging Director, Vantage Capital Partners

Global wins

The results behind the RexIgnite playbook

Our founder led SEO in-house at these software companies before starting RexIgnite. The same playbook now runs for our clients.

Resume ExamplesResume builder SaaS · Dublin, Ireland · Global SEO Manager

$80K → $1.3M ARR

in 18 months, driven by organic search

  • Built and ran a content operation of 60+ writers across 7 time zones.
  • Scaled SEO across 28 language sites without losing quality control.
  • Tied every content and technical decision to signups and revenue.
Read the full case study →
16xARR growth in 18 months
60+Writers managed
28Language sites
7Time zones
Beaver BuilderWordPress page builder · USA

634K → 1M+

users in 13 months

  • SEO-led growth strategy for one of the best-known WordPress page builders.
  • Content and technical work focused on the searches that bring in new users.
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GrowboMarketing agency · Florida, USA · SEO Manager

$1.2M ARR

with 37.2% year-over-year growth

  • Full-funnel SEO optimisation, from first search to signed client.
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Activated InsightsSenior care SaaS · Idaho, USA · Fractional SEO Director

3.6x

monthly organic traffic in 18 months

  • Cleaned up a merger of four software brands onto one domain.
  • Organic traffic value grew 9x, from $8.9K to $81K a month.
  • 2,478 keywords on page one, 449 of them at #1.
Read the case study →
Grays RescueBuilding management · Australia · Technical SEO Manager

+52.94%

dwell time

  • Technical SEO fixes across the site.
  • A/B testing on key pages to lift conversions.
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Client results

What RexIgnite clients say

140%
“RexIgnite understands African markets in a way international agencies simply can't. They drove 140% organic growth in 8 months and became an extension of our team.”
Jennifer MwangiJennifer MwangiCMO, Afrobyte Solutions
12K → 87K
“RexIgnite transformed our organic acquisition. We went from 12K to 87K monthly visitors in 8 months. They don't just understand SEO, they understand our business model and optimize for actual conversions.”
Nichole MckinneyNichole MckinneyManaging Director, Vantage Capital Partners
17% QoQ
“We needed an agency that could handle enterprise-scale SEO across multiple product lines. RexIgnite delivered systematic growth, 17% quarter-over-quarter for 3 consecutive quarters.”
Samuel KimaniSamuel KimaniCo-Founder and CEO, Cloudstack Africa

Global clients

Feedback from teams our founder has worked with

Quality stakes, high rewards

More from the people we've worked with

How we work

From audit to growth in four steps

No long retainers before you see a plan. Every engagement starts with an audit and a roadmap you can act on.

Audit

We review your Google and AI search presence against your top competitors and find where you are losing customers.

Weeks 1 to 2

Plan

You get a roadmap with every fix ranked by revenue impact and effort, so the work that matters ships first.

Week 3

Build

We fix the technical issues, publish the content and earn the mentions the plan calls for.

Months 1 to 3

Grow

Monthly reporting on leads, sales and AI mentions, not just rankings. We keep doubling down on what works.

Ongoing

Why RexIgnite

Built around the numbers your business runs on

Focused on your leads and revenue

We track rankings and traffic, but we report on what actually pays: qualified leads, sales and recurring revenue.

A zero-waste approach

Fast, focused execution. We cut the busywork, ship the fixes that matter first and tailor every plan to how your business sells.

Founder-led on every accountYour strategy is set and reviewed by someone who has led SEO at global scale, not handed to a junior team.
Built for African marketsWe know how buyers in Lagos, Accra and Nairobi search, what they trust and which AI answers they see.

Industries we serve

Built for Africa's fastest-moving sectors

We work best with companies that sell online or win customers through research, where showing up first changes the numbers.

Software and SaaS

B2B and consumer software companies growing signups, demos and recurring revenue.

Financial services

Fintechs, banks and investment platforms where trust decides every signup.

Technology

Logistics, healthtech, edtech and other tech-enabled businesses scaling across markets.

Enterprise

Telecoms, aviation, real estate and corporate brands with large, complex sites.

  • ● Nigeria
  • ● Ghana
  • ● Kenya
  • ● Francophone West Africa
  • ● Global brands entering Africa
Stanley Udegbunam, founder of RexIgnite

Stanley UdegbunamFounder and Head of SEO & AI Search, RexIgnite

Behind the scenes of RexIgnite

Our results start with who leads the work

Every RexIgnite engagement is led personally by our founder, Stanley Udegbunam.

  • 10+ years leading SEO in-house for companies in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and Nigeria, owning the strategy, the team and the revenue number.
  • Proven at scale: Beaver Builder from 634,000 to 1M+ users, Resume Examples from $80K to $1.3M ARR and Growbo to $1.2M ARR.
  • Built teams that ship: 60+ writers managed across 7 time zones and SEO for 28 language sites.
  • Pioneer in Nigeria: has trained SEO executives and founders across Nigeria and Africa since 2018.

“The brands that win Africa's most competitive markets don't need another agency. They need people who have already done it at scale and will make them impossible to ignore.”

FAQ

Questions brands ask before working with us

What does RexIgnite do?

RexIgnite is an SEO and AI search agency for African brands. We help businesses rank on Google, get recommended by AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity and turn that visibility into leads and sales.

Which markets do you cover?

We start with Nigeria, where we are based. We also work across Ghana, Kenya and Francophone West Africa, plus international brands entering African markets. Every market gets its own plan.

What is AI search optimisation?

It is the work of getting your brand named and cited when buyers ask AI assistants for recommendations. It covers the sources those assistants trust, how your brand is described across the web and content written so AI tools can quote it.

How long does SEO take to show results?

Technical fixes can show within weeks. Content and authority work usually takes three to six months to build momentum. We report on leads and sales from the first month so you can see what is working.

Who leads the work?

Every engagement is led by our founder, Stanley Udegbunam, who has led SEO for 10+ years inside companies in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and Nigeria.

How do we get started?

Book a strategy call. We review where you stand on Google and in AI answers, then recommend the right starting point, usually a search audit with a fixed scope and price.

Let's create magic together

Find out where search is costing you customers

Book a free strategy call. We'll show you how you appear on Google and in AI answers today and what to fix first.

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