# Cittago

> Cittago is a boutique digital marketing agency in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, working since 2011. One senior team runs search, ads, social, email, branding and web as a single connected system, in English, Italian and Romanian, for clients across Romania, Italy and the EU.

## About
- [About Cittago](https://cittago.com/about/): Who we are — a small, senior-only team, small on purpose.
- [Contact](https://cittago.com/contact/): Phone +40 734 190 106, WhatsApp, or the form at cittago.com/contact/. No gatekeepers.
- [Book a free analysis](https://cittago.com/book/): 30 minutes with a senior strategist — no script, no pitch, yours to keep.
- [Customers](https://cittago.com/customers/): 56 brands grown across 6 countries.
- [Testimonials](https://cittago.com/testimonials/): Rated 5.0 on Google — real client reviews.
- [FAQ](https://cittago.com/faq/): How working with one senior partner for all digital marketing actually works.

## Services
- [All services](https://cittago.com/services/): The full system — every channel, working as one.
- [You have the pieces.](https://cittago.com/services/digital-marketing/): 15 years and 56 brands: digital marketing run as one strategy across search, ads and email. Start with a free 30-minute analysis.
- [The visitors you paid for](https://cittago.com/services/lead-magnets/): Most visitors leave without a word. We build lead magnets and human follow-up that turn them into conversations — and customers.…
- [Be the answer,](https://cittago.com/services/seo-ai-search/): SEO agency in Cluj-Napoca: Google rankings and AI citations, built the patient way. 15 years of SEO that survives every update. F…
- [Ads amplify](https://cittago.com/services/google-ads/): Google Ads managed since 2011, in EN, IT and RO. The process starts before the campaign: stop the waste, then scale. Free 30-minu…
- [Your next customer](https://cittago.com/services/meta-ads/): Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads run by a senior team in Cluj-Napoca: tested creative, full-funnel tracking, honest budgets. Free a…
- [The audience you](https://cittago.com/services/email-marketing/): Your list is the channel nobody can take away. We write email people open on purpose — and trace it to revenue. Start with a free…
- [Written once.](https://cittago.com/services/autoresponders/): Welcome series, cart recovery, win-backs: written once with care, working around the clock. Start with a free automation check.
- [Look like you](https://cittago.com/services/branding-design/): Identity systems that make trust instant: logo, type, colour, applied everywhere with discipline. Start with a free brand review.
- [Words that](https://cittago.com/services/copywriting/): Copy that starts from your customer, not your company. Websites, ads and email written to land. Start with a free review of your…
- [Your hardest-working](https://cittago.com/services/web-app-development/): Fast, editable, findable websites engineered for conversion — corporate, e-commerce, booking, apps. 15 years of builds that still…
- [Retail has closing hours.](https://cittago.com/services/ecommerce/): Product pages that answer, checkouts without friction, recovery flows that plug the leaks. Start with a free store analysis.
- [Fast, safe,](https://cittago.com/services/hosting/): Dedicated resources, tuned caching, security handled, backups that restore. Hosting you never have to think about. Start with a f…
- [A shield and a shortcut,](https://cittago.com/services/cloudflare/): Cloudflare CDN, bot protection and free SSL, configured by hand — including the AI bot policy that decides who gets to read your…
- [The engine that makes](https://cittago.com/services/litespeed/): Server-level and object caching that keeps your site fast under load and cheaper to run — tuned per site. Start with a free speed…
- [Every second](https://cittago.com/services/page-speed/): Website speed test, then the fixes: we find what slows your site down, repair in payoff order and prove it with before-and-after…
- [Spam does not get filtered.](https://cittago.com/services/anti-spam/): The address leaves the site's markup, the forms get an invisible check. On cittago.com, bot spam has been at zero since 6 August…
- [The repetitive work](https://cittago.com/services/automations/): We connect your tools and automate the repetitive work — with AI where it genuinely helps. Start with a free workflow analysis.

## Case studies
- [All case studies](https://cittago.com/case-studies/): Real projects with real outcomes across Romania, Italy and the EU.
- [Apuseni Peak Paradise](https://cittago.com/case-studies/apuseni-lp/): The ad landing page, redesigned to convert
- [Ela Home](https://cittago.com/case-studies/elahome/): Four homes on a Greek island, in eight languages
- [Milano by Car](https://cittago.com/case-studies/milano-by-car/): The strategy behind a Milan chauffeur's digital presence
- [Apuseni Peak Paradise](https://cittago.com/case-studies/apuseni/): Two A-frame cabins, one booking engine
- [Il Forno](https://cittago.com/case-studies/ilforno/): A Neapolitan pizzeria's digital storefront
- [BarBox](https://cittago.com/case-studies/barbox/): A mobile cocktail bar you book for the night
- [Filters Network](https://cittago.com/case-studies/filters-network/): A trilingual corporate site that makes industrial water filtration feel export-ready.
- [Fumostop](https://cittago.com/case-studies/fumostop/): The website that turns "maybe one day" into a booked first session
- [Farmacia Europa](https://cittago.com/case-studies/farmaciaeuropa/): A neighbourhood pharmacy's warm, reassuring storefront
- [Gidro & Gidro](https://cittago.com/case-studies/gidro/): A Cluj-Napoca law firm, with a consultation one click away.
- [From 3 clients a month to 30.](https://cittago.com/case-studies/from-3-to-30/): Same market, same service — smarter execution
- [Meta Ads Campaign](https://cittago.com/case-studies/mountain-retreat/): A structured Facebook & Instagram Ads strategy for a premium hospitality brand in Romania
- [CineMind](https://cittago.com/case-studies/cinemind/): A mind-coach's storefront, back online
- [Alex & George](https://cittago.com/case-studies/alexsigeorge/): One holding, many divisions, five languages
- [UFC Cluj](https://cittago.com/case-studies/ufccluj/): An industrial contractor's credentials, online
- [Chalet Sol](https://cittago.com/case-studies/chaletsol/): A luxury chalet's booking-ready storefront

## Blog
- [Blog](https://cittago.com/blog/): Practical guides on SEO, AI search, Google Ads and Meta Ads.
- [ChatGPT has outdated facts about you. What corrects them](https://cittago.com/blog/chatgpt-outdated-company-facts-2026/): 71 impressions, zero clicks: the prompts asking who corrects an outdated AI description, measured in our own Search Console over…
- [Google stopped unrolling double-escaped JSON-LD](https://cittago.com/blog/json-ld-html-escaping-google-2026/): 441 pages audited: Google now applies one pass of HTML unescaping instead of two, and the obvious test for it is the wrong one.
- [One article, three languages, ten points apart](https://cittago.com/blog/test-velocita-sito-punteggio-2026/): 82, 87 and 77 for the same article measured in one session. A speed score is a range, not a grade — here is how wide, with dates.
- [Nine AI crawlers banned in a file we thought we wrote](https://cittago.com/blog/cloudflare-robots-txt-15-septembrie-2026/): Nine Disallow lines none of us wrote, in one of five robots.txt files we audited. Cloudflare changes the defaults on 15 September…
- [Customer Match: 60 days instead of 540, for one tick](https://cittago.com/blog/customer-match-enhanced-matching-2026/): 60 days instead of 540. Google Ads enhanced matching widens your Customer Match lists and cuts their memory ninefold, in the same…
- [Google has started building the tool, not linking to it](https://cittago.com/blog/generative-ui-tool-pages-2026/): 271 impressions and zero clicks on our own speed tool. On 19 August 2026 Google started rolling generated interfaces into AI Over…
- [Two vendors ship an "AI Max". One can switch on the other](https://cittago.com/blog/ai-max-microsoft-google-settembre-2026/): 1 September 2026: Google Ads auto-upgrades campaigns to AI Max. Microsoft shipped its own on 19 August. And the importer carries…
- [ChatGPT Ads Europe: 31 countries, 9 can buy](https://cittago.com/blog/chatgpt-ads-europa-24-august-2026/): On 24 August the OpenAI table carries 40 rows: all 31 European ones read «Coming Soon». Ads reach Europe; the buying tool does no…
- [Google spam update August 2026: how long it runs](https://cittago.com/blog/google-spam-update-august-2026/): Ten finished spam updates on Google's own dashboard ran from 19 hours to 29 days. The August 2026 one started on 18 August with n…
- [Cloudflare adds analytics to your site by default](https://cittago.com/blog/cloudflare-web-analytics-automatica-2026/): Since 15 October 2025 Cloudflare injects its Web Analytics by default on free domains. How to really check, and three ways to tur…
- [Does ChatGPT respect robots.txt? Not the bot that matters](https://cittago.com/blog/chatgpt-user-robots-txt-2026/): OpenAI documents 4 bots. ChatGPT-User — the one reading pages for users — may ignore robots.txt. What actually decides access is…
- [Google Ads removes language targeting in September 2026](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-targeting-lingua-settembre-2026/): Announced 13 August for late September 2026: the setting leaves Search and AI Max. Google announced the identical removal 360 day…
- [Merchant Center, 24 August: organic traffic drops](https://cittago.com/blog/merchant-center-report-24-agosto-2026/): From 24 August 2026 YouTube affiliate leaves «Organic» and history is rewritten from 1 July. Two of three changes lower numbers b…
- [Google Ads local customer optimization: what it does](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-optimizare-clienti-locali-2026/): Documented on 2 of the 12 Google Ads help pages we checked on 13 August: the setting that bids for people standing near your shop.
- [What happens to my Google Ads Travel campaign in Q3 2026?](https://cittago.com/blog/search-campaigns-travel-migration-2026/): Starting Q3 2026 Google migrates Travel campaigns on its own. We checked 25 Google pages: the notice is on four, none of them in…
- [Google Analytics benchmarks: why you may see none](https://cittago.com/blog/benchmark-google-analytics-2026/): Google Analytics has compared you with your industry since 30 May 2024. Three conditions decide whether you see it, and the first…
- [WordPress 7.1 admin tables: what actually breaks](https://cittago.com/blog/wordpress-7-1-tabelle-pannello-2026/): We ran WordPress 7.1-RC2 against 12 popular plugins on one install: 7 admin screens changed, 3 plugins name the moved cells, 1 ac…
- [ChatGPT Ads advanced matching turns on 17 August](https://cittago.com/blog/chatgpt-ads-advanced-matching-17-august-2026/): 17 August 2026: ChatGPT Ads turns automatic advanced matching on for pixels you already have. What it sends to OpenAI, and the fo…
- [Google Ads AI Max auto-upgrade: 1–30 September 2026](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-ai-max-1-septembrie-2026/): 1 September 2026: Google Ads starts auto-upgrading broad match and ACA campaigns to AI Max, progressively through the month. Defa…
- [Does llms.txt work? 4 requests in 23 hours, zero AI](https://cittago.com/blog/llms-txt-cats-txt-2026/): 4 requests to our llms.txt in 23 hours, none from an AI crawler. Google says it ignores the file. What the server logs show, and…
- [Why PageSpeed says 68 on mobile and 96 on desktop](https://cittago.com/blog/pagespeed-mobile-desktop-2026/): Same page, same minute: 96 on desktop, 68 on mobile, 90 from our own server. What the score actually measures, and which number t…
- [CVE-2026-8457: anyone logs in as WooCommerce admin](https://cittago.com/blog/woocommerce-social-login-cve-2026-8457/): CVE-2026-8457, severity 9.8: up to 2.8.7 anyone logs in as admin with an email. Fixed in 2.8.8 — but a marketplace plugin will no…
- [Why ChatGPT can't read your site: 79% of AI bots blocked](https://cittago.com/blog/ai-crawlers-blocked-firewall-2026/): 79% of AI crawler requests to our own site were refused while Googlebot got through 99% of the time. What was in the firewall, an…
- [Google Ads passkey requirement: what 19 August blocks](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-passkey-19-august-2026/): 19 August 2026: Google Ads needs a passkey for four operations. A new key carries a seven-day security wait, so starting now no l…
- [Does Google penalize AI content? What 150,000 pages show](https://cittago.com/blog/continut-ai-google-penalizare-2026/): 5.3% of Google’s top-three results are fully AI-written. The real gap is 8.9 points, and it is at indexing, not ranking.
- [Google Ads costs by industry: Cluj vs Florence, 2026](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-cluj-cifre-2026/): Florence searches for hotels 11× more than Cluj — and bids less. Real auction ranges for 5 industries, plus two managed accounts.
- [Strange queries in Search Console? An AI wrote them](https://cittago.com/blog/interogari-ai-search-console-2026/): 35 of the 148 queries in our account were not written by a person. Four tells that let you spot yours.
- [Four days old, and second in five countries](https://cittago.com/blog/ranked-five-countries-four-days-2026/): Position 2.0 in Hungary, Denmark and Portugal four days after publishing. What we did, what it proves, and how “seo cluj” went fr…
- [Search Console's AI Report Shows Impressions, Not Clicks](https://cittago.com/blog/search-console-ai-report-2026/): Only 6.8% of ChatGPT answers linked out in May 2026. Google's AI report gives impressions — the metric that moves first when SEO…
- [Journey-aware bidding: Google Ads bids on the sale](https://cittago.com/blog/journey-aware-bidding-2026/): 25% of small EU firms use a CRM against 65% of large ones (Eurostat 2025). Google's new Search bidding learns from the sale, not…
- [Why ChatGPT won't recommend your company (2026)](https://cittago.com/blog/ai-brand-mentions-2026/): 96% of brands are described accurately by AI, but only 11% appear in answers. July 2026 study, 8 platforms — and what actually mo…
- [ChatGPT ads in Europe: what's live in July 2026](https://cittago.com/blog/chatgpt-ads-europe-2026/): Zero EU countries can buy ChatGPT ads in July 2026. Where the pilot runs, why the EU is last, and what our own Search Console dat…
- [ChatGPT recommends hotels. It rarely cites their sites](https://cittago.com/blog/chatgpt-hotel-citazioni-2026/): 22.6% of ChatGPT travel answers contain a link (Similarweb, 2026). We tested 14 Italian properties: not one was citable. Here is…
- [Google Ads target CPA change, 17 August 2026: what to do](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-target-cpa-august-2026/): 17 August 2026: Google Ads delivers toward your target CPA, not below it. Which campaigns are hit, which are not, and the 30-minu…
- [AI in WordPress 7.0: what to turn on, what to leave](https://cittago.com/blog/wordpress-ai-connectors-2026/): WordPress 7.0 ships its AI foundations: the Connectors screen, your choice of provider, tools in the editor. What to turn on now,…
- [Zero-click: customers choose you without opening your site](https://cittago.com/blog/zero-click-ai-2026/): 93% of searches in Google AI Mode end without a single click (Semrush). What that means for your business — and how to become the…
- [The wp2shell alert and how safe your site actually is](https://cittago.com/blog/wp2shell-securitate-site-2026/): A critical WordPress flaw (wp2shell) put site owners on alert worldwide. What it means, what to do now, and why no site is truly…
- [Cloudflare explained simply: CDN, firewall and free hosting](https://cittago.com/blog/cloudflare-cdn-firewall-2026/): Cloudflare for a small business: what a CDN is, what the firewall protects you from, and how to host a static site free. Real dat…
- [SEO vs GEO in 2026: how to get recommended by AI assistants](https://cittago.com/blog/geo-vs-seo-2026/): SEO vs GEO in 2026: why organic traffic drops even when you rank first on Google, how AI assistants choose who to cite, and what…
- [Core Web Vitals 2026: a fast, AI-readable website](https://cittago.com/blog/sito-veloce-ai-2026/): How fast your site must load in 2026, what slowness really costs you, and why speed and AI-readability are the same job. Real dat…
- [Meta Ads E-commerce Europe 2026: Benchmarks, CPA & ROAS](https://cittago.com/blog/meta-ads-ecommerce-2026/): Meta's own 2025 lifts for EU e-commerce: 9% lower CPA on Advantage+ sales, +29% ROAS on Shop Ads, +11% CTR from AI backgrounds, a…
- [Google Ads Performance Max 2026: A Practical Guide for SMEs](https://cittago.com/blog/google-ads-performance-max-2026/): A 2026 guide to Google Ads Performance Max for SMEs: what changed this year, the numbers that matter, and an 8-step framework to…
- [How to Get Your Business Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity](https://cittago.com/blog/get-cited-by-ai-search/): How to get your business named inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI answers — what these engines cite, and how to become one…
- [SEO in the AI Search Era 2026: A Guide for European SMEs](https://cittago.com/blog/seo-ai-search-era-2026/): SEO hasn't died — it's transformed. How European SMEs can stay visible in Google's AI search era in 2026. A practical framework a…

## Free tools
- [Page Speed Test](https://cittago.com/tools/page-speed/): How fast a page really loads, measured in seconds.

## Notes
- Languages: English, Italian and Romanian — all live (/it/, /ro/).
- Contact: cittago.com/contact/ · +40 734 190 106 · Cluj-Napoca, Romania.