Peter Jaffray, MBA, CD

Managing Director, Choice OMG

Peter Jaffray, Managing Director, Choice OMG
Managing Director, Choice OMG

Peter Jaffray is Managing Director at Choice OMG, an Edmonton digital marketing agency founded in 2010. He built and maintains the monitoring infrastructure that tracks 60,000+ data points every day across SEO rankings, Google Ads budgets, conversion tracking pipelines, and site health for 33 active clients.

His focus is the operational layer most agencies don't have: 21 client sites health-checked every morning across 8 failure categories, ad budgets verified every 30 minutes, daily keyword tracking at scale, and continuous validation of GA4 + Google Ads conversion pipelines. He also builds the 17 internal AI tools the team uses across reporting, ad management, and SEO research.

He writes about the systems behind running paid media and search at scale: what breaks at 2 AM, why flat-fee pricing aligns incentives better than percentage-of-spend, and how AI is changing what marketing specialists spend their time on. The posts are drawn from real account data and real failures, not theoretical frameworks.

Articles by Peter Jaffray

25 posts on SEO, paid media, AI marketing, and the operational infrastructure behind running 33 client accounts.

AI

Citation Share Is Not Market Share

Citation Share will be the most misread number in marketing this year, and Microsoft says so in its own documentation. Added to Bing's AI Performance report on June 16, 2026, it shows the percentage of citations that point to your site out of every citation shown for the same grounding query. Microsoft states plainly that it is observational: not a ranking system, not a competitive scoreboard, not traffic share, and not a quality score. Here is exactly what it counts, the four things it does not mean, and how to watch it move without overreacting.

July 29, 2026
AI

Ask Your Developer These 3 AI-Crawler Questions

A page can be crawled by AI bots, indexed by search engines, and still never appear in an AI answer, because crawled, indexed, and cited are three separate states. The most common reason a business is missing from ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers is not weak content; it is a robots.txt line, a CDN toggle, a stray noindex, or JavaScript-only text quietly blocking the AI search crawlers. You do not need to read the config to catch it. Three questions to whoever built your site surface the problem fast.

July 25, 2026
Privacy

One Click, a Thousand Copies: How Advertising Technology Actually Tracks You

A single ad click sets off pixels, real-time bidding auctions, hashed-email matching and server-side pipelines that survive clearing your cookies entirely. Regulators in the EU, UK, Canada and US have each ruled against parts of this system: Belgian courts found the ad-auction consent string itself is personal data, and the FTC fined BetterHelp $7.8 million and GoodRx $1.5 million for leaking health data to advertisers. This post walks through the machinery in plain language, one stage at a time.

July 21, 2026
AI

Stop Writing Marketing Copy. Start Writing Evidence.

Marketing copy is written to persuade a person. Evidence is written so a machine can lift one paragraph and stand behind it. AI answer engines do not choose pages, they choose passages, so every paragraph you want cited has to pass five tests: completeness, freshness, authority, attribution, and entity clarity. Here are the five questions to ask of every important paragraph before you publish.

July 21, 2026
AI

The Local Business Checklist for Showing Up in AI Answers

Local businesses have a second grounding layer that page copy alone never reaches: the entity facts an AI system reconciles from your listings, your site's structured data, and third-party directories before it decides whose facts to trust in a location answer. Microsoft says a Bing Places listing keeps your key details eligible for inclusion in AI-generated responses. Conflicting or missing facts across your profiles give an AI system a reason to skip you. This is the checklist that makes your business's facts consistent, complete, and machine-readable.

July 17, 2026
AI

Your About Us Page Is Costing You Customers

Your About Us page is the one page an AI system reads to learn who your business is, and most of them state nothing it can quote. AI answers are assembled from specific passages, not ranked pages, so a page full of mood copy gives an answer engine nothing to lift. We take four vague, real-shaped About paragraphs and rewrite each into one an AI can cite: a dentist, a contractor, an optometrist, and a law firm.

July 13, 2026
AI

How to Check in 10 Minutes Whether AI Cites Your Business

You can find out whether AI systems cite your business in ten minutes, for free, with no paid tool. Two outcomes most owners treat as one come apart under the test: being named in the words of an answer, and being cited as a clickable source. The audit is three moves: put your customer's real question to ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overview; open two free first-party dashboards to see what those systems already did with your pages; and record the grid the same way every month. Zero data is itself an answer.

July 9, 2026
AI

You Can Rank #4 on Google and Be Invisible to ChatGPT

Microsoft now grades websites on two separate scorecards: how well they rank in search, and how often AI systems cite them as evidence in an answer. We track the same buyer questions across Google, Google's AI answers, and ChatGPT, and the winners are different on each surface. One question we rank #4 on gets us no citation in any AI answer. This post lays out the split, the proof, and a ten-minute check for your own business.

July 6, 2026
Healthcare

The Meta Pixel Is a Liability on Canadian Healthcare Websites

US health systems have paid more than $30 million to settle claims that the Meta Pixel sent patient data to Facebook. The same pixel runs on Canadian practice websites today, and Canada's privacy commissioner has already found that sharing customer data with Meta without consent violates federal privacy law. What happened, why Alberta practices carry specific duties, how to check your site in five minutes, and what to run instead.

July 3, 2026
Business Model

What Healthcare Practices Should Demand From a Marketing Agency in 2026

Dental and eye-care practices should judge an agency on patients booked, not traffic delivered. Five standards to demand before you sign, plus what changes for dental groups, DSOs, and optometry subspecialties.

June 22, 2026
AI

When Your Customers Ask AI Who to Call, Is It You?

AI assistants now answer your customer's question and name one business to call. Across 28 client sites we improved rankings and earned 19% more impressions while clicks stayed flat, and AI bots read those sites 85,000+ times last month while sending 346 visits back. This post covers what AI checks before it recommends a business, and how to see what it says about yours.

June 19, 2026
AI

What Agencies Should Measure Now That Google Stopped Sending Clicks

The definitive 2026 answer to 'what should I measure?' The click no longer anchors marketing value. This is the full metric stack we run, from AI visibility to revenue, each grounded in a primary source.

June 1, 2026
AI

AI Overviews Are Eating Healthcare Search Traffic

Clicks to one healthcare site fell 70% in 28 days while impressions rose and rankings improved. AI Overviews now answer patient questions on the results page. This post covers the mechanism, the data from three sites, and a 90-day citation playbook for dentists and optometrists.

May 30, 2026
Dental

The 2026 Implant Practice Operational Stack

Part 1 argued the operational model is the asset and the equity transfer is the packaging. Part 2 commits to the answer: the 2026 stack for an independent implant practice ships in 30 days from contract, is owned by the practice, runs around $5,000/month software, and replaces roughly $10K-$15K of monthly payroll in headcount.

May 24, 2026
Dental

What PE Installs at a Dental Implant Practice

Dr. Clark Damon's Texas implant practice joined Frontline DIS in late 2023. From the marketing analytics seat I watched the same operational stack PE-backed DSOs install go in around me. This post maps what they put in and where the value gets captured.

May 23, 2026
CMS

The Platform Debate Is a Distraction: 7 Myths About Choosing a Website CMS in 2026

Picking the 'right' CMS won't save a small business in 2026. We run 79 WordPress sites, 47 client reporting workspaces, custom Go applications, and hosted-builder sites in parallel. Seven myths about platform choice, and what the 2026 data actually shows.

May 19, 2026
AI

Google Ads Split Into Three Businesses. Your Plan Should Too.

In Q1 2026 Google's three ad lines went in three directions: Search +19%, YouTube +11%, Google Network -4%. EMARKETER projects Meta will overtake Google on total ad revenue this year. Treating 'Google Ads' as one channel with one strategy is now a planning error.

May 10, 2026
AI

ChatGPT Ads in 2026: CPC Bids, Targeting, OAIQ Pixel

A planner's field guide to ChatGPT Ads in May 2026: auction mechanics, targeting controls, the OAIQ pixel and Conversions API, robots.txt rules for OAI-AdsBot, eligibility, and where the channel actually fits in a media plan.

May 6, 2026
AI

ChatGPT Ads Are Live: The AI Answer Is the New Ad Unit

ChatGPT ads launched February 9, 2026 with sponsored placements below answers on Free and Go tiers. The targeting signal isn't a keyword; it's the entire reasoning context, and most agencies aren't built to use it.

April 28, 2026
Business Model

7 Red Flags When Hiring an Edmonton Digital Marketing Agency (And What Actually Matters Instead)

Seven patterns that reliably predict a bad Edmonton marketing agency engagement (broken tracking, unwatched ad spend, locked-in contracts, and vanity reports) all trace back to the same root cause: monitoring vs. reporting.

April 23, 2026
AI

The Google Ads Job Changed in 2026: What We Rebuilt Across 24 Accounts

Between 2025 and 2026 Google stopped shipping a toolkit and started shipping an operating system. The quiet commercial changes will hit Western Canadian SMBs before any AI-Overview headline does.

April 20, 2026
AI

We Track Your Business Across 10 AI Platforms: What We've Found

We monitor whether clients appear in responses from Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and five other AI platforms. The numbers are small but the baseline data matters.

April 1, 2026
Google Ads

Seasonal Marketing for Trades: Managing the Construction Calendar

Seasonal businesses waste money running the same campaigns year-round. We manage the full marketing calendar for trades clients, and one construction company saw 316% organic traffic growth.

April 1, 2026
Automation

What Breaks at 2 AM: Why Marketing Needs Automated Infrastructure

Marketing infrastructure breaks silently. Automated monitoring catches site errors, tracking breaks, budget overruns, and broken images in hours instead of weeks.

January 21, 2026
Data

How We Monitor 60,000 Data Points a Day

Choice OMG monitors 60,000+ data points daily through four independent pipelines feeding a centralized PostgreSQL database, creating an auditable chain from raw API response to client report.

January 7, 2026

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