Maximum results in minimum time.
Maxinium is a founder-led SEO company in Sri Lanka, based in Colombo, that gets businesses found on Google and inside the assistants people now ask first: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and AI Overviews. We work with Sri Lankan businesses, with Sri Lankan companies selling abroad, and worldwide with software companies through a specialist SaaS SEO service. Led by Alston Antony, with 15+ years in search and the raw exports behind every number on this site published.
Send your site and the competitors outranking you. We will tell you honestly whether we can really help you with SEO, and say so plainly if we cannot.
The Maxinium SEO System
Sheet 01 of 05 · Maximum results in minimum time
DISCOVER
Market, Local SERP & Competitor Intelligence
STRATEGIZE
Keyword Mapping & Topical Authority Model
BUILD
Technical SEO, Content Engine & Money Pages
OPTIMIZE
Authority, Internal Links & CRO Signals
MEASURE
Rankings, Leads & AI Search Visibility
Outcome
Qualified Organic Demand · More Enquiries & Calls · Compounding Revenue
Founded by Alston Antony · SaaS SEO & AI Search expert
Colombo-based, and Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Brainstorm Force, whose software powers 7M+ websites. We run the same playbook we sell across 16 owned properties, 4 of them built for the Sri Lankan market, and publish the exports to prove it.
302K+
AI citations earned
6
Documented case studies
Sites we’ve built
& ranked
MatchMaker.lk 
MakeMoneyOnline.lk 
WebHostingSriLanka 
DigitalMarketingCourse.lk 
SEOTamil.com 
DigitalMarketingTamil 
DigitalMarketingMind 
SaaSPirate 
ZPlatform.ai 
EveryAny.one 
AIToolsMarketer 
SaaSAffiliate 
CoimbatoreJunction 
ChennaiCentral 
VelankanniShrine 
AlstonAntony.com MatchMaker.lk MakeMoneyOnline.lk WebHostingSriLanka DigitalMarketingCourse.lk SEOTamil.com DigitalMarketingTamil DigitalMarketingMind SaaSPirate ZPlatform.ai EveryAny.one AIToolsMarketer SaaSAffiliate CoimbatoreJunction ChennaiCentral VelankanniShrine AlstonAntony.com 302,037
Times Bing Copilot cited an owned property in an AI answer
Bing AI Performance · 6-month windows
147,783
Appearances inside Google AI features across the same properties
Search Console · since May 2026
803
Queries averaging a top-3 position across six owned properties
Search Console exports · Aug 2026
4
Properties we own, rank and publish the exports for
Two documented in full as case studies
Every one of these is recomputed from raw platform exports, and the working is published. See the case studies
Maxinium sells search and nothing else: no websites, no social media management, no ad retainers. What that buys you is sequencing. The technical work that unblocks indexing comes before the pages, the pages come before the authority work, and every one of them is reported against enquiries rather than against a rankings screenshot. Most engagements use three or four of these nine; which ones is what the first conversation is for.
How engagements start
Every engagement begins with a conversation, not a proposal. Send your site and the competitors outranking you, and you will get an honest read on whether we can really help, including when the answer is that SEO is the wrong spend for you.
24h
Honest answer
1:1
Founder access
A full technical audit of your site (crawling, indexing, speed, mobile and structure) then the fixes, shipped in the order that moves rankings fastest.
We map what Sri Lankan buyers actually type (in English, Sinhala and Tamil) then rebuild your pages around those queries instead of around your org chart.
Local SEO in Sri Lanka for businesses that need to show up in the map pack when someone in Colombo searches on their phone.
Editorial links, local PR and content that earns citations, because in a market this size authority is what separates page one from page two.
Ecommerce SEO for Sri Lankan online stores: category pages that rank, product pages that convert, and a technical layer that does not fight the platform.
Getting recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, the shortlist your customer now sees before they see any website.
Ranking video in YouTube and in Google’s video results. Built on 617 published videos and 643K+ views, not on a course someone watched.
For Sri Lankan companies selling abroad: apparel exporters, BPOs, software firms and tourism operators competing for buyers in the UK, US, EU and Australia.
A monthly readout you can actually act on: which queries moved, which pages earned the clicks, and what changes next month.
A dental clinic in Nugegoda, a fashion store shipping island-wide and an apparel exporter selling to Europe are three completely different search problems. The process adapts. The sequencing does not.
Clinics, law firms, dentists, contractors, schools and repair services. You do not need national rankings, you need to be the first result when someone within 10km reaches for their phone, and the business an assistant names when they ask it instead.
Online stores selling into Sri Lanka, and Sri Lankan brands shipping abroad. Ecommerce SEO where category pages carry the revenue and the platform fights you at every turn.
Apparel exporters, BPOs, tourism operators and software companies based here but selling to the UK, US, EU or Australia. Sri Lankan cost base, international-standard search competition. Software companies specifically are served through the SaaS SEO service.
Before any proposal we check whether the search demand exists in Sri Lanka, whether your site converts the visitors it already gets, and whether the timeline is realistic against the competitors you named. If the answer is no, we say so on the first call and point you somewhere more useful, sometimes paid ads rather than SEO.
What we look for
Almost every agency here sells the same list of services, so the list is not what separates them. Ranking guarantees, contracts that bill for “SEO work” without naming a deliverable, and reports built from a tool nobody has audited are common enough that a careful buyer should assume them until shown otherwise. Five questions sort agencies faster than any pitch deck. Ask them of us as readily as of anyone else.
Every engagement runs the same SEO strategy: a repeatable system that removes guesswork, makes progress measurable, and compounds month after month. It is the same process we run on our own 16 properties, where we carry the downside ourselves when something does not work.
01
We crawl the site, pull your Search Console history and find what is actually holding the rankings back.
SEO audit02
Keyword and SERP mapping against the competitors who are beating you today, not a generic volume list.
Keyword research03
Technical repairs and on-page rebuilds shipped in priority order, starting with the pages closest to page one.
On-page & technical04
Content, local citations, links and the entity signals that get you cited by AI assistants as well as ranked.
Authority & AI05
Monthly: which queries moved, which pages earned clicks, what enquiries came in, and what happens next.
Monthly reportingCompounding organic growth
Customers increasingly ask an assistant to shortlist businesses and tools before they open Google at all. GEO, AEO and LLMO are labels people have attached to the same work: being the source an answer is built from. Our own properties have earned 302,037 Bing Copilot citations and 147,783 appearances inside Google AI features, with the exports published. If you are not the source the answer cites, the click never happens, and a click-based report will record that as nothing happening. See how AI search optimization works.
Google AI Overviews
Cited-source optimisation and SERP feature capture
ChatGPT & ChatGPT Search
Brand mention share on “recommend an SEO company” prompts
Perplexity
Citation frequency and comparison-answer presence
Gemini & Claude
Entity accuracy and competitive positioning
Traditional organic
Rankings, clicks and enquiries, still the compounding base
Software buyers arrive mid-evaluation, often typing a competitor's name, and a blog archive has nothing to say to them. The work is a commercial layer most software sites never build (comparison, alternatives, integration and use-case pages) sitting on top of technical handling that ordinary sites never need: app subdomains, separate docs platforms, JavaScript-rendered marketing pages. It is reported against organic-sourced trials rather than sessions. Maxinium sells this service internationally, from Colombo: see SaaS SEO services.
An AI tools directory that Microsoft Copilot cites roughly a hundred times for every organic click it sends, across 1,640 grounding queries, in five languages, with 52% of those citations on commercial-intent searches. One page alone has been cited 108,546 times. This is what it looks like when the answer engine becomes the audience.
ZPlatform.ai · 16 months · Apr 2025 – Aug 2026 Headline results
241,500
Copilot citations in 6 months
~97:1
citations per organic Bing click, at minimum
1,640
grounding queries cited
52%
of citations on commercial intent
This site earns 1,952 clicks (a fraction of the others) and yet 8.1% of its search impressions come from Google AI features, five times the rate of the largest property. It also holds 200 of 1,000 queries in the top three. Specificity, not scale, is what gets a site cited.
MakeMoneyOnline.lk · 8.1% of impressions from ai features, portfolio best 87% of this platform’s AI appearances land on one URL, and Copilot cites an average of 2 pages against 35 on our city-guide property. Because the question is “recommend me a site”, not “what is the answer”. It also takes 20% of its Bing impressions from queries aimed at newspaper classified sections that were the category default for generations.
MatchMaker.lk · 87% of ai appearances on one url Why 6 case studies and not forty
Because the bar is the raw export, a dated screenshot and a stated methodology, and client work under NDA cannot clear it. Maxinium publishes results from owned properties first, where every number can be checked by anyone. Two of them, MatchMaker.lk and MakeMoneyOnline.lk, were built for and ranked in the Sri Lankan market, and one, ZPlatform, is software. Client results are shared directly, with the client’s permission, on request. Ask for them.
SEO tools and platforms we operate daily
You do not get handed to an account manager or an offshore team. Maxinium is deliberately founder-led: the person who audits your site is the person who does the work and sits on your monthly call. Maxinium is the company; Alston is the practitioner behind it.
15+ years in search, since 2010
Colombo, Sri Lanka · Serving companies worldwide
Founder, Maxinium · SaaS SEO & AI Search Expert
Alston has worked in search since 2010. He is Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Brainstorm Force, whose software powers more than 7 million websites, and runs Maxinium from Colombo. He has taught more than 30,000 students across 6 courses, published 617 videos in English and Tamil, and operates 16 web properties of his own, including MatchMaker.lk and SEOTamil.com. His personal record lives on alstonantony.com.
The evidence, and ways to work with him The full story and career timeline
Credentials and recognition
Professional Member, DMASL
Digital Marketing Association of Sri Lanka
MSc Computer Software Engineering
Distinction · University of Greenwich
BSc Information Technology
ESOFT Metro Campus, Sri Lanka
Professional Member, BCS
The Chartered Institute for IT, UK
Ahrefs SEO Certified
Plus Semrush and HubSpot certifications
617 videos published
643K+ views · SEO taught in English and Tamil
Unscripted video testimonials published on Alston’s channel, where you can see who is speaking rather than read a name under a quote. Sky Yap, founder of Sky SaaS Review, has also recorded one.
Venkatesh Balasubramanian
CEO, Compunet Connections
A software services CEO on working with Alston.
Kaushal Sheth
Founder, XENRION
A SaaS founder on Alston’s work in the software community.
Videos load from YouTube only when you press play. More on alstonantony.com
Named, verifiable testimonials published on alstonantony.com. They cover Alston’s consulting, software reviews and community work, not a Maxinium retainer, which is why there is no star-rating markup attached to them. Client references are shared directly, with the client’s permission, on request.
“Alston is more than just one of the best influencers in the software space, he is an energizing force that helps companies extend their reach. Working with Alston has helped me increase revenues by over $15,000 on just a single product.”
Abdul Mukati
Founder · SalesMix
“Alston is the best in terms of giving value to his audience and knowledgeable in terms of marketing, SEO specifically. He is the best marketer with a humble heart.”
Benjie Malinao
Chief Technology Officer · Channel Automation
“Alston is knowledgeable and resourceful. He answers everyone’s questions with patience and detail. He is honest and will even tell you if a product is right for you.”
Aristotle Malichetty
Founder · Freeclusters
“Alston’s comments and suggestions have always been helpful, sincere and honest. Whenever I need advice, all it takes is a quick message, and he always gets back immediately.”
Timur Burganov
SaaS Founder
“I still remember it was Alston’s video review that helped me decide on one of my early software lifetime deals. Alston helped me and countless others navigate the software minefield with honest and actionable reviews.”
Ken Moo
Founder · Kenmoo.me
“Alston needs no introduction in the SaaS community. He has always been helping SaaS users and agency owners with his detailed and authentic reviews. I found him a very welcoming person and a man of integrity.”
Sarita Owens
Product Manager
Tell us about your website
Drop Alston a message with your website and the two competitors who keep outranking you. You will get a straight answer on whether we can move your numbers, and if we cannot, or if SEO is the wrong spend for you right now, you will get that answer just as fast.
An honest read before you spend
Whether we can really help you, which competitors are ahead, and what would have to change.
Scoped before it is quoted
No retainer proposed until the product, the architecture and the competition have been looked at.
You work with Alston, not a junior
The person who audits your site is the person who does the work and sits on your calls.
Reported against signups
Organic-sourced trials, trial-to-paid and revenue per cluster, not impressions, and not a rankings screenshot.
An honest yes or no
If SEO is the wrong spend for your company right now, we will tell you on the first call.